Apple Fritter
Hybrid
Sour Apple × Animal Cookies
No alternate names recorded
- Sourced
- Cannabinoids: Sourced
- Effects: Sourced
- Review date not recorded
Review date not recorded

At a glance
- Type
- Hybrid
- High
- Head and Body
- Genetics
- Sour Apple × Animal Cookies
- Flowering
- 44–51 d
- THC Range
- 22% – 32%
- CBD Range
- 0.61% – 1.16%
- Dominant Terpenes
- Caryophyllene, Limonene, Humulene
Effect Profile
Reported by the community and curated from multiple sources.
- Reported
- Reported Negatives
Frequency not recorded
Buzzy Euphoria
Reported
Deeply Relaxing
Reported
Euphoric
Reported
Happy
Reported
Sleepy
Reported
- Anxiety
- Dry Eyes
- Dry Mouth
- The Scaries
Plant Profile
Cannabinoid Profile (As Reported)
View methodology- THC22% – 32%
- CBD0.61% – 1.16%
- CBG0.47% – 1.49%
- CBN0.06% – 0.28%
- THCV0.33% – 1.97%
Ranges reflect legacy lab reports and aggregated user data, as recorded.
Dominant Terpenes (Top 5)
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CaryophyllenePeppery, SpicyHigh- LimoneneModerate
HumuleneWoody, HoppyModerate
LinaloolFloral, LavenderLower
PinenePine, FreshLower
User-Reported Medical Usage New
Community- and source-reported, not medical advice.
5 reported uses
- 1StressReported as a reason for use.—
- 2DepressionReported as a reason for use.—
- 3PainReported as a reason for use.—
- 4InsomniaReported as a reason for use.—
- 5AnxietyReported as a reason for use.—
Listed by how widely each use is reported across strains. The share of reporters is not recorded for these reports. Not a measure of whether it worked.
View all reported usesGenetics & Origin
Sour Apple’s parents
Animal Cookies’s parents
Sour Apple
Hybrid
Parent Strain
Animal Cookies
Hybrid
Parent Strain
Apple Fritter
Hybrid
Origin
Apple Fritter is generally given as a cross of Sour Apple and Animal Cookies, bred by Lumpy's Flowers in California. The genetics are protected and the strain's history is thin for how widely known it is, so this is a breeder-reported account rather than a documented one. It made a magazine's 2016 world's-strongest-strains list, which is much of how it built its name. Our records show only a short list of descendants, the best known being Atomic Apple.
2 lineage claim sets recorded. The one shown is attributed to Green Wolf Genetics; the others are in the tabs above, each with its own source.
Bred from Apple Fritter (2)
The Grow
Best Results
Indoor and Outdoor
Preferred Climate
Humid
Grow Difficulty
- Beginner
- Easy
- Average
- Difficult
- Expert
Average
Outdoor
- Harvest
- mid-October
- Height
- Low but Dense
- Yield
- 14 to 16 oz per plant
Indoor
- Harvest
- 8–9 wk
- Height
- Low but Dense
- Yield
- 12 to 14 oz per square meter
- Flowering
- 44–51 d
- Resistance
- low in resistance to diseases and insects
The difficulty to grow Apple Fritter is known for being average. For growers cultivating indoors, expect low but dense height with a 12 to 14 oz per square meter yield with in about 8–9 wk. Outdoors, harvest around mid-October.
Cultivation Notes
Apple Fritter is a moderate grow with limited public information, since the genetics are closely held. It stays low and dense, finishes quickly for a hybrid at about six to seven weeks and prefers a humid climate. Its resistance to pests and disease is on the low side, so it needs a clean, well-managed space. Reported yields are modest, around 12 to 14 ounces per square meter indoors. Grower and breeder figures.
When To Try It
Best:
Night

Occasions:
- at night
About
Apple Fritter tastes like dessert for breakfast, sweet baked apple and vanilla, and it once landed on a magazine's world's-strongest-strains list. The two facts sit oddly together. It is a Lumpy's Flowers cross of Sour Apple and Animal Cookies, popular in California and unusually poorly documented for something this well known.
The pastry name and the sledgehammer reputation are both real. Which one you meet depends mostly on how much you take.
What to Expect
Apple Fritter comes on fast and in two parts. Across roughly 140 Leafly reviews, a small aggregate, relaxed and happy lead, then euphoric and uplifted, with sleepiness behind. The early phase is an intense, sometimes creative euphoria that several write-ups describe as almost overwhelming; it then settles into a deep, couch-bound relaxation.
Two cautions matter here. The strain is genuinely potent, so the dose that suits an experienced consumer is not a starting dose. And an anxious edge shows up in reports more than it does for most strains, more likely at a larger dose or for people who are prone to it. The aggregate is small, so treat that as a reason for care rather than a settled rate. Respect the strength, and go slow if you are prone to anxiety.
Flavor and Aroma
Apple Fritter is a bakery smell with real fruit in it: sweet baked apple, vanilla and a cakey, cinnamon-adjacent warmth, with a light herbal, earthy base and a faint cheesy note on the tail from the Animal Cookies side. The flavor delivers on the name, sweet and pastry-like through the exhale.
Terpenes Explained
Apple Fritter's measured panel is led by Caryophyllene, often well above half a percent, with Limonene and Humulene next and Myrcene notably low. That is a peppery, citrus-edged reading rather than a sweet one.
The baked-apple-and-vanilla impression sits outside the measured terpenes entirely. The low Myrcene is worth noting only because Myrcene is often blamed for couch-lock, and Apple Fritter is quite sedating without much of it, another sign that the panel does not straightforwardly predict how a strain feels.
Cannabinoids and Potency
Apple Fritter THC is listed high, with legacy figures spanning about 22 to 32 percent, though our lab-measured sample came in near 20 and the "strongest strain" framing rests on selected high results rather than a typical batch. CBD is a trace. A reported THCV figure exists but sits on a single small sample.
Treat it as a strong strain whose real-world range is probably high teens to mid twenties, not a record-setter. The implication is the same either way: start low, because both the potency and the anxious edge reward a careful first dose.
Awards & Recognition
Each award is bound to the exact entry that won it. Nothing is inherited by the strain as a whole.
No competition entry names this strain.
0 verified recognitions. 0 unresolved entries shown but excluded from the count.
Competition historyBusinesses familiar with Apple Fritter 0
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How we verify businessesExperience Evidence & Sources
Where this record’s observations come from, and what each source covers.
Community strain database aggregation (Labster/Blaster/Grower/Writer)
Aggregated from third-party community strain databases — 5 source records.
Ascendancy Drupal preserved public extract
Carried over from the preserved Ascendancy archive — 1 source record.
One recorded conflict
2 lineage claim sets disagree. All are retained with their sources; none is presented as settled.
Source summaries only. Evidence bodies are not published on this page.
Methodology and sourcesReader Reviews 0
Reader experiences, not verified data. Nothing here feeds the effect percentages above.
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Quick Facts
- Type
- Hybrid (indica-leaning)
- THC Range
- 22% – 32%
- CBD Range
- 0.61% – 1.16%
- Flowering Time
- 44–51 d
- Yield (Indoor)
- 12 to 14 oz per square meter
- Yield (Outdoor)
- 14 to 16 oz per plant
- Difficulty
- Average
- Climate
- Humid
- Best For
- Night
- Height (Outdoor)
- Low but Dense
Data Freshness
Confirmation dates are not recorded
- Cannabinoids Sourced
- Terpenes Sourced
- Effects Sourced
- Awards None recorded