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The Most-Ordered Cannabis Strains in NYC
Wedding Cake is the most-ordered cannabis strain in New York City, accounting for 5.6% of all flower units sold across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx over the trailing 12 months. Blue Dream ranks second at 4.9%, and Lance Runtz is third at 4.3%. The ranking is built from more than 145,000 real MetroBud delivery orders, not surveys or search trends.
What Is the Most-Ordered Cannabis Strain in NYC?
Wedding Cake leads every other strain sold through MetroBud’s four-borough delivery network, at 5.6% of all flower units ordered in the trailing 12 months. That is a real lead: Wedding Cake outsold Blue Dream, the #2 strain, by seven-tenths of a percentage point, and outsold every strain outside the top three by a full percentage point or more. The table below shows the full top 14, ranked by share of flower units.
| Rank | Strain | Share of flower units |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wedding Cake | 5.6% |
| 2 | Blue Dream | 4.9% |
| 3 | Lance Runtz | 4.3% |
| 4 | Jack Herer | 4.2% |
| 5 | Pink Candy Runtz | 3.8% |
| 6 | Illemonati | 3.7% |
| 7 | Candy Gelato | 3.7% |
| 8 | Lemon Cherry Gelato | 3.6% |
| 9 | Gelato 33 | 3.6% |
| 10 | Gruntz | 3.3% |
| 11 | Zushi | 3.0% |
| 12 | White Truffle | 2.8% |
| 13 | Zuava | 2.8% |
| 14 | Ze Chem | 2.7% |
These 14 strains are the ones with enough order volume to rank cleanly against each other; every share is a percentage of total flower units sold, not raw unit counts. Eighth and ounce formats of the same strain are combined into one figure. Browse the current lineup, including the strains above, in the shop.
Do New Yorkers Prefer Indica, Sativa, or Hybrid?
Hybrid, by a wide margin. Hybrid strains account for 67.5% of all flower units ordered — roughly two-thirds of everything MetroBud customers bought in the past 12 months. Indica takes 19.3% and sativa takes 13.2%. Put together, hybrids outsell indica and sativa combined by more than 2 to 1.
| Type | Share of flower units |
|---|---|
| Hybrid | 67.5% |
| Indica | 19.3% |
| Sativa | 13.2% |
That lines up with the strain ranking above: Wedding Cake, Blue Dream, Lance Runtz, Jack Herer, and most of the rest of the top 14 are hybrids or hybrid-leaning crosses. NYC’s order data does not show a city built on pure indica or pure sativa preference — it shows a city that overwhelmingly reaches for hybrids.
How Much of NYC’s Cannabis Business Is Flower?
Flower is the single largest category MetroBud sells, at 44.7% of all units — more than the next two categories combined. That is the context for the strain ranking above: it is measuring the largest slice of the business, not a niche corner of it.
| Format | Share of units |
|---|---|
| Flower | 44.7% |
| Concentrates | 10.3% |
| Vapes | 9.8% |
| Pre-rolls | 9.6% |
| Edibles | 8.9% |
| Carts | 7.2% |
| Disposables | 6.3% |
| Accessories | 3.3% |
Vapes and disposables together make up 16.1% of units. Shoppers who want to browse that side of the menu can see the current lineup of disposable vapes.
What Is NYC’s Top-Selling Hash?
Charas 1g Afghani Hash is MetroBud’s top-selling hash, with enough order volume to rank ahead of most individual flower strains if it were counted alongside them. It isn’t: hash is a separate product category from flower, and the strain ranking above measures flower units only. Charas Afghani Hash deserves its own mention because of how well it sells, not a slot in a table it doesn’t belong in.
Why Aren’t Strain Names a Reliable Way to Measure Popularity?
Every number in this ranking measures what customers searched for and clicked “add to cart” on — the name printed on the product listing. It does not measure verified genetics, and that distinction matters enough to state plainly rather than bury in a footnote.
