Description
Forbidden Fruit crosses Cherry Pie with Tangie, and the Forbidden Fruit cake cart carries both sides clearly: dark stone fruit from one parent, bright citrus from the other.
Flavor Breakdown
Cherry and dark berry lead, tangerine cuts across the middle, and there is a faintly resinous, almost piney weight underneath that keeps it from reading as a simple fruit blend. The finish is long and slightly tart.
It is one of the richest fruit carts here without being sweet in the candy sense, the depth comes from the darkness of the fruit rather than from added sugar.
The Cherry Pie and Tangie Cross
The cultivar is classified as an indica. Both parents are well known in their own right, and crosses between a heavy stone-fruit strain and a bright citrus one often end up muddled. This one does not. The two halves stay distinguishable, with cherry occupying the base and tangerine sitting clearly on top.
Running It Well
The citrus half is volatile and the cherry half is not, so voltage effectively controls the balance. Cool settings keep both present. Warmer settings progressively strip the tangerine out, leaving a darker, heavier cart that some people actually prefer.
Compare With
Pomegranate Pear is the lighter, tarter treatment of dark fruit, and Peach Mango goes for straightforward juicy sweetness instead. Both appear in the Cake carts collection.
Both Parents in the Glass
Cherry Pie and Tangie are both well established on their own, and each has a distinct reputation, one heavy and stone-fruit forward, the other among the brightest citrus strains in circulation. Crosses of that kind frequently lose whatever made either parent worth breeding from.
This one keeps both. The cherry occupies the base and the tangerine sits clearly above it, and at the right voltage you can taste the join. That legibility is unusual and it is the main reason the strain has stayed in production.
Depth Without Sugar
Worth emphasizing that this is a rich cart rather than a sweet one. The weight comes from dark fruit and a faintly resinous base, not from added sugar, which puts it in a different category from the candy and dessert flavors even though it sits in the fruit group.
If you have found the sweet carts here cloying but do not want to move to gas or herbal profiles, this is the most direct answer in the catalog. It offers intensity without the sugar that usually accompanies it.
It is also among the better carts here for cooler months. The darkness and slight resin weight suit autumn and winter in the way the bright tropical flavors suit summer, and several regulars rotate it in seasonally for exactly that reason.
Ships free within the US in sealed packaging. Batch lab results are available if you ask for them.
