Pink Ritz is a Flavor Designers / Pheno Addicts cross — Grapefruit Runtz × Ritz, with Ritz itself defined as Runtz × Its Fire — grown and phenotype-selected in Detroit by Hytek. The profile is crisp and citrus-driven: grapefruit up front over candy sweetness. It runs as a hybrid on Michigan menus.
Where It Comes From
Pink Ritz is a Michigan market cultivar with a short, traceable paper trail, and it is worth being straight about that: this is a current commercial release, not a strain with a decade of history behind it.
The interesting part is the R.I.T.Z. line it comes from. Flavor Designers / Pheno Addicts built Ritz as a Runtz × Its Fire cross and then used it as a workhorse parent across a run of releases — Blue Ritz from Blue Candy, White Ritz, and Candy Float from Cherry Float. Pink Ritz is the grapefruit entry in that series.
Seeing a breeder run one keeper through a fruit-by-fruit program is a good sign the parent is stable enough to reproduce its structure.
Hytek is the cultivator, and its own history is documented. The company describes itself as a collective of growers out of the prohibition era. Its founder acquired a West Detroit property in 2016 that needed serious rehab, and the five-year buildout eventually revived a full street block.
Hytek now employs more than 30 people, hand-trims its flower, and runs a flagship retail store, The Refinery Detroit, next door to the grow, with a second location in Kalamazoo.
The Cross
The recorded genetics are Grapefruit Runtz × Ritz, with Ritz further identified as Runtz × Its Fire. Flavor Designers / Pheno Addicts hold the breeder credit; Hytek selected the phenotype in-house and cultivates it. That makes Pink Ritz a Runtz-family plant on both sides without collapsing it into a generic Runtz phenotype.
Grapefruit Runtz drives the sharp citrus and candy sweetness. The Ritz half stacks a second Runtz layer on top of Its Fire, which is where the cream, dough and resin come from.
Hytek's description is short and specific, and specificity is what makes it usable: crisp, citrusy grapefruit. That crisp quality is the differentiator — not the syrupy candy note most Runtz descendants lead with, but something closer to fresh peel. Pink candy sweetness and a gassy finish sit underneath, and breaking the flower open brings the dough and fuel forward beneath the brighter citrus top.
Hytek flower is generally dense and heavily trichome-coated, with green and purple surfaces and orange pistils. Exact color and structure track the individual batch, harvest timing and cure.
It sits in balanced hybrid territory: a euphoric, socially easy opening with physical relaxation building gradually behind it. At a measured amount that suits conversation, music or a low-pressure afternoon; larger amounts make the finish heavier and more inward.
What It Left Behind
Its documented footprint is regional — a Hytek release circulating through Michigan dispensaries in eighths, half-ounce jars, deli flower and pre-rolls — and genealogical, as one branch of the Flavor Designers R.I.T.Z. program.
The High Rise Take
Pink Ritz is Grapefruit Runtz × Ritz from Flavor Designers / Pheno Addicts, grown by Hytek in Detroit, and it leads with crisp grapefruit rather than generic candy. To hear where the sweetness originates, start at Runtz.