The Cross
Two lines that both got selected on appearance, from two scenes that never had much to do with each other.
The Parents
Gelato #33 was pulled by Sherbinski out of the Cookie Fam program in San Francisco, Sunset Sherbet crossed to Thin Mint GSC. The nickname is Larry Bird, for the jersey number, because it was the thirty third phenotype in the run and it beat everything else in it.
Purple Punch is Larry OG crossed to Granddaddy Purple, running back to Purple Urkle.
What’s In The Pack
Six feminized photoperiod seeds. Milky white trichome coverage over neon colored flowers. No restocks planned.
In The Garden
70-80 days. Photoperiod, feminized.
Photo and grow: @nelsonandcompany, 2019
Parent-line references: Gelato 33.
My first 30%+ THC Lab Certified and not inflated numbers I almost trashed the plant as it took almost a month to get it’s 2nd set of leaves. When it first popped up it had three leaves instead of two and then 6 but all the leaves were smooth with no serrated edges. The clones actually only have 1 leaf up the whole plant. It looks like a basil plant instead of normal 3,5,7 leaves and so on. The trichomes are out of this world and flat out mind-blowing. I then removed it and threw it outside and forgot about it. After harvesting the entire tent full of seeds I then ventured into the woods where I threw it into my compost pile and was amazed to see the damn thing was full of trichomes and male bananas before it was even flowering which I have never seen before. What’s better is I thought it ruined all my other plants but now I have Sweet Zombie, Purple banana cookies, Blackberry Moonrocks, Glookies, Candlyland & WATERMELON ZKITTLEZ x Runtz Muffin now all crossed with this mutant Ice cream punch that doesn’t seem to have the gene to stop the trichome production and THC levels. I mean it’s absolutely the most beautiful mind-blowing strain that I’ve ever seen or smoked . That’s saying a lot lot since I’ve been growing top quality bud for nearly 30 years ever since my dad’s friend from Washington came to visit and dropped one of his prized seeds between the deck boards where I was hiding waiting for them to throw their roach (I was 14) but instead I scored a strain from a legendary grower which ended up being deep purple and lime green and was the first one to offer bud to my friend that was free of seeds and way more potent than the brick weed full of seeds of the late 80s and early 90s. Ever since that day I’ve been trying to find something that even compares and not until today did I actually find it. This has Cannabis Cup written all over it. So now the real work begins to stabilize this beast and end up with an all Smooth leafed plant with strong purple, burgundy, lime green leaves with buds covered in crystals where you can hardly see the buds themselves. This plant is absolutely amazing in many different ways. Lesson learned, don’t be quick to throw the odd ones out, they may end up being the best strain of your life.
Really nice strain with a strong unique flavor and smell, kind of peppery and polish, also only my 2nd time using DWC hydroponics so it could have been much better still. Watch out for a long stretch during flower. I had two phenos.
I am currently on week 10 of flower. I expect this to go another week or 2 before harvest, a bit longer than expected, also do to personal preference. I have had no trouble at all with it. Though I have a very controlled enviroment indoors.
Also; I run super soils, and compost tea.
This picture was taken at week 9. I prefer to harvest around 50/50 amber/cloudy.
Currently between itself, and the purple larry, I am most impressed with the Ice cream punch.
This is being grown under HPS, and CMH.
So far so good. 👍
Quality stuff!!!
Grown Under Mars 3000 SP , Living soil/coco , She is at 6 weeks .. The Bud structure is Hard as rocks I love it.. Will be getting more of these in the future as I am out of seeds for this one.. However I was able to cross it with City slicker , but still would love a whole harvest of these ladies for sure..
Ice Cream Punch
Grew 3 plants from seed, all were different phenos to some degree, nice for picking out from the ancestry. Found only one I would keep and it’s super nice. It was the lowest looking yielder out of them all, yet had some of the densest nugs making her actually not the lowest yielder. Had that old school hash flavor and appeal, was simply covered in trichomes.
She’s very sweet, gummy & hashy tasting and so smooth going down. The high is a nice body relaxation, not to the point you pass out, but just a very nice body chill, the mind becomes relaxed as well, and I find I can go to many venues with this. From wanting to explore thought, no thought, music, movies, chillin with friends, it’s really nice for those things, harmony is a good word as I do tend to smile more as well.
One pheno grew wildly big, (while the other 2 didn’t have all that bad of a stretch when flowering was induced), and her high was a bit weak and the flavor didn’t appeal to me. The other pheno grew the same size as the one I like, and high was almost identical, but it didn’t have the flavor of the one I liked, though yield was equal to some degree, give or take just a few, this could change once you get everything dialed in right.
So over-all, I’m very happy with this grow, found one dynamite girl with some throw back appeal, and easy as pie to grow. I did pollinate her, but will keep this cut as she’s really nice. Thanks again GPS!
Wow
Where do I start… This is in deed a tricky strain but is well worth it. I advise topping early and often, get a quality PH meter ( I didn’t and I cost me lol I know better) have a strong feeding schedule cause she can take it. I can’t wait to smoke some of this rapper weed.
Bought these beans a while back. Just set them to soak on the 20th of March. In soil on the 22nd and ALL six are up and doing fine. Germination was 100% 👍😎 Give another review after they finish
No pics or flowers yet, but I bought this pack on Black Friday and popped 3 beans and they’re getting pretty big now. Extremely healthy plants and amazing fast growth, but the seeds took a long time (almost two full weeks!) to germinate. I almost gave up on them and am very glad that I didn’t. Veg was a breeze. They grew themselves and had zero issues. Put one on 12/12 already (the OG leaning one) and the other two are going in within the next week. This seems like a hell of a hybrid and I can’t wait to see the nuggets. Three different phenos. One is very OG looking, one is more sativa/cookie dominant, and the third is hard to tell — hopefully an even mix of the two. That one has a strange tendency for the side branches to grow almost vertically, and requires a lot of training. I will come back with pics in approximately 8-9 weeks, but so far so good. Very healthy plants. The OG leaner is ridiculously easy to clone — roots in a week in the aero cloner. No clue which one will end up being the keeper yet but I have a feeling it will be a difficult decision.