i found 1 keeper female in 5 seed pops of phantom cookies, it is overall the best strain ive grown (ive grown nearly every top shelf strain thats gone around in clone form). The pheno i found has vigor, weight, smell, taste, and stone. Huge rock hard dense buds glistening in crystals, it smells of a good balance between phantom and bay 11 (tropical berryish, you can taste every strain (ive had them all individually). you can taste bits of cherry pie, bay 11, and the platinum og. Visually it looks like cookies, but on steroids. the high is a good hybrid, its clear enough for daytime use, but the body buzz is enough to smoke before bed time. its just overall good fkn meds and at the top of my list. the candyland is good stuff too. the only difference is theres no cherry pie in the candyland genetics (from the phantom). i have the clone version of candyland and its much different. extremely frosty, smells like sweet og, taste like sweet og. it has the fuel/diesel type taste but really really smooth with a pinch of sweet coffee/chocolate in my opinion. but the candyland is really good daytime meds, it is uplifting and kills anxiety and really boosts the mood.
looking past the honesty of ken and his team (eveyrone is on different pages in my opinion) it doesnt change the fact that these good genetics are available should somebody need them outside of a legal state where these cuts are readily available. I got 2 females from my 5 beans of phantom cookies, 2 differnet phenos. one pheno was the keeper, the other was more sativa dominant, it looked to need id estimate around 12 weeks of flower. it smelled much more subtle almost like a pumpkin cookie, it didnt pack on the crystals but i chopped it at 9 weeks. i think had i let it run longer it would have performed a lot better i just dont run strains longer than 70 days and if they dont fit that window then im not interested. but it had purple stems, purple hues on the bud, it was very dense and heavy yielding also.