Pastriez is a spelling in search of a source. No breeder has claimed it, no parentage has been published, and the documented plants sitting nearest to it all spell the name differently and come from different breeders. Anything attaching a specific cross to Pastriez is borrowing it from a neighbor.
Where It Comes From
There is no release story to tell, so here is the naming landscape instead, because that is where the confusion starts.
Pastries is not one strain. Compound Genetics has a release under that name. Seed Junky Genetics has a numbered Pastries cultivar of its own. And a separate breeder operates under Pastries as a house name with its own list of crosses. Three entries, three different origins, one word — and none of them is spelled the way this record is.
Alternate spellings with a z are standard practice in modern cannabis branding. They usually signal a different farm's cut rather than an official variant of the original, which is exactly the gap Pastriez sits in. Nothing published closes it.
The Cross
Unknown, and that is the honest answer. Do not transfer a lineage here from a similarly named release, and do not let Seed Junky's or Compound's track records attach themselves to a record that has not earned either one. Both of those operations carry real weight in modern dessert breeding. Neither has put their name on this.
What the documented Pastries cultivars share is bakery character — sweet dough, vanilla, cream and berry, with a diesel edge underneath on some cuts. Whether a jar labeled Pastriez lands anywhere near that depends entirely on which plant it actually is.
Two things are worth checking in person. Real dough-and-cream character reads rich and faintly sour rather than flatly sugary, so a jar that comes off as plain sweetness is usually tired rather than mislabeled. And bakery notes are among the first to fade with heat and age, which makes the packaging date matter more here than it would on a gassier cultivar.
If you are comparing two jars sold under this name, ignore the name entirely and compare the things that are actually on the label: who grew it, when it was packaged, and what the panel says. A dessert cut from a grower you already trust beats an unknown one carrying the same six letters, every time.
The High Rise Take
Until a breeder puts parents to the name, go by cultivator and batch. A good grower's dessert cut sold as Pastriez is still a good dessert cut — it just is not evidence of anything the label is implying.