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GMO
The GMO strain is acclaimed as a favorite of breeders, growers, terp-chasing dab-lovers, and regular old weed smokers, but this strain gets a little confusing — so let’s clear things up!
In short, GMO is a cut, or phenotype, selected from a pack of Mamiko Chem Cookies seeds by Skunkmasterflex (see the December 2017 issue of
High Times, or this IG post). Contrary to urban legends about “garlic, mushrooms, and onions,” Skunkmasterflex reports that he named this phenotype after reading a headline about Girl Scout Cookies (the actual cookies!) containing genetically modified ingredients. From there, the nickname Garlic Cookies started popping up, and some breeders have used GMO to create strains with garlic names, so the garlic nickname isn’t going away anytime soon!
In the aforementioned 2017 High Times issue, Danny Danko refers to the Skunkmasterflex GMO cut as “D-Cookies”, but that’s actually the original name chosen for Mamiko Seeds Chem Cookies (referring to the
Chemdog D parent) — but that didn’t really stick, and they chose Chem Cookies instead.
A separate Chem Cookies was bred by Divine Genetics that crossed the same Girl Scout Cookies with a different Chemdog phenotype (Chemdog 4 instead of
Chemdog D). Both the Divine Genetics Chem Cookies and Mamiko Chem Cookies were released around the same time and can produce similar plants, which is confusing enough, but now both are also referred to as GMO Cookies, even though the Mamiko Seeds GMO cut is what breeders and smokers have been raving about. You may also see the names GMO Cookies, Garlic Cookies, and even GMO being used interchangeably, so how can you tell the difference?
Other than DNA testing, there’s no absolute way to prove you have the Mamiko Seeds GMO cut from Skunkmaster, but it’s sort of an awkward-looking strain that’s fairly easy to recognize. Sometimes it can look quite purple or dark green from its leaves, but it’s often a light green color. The shape of the buds is what’s unique, though, so check out
this picture or
this video to get an idea of what the real GMO usually looks like. If you get GMO that doesn’t look similar, it may still be Chem Cookies, but it might not be the same cut Skunkmaster Flex found from his pack of Mamiko Chem Cookies seeds.
Okay, phew! That wasn’t so bad, was it? Let’s dig into the rest of it!