Cannabis strain names are not a regulated or standardized taxonomy. There is no central registry that ties a name like “Wedding Cake” or “Gelato 33” to one fixed genetic profile. Two different growers can both sell a product labeled “Wedding Cake,” grown from different mother plants under different conditions, and end up with meaningfully different cannabinoid and terpene profiles — while still selling under the identical name, because the name is a marketing and labeling choice, not a lab-verified identity. The same logic applies to “type”: whether a listing says indica, sativa, or hybrid reflects how the grower or supplier labeled it at the point of sale, not a chemovar classification confirmed in a lab.
That means this report answers one specific, honest question: what did New Yorkers order by name, over a real 12-month window, across four boroughs. It does not answer the different question of which cannabis genetics are most popular in the city, because no delivery service’s order data — MetroBud’s included — can answer that question without lab-verified lineage on every product it sells. The ranking above is exactly what it claims to be: the most complete record of what one large NYC delivery service’s customers actually ordered, by name.
Why Do the Top Strains Sell So Well as Ounces?
Volume drives this list as much as demand does. Wedding Cake, Lance Runtz, Illemonati, Candy Gelato, and Gelato 33 all sell heavily in ounce format, and ounce buying is what pushes a strain’s unit count up fast — a single ounce order counts as far more flower moved than a single eighth order. Shoppers chasing value already know this: buying by the ounce is consistently the cheapest way to buy flower per gram. New Yorkers stocking up on any of the strains in the top 14 can check current pricing on the ounce deals page.
Methodology
Source: MetroBud’s own WooCommerce order records — first-party transaction data, not a survey, panel, or third-party estimate. The full dataset spans August 2024 through 16 August 2026 (24 months) and covers more than 145,000 completed delivery orders and more than 297,000 individual items across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. The strain, type, and format figures in this report use the trailing 12 months (17 August 2025 through 16 August 2026) specifically.
Eighth and ounce formats of the same strain were combined into a single figure before ranking. Charas 1g Afghani Hash was excluded from the strain ranking because it is a hash product, not a flower strain, and is reported separately. This report reflects MetroBud’s own customer base across its four-borough delivery area — it is not a citywide census of every cannabis purchase made in New York, and consumers who buy elsewhere are not represented in these figures.
FAQ
What is the most popular weed strain in NYC?
Wedding Cake, based on MetroBud’s own completed flower orders across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx over the trailing 12 months. It accounts for 5.6% of all flower units sold in that period, ahead of Blue Dream (4.9%) and Lance Runtz (4.3%).
Do New Yorkers prefer indica, sativa, or hybrid?
Hybrid, decisively. Hybrid strains make up 67.5% of flower units ordered, versus 19.3% for indica and 13.2% for sativa — hybrids outsell the other two types combined by more than 2 to 1.
Is this ranking based on lab-tested genetics or just what people ordered?
What people ordered, by the strain name printed on the product listing — not verified genetics. Strain names are not a standardized taxonomy, and the same name can describe genetically different plants from different growers. See “Why Aren’t Strain Names a Reliable Way to Measure Popularity?” above.
What is NYC’s top-selling hash?
Charas 1g Afghani Hash. It is reported separately from the flower strain ranking because hash is a distinct product category.
How many orders is this ranking based on?
More than 145,000 completed delivery orders and more than 297,000 individual items, drawn from MetroBud’s own records across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Strain-level figures use the trailing 12 months of that dataset.
Why do Wedding Cake, Lance Runtz, and other top strains sell so much by the ounce?
Ounce orders move more flower per order than eighth orders, which pushes unit totals up faster, and ounce buying is consistently the cheapest way to buy flower per gram — both of which pull heavy ounce-buying strains toward the top of a unit-based ranking.
21+ only. Every figure in this report comes from MetroBud’s own completed delivery orders across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx — for delivery basics or first-time ordering questions, see the NYC weed delivery guide or the FAQ. Background on MetroBud is on the About page.
