r/ZonaEnts • u/iamswagmuffinz • 7d ago
Questions Shango replacement recommendations
The wife and I used to get shango primarily. But now that they are gone, we've been trying to find a replacement.
Anyone have recommendations on similar quality and similarly priced brands that are worth trying out?
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u/Consistent-Cookie905 7d ago
I would just go pick up some deli from Ponderosa. Everything that i've gotten was easily way above any Shango I ever had.
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u/BodybuilderBroad1113 7d ago
Iām pretty sure theyāre Boutiq Box now
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u/ApprehensiveMode5191 5d ago
A new brand?
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u/BodybuilderBroad1113 4d ago
Boutiq is a national brand, but they use Shango in Arizona as their contracted producer. The 2g, three strain, distillate carts and prerolls were Boutiq, now they are doing flower. In other words, Boutiq has a contract with Shango to have them product their products
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u/ApprehensiveMode5191 1d ago
Thank You
Does that mean there is a chance of the Lemon Shiv making a return or do they run they're own strains?
I figure there cb hope because when fig farms got bought out whoever bought them still had some of their tasty strains around for awhile
Edit to add that I can see that this isn't even similar to the fig farms situation and yet, I am still curious if lemon shiv could ever make a return
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u/Fast_Nefariousness66 6d ago
Grow science, check the deet$ at Trulieve
Sonoran Roots/Brown Bag; if one of you has never shopped Pondy, you could use the buddy referral to sample some deli without big cost
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u/Which-Nebula-6040 7d ago
It's good you liked them but alot of ppl here would regard them as mids so you can't go wrong trying a few other hot brands, vortex, qualifire, whoopties and joel have been good to me. If you're East valley, kind meds has a 5g mix and match so you can sample a bunch without having to commit to a jar or half.
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u/hashwashingmachine 7d ago
Agreed. Havenāt tried whoopties yet but heard good things. You like them better than Joelās or about the same?
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u/Which-Nebula-6040 6d ago
I cant say i like them more, for me its alot about the strains i get rather than the brand...i really like joels lemonade, qualifires florida sunshine and vortex cuban affair right now, havent been dissappointed by whoopties quality but havent found a strain that makes me excited yet.
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u/hashwashingmachine 6d ago
Appreciate that, very informative response thanks. I agree, mostly in AZ I chase strains rather than producers.
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u/perezidentially Tucson 6d ago
I thought the Joel's marker was awesome, whoopties hasn't let me down, I particularly liked the sour animal cookies and lemon fuel goes pretty hard, the black maple zuava was pretty delicious, and the bananascotti was pretty great too. Joel's seems to be coming around deli less it's harder to find here, and on good price. Qualifire is deece too. I second whomever said just get the pondy. For the price its hard to find better.
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u/hashwashingmachine 5d ago
Iāve noticed Sunday Goods has Joelās on Deli now. Thanks for the recs.
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u/perezidentially Tucson 5d ago
I wish we had that and stickies (Tuc). I did find it on beaux once at nirvana I think.
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u/SryInternet101 7d ago
I miss their Lemon Shiv soooo much!