Smell: doughy, earthy, slight sour, spent fireworks
Taste: sweet, soil, almond extract (
non-sweet cherry), menthol
Effect: hybrid balance without a crash, slight body tingling/buzzing, easing of aches, increased perceptual stimulation, Overall duration ~1.5-2hrs
Growing:
Stretch: roughly tripled initial flowering height
Flowering Time: 65-72 days
Nutes: Moderate feeder
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Taste
A long draw inhale over the Gelato #45 flowers presents a sweetened earthy smell with an influence of the sour/fuel-type aromas. It is less gas/diesel and more like spent fireworks. This acrid note is not off-putting, but is stirring the aroma of the doughy soil foundation.
As the smoke high fives your tongue on the exhale, you can taste lightly sweetened earth as the smell hinted. The tongue interprets the acrid spent gunpowder as more of a mentholated “cool” lighting up your taste buds as you blow smoke. Unexpectedly, there was almond extract at the tail end; a non-sweet black cherry taste. The smoke is not a thick expansive toke, but the taste does have staying power keeping your lips smacking after the smoke is gone.
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Effect
The Gelato#45 effect begins as an elevated mood, with tingling in the head. This tingling shifts to the chest after 10-15 minutes and conjures hints of a coming raciness/anxiety. This impending anxiety never really develops as a more balanced relaxation grows throughout the body accompanied by some slight visual overstimulation. Lights seem too bright, moving objects too fast, etc.
The balanced high fully develops after about 15-20 minutes. Joint pains and aches seem to melt away without a couch-lock stone. Your brow slowly drops as a wave of ease pours over your face. A calm creativity is allowed to bloom as mental clarity, positive mood, and released tension mingles in a great equalized high.
This experience lasts 1.5-2hours and does not have a crash that leaves you taking unscheduled naps. As you continue to toke on the Gelato#45, the initial threats of raciness/anxiety are sidestepped and the relaxed good mood is reinvigorated.
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Overall
Gelato#45 offers a stable modern strain that is not a finicky grow. She will begin to develop purple accents around week 5-6 of flower and finish with a visual appeal of a bowl of Fruity Pebbles. Her kiss of Tanzanite adds violet, rose, and indigo to a plant that can show off through the favorable leaf/calyx ratio.
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She has a great smell/flavor combo that includes a less common sour/fuel expression, visual appeal, and easy trim, all without the fussiness some cookie plants/hybrids can demand. Gelato#45’s dense nuggetry is a very satisfying midday/evening smoke that can help ease aches and elevate mood. She will have you coming back for a second bowl of gelato.
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