Wizard Trees' Zang Banger: The House Cross That Just Won Zalympix

Zang Banger just picked up hardware. Wizard Trees' cross took Best Overall and Most Unique in the Industry category at Zalympix's California flower judging, with fan voting placing it runner-up for Best Overall and Best Tasting behind LA Family Farms' Orange Drip. For a brand built on RS11, Zoap, and the Black Magic line, it's proof the deeper catalog can compete with the strains that made Wizard Trees' name.

The cross behind it: Zangria — Wizard Trees' own Zkittlez x Thin Mint Cookies line — supplies the saturated berry-candy sweetness and bright citrus lift. Sherbanger #22, a Sunset Sherbet x Headbanger cut, brings the octane: diesel funk, dense structure, and enough resin to frost under any light. Both parents are in-house cultivars rather than licensed genetics.

That lineage shows up straight in the jar. Break down a nug and it's loud blueberry candy up front — the brand's own copy calls it blueberry muffin meeting candy gas — with a creamy, almost pastry-like edge before the Sherbanger side cuts in underneath: peppery, gassy, a little dirty in the best way. Caryophyllene, limonene, and myrcene make up the core of the terpene profile, sweet and rounded on the inhale, sharper and spicier on the exhale.

Lab sheets across recent batches have landed in the mid-to-high 20s, with some pulls pushing close to 30% THC. The high matches the brand's own effect tags — daytime, creative, joyful — and lands as a clear-headed lift rather than a sedating knockout, the expected result of a roughly even-split hybrid built for flavor first.

Flower and pre-roll SKUs — singles and 3.5g five-packs — are stocked at over a hundred California retailers, real distribution for a cultivar that isn't even the brand's flagship. Now it's a competition winner too — proof the rest of the catalog can hold up without leaning on RS11's name to do the selling.