Girl Scout cookies x Forbidden Fruit brings Girl Scout Cookies together with Forbidden Fruit. The first is the specific Cookies clone that the dessert wave was built on, not the family generally; the second, the Cherry Pie and Tangie cross that is all about the fruit. Two lines that were never going to produce a quiet plant. Humboldt CSI work almost entirely from clones they hold themselves, so both sides of this are the real thing rather than a seed-line approximation of it.

Written this way, Girl Scout Cookies is the mother and Forbidden Fruit 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 specific Cookies clone that the dessert wave was built on, not the family generally. Parentage: 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: Forbidden Fruit. The Cherry Pie and Tangie cross that is all about the fruit. That one comes from Cherry Pie x Tangie. Rated an easy grow that does not need constant attention.
• 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

The two halves stack rather than blend, which is the whole reason to run it.

• The Aroma. Sweet cookie dough and vanilla cream with a faint mint over an earthy Kush base from the Girl Scout Cookies side, against dark cherry and bright orange citrus from the Forbidden Fruit side.
• The Taste. Doughy and sweet with vanilla late, finishing earthier up front, turning to passionfruit and cherry with a citrus lift through the exhale.

Where the parents disagree

• Two different harvest dates. Nine to ten weeks for Girl Scout Cookies, nine to ten weeks indoors for Forbidden Fruit. Judge each plant on trichomes rather than pulling the room together.
• 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 dark cherry and bright orange citrus. Plants landing in the middle are the keepers.
• Structure varies hard here. Tight, heavy, dense flower rather than an open frame from one parent; compact at eighty to a hundred and twenty centimetres indoors from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• They pull differently. Growers put Girl Scout Cookies at even rather than racy; settling and Forbidden Fruit at indica-leaning and settling. Which end a plant lands on is the main variable.

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. Forbidden Fruit is compact and dense, colouring the way its Cherry Pie side does.
• Training. Worth the effort early - it is the difference between an even canopy and three colas and a lot of leaf.
• Flowering Time. The parents are not on the same clock. Girl Scout Cookies runs nine to ten weeks, Forbidden Fruit nine to ten weeks indoors. 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. Forbidden Fruit is reported as indica-leaning and settling, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. The point of their catalogue is access - cuts that otherwise only move between growers who already know each other, put into a form you can actually buy. Real Humboldt CSI stock, not a copy.