If You Like Pink Kush, You Might Like Gluerangutan
By Tyler Rumi
If you're reading this, there's a good chance Pink Kush is in your rotation.
Maybe it's been your go-to for years. Maybe a budtender handed it to you once and you never looked back. There's a reason it's one of the most-bought strains in Canada.
I want to talk about a strain we grow on our farm that shares some of Pink Kush's family tree. Not a replacement. Just something adjacent worth knowing about if you're the kind of person who likes knowing where your weed comes from.
Why people love Pink Kush
Pink Kush has been a BC staple for a long time. It came up through underground growing networks here on the coast before legalisation, and the name carried right into the legal market. Most people agree it traces back to OG Kush at some point in its history, though the full lineage is murky. Even the breeders who grow it now will tell you the story is more legend than paperwork.
What people consistently love about Pink Kush is the smell: sweet, a little vanilla, earthy underneath. It's a comfort strain. The kind of thing you know the second you crack the jar.
It's so well known that many licensed producers in Canada grow some form of it. Which means you've probably had several different Pink Kushes without realising it. They're not all the same plant.
Where Gluerangutan fits in
Gluerangutan is our flagship. We grow it outdoors here on Salt Spring Island in living soil, watered with rainwater from our ponds.
Gluerangutan has OG Kush in its lineage too. Same grandfather as Pink Kush. But where Pink Kush stayed close to that OG character, Gluerangutan branches off in a different direction because of its other parents — GG4 (Gorilla Glue #4) and an Afghani Hash Plant.
That mix changes the smell completely. Instead of vanilla and floral, Gluerangutan goes pine, lemon, and gas. Like a pine-lemon cleaner, it’s sharp, clean, almost cutting. It’s less comforting and more powerfully smelling.
When we grow it outdoors, the resin gets so thick that it ruins our gloves. We go through way more than we do on any other strain at harvest. Our pruning snips cake up with sap, and we have to swap them out a couple of times a day. These are commercial-grade snips meant to last for years. Gluerangutan stops them dead in their tracks in an afternoon.
We pheno-hunted it from about 150,000 plants in 2019 and spent three seasons stabilising it before we put it on a shelf. The nose was the thing that told us. The yield and the fact that it finished early enough to beat the wet weather sealed it.
How they differ
Same OG Kush root. Different branch.
Pink Kush is sweet, soft, and floral. Gluerangutan is gassy, piney, citrusy, with a layer of spice underneath.
Pink Kush is grown indoors at scale by many big producers. Gluerangutan is grown outdoors exclusively on our family farm, in soil we've been building up for eight seasons.
That growing method makes a real difference. Outdoor cannabis in living soil isn't the same product as indoor cannabis under lights. The smell, the resin, the structure all shift. Not better or worse in a universal sense. A different expression of what cannabis can be.
Outdoor cannabis can look a little less manicured than indoor flower. The buds aren't always uniform. They’re grown outdoors, so they take a more natural form. We think that's part of the deal, but it's worth knowing going in.
A fun side effect of that pine-cleaner smell — when we planted out most of our field with Gluerangutan in 2021 and 2022, we got fewer complaints from neighbouring farms than when we were growing skunkier strains. People smell pine and think "tree." They smell skunk and think "weed."
Who Gluerangutan is for
If you like Pink Kush for its OG family character — the depth, the resin, the heaviness in the jar — Gluerangutan is worth a try. The OG bones are there. The vibes are similar. Just louder and sharper.
If you're curious about what outdoor, organic, family-farm cannabis is like compared to the big indoor stuff, this is a good place to start. We're FVOPA Certified Organic, we don't use synthetic anything, and the soil has been with us since we got our licence in 2019.
If you mostly love Pink Kush because of its specific smell — sweet, candy, vanilla — Gluerangutan probably won't scratch that itch. It's a completely different fragrance. Mango Cake is probably closer on that front, with its sweet mango and vanilla aromas and more of a sativa lean.
Where to find it
Gluerangutan is on shelves across BC and Alberta in flower, pre-rolls, and a few vape formats. We’re starting to roll it out in Ontario too.
Same family tree as the Pink Kush that you already know and love. Different branch. Louder terps.
Want to go deeper?
Read thefull Gluerangutan strain guide for terpene data, COA results, and grow notes.
Seewhy we grow outdoors on Salt Spring Island.
Learn aboutliving soil cultivation and why it changes how cannabis expresses itself
Explore theMango Cake strain guide, our other house cultivar
Tyler Rumi is co-founder and cultivation lead at GOOD BUDS, Canada's first licensed outdoor cannabis producer. He has grown cannabis in living soil on Salt Spring Island, BC, since 2017.
