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Tropicana Cherry, also sold as Trop Cherry, is a sativa-leaning hybrid of Tropicana Cookies and Cherry Cookies F3 bred by Relentless Genetics, a breeder based in the Colorado mountains.1,2,3,4 It tests at a median total THC of 17.98% across 265 state lab tests of Tropicana Cherry flower, with the middle half of results between 15.63% and 20.08%.5 CBD is negligible: none of the 134 tests that reported CBD reached 1%.5
Tropicana Cherry is a sativa-leaning cross of Tropicana Cookies and Relentless Genetics’ Cherry Cookies F3. Disputed lineages, seed lines, offspring.
Plate IITropicana Cherry flower tests at 17.98% median THC (15.63%–20.08%) across 265 state lab results, with β-caryophyllene as the top terpene and almost no CBD.
Plate IIILeafly users report focused, uplifted and energetic effects from Tropicana Cherry, rated mostly energizing. Top downsides: headache, anxiety, dry mouth.
Plate IVTropicana Cherry flowers in about 60–65 days. Breeder and seller specs, yields and heights side by side, and where sources disagree on stretch and mold.
Plate VTropicana Cherry flower was listed by 104 stores near Los Angeles on Weedmaps on Oct 4, 2026. Store counts and eighth prices for 27 US markets.
Plate VIHow Relentless Genetics’ Tropicana Cookies × Cherry Cookies cross went from the Colorado mountains to cups in Colorado and Michigan and lab records in 7 states.
A cross of Tropicana Cookies and Cherry Cookies F3 from Relentless Genetics, a breeder in Colorado; Leafly files it under the shorter name Trop Cherry. Entries under its name placed first and second for adult-use hybrid flower at the 2022 Cannabis Cup Michigan: People’s Choice Edition.1,2,4,9
A sativa-leaning hybrid. Relentless Genetics, AllBud and SeedFinder list it as 60% sativa and 40% indica, and Weedmaps calls it sativa-leaning; Leafly files it as a hybrid and rates it mostly energizing. Blimburn Seeds lists its seed version as 50/50.1,2,4,6,7,10
Leafly’s top effects from user reports are focused, uplifted and energetic, and Leafly rates the strain mostly energizing; its listed downsides are headache, anxiety and dry mouth. Relentless Genetics describes an energized, euphoric, cerebral high. These are self-reports and marketing descriptions, not clinical findings.1,2
Moderate by lab results. The median total THC across 265 state lab tests was 17.98%, and only 3.0% of tests reached 25%. In the two years with the most tests, the median was 18.03% in 2022 (138 tests) and 17.39% in 2023 (93).5 Published figures run higher: Leafly lists 25%, AllBud 16–21% and Barney’s Farm 28% for its seed version.1,6,8
Tangerine and cherry, by most accounts. Leafly describes it as smelling of “dank tangerines and cherry” and lists tree fruit, tropical and berry as its top user-reported flavors; AllBud lists sweet and sour citrus with overripe cherries and earthy nuttiness.1,6
Yes. Leafly files the strain as Trop Cherry, also known as Tropicana Cherry, Cherry Trop and Tropicanna Cherry, and Weedmaps lists Trop Cherry and Cherry Tropicana among its other names.1,4 In state lab records, 92 of the 265 tests on this site were labelled “Trop Cherry” and the rest “Tropicana Cherry”.5
Full lab data: by year, by state, terpenes and the downloadable dataset →
Tropicana Cherry’s record is in competitions. In 2020 the Denver dispensary The Herbal Cure took second place in the hybrid category of Rooster Magazine’s THC Classic with it, and in 2022, at the High Times Cannabis Cup Michigan: People’s Choice Edition, judged with kits offered at more than 30 dispensaries, FLWRpot’s Tropicana Cherry won adult-use hybrid flower and Kai Cannabis’s “Tropicanna Cherry” placed second.4,9,11,12
No national sales list we checked includes it: neither Leafly’s 2025 best-sellers nor The Marijuana Herald’s September 2026 state-by-state top sellers. Super Boof, a Black Cherry Punch × Tropicana Cookies cross that shares one parent with it, was Leafly’s 2024 Strain of the Year and Colorado’s best-seller in Leafly orders in 2025.13,14,15 Tropicana Cherry shows up instead in state lab records, 265 flower tests from 7 states, 49.4% of them from Michigan.5 On Weedmaps on Oct 4, 2026, 385 store listings in 25 of 27 markets carried it, led by Los Angeles (104).16 Leafly users have rated it 160 times, 4.6 out of 5 on average, and SeedFinder counts 58 strains bred directly from it.1,7
| Market | Stores | Menu items | Median eighth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 104 | 187 | $19.00 (n=59) |
| New York, NY | 52 | 68 | $40.00 (n=39) |
| Detroit, MI | 35 | 47 | $16.00 (n=12) |
| Denver, CO | 27 | 36 | $15.50 (n=26) |
| Portland, ME | 27 | 35 | $20.00 (n=19) |
| Seattle, WA | 17 | 28 | $36.00 (n=17) |
Stores within 50 miles listing Tropicana Cherry flower on Weedmaps, Oct 4, 2026.16
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