We caught up with Bo from Bo’s Nose Knows during the recent 7/10 festivities in Portland to talk about how they manage to keep releasing such compelling flavors this year, with drops like Chili Verde, Papayahuasca, Strawberry Bubbles and their new in-house creation Trish.
From the jump, Bo says they all knew releasing this rosin was going to be special, and hearing the story, I believe it. Trish is their cut of Tallymon (from Oni Seed Company) and their Oishii #2 (bred by Archive Seed Bank). There are so many times throughout the initial process that Trish wasn’t the obvious choice for a slam dunk, but it just kept defying the odds.
Bo says the Tallymon he used is a super papaya-leaning pheno they hunted four years ago. “We’ve had zero luck running it because it takes forever full term, and the resin isn’t amazing out of the deps,” he told Leaf. The Oishii is one Bo pheno hunted from seeds, growing out 12 males to full flower and choosing to take pollen from #2 for its quick finishing time. “We pollinated a bunch of stuff, including the Tally, in hopes of getting a faster flowering time, but unfortunately, it didn’t take like we hoped,” he said.
The process only gave them 10 seeds, and only one turned out to be female, a stunted little runt that was almost missed if not for Bo’s partner, Tyler, who saw potential in the plant. They took a chance on running it full term that first round and were rewarded for all that faith with a strain that Bo says “absolutely crushed.” It finished early, like they’d hoped, and dumped resin.
Trish looks like the filling on a slice of homemade lemon meringue pie. Even right out of the fridge, Trish smells like lemon cake frosting but starts to develop sweet fruit notes as it hits room temperature. Leaving it out to warm up even more seemed to give it this lemon taffy smell.
The flavor still has that Oishii bite, but softened with a mix of citrus. It has hints of fruit but not an obvious papaya flavor. The aftertaste seemed to sit on my nose like a pair of glasses. Honestly, it was hard not to keep dabbing until the whole jar was gone.
We asked where the name Trish came from, and Bo told Leaf his employee Oja named the strain after a scene in the movie “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.” In the film, Trish is described as a sort of ideal person, someone you can count on, someone who “really has their act together, (who’s) athletic, natural and loves the holidays” — especially 7/10.
This article was originally published in the August 2025 issue of Oregon Leaf.
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