Bursting into the California Cannabis market at the start of 2024, Bosky has become a name many recognize for its beautiful work. Creator and Head Cultivator Ryan Clark attributes their quick reputation to the hard work of his small but dedicated team, which includes his wife Jenn, who oversees finance and compliance.
Clark, a cultivator with 20-plus years of experience who previously ran a grow for an indoor cultivation facility in the Central Valley, also deserves a fair share of the credit for Bosky’s upward trajectory. He’s even spent six years developing and testing proprietary fertilizer blends in order to dial in cultivation methods at their facility.
“Bosky” is a Middle English adjective that dates back to the 17th century, referring to an abundance of trees and shrubs. Clark says this word seemed to embody the entire essence of what the team is trying to achieve: a thriving garden of quality genetics developed through time and intent.
This month’s highlight, Grip Tape (a nod to Clark’s longtime love of skateboarding), showcases Bosky’s in-house combination of Kookieland and Cherry Gushers. He says it smokes like a Headband or an OG, which makes it great for recovering after a long day of skating or your preferred physical activity.
Bred and selected from one of their 2023 pheno hunts, the history of the strain involves a string of Bosky’s hunts. Kookieland is a gassy flavor developed in 2017 from their cut of Archive’s Dosido and a male of S.D. Cookie Jar’s King Candy (Forum Cookies x Candyland). The other side of the strain is Cherry Gushers, a bag seed clone gifted by their friends at Billionaire Exoticz.
Grip Tape has that mottled light- and dark-green camo thing going, but underneath, the nugs are a light, chronic green. The smell is super doughy and a little gassy at the back. After breaking it up that smell turns to a sweet caramel dough, slowly revealing a fruit-smelling center.
The taste starts out as a fifty-fifty blend of dough and fruit, but as you cough, those blossoming fruit notes wash over your salivary glands and make the whole thing lean into that wild cherry flavor.
Grip Tape gives a high that allows you to keep moving but also fills your head with stuffing. It didn’t put me out on the couch, but it did put my brain on a blissful autopilot. I can definitely see how, after a day of skating, this would be just the thing to help you relax while still leaving you upright enough to cook dinner.
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This article was originally published in the November 2024 issue of California Leaf.
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