Winding down: mellow evening strains on our Richmond Hill shelf

A while back we walked through the bright, citrus-and-tropical end of the shelf — the daytime strains people reach for when the day is just getting started. This is the other bookend: the deeper, sweeter, dessert-and-grape corner of the menu that tends to get filed under "evening." It's a walk through five of those on our Richmond Hill shelf — what each smells and tastes like, where it comes from, and which in-stock products carry it.

One honest ground rule first, the same one we led with in the daytime guide, because this topic invites even more hype: we are describing aroma, flavor, and heritage — not telling you how any strain will make you feel. The indica / sativa / hybrid labels are a loose tradition, not a spec sheet, and the same jar can land differently on two people or from one harvest to the next. Read this as a tasting menu with a bit of history, not a prescription.

What makes a strain an "evening" strain?

Mostly reputation and habit, same as "daytime." The strains people file under "evening" or "nighttime" tend to be indica or indica-leaning varieties with heavier, sweeter aromas — grape, berry, cream, dessert, and dank earth — as opposed to the sharp citrus-and-diesel profiles the culture files under daytime. That split is a decades-old shorthand, and it's a perfectly good way to *shop by vibe and flavor*.

What it is not is a guarantee of how you'll feel. Modern cannabis understanding leans on a plant's specific chemistry — the cannabinoids and the aromatic compounds called terpenes — far more than on the word "indica" on a label. Two people can try the same "evening" strain and have completely different experiences. So use the evening tag the way you'd read a dessert menu: a helpful hint about the style, not a promise about the outcome.

Five evening-leaning picks — and what they smell like

Here's the lineup, each with its lineage, its actual aroma and flavor, and the products carrying it that were in stock as of mid-August 2026 (a menu changes daily — always check the live menu before you come in).

Purple Headband — grape meets gas

A purple-leaning hybrid that pairs two things people love in an evening jar: a sweet, grape-and-berry sweetness up front and a low, earthy-diesel funk underneath. Expect deep purple hues in the flower and an aroma that's candy-sweet without being one-note. On our shelf it's To The Moon flower. If you like the gassy side of that profile, Fyre's Purple Haze flower sits in a nearby lane.

Blue Mochi — the creamy dessert pick

Blue Mochi comes out of the Gelato/Mochi dessert family crossed with a blueberry side, and it tastes the part: sweet berry over a smooth, doughy, almost ice-cream-like creaminess. It's the kind of soft, rounded sweetness that reads as "dessert strain" the moment you open the jar. We carry it as To The Moon flower.

Alien OG — the piney kush classic

Alien OG is an OG-lineage hybrid (often traced to Tahoe OG crossed with Alien Kush) and it carries the classic OG signature: sharp pine and lemon over a dank, earthy kush funk. It's the more savory, old-school pick in this group — less candy, more that deep, resinous OG smell people know. Find it as Toke Folks flower, or as a Dr Midtown infused pre-roll two-pack if you want it ready to go.

Granddaddy Purple — the iconic grape

If any strain defined the "purple" category, it's Granddaddy Purple (GDP). A famous indica cross of Purple Urkle and Big Bud, created by Ken Estes in California, it's the benchmark candy-grape strain — deep purple coloring and a sweet grape-and-berry aroma that's about as classic as it gets. On our menu it's a Ruby Farms GDP pre-roll seven-pack, and Fernway carries a Granddaddy Purple all-in-one vape if you'd rather keep it portable.

Purple Sour — sweet purple, tart edge

Purple Sour from Out East Canna — a New York-grown pick — is the wildcard of the group: it brings the sweet, purple-fruit side together with a tart, sour-gas tang, so it reads as candy and diesel at the same time. It's a good one if you like the purple family but want a little more bite than a straight grape strain. We carry it as Out East Canna flower.

Prefer not to smoke? Evening options in other formats

Flower and pre-rolls aren't the only way to shop this corner of the menu. Several of the strains above come in a vape — the low-effort, portable way to try a profile without grinding and rolling. Granddaddy Purple is on the shelf as a Fernway all-in-one, and Fernway's Night Cap cartridge is built as an evening-labeled option. Our vapes explainer covers the hardware and what the labels mean.

If you'd rather skip inhaling entirely, the menu also carries night-labeled edibles and tinctures — Level's ProTab Slumber, Ayrloom's Dreamweaver (a THC-to-CBN blend), Ruby Farms' "Night Cap" live-resin gummies, and Ayrloom's Pillow Talk and Wanna Jive's Night Time tinctures. These are digested or sublingual formats, so they behave differently from smoking: they take longer to come on, and the milligrams on the label are the whole story. If edibles are new to you, read the label guide first and start low — that's not dosing advice, just common sense with any adult-use product.

Where can you actually enjoy these in Queens?

Same rule as the daytime guide, and it's the part people get wrong: public consumption of cannabis is illegal in New York — that covers the sidewalk, the subway, the parks, and the stoop. An "evening strain" isn't something you spark on a Forest Park bench after dark; it's something you buy at a licensed shop and enjoy afterward, in a legal private setting like your own home.

So the wind-down framing is about *when* and *where* — the end of your day, at home, on your own time — not a promise about how the product works. And the obvious one: never consume before or while driving or biking. If cannabis is part of your evening, you're already in for the night, and someone sober is behind the wheel if anyone's going anywhere.

How do you shop these at the Richmond Hill counter?

Come in with a valid, unexpired government-issued photo ID showing you're 21 or older — that's the only requirement, since adult-use cannabis is legal in New York and no medical card is needed. Cannabis Cowboy is a licensed New York dispensary (NY OCM-RETL-24-000068) on Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, serving Ozone Park, Woodhaven, and the surrounding neighborhoods.

• Tell the team the vibe, not just a name. If you liked a sweet, grape-forward strain before, say so — they can match the aroma family even when a specific strain has sold out.
• The menu price is the final price. New York's 13% cannabis tax is already built into what you see, so there's no surprise math at the register.
• Stock rotates daily. Everything named here was in stock as of mid-August 2026, but the fastest way to know what's on the shelf today is the live menu.

The quick rundown

• Purple Headband — grape-and-berry sweetness over an earthy-diesel funk (To The Moon flower).
• Blue Mochi — creamy, doughy berry dessert from the Gelato family (To The Moon flower).
• Alien OG — piney lemon and dank OG kush; the savory pick (Toke Folks flower, Dr Midtown infused pre-rolls).
• Granddaddy Purple — the benchmark candy-grape (Ruby Farms pre-rolls, Fernway vape).
• Purple Sour — sweet purple with a tart, sour-gas edge; NY-grown (Out East Canna flower).
• Remember: "evening" is a reputation, not a promise; keep consumption private and legal; check the live menu for what's in stock.

That's the deeper end of the shelf for a Queens wind-down. Cannabis Cowboy is a licensed adult-use dispensary on Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill. Browse the live menu or stop in with a 21+ ID and ask the team to point you to the evening picks.