Gelato
Hybrid
Sunset Sherbet × Thin Mint Cookies
No alternate names recorded
- Sourced
- Cannabinoids: Sourced
- Effects: Sourced
- Review date not recorded
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At a glance
- Type
- Hybrid
- High
- Head and Body
- Genetics
- Sunset Sherbet × Thin Mint Cookies
- Flowering
- 56–63 d
- THC Range
- 17% – 25%
- CBD Range
- 0.46% – 1.22%
- Dominant Terpenes
- Caryophyllene, Limonene, Humulene
Effect Profile
Reported by the community and curated from multiple sources.
- Reported
- Reported Negatives
Frequency not recorded
Creative
Reported
Deeply Relaxing
Reported
Euphoric
Reported
Happy
Reported
Uplifted
Reported
- Dizzy
- Dry Eyes
- Dry Mouth
- Headache
- The Scaries
Plant Profile
Cannabinoid Profile (As Reported)
View methodology- THC17% – 25%
- CBD0.46% – 1.22%
- CBC0.1%
- CBG0.7%
- CBGa1%
- CBN0.07% – 0.29%
- Delta-8-THC0.1%
- THCV0.39% – 1.01%
Ranges reflect legacy lab reports and aggregated user data, as recorded.
Dominant Terpenes (Top 5)
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CaryophyllenePeppery, SpicyHigh- LimoneneHigh
HumuleneWoody, HoppyModerate
MyrceneHerbal, EarthyModerate
LinaloolFloral, LavenderLower
Flavor & Aroma
Flavor
Berry, Citrus, Lavender, Sweet, Woody
Aroma
Blueberry, Earthy, Orange, Sweet
User-Reported Medical Usage New
Community- and source-reported, not medical advice.
5 reported uses
- 1DepressionReported as a reason for use.—
- 2PainReported as a reason for use.—
- 3AnxietyReported as a reason for use.—
- 4Loss Of AppetiteReported as a reason for use.—
- 5NauseaReported as a reason for use.—
Listed by how widely each use is reported across strains. The share of reporters is not recorded for these reports. Not a measure of whether it worked.
View all reported usesGenetics & Origin
Sunset Sherbet’s parents
Thin Mint Cookies’s parents not recorded
Sunset Sherbet
Hybrid
Parent Strain
Thin Mint Cookies
Type not recorded
Parent Strain
Gelato
Hybrid
Origin
Gelato is one of the better-documented modern strains. Cookie Fam Genetics crossed Sunset Sherbet with Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies, released several numbered phenotypes and watched #33 pick up the Larry Bird nickname after the jersey number. You will also see it sold as Guno or Barry Bonds. There is no real dispute about the parents. The complication is the number of distinct cuts moving under one word, which is a shopping problem rather than a family-tree problem, and the answer is to buy on the producer and the named cut.
Zamnesia's record agrees with 7 other breeders: Blim Burn Seeds, Elev8 Seeds, Medicann Seeds, Nirvana Seeds, Original Sensible Seeds, US SkunkX and 1 more.
2 lineage claim sets recorded. The one shown is attributed to Zamnesia; the others are in the tabs above, each with its own source.
Bred from Gelato (29)
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The Grow
Best Results
Indoor and Outdoor
Preferred Climate
Humid
Grow Difficulty
- Beginner
- Easy
- Average
- Difficult
- Expert
Difficult
Outdoor
- Harvest
- Early to mid-October
- Height
- Short to Medium
- Yield
- Above average
Indoor
- Harvest
- 56–63 d
- Height
- Short to Medium
- Yield
- Above average
- Flowering
- 56–63 d
- Resistance
- highly resistance to insects and diseases
The difficulty to grow Gelato is known for being difficult. For growers cultivating indoors, expect short to medium height with a above average yield with in about 56–63 d. Outdoors, harvest around Early to mid-October.
