Girl Scout Cookies

strain editorial also known as: GSC

published by cannadb.org (did:plc:lrtzzib3ycggsodkfidzuorw)

Bred by: Cookies

Origin year
2010
Origin region
San Francisco Bay Area, California
Indica / Sativa
60/40 indica-leaning hybrid

Description

Girl Scout Cookies — universally GSC after a 2014 trademark dispute forced the rename — is the cultivar that put the Cookies operation on the map and defined the dessert-tier flavor wave that dominated the 2010s. Bred in the San Francisco Bay Area, it crosses an OG Kush mother with a Durban Poison father to produce a hybrid that is sweet and earthy where OG was diesel-and-pine, with the resin production that became the Cookies house signature.

Multiple phenotypes circulated under the GSC name in the strain's first years — Forum Cut, Thin Mint, Platinum — and the ambiguity over which pheno was canonical contributed to the eventual rebrand. The Forum Cut in particular became the parent of an enormous downstream catalog (Wedding Cake, Animal Cookies, Sherbet, and many others through the late 2010s).

GSC's most consequential descendant for this corpus is Animal Cookies, which carries the GSC line forward into the Cake family.

Lineage

See full lineage graph →

Claims

THC
17.00%–28.00%
CBD
0.00%–1.00%

Flavors

  • sweet
  • earthy
  • mint
  • vanilla

Effects

  • euphoric
  • relaxed
  • happy
  • uplifted

Terpenes

  • caryophyllene
  • limonene
  • humulene

Cultivation notes

Flowers in 9–10 weeks indoor. Moderate-difficulty grow — prefers controlled environments, sensitive to humidity in late flower. Yields are modest by modern standards but trichome production is exceptional, which is what made GSC a hash-makers' favorite for years.

Raw record

AT-URI: at://did:plc:lrtzzib3ycggsodkfidzuorw/org.cannadb.strain/gsc

CID: bafyreif7pzyt4ivefvlq7rwmaslxvf4qidq7qohwyyobw46ca2bhbipfam

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