Sputnik

Sputnik is a hybrid cannabis strain with up to 20.0% THC, known for its euphoric effects and berry and diesel flavor profile.

Sputnik is a sativa dominant hybrid (70% sativa/30% indica) strain that is a potent cross between the hugely popular Apollo 13 X Black Russian strains. This dank bud was named after the Sputnik I satellite launched in 1957 by the Soviet Union and boasts an average THC level ranging from 16-19%. The Sputnik cannabis was created by legendary breeder Dave Bowman, who was known throughout the cannabis world as "Subcool". Subcool calls this strain Sputnik because it crosses his space-themed Apollo 13 strain with a Russian. The Black Russian strain used in Sputnik is a Blackberry (Somablaze) x AK-47 (Nebu) cross that comes from a gene pool in which every female turned solid purple.

Like a combine Russian-American space mission with both astronauts and cosmonauts, Sputnik offers two phenotypes, similar in growing characteristics, but very different on the inside, in taste and stone. The most common Sputnik phenotype favors her Black Russian father, with res-spectrum coloration and an indica stone. This pheno starts changing color around week five, and shifts from light pink to vivd magenta by harvest. The purple pheno's buds are big, fluffy, and resinous, almost eggplant-colored, with a slightly spicy palate. The other phenotype leans toward the white and green spectrum, and the blasting sativa high of Apollo 13. This pheno is much more fragrant – a cream soda smell, with some sour undertones as she ripens. her buds are denser and more nugget-like than the purple pheno's. Her stone is a fast involuntary smile, a euphoric flight that can leave veteran stoners blissed out and staring at the walls. Sputnik buds have long pepper-shaped dense leafy nugs that are a dark olive green with rich amber undertones. These nugs are spattered with long thin deep purple and fiery orange hairs and a fine layer of white crystal trichomes.