Thin Mint (Thin Mint GSC)
aka Thin MTZ, Thin Mintz, Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies, Durban OG, Thin Mint Cookies
- Mint (58% of reported flavors)
- Sweet (23% of reported flavors)
- Vanilla (19% of reported flavors)
Thin Mint Cookies is one of the cuts that helped turn the Cookies family into cannabis royalty. Rather than a separate strain simply related to Girl Scout Cookies, Thin Mint is generally recognized as a prized GSC phenotype tied to San Francisco breeder Jigga and the early Cookies crew. Its broader genetic foundation traces back to OG Kush and Durban Poison, though the exact history of the original GSC breeding project has never been perfectly clean.
The nose earns the Thin Mint name without smelling like somebody stuffed cookies into the jar. Cool mint and sweet dough lead, followed by earth, citrus peel, pepper, and a little skunky funk when the buds break open. The smoke carries that same sweet-mint character with an earthy, spicy finish that keeps it firmly on the weed side of the dessert aisle.
Reports often describe a fast cerebral lift that feels euphoric, clear, and buzzy before the body catches up. The back half can turn considerably heavier, trading that early head rush for a loose, full-body calm. Thin Mint Cookies can come out swinging upstairs and still leave you melted into the furniture by last call.
Thin Mint is suitable to grow indoors or outdoors in warm climates, producing average-sized yields of trichome-laden colas around a nine-week flowering cycle. According to the cannabis seed bank Seedsman, Thin Mint plants can grow between 75 to 175 centimeters, or 2 1/2 to 5 3/4 feet, in height.
