Chroma is Maven Genetics' indica cross of Prizm and Black Diamond X, both in-house cultivars from Maven's own library. It runs bright to dark in a single pass — citrus rind and sharp pine, then stone fruit, floral musk and clean fuel. Maven selects for a silver trichome sheen, and the finish leans physical without shutting the head off.
Where It Comes From
Chroma is a Maven-on-Maven cross, not an outside acquisition. By the time it landed, the company had already turned Prizm from a single release into breeding stock, and Black Diamond X was carrying the darker end of the indica catalog. Chroma is what happens when you point those two at each other.
Maven's strain page for it carries a March 2025 date, and the cultivar sits in the brand's active indica library rather than in a one-off drop.
The name tracks the flower. Chroma means color intensity, and the cultivar delivers on both ends — visually, in the silver-over-green presentation, and on the draw, in a range that opens on citrus and lands in dark fruit and fuel.
It has since moved beyond flower. Maven's Halochrome pre-roll pairs Chrome Dome flower with solventless Chroma live rosin, using Chroma as the deepening agent under Chrome Dome's citrus.
The Cross
Maven Genetics takes both breeder and brand credit. The published genetics are Prizm x Black Diamond X. Prizm is Maven's Opal x Permanent Marker #12 selection — the bright, sharp, confectionery side of the pairing. Black Diamond X is Maven's XXX OG x Black Diamond OG indica, and it supplies the weight: earth, resin and OG structure.
Two observations do most of the work. First, the opening is genuinely citrus-and-conifer — rind and sharp pine, not candy. Second, it does not stay there: the profile drops into dark stone fruit, floral musk and a clean fuel note as the smoke develops. Maven calls the inhale bright and biting with a velvety finish, which is a fair read of that arc.
Well-run Chroma shows compact, colorful buds under heavy trichome coverage — the silver sheen Maven leads with. The brand publishes a terpene chart on the strain page but no fixed formula, and any single lab number belongs to that batch, not to the cultivar.
Maven files Chroma as indica, which describes the selection and the direction it bred toward rather than a guaranteed outcome. Phenotype, room, harvest window, cure, dose and method all move the finished result. The commonly described shape is a mental softening first, then physical ease building — an evening with nothing scheduled after it.
What It Left Behind
No competition placement for Chroma is documented with a named contest, category, year and entrant, so there is nothing to claim. Maven markets the Prizm parent as award-winning without naming one either, and a parent's record would not be Chroma's anyway.
Its footprint is real but internal: a next-generation cross built entirely from Maven's own breeding stock, now feeding the brand's solventless line through Halochrome.
The High Rise Take
Chroma is Maven's Prizm x Black Diamond X indica — citrus rind and pine over stone fruit, musk and clean fuel, with a settling body character and a jar that looks the part.