WILLAMETTE WEEK | BEST PRODUCTS OF 2018

I'm a flower girl. A simple, flower-in-a-bong kind of gal. Since I never stopped smoking in the manner I smoked at age 18, I don't get surprised very often. But I should've known to leave it to Jeremy Plumb, currently director of production at Pruf Cultivar, to change that. Among numerous fresh releases of new strains bred and cultivated at Pruf, Steel Bridge has particularly refreshed the excitement of smoking flower. I tried No. 38, a batch that tested at 24.5 percent THC and 4.44 percent total terpenes. Made from combining the beloved Golden Goat cultivar and TH1 (#3), this plant is an example of successfully customized cultivation to bring out rarer, less common terpenes, with a dominant concentration of beta-caryophyllene. That may not mean anything to you—it wasn't something I necessarily sought out—but what it means is this cultivar may produce effects you've never experienced before. The taste is similar to citrusy, skunky varieties like Island Sweet Skunk, like a tropical breeze from very unfamiliar, untraveled waters. —Lauren Yoshiko, WW cannabis critic

The best thing I consumed this year was Pruf Cultivar's Astral Works. Jeremy Plumb's genius is behind the enchanting terpinolene aroma and soothing feel of the vapor on the lungs. Such a beautiful, bright, clearheaded experience, which I hesitate to call ""intoxication."" It's a sincere shame that Type II flowers like this (with a nice mellow balance of THC and CBD) aren't fetching more value on the market—it made me feel like buying a Bentley for the price of a Hyundai. —Adie Poe, cannabis researcher at Habu Health.