Review: Banana Haze From Dank By Definition

Smoking session review of the Banana Haze cannabis strain released by Dank by Definition

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SPEAKER_00 0:12

With your house. Skipper. And we're back with Giglin Highland. Today we are reviewing Banana Haze by Dank by Definition.

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Dank by Definition, also known as HPI Canna Inc. from Poughkeepsie, New York, is a New York-based canna company founded in 2022. Founders are experts from the cannabis and hospitality industry, and they offer arguably the largest selection of choices of any New York grower.

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Banana Haze, 100% sativa strain, cross between silver haze and banana. Top turps are caryophylline, limonine, and humilene. Top flavors are banana, earthy, and haze. Top effects are energetic, happy, and relaxed. THC contents are as follow: 20 to 22%, according to All Bud. Dank by definition is claiming 31.1%.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

And we got nothing from Leafly on Banana Haze. Do better. As far as packaging, we are taking this from a 3.5 ounce Mylar bag, which retails about$35 to$50, depending on the strain. This one came from Sage Seeds in Oakland Gardens. Those are our good friends. Visit them if you can. Are we ready for the roll?

SPEAKER_00 1:31

We're ready. Let's do it. Let's do it. And we're back with the roll. So how did it break, Skip? Well, these small buds actually broke pretty even. We were able to roll enough for the show. That's one blunt and one joint, and we have a little bit left for probably one more round. That's excellent.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

As far as the look, well, they were small nugs, like you said. They were banana yellows with greens and browns. The turf profile wasn't overpowering, but it did smell, and it smelled like bananas. It also smelled sweet and pungent, too. Can definitely see the tricomes all over. It was yellow trichomes, which was very interesting. Yeah. And it was very supple. That actually seems like a fresh batch. Yeah, it does. Are we ready for the smoke, Skip? We're ready. Let's do it. Let's do it. It immediately tastes like bananas. First pull. That is very interesting. How did they do that? Is that the humolene? Slight choker. Completely. It's like the turfs are total banana. A little bit of pungent. Every pull is a banana. Every exhale is a banana. It's crazy. It's bananas. It's bananas. Okay, so first impressions. Wonderful terps, wonderful smoke. Not high yet. Seeing how it goes.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

How are you feeling, Skip? Not high yet, but I feel the high coming. And the familiar kind of like hey, Zorsativa kind of.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

Well, I'm already past a third in. I'm not really feeling much. Um it's like something slight in the tips of my ears. So yeah, that's probably a high coming in. But other than that, nothing too crazy. Uh, let's see. So energetic, no, nothing specific for energetic. Happy. You feeling happy, Skip?

SPEAKER_00 3:58

Well, I'm very happy to be here.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Okay, but aside from that.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

Aside from that, uh, not as much as usual. How about relaxed? Relaxed? Yeah. Not more than usual.

SPEAKER_02 4:08

Yeah, I'm not feeling anything yet. Uh, bananas, bananas, bananas. That's all. Uh taste, turp profile, exhale.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Bananas. Both in the inhale and exhale.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Yeah, it's it's overpowering. It's actually interesting. I wonder how they did that. It has to be the alpha humiline. Probably. At least that's what I'm thinking.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Yeah, that makes sense. The way the the note attaches itself in the inhale, in the exhale, in the smoke, in the bud. Yeah. Like banana nutilators.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

So now I'm about halfway in and I'm starting to feel high. Uh, nobody whatsoever. Definitely a sativa. Um it's working its way like behind my eyes, like my eye sockets. But it's not strong yet. I don't feel like I could say I'm actually high. How about you, Skip? What are you thinking?

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Not high yet. I'm just floating, but not high.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Okay. So we're working on it. I gotta say, it seems, you know, this Mylar bag is a it's it seems to work very well, especially with the boost pack, because that was a very supple uh pack. Yeah, it was very nice.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

Yeah, it was uh more supple than I expected. You know, it had like an initial crunch to it, but breaking it was very sticky.

SPEAKER_02 5:38

Yeah, it was like springy and sticky. Sticky. And that was really nice. A lot of resin. Yeah, that was a good job. Good job, Dank. Okay, so I'm passing halfway. Still feeling a turp profile through and through. Still tasting it, still pushing it up. Uh, but no Oh wait, no, actually, I do feel kind of a high. It's like on my face. Yeah, I can I can start. I'm starting to feel the high. I'm starting to definitely just to feel the high. Do I feel energetic? No, not energetic. It's more like a tingling. Yeah. Do you have that too?