Cultivation Notes
Gelato has a reputation as a hard grow and the accounts back it up. It is fussy about conditions, stays short to medium, finishes around 56 to 63 days and rewards a controlled environment. Cold nights before flower bring out the purple the strain is known for, though color is temperature, not potency. Seeds are scarce, so most Gelato is grown from clones, which is part of why the specific cut matters so much. Yield is reported as above average in capable hands.
When To Try It
Best:
Night
Occasions:
after a stressful day
About
Gelato is the strain most people mean when they say a flower tastes like dessert. It came out of Cookie Fam Genetics in San Francisco, a cross of Sunset Sherbet and Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies, and it turned "tastes like an actual dessert" from a surprise into an expectation. A shelf of numbered cuts and imitators followed.
The aroma is a large part of the fame, and it sets a scene. It smells like the opening of a party. Whether the night actually goes that way is a separate question.
What to Expect
On the inhale Gelato opens bright and social, a quick lift in the head and an easy, talkative mood. In Leafly's roughly 3,750 reviews relaxed leads at 54 percent, with happy, euphoric and uplifted close behind and creative lower at 27 percent. Sleepy does not make the list.
The bright open is the fun part, and it hands off to a relaxed, low-key finish sooner than the balanced-hybrid label implies. How heavy that finish gets is exactly what the sources argue about. Some describe a mellow settle and others legs turning to gel. It depends on the cut and the dose. A modest amount holds the sociable window open; more brings mental clutter and an early end to the night rather than a bigger version of the same high. It belongs in the first half of an evening with people in it, and it is the wrong pick for anything you need to finish. Negative reports are low, dry mouth around 20 percent and everything else in single digits.
Flavor and Aroma
The jar is sweet and fruity, citrus and blueberry over a soft earthy base, with a faint lavender note some people catch and others do not. Ground up it turns woodier and rounder. The exhale stays sweet. This is one of the more genuinely pleasant smells in cannabis, and unusually for a dessert strain the flavor keeps up with it.
Terpenes Explained
Gelato's terpene data is where the phenotype spread shows itself. The measured panel puts Caryophyllene at the top near half a percent and Limonene just under, with Humulene, Myrcene and Linalool further back. An older source note lists the order differently, Myrcene lower and the balance shifted. Both can be right, because Gelato is not one plant. Cookie Fam released numbered cuts, and phenotype #33, the one nicknamed Larry Bird, is not chemically identical to the others.
Two jars labeled Gelato can smell and test differently for reasons that are not a mistake. Caryophyllene may carry the peppery depth and Limonene the citrus top, but the exact balance belongs to the cut in front of you. If a package lists tested terpenes, hold them against what you actually smell.
Cannabinoids and Potency
Gelato tests in the upper teens to mid twenties for THC, with the one lab-measured sample near 21 percent. CBD stays low, around half a percent in our data. CBG is near 0.7 percent.
That is a solid mid-to-upper range without being a standout, which suits the strain. Gelato's draw was never the number, it was the flavor and the shape of the high, and a higher-testing cut mostly means the relaxed finish arrives with less warning. Dose for the finish, not the flavor.
Awards & Recognition
Each award is bound to the exact entry that won it. Nothing is inherited by the strain as a whole.
2020 Oregon Cannabis Growers Fair — entry recorded as “Gelato”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2019 Expogrow Cup — entry recorded as “Gelato”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2018 Errl Cup — entry recorded as “Gelato”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2018 The Emerald Cup — entry recorded as “Gelato”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2017 710 Degree Cup — entry recorded as “Gelato”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2017 Dope Cup Washington — entry recorded as “Gelato”
Source: not recorded on this entry
2016 Santa Cruz Cup — entry recorded as “Gelato”
Source: not recorded on this entry
0 verified recognitions. 7 unresolved entries shown but excluded from the count.
Competition historyBusinesses familiar with Gelato 0
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Community strain database aggregation (Labster/Blaster/Grower/Writer)
Aggregated from third-party community strain databases — 6 source records.
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Carried over from the preserved Ascendancy archive — 1 source record.
One recorded conflict
2 lineage claim sets disagree. All are retained with their sources; none is presented as settled.
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