Stellar breeding, living soil cultivation and top-tier hashmaking. Add them all together, and you get Moon Valley Cannabis, a true triple threat in the NorCal scene.
The Leaf team has been in love with Moon Valley’s hash ever since Joe Sullivan — a legendary Santa Rosa retail strain hunter with a platinum palate — grabbed us at Emerald Cup a couple of years ago and said, “You have to meet these guys; they make amazing hash.” So when the opportunity came to spotlight Neon Panther, an epic new MVC strain in both flower and hash form, we had to pounce on the opportunity for the Concentrates Issue.
“It’s a cross we worked on for some time,” Moon Valley founder Eli Buffalo said. “Just putting pollen on one thing or another. [We] started with a Blueberry Muffin male I selected that got put onto a sticky Papaya. We took the pollen from those seeds and put it on a Wedding Cake, then a Pink Runtz, and topped it off with Super Boof.”
With that family tree, the Neon Panther was destined to be a fierce predator in the Moon Valley strain food chain. We’ve fallen prey; it’s an absolute killer.
The sparkling dark green and purple buds make the senses purr, prowling with aromas of poundcake, Lemonheads, sweet meringue, pie dough, hops and lime candy. It’s a hitter, too — smooth and intense. This cat will hunt.
Good thing Moon Valley runs two separate phenotypes, one for flower production and one for hash.
“Hunting was fun,” Buffalo said. “The Super Boof was strong in a lot of the phenos, so I tried to select one that had a balance of the other flavors coming through. We picked the number three for the flower, and the number seven performs better for hash and rosin, so we are just running that one for fresh frozen.”
Make sure to check out our Concentrates Special Roundup to see how pheno number seven performed in the hash lab, and don’t sleep on Neon Panther, or any of Moon Valley’s other stellar flavors. These guys don’t miss.
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This article was originally published in the July 2024 issue of California Leaf.
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