Tangie Ting by BLEM: The Citrus Sativa Every Menu Spells Wrong

Check enough dispensary menus and you'll find this strain spelled at least three ways — Tangie Ting, Trangie Ting, occasionally just 'Trangie.' The correct name, straight from BLEM's own site, is Tangie Ting, and the lineage has nothing to do with Triangle Kush despite what the misspelling implies. It's built off Tangie — the DJ Short Blueberry × California Orange cross that's been a citrus benchmark strain for well over a decade — with 'Ting' pulled from the same Jamaican patois well as the brand's own name (Blem itself means being seriously, stupidly high). BLEM runs the same naming convention across its whole lineup: Lemon Ting sits next to Tangie Ting on the same menu.

BLEM is Cali Lotus's consumer label, the same Southern California crew that's been growing OG Kush lineage since the early 2000s and is credited as the original cultivator behind Billy Kimber OG and 40 Elephants. Tangie Ting is a genuine departure from that OG-heavy pedigree — a citrus sativa in a catalog otherwise stacked with gas — and by BLEM's own account it picked up a First Place Sativa Flower award at the 2024 California Cannabis Awards Music Festival, with Unruly OG taking second in the Indica category the same year.

What's actually documented about the cross stops at Tangie. BLEM's own product page lists only that single parent; nobody's published the second half of the cross. Given how tightly BLEM has held the rest of its genetics — Unruly OG's lineage is equally undisclosed — that's consistent with how this brand operates rather than a gap in the research.

The jar backs up the Tangie half of the name without much argument: fresh peeled tangerine up front, a spicy floral note underneath, fresh earth on the finish. AllBud lists the strain in the mid-to-high 20s for THC, and the effect matches a citrus sativa's usual script — energizing, focused, motivating, with a light tingle that keeps it from tipping into anxious territory the way some limonene-heavy cuts can.

A brand built on OG lineage putting out a genuinely good citrus sativa, and then not bothering to explain how they did it — that's either confidence or just how a small cultivation team runs. Either way, the jar earns it.