Gelato | Ganjawest | May 2019
by /u/mcmaxx123 • Jun 16, 2019
Video Review [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGiNgyBFk2I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGiNgyBFk2I) ​ \[Ganjawest\] Gelato Hybrid | 4.4/5 | [Microscopic Photos](https://www.safebud.wiki/review/269/gelato-hybrid-another-gelato-strain-only-means-we-get-a-better-understanding-of-how-different-grows-) Another Gelato strain only means we get a better understanding of how different grows for different batches affect the strain and which dominant characteristics are carried between all variations. I've heard the higher end strains do have an ice cream/sweet smell (but haven't come across it yet). Out of the jar we (surprisingly) get a sweet, ice cream smell. Hopefully not just mind games as the smell quickly disappears. The bud has a nice variation of colors: Light greens, dark greens, shorter red hairs, quite shiny .... and very well trimmed. No leaves that aren't covered in shiny trichomes. Sticky (but not super sticky) when we pinch the bud. Cracking the bud open we do get quite a light color down to the core .. quite similar to the frostiest tips of the nug. These denser buds to maintain this lighter-color characteristic at the core as we've noticed it before. We now get a more gassy/diesel smell with only a HINT of sweetness ... but majority gas. It leaves quite a lot of crystals on my hands when playing around with which is a good sign. Grinding it up we see the bud to be quite a darker / reddish green, and quite sticky both to my hands and itself. The smell is now quite full bodied: gasy/diesel with a mix of sweet, piney, acidic smell. This sweet diesel is only topped off with a nice floral after-smell .. probably the more unique and pleasant smells we've come across in a while. In the vape the taste was a quite common taste but very strong. At lower temps (185) we got a diesel, creamy, flavor but more important was a STRONG diesel flavor. This common gassy taste was complemented by huge plumes of smokes. But at 195 we got a peppery/spicy itchy-back-of-throat taste. This, in combination with the gassy taste, provided a very unique profile which was quite different than other gelato strains we've come across just signifying how different each strain can be from one another. Smoking it from the pipe we're left with a darker, with some white specks of ash. The smoking experience matched the ash .. a bit harsh, but we got a lot of smoke and didn't make me cough or irritate my lungs. The buzz was couch lock, drifting off into space, laid back, daydream, lazy ... much more indica than a 50/50 hybrid. On the plus side we got the diesel taste pull through while smoking and was a good end-of-night smoke. Tho hard to say for sure the THC was pretty close to the '20%' advertised. Overall tho a very common strain it gave a unique vaping taste and quite an interesting smell, well trimmed, frosty and pretty out of the jar. This, coupled with the laid back, solid buzz, provided a pretty good experience overall. Tho not completely identical to the other gelato's we've come across it was quite a nice surprise to get that slight difference in tastes that can only be explained by different growers and different crops.