SPEAKER_03 6:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:16

I'm having a tingling on my tip of my nose, the the tops of my ears. This weird tingling sensation. But the happy and thing and all that, no. Energetic, no. Relaxed?

SPEAKER_00 6:30

I don't know if this would qualify as relaxed. It could be, but I mean, I say no, and I'm basing that on my experience with other tank products that really made me feel relaxed.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

That is true. Actually, I have to agree with that, so I have to concur. Still pleasant pull. Definitely feeling a high. It's it's going into the frontal lobe region. It's not an easily describable high. It's so it's like a ph it's funny because sativas are usually not physical effects. And this is all I'm feeling at this point. I'm feeling all physical effects, all tingly. Yeah. Are you feeling anything cerebral?

SPEAKER_00 7:15

No, just a bit of like the spaces opening up, but not you know, I'm waiting for the usual sativa punch in the you know in the head area. No, none of that. A smooth high though. It's smooth and yeah, more in the body. Is it just a tingly for you too?

SPEAKER_02 7:34

Seems that way, yeah. Yeah, but it's a high because it's like my face is numb, right? What is the song? I can't feel my face right now, right? Well, wrong drug, I think, but still.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Um and the name says haze, so it's like the high or my high is looking for that. Like, okay, it's a haze, but it's kind of light there, or maybe a little elusive, maybe. Okay, I'm looking at my last third.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Definitely a high setting in. It's a slightly unfocused high, which is strange because this is a sativa, uh, a tingly high. And there's some fogginess in the brain. Do you are you feeling that? No, you're not feeling the fogginess? But I am a little bit the I'm the lack of focus, definitely. Lack of focus, you're also getting. Yeah. I'm also getting like a slight fogginess, but uh the skip here is not feeling it. That's the thing though. Sativa high is a tricky, you know, because they could play tricks on you. Yeah, that is true. So, you know, you sitting here hi, and meanwhile, you're smacked because you will convince yourself that you're not high.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Yeah, that is the the danger and the lore of sativas. Yeah, you know, it it's off-putting to some people because of that, you know. Some people it's too much, especially in the head. Some people it's just too much going on at once, you know.

SPEAKER_02 9:06

And for some people, hey, it naturally, like, it just induces anxiety and so on. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And paranoia. Yeah, so you gotta be careful with sativas. I know a couple of people that have that issue. They gotta be careful what strain they smoke, because some will, you know, trigger anxiety.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. There was a time that I was and we even were aiming at pure sativas at a time where it was widely available in the streets of New York. And um I enjoyed them, but yeah, they I would I would get that paranoia from time to time. And I was able, you know, to make sense of it because I knew where it came from. But yeah, I I would be definitely remiss if I would say that I was not feeling that. Sativas are tricky. Yeah, you gotta be careful.

SPEAKER_02 9:59

That's why we love, you know, we love our indicas, we love our hybrids. Hey, we love our sativas too. That's the thing about marijuana. There's a place for every strain. You know, if if it's a bad strain for you that day, it's because it's out of place. It's not where it should be in your life. Maybe it doesn't fit your life, maybe it fits someone else's life better. But there's never a bad strain, there's only a bad fit. Okay, like finishing my last third and definitely high. It's a facial feeling kind of high. But I think I'm thinking that that's all cerebral. Uh no bodies as far as aches and pains in the back or anything like that or neck. Uh back to what they said as far as effects, energetic. No, not really happy, nope, not really. I mean, you know, it's nor more normal than I usually am. Relaxed, okay. I could say relaxed. I could say relaxed. Um, and yeah, just that's pretty much it. Um, but there is a high, there's no doubt about it. There is a high.

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R U feeling.

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But let's just start off like coming from IU Till IU T.

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Okay, so this is pro with the just finished segment. Uh it's a pleasant smoke through and through. Bananas, bananas, bananas. Uh, other than that, good smoke. It's uh decent high with a a tingly face feeling. Uh good high, good high. Uh, am I smacked? Definitely not. Uh maybe I'll be smacked. I don't know. Uh, but I am not super confident that it's gonna ascend that high. And as far as looking for again, the effects, energetic, not really happy. I feel the same as before. Relaxed. I could say relaxed. Uh, the high is actually one that's like easy, an easygoing kind of thing. You know, you feel cool, like hanging out with everybody, not doing much. Um, what do you gotta say, Skip? What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 12:20

It's a smooth high, it's consistent, but it's a smooth and and low-level high, but it's very pleasant.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

Where are you cruising?

