Consciousness Collective, Flower, “Gas Gummies” strain

Half Ounce, $100

Purchased: 7/13/2025 (Piffcon Brooklyn)

Packaged: from the jar to the bag before my eyes

Tasting/Testing Episode 23: Gassy and Gummy, indeed!

While I love buying weed in dispensaries, I also have fun shopping at shows. I feel like I’m at the farmer’s market when I walk up to a table with ten jars on it and the grower-proprietor asks me which I’d like to smell first.

That’s how I got this weed. I was at Piffcon with an array of jars in front of me, and I selected one with a very characteristic name: “Gas Gummies.” If this jar smelled like gassy gummies, I would take whatever $100 bought me. My man weighed half an ounce into a bag before my eyes, and wrote the name with a Sharpie. At a few tables, all those jars smell the same, but there was some killer variety from Consciousness Collective.

This flower was fun to examine up close, because it had dark purple bracts/sepals, but mostly green sugar leaves. The coating of yellow-green trichomes stands out clearly. Their heads seemed kind of small, but there sure were a lot of them. The nuggets were pretty large, dense clusters of florets, each good for about two personal joints.

Smoking this flower was a flavor experience, but occasionally I would actually get a puff that was too gassy! It would hit my throat harshly and make me cough. It was just overpowering with that particular note which suggests a stove burner is leaking, no skunk or garlic to it. Behind that was a complex, fruity candy mélange. From the first puff, I felt my body lift and my energy return. More body high then forehead high, in my opinion.

I tested this flower with the LightLab 3 HS Cannabis Analyzer from Orange Photonics. I had no label contents to consider, and I’d already learned I like this weed, so my measurements were more for the sake of curiosity than anything else.

I might have set you up, dear reader, but these measurements matched with my expectations. This didn’t feel like brain-busting weed to me, and the trichome heads looked small. I measured a Total THC of about 17%.

But is it that simple? When I speak with long-time cultivators, they often mention correlations they’ve observed between color, flavor, trichome appearance, and effects. Sometimes these cultivators contradict each other, so it doesn’t sound like settled science to me. I’ve also seen a research presentation about an optical scanning program that could be trained to guess the THC content of flower pretty accurately by counting trichomes and measuring their coloration.

I learned from this “Gas Gummies” flower to trust my nose to bring me to interesting experiences. I hope you’ll also get the chance to shop by smell some time soon. And if you’re at a show and see Consciousness Collective, make sure to sniff a few strains and appreciate the variety!