1/26/2024 0 Comments Mochi gelato strainThe era of dessert terps began and, while we may now be in the throws of a fruity gas trend, never quit. All the Cookies-based crosses yielded exactly what we still love to see in weed: dense, chunky buds with purple coloration and deeply intoxicating aromas. In a subsequent generation that sets the scene in about 2014, Sunset Sherbert was crossed with Thin Mint Cookies, and Gelato arrived. When a Pink Panties plant turned out male and accidentally pollinated the Cookies phenotype Thin Mint Cookies within a garage within San Francisco’s Sunset district, Sunset Sherbert was born. Sherbinski and Jigga pollinated an OG Kush female with Burmese Blackberry Kush pollen and created Pink Panties. GSC (now known as just Cookies because, yeah, the Girl Scouts teach young girls about things like building, but not growing fire) is OG Kush crossed with the classic terpinolene-rich landrace that Ed Rosenthal bought in a South African-themed Amsterdam coffeeshop, Durban Poison. Time has shown Gelato #41, aka Bacio Gelato, is the phenotype with the most lasting impact.īefore Berner’s San Francisco Bay Area Cookies crew set the weed world aflame starting with Girl Scout Cookies, we were all very much enjoying the gassy dank citrus of OG Kush. Back in 2017, I loved the Mochi Gelato, a pretty purple bud with a bright citrus tang, the most. The plants were numbered, and each entered the field as the hottest and most coveted smokes of the time. Sherbinski saw so much promise in the strain he created with his breeding partner, Jigga, that he kept more than a few variations around. With tastes and aromas evoking cake and berries, Gelato is sweet and stoney. Like the spice composed of the stigmas of the purple crocus flower, the vibrant stigmas on these cannabis flowers made them look expensive, but worth it. Saffron orange hairs threaded through the deep sea of dankness. The tight, compact nugs came in several different phenotypes, some the most beautiful shade of pale lavender, but they were all frosted with trichomes as thick as the ice on a car windshield on a cold winter’s morning. The buds of Sherbinski’s Gelato I sampled in 2017 remain burned in my mind. The Beginning of the Gelato EraĪ cross of two beloved strains, Sunset Sherbert and Thin Mint Cookies, Gelato was the first strain in cannabis culture that taught the world that cannabis plants grown from seeds made with the same parental lineage are not always the same. Many hype strains of today come and go within the short span of months, quickly “white-ashed” and forgotten, but Gelato has shown its legacy is eternal. The cultivars which have broken free from the seed packs and defined the most popular tastes for weed in recent times, Runtz and Lemon Cherry Gelato, are a Gelato cross and a Gelato phenotype. But Gelato’s proven staying power is most clearly seen through its prolific progeny of offspring, which continues to win awards, dominate cups, and define the tastes, aromas, and high that cannabis smokers all around the globe cannot get enough of. Heavy smokers and heady bois will tell you they are sick of it. In fact, Gelato is likely the strain with the most impact on the marijuana we’ve smoked over the past 10 years. The truth is (and here’s where things get controversial) Blue Dream made it into the joints and bowls of almost everyone reading this because it was and is a great hybrid. After all, who wants to smoke what everyone else is smoking? When a cultivar reaches the peak of popularity on that bell-curved graph all strains take, it becomes pot for proletarians rather than bud for the bourgeoisie. When that happens, as it did with Blue Dream in the early 2000s, the market sees a glut (along with more than a few imposters) and connoisseurs turn away. Some cultivars climb so high in popularity that everyone tries their hand at growing them.
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