SPEAKER_00 12:29

Man, I gotta say, I I want to say 20,000, but maybe my expectation is not letting me actually realize that I'm cruising higher, you know, because it's uh quote unquote 100% sativa. So, you know, I guess I'm looking for the kick in the face, but nah. It's not it. But it's pleasant throughout, though.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

Okay, well, I guess we're gonna have to see what happens in this hour, huh?

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Yeah.

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All right, well, we'll see you guys one hour later.

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One hour later. One hour later.

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And we're back with Gigglin' Highland one hour later. How does it go, bro?

SPEAKER_02 13:16

Well, I'll start with absolutely bananas. I have to say, it felt a little un Sativa-ish. I felt a little sleepy, like it was an Indika in some spots. Uh, other than that, a really pleasant high. Uh smacked. Listen, I smoked enough to be sleepy like it was an Indika. So if I wasn't smacked, I should be no. Right. Uh, but not yet at the 30-minute mark. Not really a talker, which is also unsativa-ish. Uh, one thing I will say is uh, you know, sativas are usually focused creative, so it's really unusual to see that the effects here are energetic and happy. Right. Uh, and I did feel the focused portion. Like I felt like if I was, you know, thinking about something, it went to where I was thinking. Um heady, though I don't know if this strain was heady. I'm not sure to say that it was heady. In the 40-minute mark, I could be like, I could honestly say, man, I was high at that moment. And it was a really good high. It almost approached smack level. Maybe it did at one point or two, but it was very brief. And now at the 60-minute mark, I am high. It's a good high, it's a pleasant high. Uh, looking at the original effects, we had energetic, happy, relax. I guess I'll talk about that in the smack ometer. Skip, what did you think? One hour later.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

Yeah, I'm still high. It's a low-level high, but it's consistent. The uh the high is pretty good, like for uh low visual things. Like if you don't you're amongst people or in a situation where you don't want to seem high, you can fly low this way with this one. You won't really give it away much. The thoughts are not all over the place, but still a floating high. Did you feel like any smackness? No, not at all. Not at all. But a constant floating, which is nice. Okay, how many feet? I would have to say maybe like not even 30,000 yet, but it's alright because it's consistent. It's consistent.

unknown 15:31

All right.

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Well, you're gonna have to tell us how many thousand feet in the smack ometer, I guess. Yeah. All right, I guess we're ready for the smack meter. We're ready. Let's do it. Let's do it. Definitely feel like this.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

This is alright. This is actually alright. I'm definitely feeling this. This is alright. This is actually alright.

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Okay, and we're back with the smack emeter. Skip.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

What's your final thoughts? Well, I've been cruising at about 25,000 feet, so it's almost there, but it's just not a thunderous high, but it's a consistent low high, which I enjoy because it's functional and you can stay under the radar if you need to keep your high on the down low for whatever situation you might have. And the taste, of course, was through and through. It was like pro said before: this is banana central here from beginning to end. It was enjoyable. For that, I give it a 7.7. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

Well, yeah, you're probably tired of hearing us say bananas and stuff. So I'll try to keep that to a minimum. Um it was a pleasant high. I even felt like at one point I reached smacked level. It was very brief, but I did, I felt like. Um what else can I say about it? Beautiful turret profile, very unique. Uh, I am guessing it was the humolene, alpha humilene, but I don't know. Um, but it was wonderful. It was bananas through and through. There was uh, did you get any earthy? I got a little bit of pungent when I when I broke it up, yeah. And a tiny bit of earthy, but not in the smoke. No. Um energetic, definitely not energetic. If anything, I was getting bouts of sleepiness. So no, energetic, definitely not. Uh happy, not really. Uh relaxed. Yeah, I could say relaxed. In fact, maybe a little too relaxed. Uh, I definitely felt traditional sativa uh effects. Like I felt focused, I felt creative. Um it looked pretty. It was uh nice packaging, it was very supple. Keep using those boost packs, Dank. It's a wonderful idea. Um with all this in mind, I wish I was like smacked for more than like three or four minutes, five minutes at that point. But it was nice. I mean, I could say it, it it was really a nice high, really, really nice high. Now thrilling, but it was nice. So with that, I'm actually going to give it an 8.4.

SPEAKER_03 18:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

Okay. You all you got me almost there, but you needed to sustain it for a little bit longer to be considered smack level. But I will acknowledge that you know it was a very, very good high that almost approached smack. I think, yeah, I think that about says it. And I guess I'll say it one more time. Bananas. Definitely bananas. And good mates, that is our review. Don't forget, if you have any comments, opinions, concerns, or just want to drop us a lifeline, visit our comment section or our YouTube page. And don't forget to hit that follow button.

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