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Gelato

aka candy gelato, gelato og

2014 · San Francisco Bay Area, California

Gelato/Dessert

12 back10 forward

THC 20-25%·CBD <1%

Ancestor of 748 strains

Disputed lineage

At least one parent for this strain is contested — sources disagree on its lineage.

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Children

Show all 87 children

Runtzhybrid235 descendants

Ice Cream Cakehybrid61 descendants

Biscottihybrid147 descendants

White Runtzhybrid47 descendants

Gushershybrid31 descendants

Guavahybrid14 descendants

Black Runtzhybrid0 descendants

Bolo Runtzhybrid2 descendants

GRuntzhybrid0 descendants

Jet Fuel Gelatohybrid228 descendants

Gelattihybrid63 descendants

Candy Rainhybrid7 descendants

Permanent Markerhybrid18 descendants

Apples and Bananashybrid26 descendants

Blue Nerdshybrid7 descendants

Pink Runtzhybrid10 descendants

Grape Gasolinehybrid163 descendants

Jokerzhybrid5 descendants

Cadillac Rainbowhybrid1 descendant

Georgia Piehybrid19 descendants

728 more descendants

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Aroma profile

Aroma profile scores for Gelato (Leafly scale; 0 is typical)
Citrus	−0.5
Candy Sweetness	−0.0
Dark Fruit	−1.2
Floral	+0.4
Herbaceous	+0.2
Earth	−0.1
Funk	−0.8
Gas	−0.8
Dessert & Cream	−0.0

What the axes mean

Citrus: Bright peel and juice: lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit. Often driven by limonene, the same compound that makes citrus rind smell like citrus rind.
Candy Sweetness: Confection rather than fruit: sugar, tropical brightness, an almost artificial sweetness. Ester-driven, and the register modern dessert-lineage breeding has pushed hardest.
Dark Fruit: Deep and jammy: grape, blueberry, plum, berry. Comes from esters rather than terpenes, which is why two strains can share a terpene profile and taste nothing alike.
Floral: Blossom and petal: lavender, rose, violet. Linalool sits behind much of this; it is what makes lavender smell like lavender, and it turns up in cannabis more often than people expect.
Herbaceous: Green, leafy and cooling: sage, tea, mint, cracked pepper. Pinene and terpinolene drive the fresh green edge; the peppery bite is caryophyllene, the only terpene known to bind directly to a cannabinoid receptor.
Earth: Soil, forest floor, bark and pine. Myrcene and humulene do most of the work here — humulene is the same compound that makes hops smell like hops.
Funk: Sour, savory, barnyard: skunk, aged cheese, pungency. Like Gas, this is sulfur chemistry rather than terpenes, which is why it survives drying and curing so stubbornly.
Gas: Fuel and solvent: diesel, chemical sharpness, ammonia. Not a terpene smell at all — the gassiness in cannabis comes from volatile sulfur compounds, the same family that gives skunk and garlic their punch.
Dessert & Cream: Bakery and dairy: vanilla, butter, coffee, toasted nut. The Cookies and Gelato register, and the newest of the nine in cannabis terms — it barely existed before the 2010s.

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1 sister strain

Bird 33hybridhalf sister