TL;DR
- Lean: Indica-leaning hybrid, 24 to 30 percent THC
- Flavor: Chocolate sandwich cookie over sour fuel
- Effect: Warm contemplative head, deep grounded body. The cookie that fights back.
- Best for: Quiet evenings, music, low-key social settings, food
- Bottom line: The 3rd Coast cut that stacks real MAC weight under cocoa-and-cookie dessert
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Strain Overview
Black Ice is the 3rd Coast Genetics cross that takes their Ooze line (formerly Oreoz before the trademark situation) and stacks her on MAC for a chocolate-cookie-and-gas hybrid that drinks like dessert hiding a bigger experience underneath. The MAC side brought the dense bud structure and the sour-fuel back end. The Ooze side brought the cocoa, the cookie-cream mid-palate, and the indica weight. The verified cut runs heavy on caryophyllene with a flavor that splits cleanly between dessert and OG kush.
She is one of the cleaner expressions of the chocolate-cookie lane on the modern menu. Most “cookie” cuts in the catalog produce a generic dough nose. Black Ice produces real cocoa-and-cookie character, with the MAC fuel grounding the back end and keeping her from going pure dessert.
Quick Facts For Smokers
| Price | $69 (free 2-day shipping) |
| THC | 24-30% |
| Dominant terpenes | Caryophyllene, limonene, myrcene |
| Lineage | MAC x Ooze (Cookies and Cream x Secret Weapon) |
| Breeder | 3rd Coast Genetics |
Quick Facts For Growers
| Flowering time | 8-9 weeks indoor |
| Yield | Medium-to-high, around 1.4 to 1.7 oz per square foot |
| Stretch | 1.5 to 2x |
| Difficulty | Intermediate |
| Climate | Indoor, light dep preferred |
Lineage & History: The Cookie That Fights Back
The MAC side traces to Capulator’s foundational MAC1 line. That side gives Black Ice her density, her trichome coverage, and the gas-and-fuel back end that runs through every MAC cross. The Ooze parent on the other side is 3rd Coast’s Cookies and Cream x Secret Weapon, the same cross that put Oreoz on the modern menu. The cross renaming followed a trademark issue, but the genetics are the same and the flavor is the same.
What separates Black Ice from the broader cocoa-cookie lane is the MAC influence. Most chocolate-cookie cuts on the modern menu lean dessert without a back end. Black Ice stacks the gas-and-fuel character of MAC underneath the cookie-and-cocoa front, which is what gives her replay value and turns her into a cut customers ask for by name. 3rd Coast’s pheno hunt selected for both cocoa loudness and MAC structural carryover, and the keeper landed both.
If you have run anything from 3rd Coast or the Ooze family, the architecture will feel familiar. Black Ice is the version that takes the Cookies-and-cocoa lane and adds real MAC weight.
Flavor & Aroma
Smells like a chocolate sandwich cookie sitting on a fuel-soaked rag. The first thing that hits is sweet cocoa and cookie-cream, with vanilla pulling underneath. Right behind, the MAC side rolls in. Sour fuel, a touch of citrus zest, cracked black pepper. The Ooze line carries a quiet diesel-and-gas backbone that grounds the dessert front. Around week 6 of flower the room loads up sweet up front and gassy underneath.
On the inhale, cocoa and cookie-cream hit first. The mid-palate brings vanilla and a soft citrus lift from the MAC side. The exhale closes on light gas, pepper, and a long chocolate-and-fuel fade that hangs on the tongue past the smoke. Smoke is dense and oily at a proper cure. Joints leave heavy resin rings on the rolling paper.
She presses into rosin at solid yields. The cocoa-and-fuel split holds up through extraction. Live hash leans deeper into the cookie. Rosin pulls the gas forward. Either format reads category-distinct.
Effects & What to Expect
Onset is moderate. The first ten minutes bring a warm, contemplative head with a quiet euphoria and a soft cerebral lift. The opening window is reflective rather than talkative, the kind of pace that pairs with quiet evenings, music, or low-key social settings.
Around the 30 to 45 minute mark, the body component takes over. It is real. Limbs settle. Appetite shows up. The headspace turns deep and grounded, with a relaxed, couch-friendly quality that builds through the next hour. Music gets richer. The total experience runs about two and a half hours with a long warm tail.
This is an evening cultivar. The body weight is too pronounced for sharp morning work, and the kush back end pairs better with low-key environments than fast-paced ones. Tolerance breakers will appreciate her replay value. New users should respect the THC ceiling and start small.
Growing Black Ice
She runs as an intermediate grow. The dense MAC-side bud structure means humidity discipline matters in the back half of flower. She finishes in 56 to 63 days indoors. Most growers chop at day 60 for the cleanest cocoa-and-fuel split.
Structure runs medium with strong central cola dominance and good lateral branching. Top her at the fourth node and run a SCROG screen for a flat canopy. Stretch through the first three weeks of flower lands around 1.5 to 2x. Indoor yields land medium-to-high, around 1.4 to 1.7 oz per square foot under solid 600-1000W equivalents. Outdoor harvests come down early-to-mid October.
Feed her moderately. The MAC side is feeding-sensitive. Run her at roughly 75 percent of your usual Cookies-family feed and watch the tips. Push EC past 2.2 in early flower and she will tip-burn. Keep humidity below 50 percent from week 6 forward. Her colas pack tight enough that any sustained RH spike turns into bud rot fast.
Cool the room in the last 10 days. Drop nighttime temps to 62-66°F to deepen trichome coverage and pull color from the Cookies side. Slow dry, long cure. Her cocoa nose is volatile, and a rushed dry flattens the chocolate front. Twelve days at 60 percent RH followed by a four-week jar cure is where the full Black Ice profile lands.
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If You Like Black Ice, Try
- Ice Cream Man: another Cookies-family stablemate, denser bag appeal with a similar finish.
- Apple Mochi Gelato: stays in the dessert lane, slightly heavier on the body with a different front.
- Studio 54: a sister dessert cut, swap the host’s expression for a different cream-and-cake tilt.
FAQ
What is the lineage of Black Ice?
MAC crossed with Ooze (Cookies and Cream x Secret Weapon, formerly known as Oreoz), by 3rd Coast Genetics.
Why is the cross called Ooze instead of Oreoz?
3rd Coast renamed the strain after a trademark situation. The genet
