Basically what are your keeper strains? All around good stuff, bag appeal, taste, yield... obv im out to impress noone but good bud goes quick... thats the goal... so just looking for positive experiences with strains... stuff that impressed you after growing it.
Well, that's sort of a different question than the one you asked earlier about impressing friends.
I like Williams Wonder, because its highly potent with a strong medical/indica effect, high yielding, and has good flavor. Its also short, stocky, easy to grow, easy to clone, and is reliably done in 65 days flat. "Bag appeal" is quite good here, but again, I don't think that should be a factor at all for a home grower. You can find lines that are higher yielding, you can find ones that are more potent, you definitely find ones that finish faster or taste/smell better, but this one just offers a really nice combination of all these things at once and there really aren't too many that do. If you want to learn more, see the grow report in my signature.
Don't think this is the one I'd "pull out to impress friends", unless I wanted my friends to collapse in heaps on my couch for 3-4 hours. I basically consider this a pure "medical" strain, rather than "social/party" weed.
If I were really after something to impress friends, I'd be growing one of the better hazes, like super-silver haze, mango haze, Jack Herer, super lemon haze; something along those lines. These aren't at all going to be easy to grow; they'll stretch, they'll take a long time to finish, yield may not be so high (at least not compared to flowering times) and typically beans are a bit spendy. But flavor/scent and appearance here should all be top notch, plus these are going to give you a nice giggly/social high that won't knock you on your butt for hours.
Because the various negatives make these lines non-preferable for commercial growing, you're not going to find much (if any) of these kinds of buds outside medical states that have well-stocked dispensaries. Consequently, these sorts of things will probably be a treat for the friends, at least some of whom may never even have seen/tried hazes like this before.