TL;DR
- Lean: Indica-leaning hybrid (70/30), 22 to 27 percent THC
- Flavor: Cherry candy, orange rind, hibiscus floral, soft fuel
- Effect: Happy lift, relaxed body, still chatty. Sunk-in but social.
- Best for: Post-dinner sessions, weekend afternoons, porch hangs
- Bottom line: A real Relentless keeper that paints up pink and prints cherry on the press
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Strain Overview
Queen of the South is what happens when a serious breeder hunts for the loudest, prettiest, most resin-soaked pheno in the room and refuses to settle. Bred by Relentless Genetics by crossing his Trop Cherry mom with his #1 Stunna stud, this 70/30 indica-leaning hybrid finishes in pink, purple, and red, throws greasy resin from the second she stretches, and tests up to 27 percent THC on the high end. She is the cut you put in the front of the tent because she does the marketing for you.
GSRH ships her as a fully rooted clone, screened for HLVd, ready to plant the day she lands at your door. No seed pop, no pheno hunt, no hoping you got the keeper. You are getting the exact same Queen of the South cut that has been winning grow rooms and Instagram feeds since Relentless dropped the line.
Quick Facts For Smokers
| Price | $69 (free 2-day shipping) |
| THC | 22-27% |
| Dominant terpenes | Myrcene, caryophyllene, pinene |
| Lineage | Trop Cherry x #1 Stunna |
| Breeder | Relentless Genetics |
Quick Facts For Growers
| Flowering time | 8-9 weeks indoor |
| Yield | Heavy, dense colas with deep color |
| Stretch | 1.5x to 2x |
| Difficulty | Beginner to intermediate |
| Climate | Indoor, greenhouse, or temperate outdoor |
Lineage and History: Royalty Built From a Hunt
The Queen of the South line is the kind of project that only comes together when a breeder actually trusts his own work. Trop Cherry, the mom, is Trop Cookies crossed with a Cherry Cookies F3 stud, which gives her sweet citrus, ripe cherry, and a Cookies-family backbone. #1 Stunna, the dad, is Twisted Velvet crossed with Rozay, a stack that brings color, structure, and a candy-soda nose. Put those two parents together and you get a plant that looks like a bag of Sour Patch Kids and smokes like a fruit cocktail.
Relentless picked the keeper from his hunt and called her Queen of the South for a reason. Almost every pheno she throws comes back colorful. Some lean orange and funky, some lean berry rollup, and some come in pink and pastel like a sunset. The cut GSRH ships is the mainline pheno, the one that combines the loudest cherry-candy terps with the heaviest resin and the deepest color. That is the cut you want if you have to pick one, and it is the cut that put this strain on the map.
Relentless himself has been transparent about how he selected this keeper. He ran multiple seed runs, kept the colorful expressions with the loudest cherry on the nose, and tested progeny against his existing breeding stock to make sure she was passing her best traits forward. That kind of work shows up in every clone GSRH ships. The Queen of the South cut you get is not a hyped polyhybrid pretending to be elite. She is a real keeper from a real breeder, and the lab numbers and Cup placements that have followed her since release back that up.
Flavor and Aroma
The smell is loud and specific. Sweet cherry candy on the nose first, like a fresh pack of cherry Twizzlers. Underneath that there is orange-rind zest from the Trop Cherry side, a hibiscus-floral note from the Rozay grandparent, and a soft fuel finish that keeps the whole profile from feeling too sugary. Late in flower the bud sites smell almost like fruit punch with a peppery bite.
The smoke matches. Inhale is candy cherry, exhale is orange peel and a touch of clean spicy fuel that lingers on the lips. Run her through a clean piece and the cherry gets even louder, with the caryophyllene bite showing up as a peppery note on the back of the tongue. For solventless heads, this is one of the most flavor-loaded cuts on the market right now. Fresh frozen rosin holds the cherry candy through the entire press.
Effects and What to Expect
Queen of the South is balanced for a strain that tests this high. The first ten minutes hit the head with a happy, almost giggly lift, and then the body relaxation starts to settle in across the shoulders and the back. By the half-hour mark you are sunk into the couch but still chatty, still hungry, still capable of having a real conversation. The 70/30 indica lean shows up in the body weight, but the mental side keeps her from being a flat-out sedative.
This is your post-dinner, pre-movie strain. Your friends-on-the-porch strain. Your weekend-afternoon-when-you-have-nothing-to-do strain. The buzz lasts a solid two and a half to three hours before tapering into a clean comedown that leaves you hungry and ready for sleep if it is late enough. New smokers should respect the THC and start slow. Experienced smokers will recognize her as one of the better balanced cherry-forward hybrids of the last few years.
Growing Queen of the South
She grows like a dream. Vigorous in veg, predictable in stretch, and forgiving when you miss a feeding. Expect roughly 1.5x to 2x stretch in the first three weeks of flower, with strong lateral branching that wants to be topped early and netted. Run a SCROG and she fills the canopy uniformly, throwing dense colas at every node. The structure is closer to indica than sativa, so she will not blow out a tent like a pure sativa cross would.
Feed her balanced. She wants standard N-P-K through veg, a calcium-magnesium boost in the stretch, and a heavy phosphorus load in week three of flower to push her color out. Drop your night temps to the low 60s in the last two weeks of flower and she paints up. Pinks, purples, magentas, and reds show up across almost every pheno of this cut. Without the temp drop she still finishes pretty, just less psychedelic.
Almost all phenotypes finish in under nine weeks indoor. Day 56 gives a brighter, cleaner head buzz. Day 63 gives full body weight, deepest color, and maximum bag appeal. She is forgiving for newer growers because she rarely throws hermies and shrugs off most common indoor stress, which is exactly why GSRH stocks her year-round.
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- Verified Relentless Genetics cut, Trop Cherry x #1 Stunna mainline pheno
- Rooted, screened for HLVd, ready to plant the day they arrive
- No seed pop, no pheno hunt, no guessing. Just the keeper.
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If You Like Queen of the South, Try
- Papaya Juice: another fruit-forward sister, similar daytime fit with a different terp front.
- Lemon Cherry Gelato Cannatique: stays in the fruit lane, swap the host for a sweeter or louder cousin.
- Grandi Guava: a fruit stablemate in the catalog, similar bag appeal with its own signature.
