Thin Mint F1-Hybrid

(No update after 7 days) Have some patience, I've been on the way. Sorry for the wait. Like damn, I know its been a long delay.

Not again. I am so tired of the same problems over and over. Again here with Thin Mint aka Girl Scout Cookies we have the clown show from the commercial market and tainted/mis information in order to make $$ off of trends and hype and the gullibility if uninformed consumers. Some places have the basic information sort of right. Thin Mint is a cross between Durban Poison and a certain Kush. The kush with the lemon bred into it. The kush people know which one it is, it has its name. But these websites just say OG Kush. So lets move on. Look at the description of Girl Scout Cookies. Same plants are crossed. 2 different names, same cross. Some say this cross resulted in different varied phenotypes. Well, yeah if the parent plants being crossed by different people are different plants altogether being crossed. Not being genetically closely related to the parent plants someone else used will do that. When the parent plants are the *real untainted authentic Durban Poison crossed with the right kush, you get Thin Mint/GSC f1-hybrid which can only be made by using the authentic stable parent lines. This results in a progeny that have the mint smell and taste, and the f1-hybrids are very similar to each other being a 50/50 mix of the stable parents. Yet some "information" says there is several distinct variations of this cross that are noticeably different from each other with different tastes, effects, growth forms. Which sounds.. not right. They either used a hybrid for the cross or a fake in the cross to get a result like they describe. Or it could be just myth building to sell some random hybrid because they want the money because that name is in demand. Or both. A fake Durban Poison is highly likely as proven by the study available from Plos One ( https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0267498 ) where products in the commercial market sold under the same name from different sources were NOT genetically closely related. Durban Poison scoring so bad it was below the "random shuffle" indicating possibly widespread intentional misrepresentation. I think only Tangie scores worse. That could be part of it. Other places talk about Thin Mint, but for obvious reasons can't produce it... but offer "their version" of it. Sound familiar? It was in another diary of mine where some commercial supplier offered "their version" but not the real thing. My joke about it was, you take your kid to daycare and come to take you kid home later, but its not your kid, its some other kid. You ask for your child, but they say, "We don't have your child. But we have our version if your child, and thats good enough." Hehhh? I don't want someones version. Some rando. I understand a lot of money was made off names, descriptions, alternate versions and even deception, and thats going to pollute information, minds, there has to be confusion and gullibility for it to work. And its resulted in this huge mess. I thought about doing a deep dive and talking to experts in the cannabis genetic field of study, reaching out to people that have done the genetic testing. Not just the breeders I am in touch with. I don't know if I have the energy to do that, but I might. It will take time. I'm considering it. Considering it just so for once you all can have real information with supporting evidence. Not just more claims and stories you are expected to believe in. Its exhausting work. What I can say, is that the Thin Mint I am showing you all is the real thing. This is what started it all. Smells like mint, tastes like mint, looks like its half durban, half kush, and carries identifiable traits mostly from the durban parent. Yes, its a rare terpene profile like the others I document here. Thats why its worth my (life)time, energy, and resources to grow it, use it in breeding, use it myself, and document it here.

Good Luck and keep up Growing 🌱⭐

Thin Mint still keeps building, reflowering. These next 2 weeks seems like a long wait. Im ready to clean everything and shut down for the cold months.

They smell like mint through the flowering as Im working very close to them and touching them, but strangely, if I am just near them or open up the grow box it sometimes smells like bananas.

Scanning through week 10 of flowering I started to think about all the people that knew Thin Mint from buying a clone. That same clone grown by so many people, over and over. Like a CD skipping or a scratched vinyl record. I think about what they missed out on by not seeing more examples of the F1-hybrid like these. Growing resin covered calyx in the middle of the leaves, or the tiny star shape- diving board leaf growing out of the fan leaves. Something primordial? Or is it just experimenting new expressions? I should have thought to fill them with water and see if she... no that's a pitcher plant I'm thinking of. Cannabis is not carnivorous. Cannabis only hypnotizes monkeys to care for it.

Found some more pictures from this date and added them.