TL;DR
- Lean: Balanced hybrid, 22 to 28 percent THC
- Flavor: Lemon zest, orange peel, vanilla cream, cookie dough, soft pepper
- Effect: Bright euphoric lift, soft body warmth, clear-headed back end. Engaged, not pinned.
- Best for: Late afternoons, creative work, long meals, walks before sunset
- Bottom line: A Beleaf keeper that delivers a creamsicle nose with sunset bracts to match
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Strain Overview
Winter Sunset is the dessert hybrid Beleaf Cannabis built to do one thing: hit you with a wave of orange-and-cream right at the front of the nose, then settle you down with a body warmth that earns the sunset half of the name. The cross is dessert-forward, leaning on creamy confectionary parents on one side and a citrus-loud line on the other, in the style of modern crosses like Ice Cream Cake x RS11. The phenotype that won the hunt is the one that pulled the limonene and the cream forward in equal weight.
This is one of the prettier plants you will ever flower. Bracts go pink-purple by week 6 if you drop night temps even slightly. Trichomes stack glass on glass through finish. The bag appeal is unfair. The smoke holds her there: bright citrus on the inhale, cream and pepper on the exhale, a balanced hybrid headspace that does not knock you out and does not race you. The cut we ship is the Beleaf keeper, not a seed knockoff with a borrowed name.
Quick Facts For Smokers
| Price | $69 (free 2-day shipping) |
| THC | 22-28% |
| Dominant terpenes | Limonene, myrcene, beta-caryophyllene |
| Lineage | Beleaf dessert-citrus cross |
| Breeder | Beleaf Cannabis |
Quick Facts For Growers
| Flowering time | 8-9 weeks indoor |
| Yield | 400 to 600 g/m² indoor under 1000W equivalents |
| Stretch | 1.5x to 1.75x |
| Difficulty | Beginner to intermediate |
| Climate | Indoor, light dep, outdoor |
Lineage & History: Sunset Colors, Cream Center
Beleaf Cannabis has been quietly building one of the more reliable boutique catalogs in the modern market, with a hunting style that prizes clean phenotype expression over chasing trends. Winter Sunset came out of that program as a dessert-forward cross designed to hit citrus and cream in the same plant, the way the original Sherbet line did before half the market started watering it down with five-way crosses.
The cross blends a creamy confectionary parent that contributes the vanilla-cookie back palate with a citrus-loud line that brings the limonene volume up the front. The pheno that earned the Winter Sunset name is the one that pulled both terpene lanes forward without burying either, plus the late-flower color expression that gives her the sunset look growers chase.
She moved through clone-only networks first, then onto small-batch dispensary shelves in 2022 and 2023, and into the wider craft market through 2024. The cut we hold is the Beleaf keeper, the one that hits the citrus-cream balance and throws the pink-purple bract color in the back third of flower. We screen the mother for HLVd and tissue-culture her between rotations so the clone you get is the same plant that built the reputation.
Flavor & Aroma
Crack a jar of dialed Winter Sunset and the citrus hits first, fast. Lemon zest, a flash of orange peel, a soft tangerine sweetness that pulls eyebrows up before you finish the first sniff. Inside two breaths the cream layer shows up: vanilla, light cookie dough, a confectionary back note that softens the citrus and makes the whole nose taste like a creamsicle. Underneath everything sits a peppery caryophyllene base and a faint pine-myrcene anchor.
On the inhale, sweet citrus leads. Bright, mouthwatering, the kind of front palate that makes you exhale slow on purpose so you can hold the flavor longer. Mid-palate the cream rises: sherbet-vanilla, slight cookie warmth, a soft herbaceous mid that ties the smoke together. The exhale is long, lightly peppery, and finishes with a creamsicle-and-pine aftertaste that lingers in the cheeks.
