It is my opinion that you are not growing the original GSC. Even here in southern Califonia you can not get it. It is run by exclusive people and anything you ran was most likely not GSC. Real GSC is not even in the medical clinic anymore even when it was here in socal only one shop out ouf 1M people had it stocked 1/4 of the year.
I am a daily smoker who smoke pounds upon pounds of high grade every year. I grow my own outdoor kush and select seeds to test out gentics. When I first cam across the real GSC the first thing I noticed besides the catpiss smell was a kush armona. The nugs are always small but dense and frosty and sticky. I know it was not a preference thing because when I let someone try the cookies they always say whoa where did you get that.
Anyways all the people selling cookies these days acually have whats nown as a forum cut GSC and its peppery and purple. smell like chicken sometimes because the pepper note. The high is very nice smell good and is of quality but nothing like the real GSC. The deference being smell and density. Real GSC buds are very dense and creamy. The smell leans more kush and amonia and thats why the high is so dang potent! The GSC hits you right in the center and sides of the head hits the whole body and 1 hour after you smoke it you wont wana be hitting the bong for another hr. GSC is mind blowing potent and whats lost in yield makes up for the quality as people would pay triple price for 10x the high. GSC was acually stronger than any og kush i have had and ranks up there in the most potent weed i ever smoked and can be found around 4-5 on my list of top 10.
You pretty much described exactly what I have. I like it, not debating where it’s from or an original. I got mine from about an hour east of LA. Really don’t care. The reality of it is that the strain I have access to doesn’t yield enough for my particular application. Definitely correct, bag appeal and smell are first in the hype. If you can hit all 4 the look, smell, taste and high. That’s legendary like stated above, super silver haze and skunk are both legendary.
Like centralcoast said above there’s always the next best new thing. And that’s in every facet of life. TVs, phones, ballast, bulbs, nutrients, sports drinks, Beer, the list goes on forever and will never stop. Always the newest and latest next best thing. What it comes down to us what you like and what suites your particular application. As long as your happy there is no wrong answers as to a favorite strain. I can’t tell you what you like best and vice versa. And just because someone doesn’t live in a particular area at this moment doesn’t mean they haven’t or they don’t have access to.