Tried this cart earlier in 2025, purchased at Housing Works Cannabis Co for around $65 plus tax for a 1 gram cartridge, compatible with your standard 510 threaded pen-style vape batteries. This is a straightforward sativa, a Jack Herer x Sour Apple cross, containing about 95% THC and a mere 0.1% CBD. 

Flavor Profile 

This ROVE Sour Jack cartridge tastes similarly to Puff/Air/Elf Bars (ah, early COVID when I still drank and was firmly committed to my own destruction!). ROVE’s brand profile on Housing Works says their carts are “enriched with natural terpenes and flavorings” and the flavorings are definitely coming through on this one more than the natural terpenes. If you like a flamboyantly fruity sour apple flavor with a hint of citrus, rather than a cart that tastes like straight weed, this one is for you. 

Effects

As expected, an energetic heady high with little couch-lock side effects. A nice bopping about getting things done kind of stoned. This was the cartridge which made me realize that while I’m a heady sativa fan at heart, I do enjoy a non-negligible measure of CBD included in the mix as well.

Would I repurchase? 

Nah, the whacky flavor wasn’t for me. Did I still finish it though? Hell yeah. Looking at online reviews everyone else seems to dig it, but the taste was way too artificially Jolly Rancher-esque for me to enjoy. 

Packaging & Aesthetic Concerns

The box for the Sour Jack ROVE Classic cartridge is admittedly pretty slick, all matte black with pops of color. But any points it would get for that design are negated by the choice to use a round stainless steel vape mouthpiece instead of a flat one. My oral fixation likes to bite the flat kind, plus I don’t wanna have to purse my lips in an “o” like the gobsmacked Gerber baby just to take a puff.

Cannabis Vape Cartridge Alternative Brands

If you’re talking 1 gram cartridges in the $60-70 range, I much prefer the direction that companies like Florist Farms have chosen, opting for a cheaper mylar bag style packaging but nicer cartridge tips. Investing in packaging will get you one time buyers, but investing in products will create loyal customers. 

Other ROVE Products

All that said, ROVE also has some more upscale cartridge lines, their Premium and Diamond Series, that I’ve never tried…but why bother to revisit a brand that’s already once not been a match? (And must every brand have these diffusion brands/lines? Just make the best product for the best price point and keep it simple!)