Live rosin from this cut runs clean and bright. The limonene survives cold cure heavy and the cream side translates well into solventless. Flower out of a glass piece pushes the orange forward in the first half of the bowl, then the cream takes over for the back half. Both formats deliver the cross. The flower is the move if you want the loudest citrus expression.
Effects & What to Expect
Winter Sunset opens with a euphoric lift that hits behind the eyes inside three or four minutes. The first stretch is bright, talkative, mood-forward in a way that takes the weight off your shoulders without putting it back somewhere else. By minute fifteen the body warmth shows up, soft and steady, more like sun on the back of your neck than a slam.
The peak runs about ninety minutes to two hours and rolls down softly. The hybrid balance is the point. Lifted enough to stay engaged with whatever you are doing, settled enough that you do not feel wired or anxious. The headspace stays clear through the back end. Late in the session she pulls toward an easy quiet, but she does not pin you to the couch unless you stack hits aggressively past the half-hour mark.
This is a 4 PM to 9 PM strain. Solo she pairs with creative work, a long meal, a walk before sunset, music with the volume up half a tick. In a group the energy stays light and conversational without anyone tilting toward racy or dragging toward the floor. Recreational, balanced, flavor-forward. A strong rotation pick when you want bag appeal and lift without the late-night settle.
Growing Winter Sunset
She is a beginner-to-intermediate grow that rewards a clean room and rewards patience even more. Indoor flip to chop runs 8 to 9 weeks, with most growers pulling around day 58 for the brightest terps and day 63 for max weight and the deepest color expression. Outdoor she finishes mid October in temperate zones. Stretch is moderate, 1.5x to 1.75x, and she takes well to topping at the 4th node followed by a SCROG, a manifold, or just a clean tucked canopy.
Left untrained, Winter Sunset builds a balanced bush with one main cola and strong, even secondaries. The structure is forgiving. New growers can pull her cleanly without aggressive training. More experienced cultivators will get the loudest results from a SCROG that lets every mid get its own light angle. Yields land at 400 to 600 g/m squared indoor under 1000W equivalents in dialed rooms, with outdoor scaling to a pound and a half per plant in good sun.
She is a moderate feeder, not chemmy. Hold her on a balanced N-P-K through veg, push P-K from week 4, and keep Cal-Mag steady at 200 ppm. She will throw rust spots if you under-feed Cal-Mag past week 5, but she does not need the heavy mineral push that the truffle-line plants demand. Coco for ease and flavor, living soil for the loudest terps and the deepest color, hydro for the heaviest yields. She forgives all three.
The color expression is real but not automatic. Drop night temps to 62-65F in the last 14 days of flower and her bracts will go pink, then purple, then almost magenta in the densest parts of the colas. Skip the temp drop and she still finishes pretty, just less dramatic. Either way, she is one of the prettier finishes in our catalog and her bag appeal is significantly better than her THC numbers alone would predict.
Buy Winter Sunset Clones ($69, sunset colors and citrus loud)
Order Winter Sunset clones today. Free 2-day shipping to all 50 states.
Verified Beleaf Cannabis cut, citrus-cream balance and pink-bract color
Rooted, screened for HLVd, ready to plant the day they arrive
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If You Like Winter Sunset, Try
- Poon Tang Pie: another citrus anchor, brighter or sweeter front with similar handling.
- Ohio Lemon G: stays in the citrus lane, similar daytime fit with its own front.
- Lime OG: a zest cousin in the catalog, swap the lemon for a different citrus expression.
FAQ
Is the cut HLVd-screened?
Yes. Every mother in our program is tissue-cultured and tested for hop latent viroid before any clones cut. We retest on a rolling schedule and pull any plant that shows even early signal.
How do I get the pink color?
Drop night temps to 62-65F in the last 14 days of flower. The color expression is genetic but temp-triggered. Skip the drop and she still finishes pretty, just less dramatic.
Beginner friendly?
Yes. She is one of the more forgiving cuts we carry. Moderate feed, moderate stretch, moderate flowering window. A first-year grower can pul
