Candy Cartel is a hybrid bred by BeanFiendz from Sherb Cream Pie and Biscotti. In Michigan, Detroit cultivator Hytek grows it and sells the finished flower under its own label.
The strain also travels. In Oregon, grower Highly Cultivated ran the same BeanFiendz cross, and Oregon Leaf picked it for its June 2026 Leaf Picks flower feature, praising its sugar-dipped trichome coat.
Sherb Cream Pie meets Biscotti
Sherb Cream Pie brings the dessert side. It crosses Ice Cream Cake with a Sherb BX1, meaning Sherbet bred back onto itself once. Backcrossing like this is meant to concentrate the traits breeders want to keep.
That parent flowers in about 9 weeks, stretches a fair amount once flowering starts, and tends to throw frosty buds with purple dapples. It is an indica-leaning hybrid.
Biscotti is the other half. Cookies Farms bred it, and it is known for heavy trichome coverage and an 8–9 week flowering window. It is also indica-leaning.
Put together, the two parents give Candy Cartel a frosty, dessert-driven genetic base, with both parents leaning toward the indica side and finishing in roughly nine weeks.
Growing Candy Cartel
GrowDiaries lists Candy Cartel as a BeanFiendz hybrid with an 8–9 week flowering time and medium height. It rates the plant moderately challenging to grow and lists THC at 25%, with CBD at 0.2%.
The same listing recommends pruning to open the canopy for airflow and light, and stable room conditions to bring out the full terpene profile.
Hytek's Michigan version
Hytek classes Candy Cartel as a hybrid and credits BeanFiendz as breeder on its product page. The company describes the flavor as a sweet, gassy cream with a hint of citrus, leaning to the sweet side of candy gas.
Hytek lists it at $60, including a half-ounce jar at that price. The strain sells through Hytek's farm store on Dutchie and partner retailers across Michigan, and Jane carries it under the Hytek Cultivation name.
Hytek grows out of West Detroit, on a property its founder bought in 2016 and spent five years rehabbing. The flagship retail shop, The Refinery Detroit, sits next to the grow.
The crew's roots go back before legalization, when small groups learned the plant in basements, barns and warehouses across Michigan. That background shapes a no-shortcuts approach to picking genetics and running production.
The company hand-trims all its flower and hand-selects individual buds before packing. More than 30 people work on the operation.
An Oregon Leaf Picks feature
Highly Cultivated's Oregon run of Candy Cartel landed in the June 2026 issue of Oregon Leaf as a Leaf Picks flower selection.
Highly Cultivated grows in greenhouses under four Oregon Tier II licenses, calling the result sun grown. It sells wholesale only, to licensed recreational wholesalers, processors and retailers, and picks strains for THC content, tight structure and trichome development.
The review described modestly sized buds with a dense trichome layer that looked dipped in sugar. The color ran purple, magenta and bright green outside, with a pale green interior.
The cure came through crisp but still sticky. The writeup also flagged the strain's potency as a standout trait. With Hytek in Michigan and Highly Cultivated in Oregon, the BeanFiendz cross now sells in two separate legal markets under two different brands.
Where it fits in Hytek's candy lineup
Candy Cartel shares shelf space with other candy-leaning Hytek crosses. Candy Float, from Flavor Designers and Pheno Addicts, paired Cherry Float with a Runtz-based parent before Hytek retired it.
Hytek also sells flower in eighths, half-ounce jars and deli formats, alongside pre-rolls, rosin pucks and rosin vapes. Candy Cartel remains an active product on the menu.