Papaya lab report

Papaya cleared the 20% line most often in Nevada, where 96% of tests were at or above it; overall, 171 of 262 flower tests (65%) met that cutoff, with 36% at 25% and 6.5% at 30%.¹

The state contrast is sharp among the 3 states with enough data: Nevada had 96% of tests at the 20% cutoff or above, while Michigan had 29%; their medians were 27.42% and 16.97% from 92 and 73 tests.¹ The difference includes growers, labs and state testing rules, so it is not a plant-only comparison.

Yes: for Papaya, the one single THC figure we checked was below the lab median, not above it; Leafly lists 17%, and 77% of tests reached 17% or more, while the lab median was 21.70%.^1,3

For the four published ranges, the 15–25% span from Crop King covered the largest slice of lab tests, 52%; the 13–18% span from Nirvana Seeds covered 25%.^1,4,5

Use outside listings as benchmarks, not certificates for the jar in hand; a batch's own certificate of analysis is the batch-specific record.

Yes: Papaya was mostly limonene in terpene tests, with limonene ranking highest in 91% of 98 tests, while β-caryophyllene led 4.1% and β-myrcene led 4.1%.¹

On terpene summaries, Leafly lists myrcene as dominant.³ In the lab file, β-myrcene led 4.1% of tests, while limonene led 91%.¹

Nevada supplied 92 of those 98 terpene tests, so the lead pattern mainly reflects Nevada flower sold under the Papaya name.¹

G13, Papaya Punch and Black Cherry Gelato have the terpene profiles most like Papaya in this comparison, overlapping at 86%, 77% and 76%; within the 36-strain pool, Jack Herer is least similar at 30%.¹

G13, Papaya Punch and Black Cherry Gelato are all limonene-led, while Jack Herer is terpinolene-led.¹

Method note: for every qualifying strain, we express median levels of eight terpenes as portions of their combined amount, then add the portions shared by the pair; identical mixes score 100; inclusion requires 30 or more tests that break out individual terpenes.¹ The match is chemistry-only and should not be read as an effects forecast.

Among qualifying strains, Papaya ranks 8th by its 36% share of tests at or above 25% THC, higher than its median-THC position of 20th of 52 at 21.70%, just below Rainbow Runtz's 21.73% and just above Sour Diesel's 21.68%.¹

The 25% cutoff tells a stronger story: 36% of Papaya tests were at or above it, good for 8th.¹ Its middle-half span is wide, from 17.43% to 26.71%, a range of 9.28 points; by narrowness, that is 50th of 52, so results under the label vary more than most.¹

Across batches from different growers and states, among the 6 labs with at least 20 Papaya tests, the median ran from 15.10% (Lab C, Michigan, 31 tests) to 27.83% (Lab B, Nevada, 38 tests), a gap of 12.73 points.¹

Those lab medians also reflect which growers' flower each lab received, so the spread alone cannot prove that Lab B reads high or Lab C reads low.¹ We anonymize labs in this report, with Lab A assigned to the highest-volume Papaya lab; names appear in the downloadable test file.

Yes: in 122 paired tests of Papaya, the high-THC third had median total terpenes of 1.95% when THC was 28.05% or higher, compared with 1.23% when THC was 24.17% or lower, a terpene gap of 0.72 points.¹

Using the 30-pair state cutoff, only Nevada qualified; there, the low-THC third had 1.51% median total terpenes and the high-THC third had 1.98%.¹ Total terpene percentages are aroma-compound weight measures, not evidence about effects.

Yes: in eligible test years, Papaya's median THC rose by +4.38 points, from 17.62% across 36 tests in 2019 to 22.00% across 35 in 2023.¹

Years below the 20-test minimum are omitted, leaving 4 qualifying years here.¹

Yes, Papaya has many longer lab labels, but exact-name records were mostly flower: 282 of 368, or 77%.¹ Only qualifying flower tests enter this site's strain metrics. Across all exact-name records, concentrates made up 14%, followed by shake and trim at 4.9% and other or unrecorded at 3.8%.¹

The excluded name-matched file is bigger: 1,680 results had Papaya plus extra wording, making up 82% of results containing the name; the largest were “Sour Papaya” at 221, “Papaya Cake” at 209 and “Papaya Melon - Lab Sample” at 47.¹ Extra wording can mark a cross, a CBD version or another product, so our matching method leaves those results out.

Yes, Papaya was cheaper in Los Angeles; in the Oct 4, 2026 Weedmaps pull across 27 US markets, Papaya flower appeared in 164 store menu listings within 50 miles of market centers; those listings covered 18 markets, putting Papaya 33rd out of 58 tracked strains.²

Price data cleared our cutoff in one market, Los Angeles, CA: exact eighths for Papaya had a $15.00 median across 33 listings, versus $25.00 for 39 other strains on the same menus.² The local gap was $10.00 in Papaya's favor.²