TL;DR
- Lean: Indica-leaning hybrid, 28 to 38 percent THC
- Flavor: Banana Runts candy over creamy doughnut and OG fuel
- Effect: Bright upper hook, deep body settle. Walks you to the bedroom door.
- Best for: Evening rotation, movies, hash sessions, post-work decompression
- Bottom line: The keeper pheno that married Snakes Cake banana to OG funk and stacked harder than either parent
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Strain Overview
Bananaconda #4 is the keeper pheno that came out of Honey Sticks Genetics crossing Snakes Cake to Dual OG #4. Out of the pack, the #4 is the one growers kept calling about. She loads up with a banana candy nose backed by a creamy doughnut middle and a low whisper of OG gas, and she flips into trichome city around week three of flower. The buds finish long, dense, and pepper-shaped with a frosted golden cast that makes them look dipped in raw sugar.
You are buying this cut because she sits at the intersection of two trends growers actually care about right now: loud terps and serious THC numbers. Lab pulls in licensed settings have come back at 38.6 percent THC on this pheno, which puts her in the rare air with the modern Capulator and Compound work. Bag appeal is the kind that sells itself off the shelf with no marketing.
Quick Facts For Smokers
| Price | $99 (free 2-day shipping) |
| THC | 28-38% |
| Dominant terpenes | Myrcene, limonene, beta-caryophyllene |
| Lineage | Snakes Cake x Dual OG #4 |
| Breeder | Honey Sticks Genetics |
Quick Facts For Growers
| Flowering time | 8-9 weeks indoor |
| Yield | Above average, dense pepper-shaped colas |
| Stretch | 1.8x to 2x |
| Difficulty | Intermediate |
| Climate | Indoor, light dep, indoor-style outdoor |
Lineage & History: The Pheno That Earned the Number
Honey Sticks Genetics has been quietly putting out fire for a few seasons now, but Bananaconda is the line that pulled them into the conversation. Snakes Cake is their dough-leaning workhorse, full of vanilla, marshmallow, and creamy bakery weight. Dual OG #4 brings the other half of the equation: pine, gas, and that classic OG sedation that anchors the high so it does not float off into pure dessert territory.
When you cross those two and pop a pack, you get a wide spectrum of phenos. Some lean fully into the cake side. Some lean OG. The #4 is the one that landed dead center, took the banana candy expression from Snakes Cake, married it to the OG funk on the back end, and stacked trichomes harder than either parent. That is what earned her the keeper number and that is what makes the cut worth running over a fresh pack of seeds.
If you have grown Honey Sticks work before, you already know the family handles like a Cookies cross with better structure. If you have not, this is a clean entry point into their gene pool.
Flavor & Aroma
Crack a jar of cured Bananaconda #4 and the first wave is straight banana Runts candy. Sweet, slightly artificial, almost bubblegum. That is the limonene and the Snakes Cake doing their job. A few seconds later the doughy middle shows up, like a fresh banana bread with too much butter, and that is where you start to notice the resin holding the smell together.
The back end is where the OG comes through. There is a faint petrol note, a quiet pine, and a peppery edge from the caryophyllene that keeps her from sliding into one-note candy territory. Combust it and that gas comes forward more than you would expect from the smell. The smoke is creamy with a banana foam top, then it lands on the tongue with a peppery exhale.
Run her through a hash wash and the rosin shows off even harder. The terps stay loud through the press, and the color tends to come out a clean light cream that buyers eat up at the counter.
Effects & What to Expect
Bananaconda #4 is a heavy hitter, period. The first ten minutes are an upper hook: bright, talkative, slightly racy behind the eyes, like you just had two cups of coffee on a sunny day. Limonene is doing the front end work and you can feel it.
Then the OG side wakes up. Around twenty minutes in, the body relaxation starts climbing up the back of your neck and across the shoulders. By the half-hour mark, you are sunk into the couch with a banana grin and a remote you forgot you were holding. That arc, energetic uplift folding into deep body weight, is the signature of the #4 pheno specifically.
This is an evening rotation strain. She is too heavy on the back end to keep your day moving. Save her for the smoke after the work is done. Pair her with a movie, a meal, or a hash session with friends. She does not put you to sleep instantly the way a pure indica would, but she will absolutely walk you to the bedroom door if you let her.
Growing Bananaconda #4
She is a vigorous grower with strong lateral branching and a stretch that lands around 1.8x to 2x in flower. Top her at the fourth or fifth node and run a quick veg of two to three weeks under 18/6, then flip. She fills a four by four cleanly with two plants under a 600 watt LED, or four plants if you scrog her flat.
Feed her hard. The #4 is a heavy eater and will tell you when she is hungry by lightening up the mid-canopy fans. Keep your nitrogen steady through week three of flower, then push phosphorus and potassium hard from week four through eight. She does not throw a fit when you ramp the EC, so you can run her at 1.6 to 1.8 in coco without burning tips. Watch the calcium, banana phenos love calcium, and a weekly cal-mag top up keeps the new growth from spotting.
She finishes in 56 to 63 days. Pull early at day 56 for a brighter, more limonene-forward terp profile and a more energetic smoke. Push to day 63 for the maximum trichome load and the heaviest body stone. Both are correct, both are loud. The buds chunk up dense and pepper-shaped, so airflow under the canopy matters more than usual. Defoliate hard at day 21 and day 42 to keep the inside of the plant breathing.
For hash makers, she is a serious wash strain. Fresh frozen yields are above average and the rosin holds the banana note through the press without losing the OG bottom. If you run solventless and want something different than the same Gelato cross everyone else is pressing, throw her in the rotation.
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If You Like Bananaconda #4, Try
- Ice Cream Man: another Cookies-family stablemate, denser bag appeal with a similar finish.
- Apple Mochi Gelato: stays in the dessert lane, slightly heavier on the body with a different front.
- Studio 54: a sister dessert cut, swap the host’s expression for a different cream-and-cake tilt.
FAQ
What is the THC on Bananaconda #4?
She tests in the 28 to 38 percent range depending on the run. Lab pulls on the Honey Sticks #4 cut have hit 38.6 percent in licensed settings, which is rare air for any strain.
Is Bananaconda #4 hard to grow?
She is intermediate. The structure is forgiving and she takes heavy feeding, but she stretches roughly double in flower and needs a trellis early. A first-time grower can pull her off with a clean room.
How long does Bananaconda #4 flower?
Eight to nine weeks indoor. Sixty days for the racier cut, sixty-three for the heavier body stone. Outdoor finish is mid-October in most northern hemispheres
