CANNALIB · STRAIN DOSSIER · COTTON CANDY
Cotton Candy
3 independent sources put THC at 20%; 562 flower lab samples give a 10th to 90th percentile band of 12.2 to 22.7%; 7 recorded parents; 51 recorded descendants. It placed in results from Hash Bash Cup and Lift & Co. Canadian Cannabis Awards.
Cotton Candy is a indica dominant hybrid cannabis strain bred by Crop King Seeds. Lab tests put its THC between 12.2 and 22.7% (the middle 80% of 562 flower samples), with CBD around 0.1%. The terpenes most often reported are limonene, linalool, β-myrcene. Recorded parents: Afghani × Hawaiian × Haze × Lavender × Power Plant × Lacender × Various Skunk Varieties, Afghani, Hawaiian. Stated flowering time 63 days. 3 cup placings on record, 1 verified against published results.
● frozen 2026-09-29 · API 0.7.1-stdlib
● evidence bar: thc 3 independent sources
● type: indica dominant hybrid
20%
THC, most-agreed claim
3 independent sources
12.2–22.7%
Flower lab range
10th to 90th percentile of 562 samples
7
Recorded parents
with sources, never guessed
51
Recorded descendants
through stated parent links
1/3
Cup results, verified/total
placings found in published results
9
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20% | 3 | or_prr00150, replication_data, hytiva |
| 17% | 2 | allbud, medical_effects, master |
| 19.5% | 2 | or_prr00150, replication_data |
| 19.6% | 2 | replication_data, wa_wslcb_leaf_new |
| 0.5% | 1 | wa_wslcb_leaf_new |
| 0.2% | 1 | wa_wslcb_leaf_new |
| 0.4% | 1 | steep_hill_chemotypes_zenodo_3986252 |
| 0.4% | 1 | wa_wslcb_leaf_new |
| 0.5% | 1 | steep_hill_chemotypes_zenodo_3986252 |
| 0.5% | 1 | wa_wslcb_leaf_new |
| 0.5% | 1 | steep_hill_chemotypes_zenodo_3986252 |
| 0.6% | 1 | wa_wslcb_leaf_new |
Lab range 12.2 to 22.7% THC is the 10th to 90th percentile of 562 flower lab samples, median 17.8%; CBD 0 to 0.3% over 495 samples.
top terpenes by stated value: limonene, linalool, β-myrcene, β-caryophyllene, trans β-farnesene, β-pinene
1,155 chemistry rows on record. Flagged rows never used as potency: 317 non flower, 120 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 | 2 | leafly_height_bands, alchimia |
| 56 days | 1 | seedfinder |
| 56 to 63 days | 1 | cropking |
| 65 days | 1 | seedfinder |
| 60 days | 1 | leafly_flat_grow |
LINEAGE
Recorded parents, and how many sources agree.
| Parent | Sources | Who states it |
|---|---|---|
| Afghani | 1 | strain_fact:seedfinder |
| Hawaiian | 1 | summary:lineage |
| Haze | 1 | strain_fact:seedfinder |
| Lavender | 1 | seedfinder |
| Power Plant | 1 | seedfinder |
| Lacender | 1 | strain_fact:cropking |
| Various Skunk Varieties, Afghani, Hawaiian | 1 | strain_fact:hytiva |
51 descendants through recorded links, including 44 D S, Banjerine, Black Cotton, C4, Candied Af Duck, Candy Cain, Candy Cupz, Cotton Candy Auto.
COMPETITIONS AND AWARD CLAIMS
Cup results with sources; claims with verdicts.
| Year | Competition | Category | Place | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Hash Bash Cup | Solvent | 3rd | verified |
| 2017 | Lift & Co. Canadian Cannabis Awards | Dispensaries / Top Dispensary Hybrid Flower, West | unverified | |
| 2016 | Lift & Co. Canadian Cannabis Awards | list 17 on archived page (category heading not rendered) | unverified |
Award claims checked 0 confirmed · 1 unchecked. Only confirmed claims count as results.
| Claim | Year | Source | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerald Cup | not stated | runner:brain-data-staging-book-cannabis- | unchecked |
PICTURES, WITH CREDIT
9 pictures on record. Three shown, each with its source.
credit: seedfinder.eu · shown with credit, copyright unverified
credit: alchimiaweb.com · shown with credit, copyright unverified
credit: cropkingseeds.com · shown with credit, copyright unverified
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: cotton-candy, delicious-seeds/cotton-candy, federation-seed-company/cotton-candy, 018NY6XC00VT97J2JA94YMDF1A, CottonCandy
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dossier cotton-candy · frozen 2026-09-29 · published by CannaLib, a Plausible Deniability project · Cite as: CannaLib (2026). Cotton Candy strain dossier. https://cannalib.org/strains/cotton-candy/