Tasmanian Botanics's Amethyst Flower Review | AusCannaReviews

Tasmanian Botanics’s Amethyst is a 25% THC Indica dominant flower, bred using their in-house genetics program. Amethyst is a cross between Wedding Cake and Animal Cookies. Her dominant terpenes are Caryophyllene, Limonene, Linalool, and Myrcene.

(Full disclosure here… The genetics part of this review is a copy and paste from my Moonstone review from back in June 2023. This is because as stated in the Moonstone review, “Tasmanian Botanics’s Moonstone is their Amethyst cultivar but at a reduced price. They did this because of various issues that were encountered during the growing process which affected the plant’s final chemotype.”)

As previously covered in Grandiosa’s Bubba Jungle Pie review, Wedding Cake is a cross between Cherry Pie and Girl Scout Cookies. Cherry Pie, sometimes known as Cherry Kush, is a unique cultivar. It was first bred in San Francisco by the Bay Area’s “Pieguy” and is a cross between Grand Daddy Purple and Durban Poison. Cherry Pie has a sweet and fruity aroma that many people find reminiscent of cherries. She is a favourite in the American medicinal cannabis scene winning 3rd place in the Medical Sativa category at the 2014 High Times Cannabis Cup.

Girl Scout Cookies is legendary in her own right having won the 2013 High Times Medical Cannabis Cup in Los Angeles.

Animal Cookies sometimes called Animal Crackers is a hybrid cultivar hailing from the Canadian company BC Bud Depot and is a cross between Fire OG and Girl Scout Cookies. Believe it or not, Animal Cookies was an attempt to improve Girl Scout Cookies.

Fire OG also known as Fire OG Kush is an Indica dominant hybrid cross between OG Kush and SFV OG Kush. (We covered OG Kush’s genetics last week in Chemovar’s Premo OG Kush Review) Fire OG is considered one of the strongest OG cultivars and gets its name from the frosty red hairs covering the flowers, giving the illusion the flower looks like it is on fire.

San Fernando Valley Kush or SFV OG Kush for short is a lemony pine-scented heavy-hitting Indica popular with American medical patients for its sedating, relaxing and choric pain-relieving effects.

Review

I initially tried Amethyst when it sported the purple label. Although I found it enjoyable at the time, I decided to withhold this review until I had sampled a more recent batch. This review is based on batch Q0483.

Opening my 10-gram tub of Tasmanian Botanics’s Amethyst I’m greeted with a muted fruity, floral, earthy scent. The buds display a dark to olive green hue, with a sprinkling of purple leaves and a uniform coating of orange stigmas and trichomes. They are dense and spongy, easily passing the Sticky Icky Test.

If I were to nitpick one thing about Tasmanian Botanics, it would be their trim job. They won't be organizing any Trim 101 workshops in the foreseeable future. But… It should be noted, that I've never received an underweight tub from them. So like I said it’s just me being picky.

Starting at 170C in my Venty Amethyst is smooth with a subtle grape taste but doesn’t start to produce nice vape clouds until around the 185C mark. A little on the creeper side, Amethyst consistently produced a euphoric and relaxing feeling allowing me to navigate 18 family members for six days in Sydney over the holidays. I don’t mean 18 people over six days, I mean several outings over six days that included 18 people or more at each one. I love my family but I like them better in smaller doses.

Amethyst is best suited for a late afternoon to late evening slot in my rotation.

Will I refill this prescription? Yes, Amethyst resonates with me for a couple of reasons. It delivers similar effects to Motherplant’s MRZ and MedCan’s Space Age Cake but at a significantly more budget-friendly price point. (While I paid $135 for 10 grams, Amethyst will soon be available for $279 for 28 grams.)

The other reason, despite experiencing elevated stress and anxiety levels in recent weeks and not using my dosing caps for the Venty, there hasn't been a notable increase in my consumption. This would indicate that Amethyst is a cultivar perfectly suited for helping me manage my medicinal needs.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 out of 5 stars)

*At the time of publication Amethyst is out of stock but will return to shelves around the end of January 2024.*

This substack aims to provide anecdotal information from my personal experiences in hopes it will lead to meaningful conversations between my readers and their healthcare professionals about medicinal cannabis.

I have no formal training in medicine or science. This article does not constitute medical advice.