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Royal Queen Seeds kindly sent me their new top-shelf strain Green Gelato - they say it's all sorts of tasty yum yum. Keen to see what phenotypes I get. 😊
Gelato are potted up into the no-till planter - all 5 into one, but it's fine, it's a phenotype hunt.
I plan to top them only once (as opposed to twice like the Thai) in an attempt to keep the canopy height relatively even.
The Gelato have the cabinet almost all to themselves now, the last of the Thai will probably be staying there until the chop of the first one or two of them.
I'm rather hopeful with how these are developing, despite this being the first run of a batch of supersoil that didn't get cooking time, just the young plants thrown in straight away, they are fattening up a little bit, especially the #1 one. Think I'll give half of them another week on top of the planned 8.
Anyone had a pepper-y aroma in a pheno of something normally very tasty? The other plants are really quite nice, very Kush-y - had a few popcorn buds in the vape - but one has this really stinging black pepper aroma to it. Will this turn into something more pleasant with curing?
It might not get sweet unless you add molasses, it's cheap and it's bio . You can get rid of any kinda plant taste with curing some people even mess up their bud by putting boveda packs in their jars too early. It's pretty normal to get a bad taste with no curing though, so i would stay optimistic. It's all good it will probably mellow out into something citrussy and og or something if I had to guess.
Last week for the last of the Gelato. I've taken cuttings of all of them. Peppery #4 did turn out a nice vape, but what little I've tried of #2 (non-peppery) is still nicer - it's that one that's the nicest smelling, but it was only a minor yielder. Tempted to grow out the clones of each pheno again, but each one with a reasonable amount of space to itself.
Very nice, loving the Kush flavour in some phenotypes - but haven't found "my" pheno yet, I think. I'm going to keep #2 out of the 5 I had, it was the sweetest one: Kush-y with a strong brambleberry cream-like aroma.
Growing this was a breeze, all seeds germinated, plants never gave me any grief. Yield was very small of course, due to this being a phenotype hunt: I put 5 plants into a shared 5-gallon container, topped them once for 2 colas each and trimmed the sides for clones.
@HighTV, thanks! 😁 I don't think my taste buds are more sophisticated than "mhmm Kush" and "that reminds me an awful lot of that brambleberry yogurt I gorged myself on as a kid!" (or "what's that black pepper doing in my brambleberry yogurt?" as the case may be).
I'd say give it a go 👍 the bandwidth of phenotypes I got was reasonably narrow, so you shouldn't have to expect any terrible surprises other than maybe the odd one out where the taste might not be quite up there. I had 5 plants, 1 was fantastic, 2 were very nice, 1 was still good, and only 1 was not immediately recognisable (more due to a lack of taste than difference, which could also have been my own fault).
Chamalla
