Special Sauce strain
Special Sauce effects are mostly calming.
Special Sauce potency is lower THC than average.
Bred by Oregon CBD, this CBD version of Special Sauce is their flagship line that crosses Special Sauce with Early Resin Berry. It’s an industrial hemp strain noted for astringent berry smells, pink stigmas, and a high oil return. Buds may be small but are well worth the quality sweet and hoppy aromas and earthy berry flavor.
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Special Sauce strain reviews(38)
This is the first strain I’ve grown myself, just got done reaping my rewards and it feels great. Seeing as it’s a CBD strain, I can still function but I’m feeling great. Got home from the gym and I can physically feel my shoulders relax and my mind clear.
i tried special sauce for the first time in a select elite 0.5 g 510 cartridge. there is definitely a strong tobacco flavor which reminds me of the tobacco juul pods. i'm honestly not a fan. as for the effects... they're great! i feel really relaxed. heavy eyes, a little bit of dry mouth and throat, and muscle relief. while i'm not a fan of the flavor, the effects are great for relaxation or helping you to sleep.
bought an OZ from a reputable distributor on a super sale. I take for anxiety, see it as a microdose of THC with the help of CBD. This has been super helpful as high THC strains (even "low" thc strains technically classified) can push me towards anxiety. Thats why I love that leafly is including us super low/industrial hemp people into the fold.
But back to Special Sauce more specifically: tastes great, I actually love my "pre bed" dose the most as when I lay down I feel.. idk, like everything is softer? More cozy? Its great for my anxiety to begin with, but yeah, just an interesting note. Speaking of my anxiety, I chill out so long as I keep to my dosage schedule (4 doses a day necessary, more if I just feel like it, cuz, why not right? lol)
The only negatives I can really think of is that I do get a little sleepy. Which really isn't necessarily a negative in the first place if your looking for that kind of thing, but even for me its not really bad as its not like super sleepy or anything, its more "sleep if you want to" kind of sleep. More allows you to sleep than forces you (which is usually kinda scary to me anyways) to sleep.
Absolute banger of a strain.
Good indica. Gives me a nice relaxed feeling, fights my inflamation issues, and calms my anxiety. Better than a lot of others I've tried, but still not exactly my favorite. Not a huge fan of the taste/smell, but I like that it doesn't give me dry mouth. It's worth noting that I only use the CBD pre-rolls. With that said, Special Sauce is very potent and I would buy again.
Love this one. Definitely relaxing
This is a happy strain. Good head high. Munchies. Relaxing. Giggling.
Special Sauce CBD Flower Review
Purchased from a local reputable head shop that sources cbd flower from North Carolina. Packaged in a vacuum sealed mylar ziplock the entire 3.5 gram item was one singular giant bud! Marked as 17% CBD.
Bag Appeal: One massive bud, easily the second largest cannabis flower I have ever personally touched in my 40 years on this planet, it barely fit in the bag! Medium density bud (huge but not heavy) made up of various dark and medium greens and a good dusting of rust colored trichomes and rust colored hairs. Looks outdoor/sun grown. Super sticky when touched, almost like a glue stick, no shortage of resin here!
Smells of lemon grass, sweet black pepper/clove, and floral hops.
Combustion: Meh, like burning cannabis flower. Its fine, not much else to be said.
Vaped: Much like the smell, notes of sweet spice/clove, grassy black pepper, floral hops, sour fuel, and unfortunately more hay than I can ignore are most noticable. Tastes pretty typical of white label CBD flower in this blossoming phase of the industry. Not terrible, but not great either. Flavor mellows and softens as the flower is vaped over a few minutes.
Effects: It works like a balogna sandwich works for lunch. It does its job, its maybe even mildly satisfying in some way, but meh, that meatball sub would've been way better. For me special sauce is a bedtime strain and nothing else, it makes me very sleepy and mellow enough to want to curl up on the couch and not move, and all the while Special Sauce quietly does something mild in the background to round out physical aches, pains, inflamation and yet, none of it is spectacularly apparent when compared to louder and more upfront strains like ACDC, Remedy or Suver Haze that can really get on top of you. Sprinkles of physical relief come on top of two scoops of anxiety relief served on top of a giant clove flavored cake of plain ol' sleepy.
Overall: I dont want to shortchange this flower and its usefullness, but its just not the raw flower experience I'm generally looking for. It does make me sleepy for sure, that alone has real merit for me because I always have trouble sleeping. Yet, the taste was just okay and the physical relief was effective but very subtle. Maybe some future child strains from this flower will have more mentally uplifting/mood enhancing properties and an improved flavor, until then I most likely will leave Special Sauce to the oil and extract manufacturers.
My background: Over 20 years of delightful cannabis toking including 1 year of cbd flower experience.
Second strain I ever tried, and let me tell you, if you need a calming experience or help sleeping, then this is the one for you. I made the mistake of trying it before class (I'm new to the cannabis industry), because I like the Hawaiian Haze but that one made me really energetic; this one was quite the opposite, as I was fighting sleep during class.
Great for people who just wanna relax and get rid of pain without being high out of your mind. I get panicky and paranoid sometimes with higher THC strains so I’ve been smoking a lot of these pure CBD strains or delta8 THC.
Enjoy All the health benefits without being absolutely wrecked by high THC.
This was the first CBD strain I ever tried. At first I was unsure if it was any good, turned out I wasn’t smoking enough. 1g is enough for a calm and balanced buzz. It doesn’t pick me up or put me down, just relaxes me enough to feel normal.