Gas Basket 3 x Falcon 9 - Pacific Bud Boys - Fire Chief - September 2025
This is my second time trying this cultivar and my first time trying this cutting. This batch of GB3 x F9 was acquired through Fire Chief. The last time I tried this, it was a different phenotype with bigger, prettier buds and a similar profile but less fuelly. These buds are a lot more purple and smaller. I think I preferred the morphology the first time, but I prefer the terpenes on this batch. The flowers are perfectly dense and sticky with massive, milky trichome heads covering every surface. Even though I wish the tops were a little bigger, most of the buds were tight and well developed.
To the best of my knowledge, this is an in-house project grown and bred entirely by Pacific Bud Boys. Gas Basket 3, which is half Gary Payton, is unsurprisingly a major gasoline bomb. Then combine that with Falcon 9, which in my experience is also a super rubbery solvent bomb, and you get an absolute nasal nuke. Thankfully, there are some redeeming sweet notes as well to balance things out.
On the front end, the smell is lighter and brighter with notes of mixed berry soap, watermelon, and dryer sheets. On the back end, it has a pungent umami, hydrocarbon, and thiol funk like rubber cement/toluene, sharp raw onions, pepperoni, skunk spray, new tennis balls, and a mechanic’s rag. When rubbed between the fingers, the resin smells like lemon and lavender. It has a soft, gentle, and bright side along with a dark, dank, and gritty side. Sometimes I get pure dank smells, and sometimes I get sweet plus stank. No matter what, there is always something loud in there for me to appreciate. When that fuel smell hits my nose, it reminds me of strong Sour D or 91 Chem in volume. It absolutely reeks! In the jar, the smell is on the sweeter side, while on the bust it’s almost all dank. Rolling a joint will stink up a whole house on multiple floors. The flavour depends on if you smoke in a joint or a bong. In a joint, the taste is less gassy and more delicate like sweet artificial pine, soapy mixed gummy berries, and a bit of camphor gas. In a bong the flavour is thick and almost candied pine at first, translating to a petrol funk that gets stuck in the back of the throat. No matter what way it was consumed, the ash was grey but clean and flavourful.
GB3/F9 hits hard from the get-go. As soon as I exhale, I get a punchy, expansive indica stone. It starts with a bit of a rush that’s felt in the middle of the forehead and near the ears. Not long after, it turns to the body and is sort of felt everywhere. If I smoke a bit, it’s functional, but if I smoke a lot, it makes me want to sit down. It’s a strong smoke that’s felt head to toe for multiple hours without being crippling in effect. It’s the type of thing I can smoke day and night and never get sick of.
GB3 x F9 is the full package. It looks good, smells and tastes great, gets me where I want to be every time, and isn’t giving me much tolerance gain. It’s not a very well-known cultivar, as it’s a local cutting, but I hope it gains the recognition it deserves, as it’s really great smoke! I highly recommend this one to anyone who enjoys really gassy bud.