Shauncron Select Banana Bread - Cookies, Tampa (Florida Medical)

Strain: Banana Bread

Dispensary: Cookies

Market: Florida Medical

Overall Rating: 9.6/10

Lean: Indica Leaning

Initial Thoughts

There's a specific genius in naming a strain Banana Bread, because everyone already has a feeling about banana bread before they've smelled a single nug. It's the food equivalent of a warm blanket — nostalgic, unpretentious, quietly indulgent. Shauncron clearly understood the assignment. Bred during the solventless gold rush, this was his answer to a gap he spotted in the market: a plant that could pump out world-class hash and leave behind gorgeous, flavorful flower instead of the sad, washed-out afterthought that usually gets bagged up as a consolation prize. He crossed his Oreoz stud with the legendary Banana OG cut from ORGNKID, and the resulting pheno delivers on both fronts. What lands in the Cookies Tampa jar is a modern gloss on a nostalgic classic — and, fair warning, a proper knockout punch.

Appearance

These buds look like they were grown to be photographed and then, reluctantly, smoked. Dense and chunky with the kind of resin production that made Shauncron want them for hash in the first place, they're absolutely drowned in trichomes — a frosted, oily sheen that catches the light and hints at the concentrate potential lurking inside. The Oreoz influence shows in the deep green structure and the occasional darker, almost cookie-dough shadow between the leaves. Break one down and your grinder will need a stern talking-to afterward; this is sticky, hash-forward flower that clings to everything it touches like it's got separation anxiety.

Aroma

Pop the jar and the first thing that hits is unapologetically artificial banana — that bright, sunny, banana-Runts-candy note that shouldn't smell as good as it does but absolutely does. It's playful and immediately recognizable, the olfactory equivalent of a childhood lunchbox. Linger a moment and a subtle floral-berry sweetness drifts in on the backend, softening the candy edge into something more rounded. It's a fun, disarming nose — less "artisanal bakery" than the aroma suggests, more "the good candy your grandmother kept in the nice dish." No complaints here.

Flavor

Here's where the name finally earns its keep. Where the aroma is candy-shop banana, the flavor pivots toward the real thing: warm, baked banana bread, complete with that earthy, slightly musky undertone that keeps it from reading as dessert-cart sweet. There's a genuine richness to the smoke — an intoxicating sweetness up front that mellows into something toasty and comforting, myrcene and caryophyllene lending it a grounded, almost savory depth. It's the rare strain whose flavor tells a little story from inhale to exhale, and the story is essentially "come inside, something's baking." Smooth, satisfying, and moreish in a way that makes it dangerously easy to pack another bowl.

Effects

Now, a public service announcement: at 27.1% THC with a myrcene-led terpene profile (0.32% and clearly in charge here), Banana Bread is not a "quick puff before the grocery run" strain. This is a heavy, deeply sedating indica-style experience — relaxed, relieved, and headed with unhurried certainty toward sleepy. The onset is a warm wave of full-body ease that melts tension out of the shoulders and quiets a busy mind, the caryophyllene and myrcene tag-teaming your stress into submission. Give it twenty minutes and you'll understand why "Sleepy" made the official effects list. This is a nightcap strain, a Sunday-evening strain, a "the day is over and I have made peace with that" strain. Consume accordingly, ideally somewhere with a couch and no obligations. Making actual banana bread while high on it is encouraged; operating anything heavier than a remote control is not.

The Verdict

Banana Bread is comfort food in flower form — a rich, nostalgic, deeply relaxing indica that backs up its adorable name with serious substance and even more serious sedation. Shauncron set out to breed something that excelled as both hash and flower, and this Cookies Tampa jar proves he pulled it off: stunning resin production, a flavor that genuinely evolves from candy to bakery, and a high that will tuck you in whether you asked it to or not. At the premium end of the shelf, sure, but you're paying for craft and it shows. Just respect the dosage and clear your evening first.