Indica Dominant Hybrid – 90% Indica / 10% Sativa
THC: 20% – 24%
GMO Cookies, also known as “Garlic Cookies,” is a heavily indica dominant hybrid strain (90% indica/10% sativa) created through crossing the potent Chemdawg X Girl Scout Cookies strains. Known for its super pungent aroma and heavily sedative high, GMO Cookies is a favorite of indica lovers everywhere. This bud has a deliciously savory garlic flavor with a pungent spicy exhale that stays on your tongue long after your final toke. The aroma is very heavy and potent, with an overarching pungency and hints of spicy rotting coffee. The GMO Cookies high is truly one to behold, with long-lasting effects that will have you flying high and staying there for hours on end before you fade away into a deep and peaceful sleep. You’ll feel totally relaxed and lifted with a deep sense of relaxation that permeates both mind and body with heavily sedative effects. With these effects and its high 20-24% average THC level, GMO Cookies is said to be the perfect choice for treating those suffering from conditions such as chronic pain insomnia, inflammation, chronic fatigue, depression and chronic stress. This bud has flat elongated super dense pepper-shaped olive green nugs with thin orange hairs and tiny dark amber crystal trichomes.
Despite this bud’s intense Indica effects, the physical structure of the nugs is much more akin to a Sativa-dominant hybrid than anything else. These elongated, pepper-shaped buds are often quite flat when they grow. They take on an olive green hue while sporting a healthy coat of off-white trichomes. In addition to greens and purples, you might spot a number of winding orange hairs that encompass the surface of the bud like a fur coat. The flavor of this strain is incredibly unique, and a surefire way to identify the strain if it’s mislabeled. GMO Cookies produces an aroma that can only be described as a mix of garlic and rotting coffee grounds. Although it might sound harsh, the smell is quite intoxicating and sure to have you grinding up every last bit of bud for consumption. The flavor is quite similar, as users report tasting exclusively garlic on the exhale with a bit of a spicy aftertaste.
The high from GMO Cookies is unlike any other high you’ve experienced to date. The THC data for this strain is a bit iffy, as some Garlic Cookies have tested higher than 30% while GMO Cookies test around 24%. What you do need to know is that this bud will have you higher than a kite for hours on end before gently bringing you back down for peaceful slumber. A deep sense of relaxation settles into your mind and muscles as soon as you take your first hit of this flower. While GMO Cookies goes to work relieving aches, pains, and tension in your body, it also lifts your mood and sends your mind into the vast expanse of space. This long-lasting high is great for those who plan out a session and set up for a long, enjoyable experience. GMO Cookies has become one of the most popular Indicas in recent history, as medical patients and recreational smokers purchase it for symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia, lack of appetite, inflammation, and fatigue.
Effects
As with many other heavily indica-leaning hybrids, GMO Cookies tends to lean more towards the relaxation side of marijuana effects. After first inhaling, the deep, profound burst of relaxation will course through your veins. After a few moments, it will settle throughout your body, inducing your brain into a chilled out, slightly psychedelic state.
While most indica-leaning strains can boast of potent relaxation effects, few do it better than GMO Cookies. It isn’t just a feeling of relaxation, but of complete contentment. Additionally, the high has the interesting quality of lasting hours upon hours. It almost seems like the high will never fade, giving its effects to you again and again, like a pulsating sensation that doesn’t seem to abate.
Even more enjoyably, you won’t find yourself falling asleep or in any way losing consciousness during most of the high. You will just want to sit back, relax, and chill out. Only at the very end of the high, hours after first using it, will you feel inclined to rest your head and close your eyes.
This strain is great for the late afternoon to chill you out after a long, tiring day. It is sedative and munchies-inducing, but nothing too potent as to be annoying.
What about its infamous aroma and flavor, though? What kind of exciting qualities does its taste offer?
Aroma
The strangest thing about the aroma of the GMO Cookies strain is that it seems to smell like freshly peeled garlic. As soon as you walk by this bud, you will smell fresh cloves of lightly crushed, slightly spicy garlic.
There is also a little bit of coffee on the backend of the aroma, giving the whole smelling experience a really strange and exciting quality.
The garlic smell isn’t really like roasted garlic, or even correctly just the smell of garlic cooking. Instead, it is eerily similar to just the smell of regular, raw garlic, just removed from the head.
What about the flavor, though? Does this strange aroma carry over?
Flavor
After starting to burn the GMO Cookies bud, you will find its flavor really weird. You might expect the garlic aroma to carry through, but it is far more developed than you would expect. It has a strange coffee-like flavor to it, so much so that you might think you have started drinking a cup of coffee rather than smoking some weed.
The two flavors intermingle and mix together, with notes that you would never normally put together. But it isn’t that weird; it actually tastes pretty sweet.
What about how it looks? What kind of appearance does the GMO Cookies strain have?
Appearance
The really interesting thing about the bud of the GMO Cookies strain is that it doesn’t look like an indica at all. Instead of the typical structure of an indica, GMO Cookies looks mostly like a sativa.
With a green color and a big burst of white trichomes, the shape of the bud is quite elongated. There is a good quantity of orange pistils which, mixed with the dense trichomes, are what gives it its distinctive aroma and flavor.
To really see the full extent of the appearance and aroma of the GMO Cookies strain, you should try and grow your own.