äkta Candy Fumez #6 Cold Cure Live Rosin Review

The melding of interesting candy citrus lemon elements with fuel make for a choice experience across the board in this Candy Fumez #6 cold cure live rosin. äkta is known for making the most of the living soil cultivation practices that their sister company Hava Gardens produces and this is certainly an example of a very terpene-rich solventless that is absolutely loaded with minor cannabinoids (we just wish we knew which ones). It’s best suited for the middle range of the day, but it’s hard to not keep smoking on it after you start no matter what time that happens to be. This one comfortably ranks in our Premium category as a rosin you would be well suited to buy the next time a drop comes around.

This batch of Candy Fumez #6 cold cure live rosin from äkta has a texture that is pretty rare in solventless form and is more reminiscent of the 2017/18’s cutting edge lightly dry sugary live resin. Like all of their rosin, it came in their signature trichome illustration adorned cardboard mini tube, which is recyclable and pretty hip as far as packaging goes. Don’t take the “dry” comment though as indicating it’s not full of terpenes however, because it is and tested just a hair over 7% which is well above average. It loosens up at room temperature a little bit but its surprisingly stable, tiny THC crystal granular structure is very easy to portion out and play around with. Its beautiful amber yellow hue glitters faintly under direct light but is slightly unassuming otherwise. It really isn’t like most cold cures, but that hardly matters. 

We’ve been fans of Harrry Palms’ work long before he launched Bloom Seed Co (this famous breeder was behind much of Oni Seed Co’s work in a previous age) and this cut of Candy Fumez is a marriage of Z and Sherbanger. The #6 pheno here that äkta grew in their living soil garden and washed is beautifully complex on the nose. The name itself is spot on as this live rosin contains high notes of sweetened lemons and grapefruit on top of a heavy metal, sharp gassy funk. Its aroma has got a lot going on and is going to delight virtually all connoisseurs by our estimation. Z tends to run pretty tropical in nature whereas a lot of Sherbanger phenotypes are coated in fuel, so even if you haven’t had either recently alone, the combo here is wonderful.

I started working through this gram in my Puffco Peak Pro with a lovely new 3D Chamber upgrade in the high 400°Fs but found 510-520°F was the real sweet spot for this rosin whether I used my Puffco or my Tsunami rig. As you’ll read in a moment, it's best suited for small to medium sized dabs, but if you want to get completely smacked, send it on a larger glob of course. I tend to prefer this one without water so you can get the unfiltered flavor. You can’t go wrong no matter what you decide to dab it in because it’s primo stuff.

Immediately after taking a pea-sized dab of this rosin my mouth was lightly but fully coated in a dry, sweet lemon-laden smoke that yielded quickly to a tartness that lingers politely. It’s pretty tasty and not in your common “all the tropical fruits” kind of way because it does have a hint of that gas at the end, but it's such a smooth smoking hash that it’s very sessionable. You just want to keep taking more dabs because the flavor is unique but somewhat fleeting too. It did make me wonder what other kinds of phenotypes this cross has produced. The #6 version of Candy Fumez that was run here is a winner for sure.