White Taffi

In 2022, Rusty (aka the Duke of Erb) used a male from his Afternoon Pineapple to pollinate a Gelato 41 cut I had received from Ted at Alien Labs. Together with Dave from Preferred Gardens, we phenohunted the resulting Gelato 41 × Afternoon Pineapple cross—internally called P41—and identified a standout plant. This pheno showed strong traits from both parents and had a structure that made it highly viable for production. We distributed clones of the selected P41 to our contracted cultivations in Sacramento, Florida, and Arizona, as well as to affiliates in New York and Oklahoma City. We also returned the cut to Rusty so he could begin creating new crosses from it. He went on to work it into several staple lines, including Gelonade, Permanent Marker, LCG, Mochi, and Duke’s Crumpets, among others. A few months later, as test batches began coming back from our cultivation partners, I noticed something odd: the plants didn’t match the original P41 pheno we had selected with Dave. At first, I assumed it might just be natural expression differences across clone generations, but the inconsistency was too significant to ignore. Eventually, we received a batch that we knew for certain came from the original mother plant—and it was still clearly different. At that point, we realized we had distributed an unidentified cut to multiple growers, and Rusty had already made seeds from it for upcoming releases planned for Spannabis in Barcelona. I contacted Dave at Preferred Gardens, and we traced the material back to its origin. It turned out the cut had come from a grower in Grass Valley, California. It had originally been labeled “Zoap,” but upon testing it clearly was not Zoap. Dave had kept it in veg due to its unique characteristics, but somewhere along the way, a mix-up occurred and it was mistakenly released as P41. Faced with this, I had to make a decision. Rather than immediately discarding it, I started thinking about how people had reacted to it—every time it showed up, i