CANNALIB · STRAIN DOSSIER · BLACK MAGIC
Black Magic
1 independent source put THC at 13.3 to 23.6%; 100 flower lab samples give a 10th to 90th percentile band of 13.7 to 20.8%; 10 recorded parents; 17 recorded descendants. It placed in results from Dab-a-Doo.
Black Magic is a sativa cannabis strain bred by Andromeda Strains. Lab tests put its THC between 13.7 and 20.8% (the middle 80% of 100 flower samples), with CBD around 0.1%. The terpenes most often reported are limonene, isopulegol, α-ocimene. Recorded parents: Black Congolese × Buckeye Purple × Cherry Pie × Cherry Sauce × Gorilla Glue 4 × Green Ribbon Bx × Sugar Black Rose × The Sauce × White Widow × Swazi Rooibaard. Stated flowering time 55 days. 1 cup placing on record, 0 verified against published results.
● frozen 2026-09-29 · API 0.7.1-stdlib
● evidence bar: thc 1 independent source
● type: sativa
13.3–23.6%
THC, most-agreed claim
1 independent source
13.7–20.8%
Flower lab range
10th to 90th percentile of 100 samples
10
Recorded parents
with sources, never guessed
17
Recorded descendants
through stated parent links
0/1
Cup results, verified/total
placings found in published results
0
Pictures on record
shown with source and credit
CHEMISTRY, CLAIM BY CLAIM
Every THC claim, and who made it.
| THC | Independent sources | Who states it |
|---|---|---|
| 11.9% | 1 | or_prr00150 |
| 13.3 to 23.6% | 1 | phytochem_smith, phytochem_lab |
| 0.6% | 1 | steep_hill_chemotypes_zenodo_3986252 |
| 0.7% | 1 | steep_hill_chemotypes_zenodo_3986252 |
| 1% | 1 | steep_hill_chemotypes_zenodo_3986252 |
| 3.4% | 1 | wa_wslcb_leaf_new |
| 11.5% | 1 | cannlytics_expand |
| 13.2% | 1 | replication_data |
| 13.3% | 1 | smith_phytochem_sample |
| 13.7% | 1 | steep_hill_chemotypes_zenodo_3986252 |
| 13.9% | 1 | replication_data |
| 14% | 1 | smith_phytochem_sample |
Lab range 13.7 to 20.8% THC is the 10th to 90th percentile of 100 flower lab samples, median 17.6%; CBD 0.1 to 0.2% over 53 samples.
top terpenes by stated value: limonene, isopulegol, α-ocimene, linalool, β-caryophyllene, delta 3 carene
111 chemistry rows on record. Flagged rows never used as potency: 3 non flower, 7 quality flagged, 0 percent outliers.
GROW CLAIMS
Height and flowering, as stated.
No height claims on record.
| Flowering | Independent sources | Who states it |
|---|---|---|
| 63 days | 1 | seedfinder |
| 55 days | 1 | seedfinder |
LINEAGE
Recorded parents, and how many sources agree.
| Parent | Sources | Who states it |
|---|---|---|
| Black Congolese | 1 | seedfinder |
| Buckeye Purple | 1 | seedfinder |
| Cherry Pie | 1 | strain_fact:seedfinder |
| Cherry Sauce | 1 | seedfinder |
| Gorilla Glue 4 | 1 | strain_fact:master,seedfinder|split_of:GorillaGlue4 X GreenRibbonBX |
| Green Ribbon Bx | 1 | strain_fact:master,seedfinder|split_of:GorillaGlue4 X GreenRibbonBX |
| Sugar Black Rose | 1 | seedfinder |
| The Sauce | 1 | strain_fact:master,seedfinder |
| White Widow | 1 | seedfinder |
| Swazi Rooibaard | 1 | seedfinder |
17 descendants through recorded links, including Black Magic X Sour Diesel, Detroit Purpz, God S Black Magic, Black Bow, Black Light, Black Orchard, Cauldron, Night Ritual.
COMPETITIONS AND AWARD CLAIMS
Cup results with sources; claims with verdicts.
| Year | Competition | Category | Place | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Dab-a-Doo | Non-Solvent (Solventless) | 3rd | unverified |
No seed-bank award claims on record.
PICTURES, WITH CREDIT
0 pictures on record. None shown, each with its source.
How to read this page
Every value is a stated claim with its sources. Where sources disagree all claims are listed. The lab range is the 10th to 90th percentile of flower lab samples and is never blended with seed-bank claims. Parents are recorded links, never guessed. Pictures are shown with their source and credit; copyright is unverified. Nothing on this page was invented, averaged across sources or merged from another name.
Aliases on record: black-magic, andromeda-strains/black-magic, shangri-la-genetics/black-magic, snowhigh-seeds/black-magic, blackmagic, 018NY6XC00VT5YJWVCZ43J3FR2
Live card in the explorer → · Machine-readable record (API) → · Honesty rules →
Grow with it: DSC. Digital Stealth Care reads a strain's stated flowering time from CannaLib and works out the harvest window of each plant. Get the Alpha →
dossier black-magic · frozen 2026-09-29 · published by CannaLib, a Plausible Deniability project · Cite as: CannaLib (2026). Black Magic strain dossier. https://cannalib.org/strains/black-magic/