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Parents

Sources name different parents — 3 versions recorded.

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White Widow

aka white cloud, white, gorilla x white widow, white widows

1995 · Unknown Hybrid; Unknown White Widow

Kush/Earth
1 back9 forward

Ancestor of 315 strains

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Disputed lineage

At least one parent for this strain is contested — sources disagree on its lineage.

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Children

Show all 51 children
Black Icehybrid0 descendants
Ice Creamhybrid3 descendants
White Rhinohybrid53 descendants
ICEhybrid170 descendants
BerryWhitehybrid3 descendants
Apple Jackhybrid1 descendant
Fruit Loopshybrid0 descendants
Jack Frosthybrid1 descendant
Candy Canehybrid0 descendants
Blue Widowhybrid0 descendants
Mobydickhybrid2 descendants
White Rainbowhybrid0 descendants
Papayahybrid44 descendants
Romulanhybrid34 descendants
Grape Candyhybrid0 descendants
Green Lanternhybrid5 descendants
Blue Rhinohybrid1 descendant
Ice Box Piehybrid0 descendants
Raspberry Coughhybrid121 descendants
Blue Frosthybrid0 descendants

295 more descendants

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Aroma profile

Aroma profile of White WidowStrongest: Earth, Herbaceous.typicalBright peel and juice: lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit. Often driven by limonene, the same compound that makes citrus rind smell like citrus rind.CitrusConfection rather than fruit: sugar, tropical brightness, an almost artificial sweetness. Ester-driven, and the register modern dessert-lineage breeding has pushed hardest.CandySweetnessDeep and jammy: grape, blueberry, plum, berry. Comes from esters rather than terpenes, which is why two strains can share a terpene profile and taste nothing alike.Dark FruitBlossom and petal: lavender, rose, violet. Linalool sits behind much of this; it is what makes lavender smell like lavender, and it turns up in cannabis more often than people expect.FloralGreen, leafy and cooling: sage, tea, mint, cracked pepper. Pinene and terpinolene drive the fresh green edge; the peppery bite is caryophyllene, the only terpene known to bind directly to a cannabinoid receptor.HerbaceousSoil, forest floor, bark and pine. Myrcene and humulene do most of the work here — humulene is the same compound that makes hops smell like hops.EarthSour, savory, barnyard: skunk, aged cheese, pungency. Like Gas, this is sulfur chemistry rather than terpenes, which is why it survives drying and curing so stubbornly.FunkFuel and solvent: diesel, chemical sharpness, ammonia. Not a terpene smell at all — the gassiness in cannabis comes from volatile sulfur compounds, the same family that gives skunk and garlic their punch.GasBakery and dairy: vanilla, butter, coffee, toasted nut. The Cookies and Gelato register, and the newest of the nine in cannabis terms — it barely existed before the 2010s.Dessert &Cream
What the axes mean
Citrus
Bright peel and juice: lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit. Often driven by limonene, the same compound that makes citrus rind smell like citrus rind.
Candy Sweetness
Confection rather than fruit: sugar, tropical brightness, an almost artificial sweetness. Ester-driven, and the register modern dessert-lineage breeding has pushed hardest.
Dark Fruit
Deep and jammy: grape, blueberry, plum, berry. Comes from esters rather than terpenes, which is why two strains can share a terpene profile and taste nothing alike.
Floral
Blossom and petal: lavender, rose, violet. Linalool sits behind much of this; it is what makes lavender smell like lavender, and it turns up in cannabis more often than people expect.
Herbaceous
Green, leafy and cooling: sage, tea, mint, cracked pepper. Pinene and terpinolene drive the fresh green edge; the peppery bite is caryophyllene, the only terpene known to bind directly to a cannabinoid receptor.
Earth
Soil, forest floor, bark and pine. Myrcene and humulene do most of the work here — humulene is the same compound that makes hops smell like hops.
Funk
Sour, savory, barnyard: skunk, aged cheese, pungency. Like Gas, this is sulfur chemistry rather than terpenes, which is why it survives drying and curing so stubbornly.
Gas
Fuel and solvent: diesel, chemical sharpness, ammonia. Not a terpene smell at all — the gassiness in cannabis comes from volatile sulfur compounds, the same family that gives skunk and garlic their punch.
Dessert & Cream
Bakery and dairy: vanilla, butter, coffee, toasted nut. The Cookies and Gelato register, and the newest of the nine in cannabis terms — it barely existed before the 2010s.

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10 sister strains

Ak 47hybridhalf sister34 descendantsHazehybridhalf sister3648 descendantsColombian Goldhybridhalf sister20 descendantsBlack Widowhybridhalf sister9 descendantsGreat White Sharkhybridhalf sister11 descendantsRed Dragonhybridhalf sister4 descendantsStrawberry Mango Hazehybridhalf sisterMedicine Manhybridhalf sister2 descendants4 Way OGhybridhalf sisterRed Hazehybridhalf sister