Ca n’t tell the difference of opinion between Blue Dream and Purple Urkle ? enquire what exactly ’s in the Girl Scout Cookies you just smoked ? We ’ve created elaborate profile for each of the most popular , sought - after mourning band strains , in ordering to facilitate cannabis users everywhere understand the unlike plant they ’re smoke , feeding , or otherwise consuming . Up next : White Widow .

Lineage

A Brazilian sativa combine with a particular indica - dominant hybrid source in Kerala , India

Place of origin

Though some scrap this , most ascribe the Widow to the fabled stock breeder Shantibaba , who was one of the founders of Green House Seed Company . The story goes that Shantibaba sourced the female parent industrial plant while on vacation in Brazil , and the father from a unmarried reservoir in India , though the literal procreation oeuvre was done in Amsterdam in the early 1990s .

Approximate THC content

sensitive ( 15%-20 % )

What to expect

breed to maximize the trunk effects and relaxation of an indica while retain the sativa ’s euphoric mental reference , Widow conveys a very balanced overall effect , which is societal and felicitous . That said , it typically falls curt of the full - on invigoration traditionally found in a perfect sativa .

How to spot it

Though becoming less and less common everywhere but Amsterdam , White Widow is a strain that ’s been knock off a thousand times for the better part of 20 class , so it ’s well-nigh impossible to account what a user will see at this pointedness . There are at least 10 versions of it that are ( or were ) commercially available in large quantities from Dutch seed banks , with each of those seeds capable of give rise a all-embracing variety of plant . Sooo … your guessing is as good as ours ! White Widow and AK-47 were in all likelihood the go - to names that your high shoal drug dealer used to hike up the Mary Leontyne Price … and we detest to break it to you , but you probably got diddle .

Smell/Flavor

White Widow has a complex aroma , with breath of sandalwood and tropical fruit , but normally the flavor is less interesting , with much of the fruitiness being wash away by the boneheaded , hashy smoke .

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white widow cannabis strain

Ry Prichard

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micro closeup of white widow cannabis strain, marijuana trichomes

Ry Prichard