Cookie Queen (Girls Scout Cookies x Space Queen brings Girl Scout Cookies together with Space Queen. The first is the Forum cut, the plant most of the modern dessert category is built on; the second, Vic High's Romulan crossed to Cinderella 99. Two lines that were never going to produce a quiet plant. That continuity is the point. These are not newly assembled lines - they are twenty years of the same held stock, crossed forward.

Written this way, Girl Scout Cookies is the mother and Space Queen the pollen donor. Reversing a cross is not a formality; which plant carries the seed shapes what comes out of the pack.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Girl Scout Cookies. The Forum cut, which most of the modern dessert category descends from. It traces back to generally given as OG Kush crossed to a Durban line; the Forum cut was an S1 found in bagseed and circulated through the ICMag forums around 2010. CSI publish a caution that their Cookies hybrids can express instability under some conditions while still producing plenty of good plants.
• Father: Space Queen. A BC cross of Romulan to Cinderella 99, and one of the classic balanced hybrids. Built from given as Romulan x Cinderella 99. Cinderella 99 brings the tropical terpinolene lift and the fast finish; Romulan brings the resin, the heavier calyx and the body weight. Bred by Vic High of the BC Growers Association and later popularised by Subcool.
• How to read it. Everything below splits into what one parent gives and what the other does. Plants that take from both are the ones to keep.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Two distinct smells, and a pack will give you both plus everything between.

• The Aroma. Dough and vanilla with a mint edge, sitting on OG earth from the Girl Scout Cookies side, against tropical fruit off the Cinderella 99 side from the Space Queen side.
• The Taste. Doughy and sweet with vanilla late, finishing earthier up front, turning to sweet and fruit-forward through the exhale.

What each side brings

• They are not on the same clock. Girl Scout Cookies runs nine to ten weeks; Space Queen runs fifty to sixty days - call it seven to nine weeks. Across a pack that gap shows up as plants finishing days or weeks apart.
• Where the nose comes from. One side gives sweet cookie dough and vanilla cream with a faint mint, over an earthy Kush base; the other gives tropical fruit off the Cinderella 99 side. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Structure varies hard here. Tight, heavy, dense flower rather than an open frame from one parent; grows well in or out, with modest to above-average yields from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• Opposite ends. Girl Scout Cookies is reported as even rather than racy; settling; Space Queen as balanced between head and body, which is the point of the pairing. The cross sits somewhere between and moves plant to plant.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Girl Scout Cookies is tight, heavy, dense flower rather than an open frame. Space Queen is grows well in or out, with modest to above-average yields.
• Vegetative Phase. Top or train before you flip rather than chasing the canopy afterwards.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Girl Scout Cookies runs nine to ten weeks, Space Queen fifty to sixty days - call it seven to nine weeks. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Girl Scout Cookies as even rather than racy; settling.
• The Body. Space Queen is reported as balanced between head and body, which is the point of the pairing, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Seeds from MzJill Genetics. Jilly Bean is hers - Orange Velvet crossed to Space Queen - and it went into the High Times Seed Bank Hall of Fame and their Top 10 Strains of 2007. Sold as authentic MzJill Genetics.