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The Official Cannabis collection · sheet 76No 76 · Trainwreckvs Pineapple Express

Comparison

Trainwreck vs Pineapple Express

Pineapple Express is the clearest sourced relationship here: Leafly identifies it as Trainwreck × Hawaiian.1 The state-lab medians are 18.65% for Trainwreck and 19.80% for Pineapple Express, but shared lineage does not make the two labels interchangeable.2

Side by side

TrainwreckPineapple Express
TypeHybrid3Sativa-dominant hybrid1
LineageMexican and Thai sativas × Afghani indica3,4,5Trainwreck × Hawaiian1
Median THC (state lab tests)18.65% (248 tests)219.80% (461 tests)2
Middle half of THC results16.67%–21.42%217.54%–21.75%2
Top terpenes (median)Terpinolene, β-Caryophyllene, β-Myrcene (139 tests)2β-Caryophyllene, α-Humulene, β-Myrcene (125 tests)2
Leafly top effectsEuphoric, uplifted, creative (Leafly reports)3Happy, giggly, energetic1
Flavor (Leafly)Pine, earthy, woody (Leafly lists)3Pineapple, tropical, citrus1
FloweringAbout 8 weeks indoors (Leafly); 8–10 weeks (Weedmaps)3,57–9 weeks1

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.2

Lab-tested THC: Trainwreck vs Pineapple Express

16% 18% 20% 22% Pineapple Express Pineapple Express: median 19.80%, middle half 17.54%–21.75%, 461 tests 19.8% n=461 Trainwreck Trainwreck: median 18.65%, middle half 16.67%–21.42%, 248 tests 18.6% n=248 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.2

The documented relationship

Pineapple Express is a Trainwreck × Hawaiian cross in Leafly’s genetics display, and it has its own Official Cannabis guide at pineappleexpressstrain.com.1

Which is easier to find

In Weedmaps snapshots from Oct 5, 2026 (Trainwreck) and Oct 4, 2026 (Pineapple Express), 26 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Trainwreck flower on Weedmaps, against 139 stores for Pineapple Express; around New York the counts were 30 and 76.6

More comparisons

Sources

  1. Leafly, Pineapple Express strain. Accessed Oct 5, 2026.
  2. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 5, 2026.
  3. Leafly, Trainwreck strain. Accessed Oct 5, 2026.
  4. AllBud, Trainwreck Marijuana Strain. Accessed Oct 5, 2026.
  5. Weedmaps, Trainwreck strain page. Accessed Oct 5, 2026.
  6. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 5, 2026. Accessed Oct 5, 2026.