There’s been some super impressive work coming out of Focus North Gardens in Eugene. Already known for its living soil flower and flavorful rosin, the new batches of Bubba Sky OG, Candy Mike and haze-forward Captain’s Quarters have all proven to be solid choices for a discerning dabber. But if gas is what you seek, Grease Fire is a nostril-flaring bucket burner that simply cannot be contained.
Today’s Grease Fire is a cut-only strain selected by Pure Melt and bred by Symbiotic Genetics and Lokey Farms. In 2024, Lokey and Symbiotic dropped Grease Fire as part of their collaborative Gassy Taffy line. Amazing as both flower and rosin, Symbiotic called it some of the best genetics they’d worked with to date.
One half of this bold cultivar is made up of pheno #11 of Symbiotic’s Grease Bucket, a GMO x Banana Punch #9. Dubbed the Plumber’s Cut by Pure Melt, they wrote to tell us #11 began from Symbiotic seeds they popped, and then the seedlings were gifted to a plumber who grew them to 14 feet tall. Forced to cut them down, Pure Melt agreed to flower out a few cuts of his favorite one. Banana-heavy flavor with GMO yields, this stellar find was named as an homage to the man who started it all.
The other half of the equation is Gassy Taffy. Known for its strikingly strong fuel smell, it combines GB6, a phenotype of Gorilla Breath hunted by Lokey, with Hylife. Together with Grease Bucket, the two produce what Pure Melt described in an Instagram post as “super intense gas with the slightest hint of sweetness inside those overwhelming gas fumes.” Having absolutely flown through this jar, I can say that’s a damn accurate assessment.
Officially described as having unreal terps, the #6 Pure Melt selected produces some outstanding rosin, if for no other reason than the way it will fill up a whole room with the smell. Colby Wise at Focus North told the Leaf he had heard great things about this strain, so he snagged the cut from Pure Melt. “It reminds me a lot of the Sherb Cocktail but washes better,” he added. This round clocked in at an impressive 10.5% terpene content, and it shows. When you crack the lid, heads will start to look around as people try and figure out what that intense, gassy smell is.
There is a touch of delicious sweetness laced with the odor of high octane. Fair warning, more than just for gas heads, Grease Fire is easy to dab over and over again, so watch yourself before you find there’s nothing left for the next sesh.
