GSC

GSC came out of San Francisco's Cookie Fam in the early 2010s and did to cannabis what a certain shoe did to sneakers: created a lineage, a price point, and a line around the block. Half the dessert strains you have ever heard of trace back here.

The profile is baked goods with a background of pepper and earth — sweet on the way in, warm on the way out. The character suits a good dinner: sociable, unhurried, everything slightly funnier than it strictly deserves. It is stronger than its name sounds, so pace yourself like an adult.

As a plant it is medium effort, medium height, and stingier than its famous relatives — the yield is modest and the quality is the entire point. Aficionado math.

Wants: a grower who trims their plants and their expectations about volume. Forgives: most beginner mistakes, not neglect.