Getting Jiggy With Jet Fuel Gelato

Attention Gelato-lovers, Fox Hollow Flora is now serving up some absolute fire with the ultra creamy, verifiably gassy Jet Fuel Gelato genetics.

If this aptly named strain has piqued your interest at the dispensary but you weren’t sure if you wanted to go all in on a quarter, then read on as I explain why you should try Jet Fuel Gelato!

Gelato is everywhere these days, and I’m not too upset about it, can’t lie.

I mean, who doesn’t LOVE rich, creamy cake-y strains?

Yeah, yeah, yeah…hate all you want. Still, the Cookies Fam consistently breeds excellent weed with their collaborations, and the sheer frequency with which Gelato genetics are featured as parents of any given current exotic hype strain is proof of that.

The High Times winner for the indica category in 2021, Gelato has gone on to spawn more exciting hybrids, including Jealousy (another big award winner), Biscotti, Tiramisu, The Menthol, Apples & Bananas, and, of course, the prodigy child, Runtz.

I could go on about the glories of the Gelato strain, but that’s a different review for another day because there is a lot to say about Gelato genetics. Few strains have had as significant an impact on the industry as this complex mother plant.

In this review, though, we’re taking a closer look at the one and only Jet Fuel Gelato and its interesting familial connection to the Gelato family via an ancestor named Sunset Sherbert.

You know I love choppers, I had to surround myself

Takin’ Gelato to the head, smoked the pound myself

Juice WRLD

You may be asking, What is this relation specifically? Well, Gelato is a hybrid cross of Girl Scout Cookies and Sunset Sherbert.

Sunset Sherbert itself is a cross between Girl Scout Cookies and Pink Panties. This is why Gelato has that fruity but smooth flavor (in a fresh waffle cone, as I like to imagine); it’s got GSC on both sides of its family.

It’s also why Gelato #33-derivative strains like Fried Ice Cream are a complex treat to smoke!

Jet Fuel Gelato, on the other hand, is a hybrid cross between Hi-Octane and Jet Fuel.

While Jet Fuel is about as far from Gelato as possible in terms of flavor and smell, Hi-Octane, on the other hand, is a cross between OG Octane and Sunset Sherbert.

To summarize, the classically smooth Sunset Sherbert is itself a parent of Gelato and also a grandparent of Jet Fuel Gelato, imparting some of those much-loved smoking characteristics.

Weed is wild, huh! I’ve drawn a highly technical diagram illustrating Jet Fuel Gelato’s genealogy below:

Don’t think it’s all creamsicles and sunsets with Jet Fuel Gelato, though; this strain brings its own to the game with pungent, gassy odors that shout, “We’re Hi-Octane and Jet Fuel, and we’re ready to party.”

A party it was. Read on below for a detailed liveblog account of Jet Fuel Gelato’s ASS (Appearance, Smell, Sensation). The biography of this specific plant looks like this:

*Most reviews are recorded live in a journal when the flower is first purchased and published later, so don’t freak over the harvest/test dates.

This sample was sourced in Oregon, so you’ll have to find your preferred farms in your state. Compound Genetics is the breeder you’ll want to reference when seeking out Jet Fuel Gelato.

Appearance: Smatterings of all the Right Colors

JFG doesn’t necessarily jump off the shelf like something with outlier colors. That’s just fine, though, as there is nothing inherently wrong with the buds’ color.

They are dense; the greens are vibrant, healthy, and with spontaneously placed small-medium length orange stigma, all paint splattered with little bits of attention-grabbing purple spots.

The vibrancy of the colors and lack of faded hues lead me to believe the plant lived a happy, stress-free life, which I know Fox Hollow Flora works hard to cultivate.

I prefer my buds to have enjoyed their time alive on earth, and you should, too. Living soil FTW!

Structurally, these aren’t the largest I’ve seen, at least from the jar I have been served, not that size is everything.

Still, they are plenty adequate, in the solid “medium” nug size range with a few smaller and fewer larger.

Size isn’t a barometer for flavor or effect, but I love a big chonky nug when I can simply admire a little more of its unmolested beauty before admiring it with my lungs…

The nugs were quite dense, with little air between the tightly packed calyces. They were seemingly bonded together by proliferous sticky binding gooey trichomes, which lent a nice overall “moistness” to the bud.

I like it because all that terpene-rich moisture makes for a much more satisfying vape in my PAX (as well as smoked). It has more, uh, “vocal range” than a dryer flower that has been cured too long, thereby lacking enough moisture content to create a satisfying vape.

Remember, some terpenes dry out quickly, so getting something freshly harvested and well-stored is key if you’re a flavor chaser.

Also, when I write “moist,” please read “plant-like subtle moisture content”, not “this stuff is wet”. There’s a big difference.

These aren’t sponges, but I like the cool stickiness vs. overly dry plant material that turns to dust in my grinder. Overly-cured flowers are the bane of my existence, I swear, and I’m glad this sticky icky sticks to my fingers.

Ultimately, though, the appearance isn’t what sold me on the jet fuel Gelato. We scanned right over it in our initial standard display perimeter recon at the dispensary.

No, this stinky little strain was recommended after I had asked the most alpha-chad dispensary question of all time, “Which one is the fueliest?”, to our patient budtender, who was happy to oblige with a Jet Fuel Gelato recommendation.

I’m not usually the “straaaaight gaaaas” guy; in fact, I’m typically looking for something with some fruity Tangie or grape flavors, often defaulting to more lush couch-locking indica-leaning hybrids, but hey, I was feeling sassy.

So I just went for it, took the plunge into cliché, and asked for that which shall not be asked…I asked for the gas.

I’m glad I did because once I got home, and I could remove my COVID mask (*this review was originally authored at the peak of the pandemic) and take an unhindered deep inhale of my Re:Stash-protected half ounce of Jet Fuel Gelato, I instantly knew I had a winner.

A half ounce is no small sum of money for me, so I admit doubt had begun to creep into my mind on the way home as to whether or not I had made a mistake diving straight into the 20-foot deep end of the community pool of diesel.

The shnoz, however, was delighted upon the first lid crack, and multiple eyelid-closing-inducing deep sniffs were indulged upon before grinding up a Heir metal bowl’s worth to spark up ASAP.

Smell: Bold Yet Polite Blends of Gas & Cream

This strain is a New York 50-year-old Italian tough guy in a flower. There is nothing brand new or astonishing here. JFG (Jet Fuel Gelato) isn’t Mendo or some funky garlic-fruit cross or anything weird like that.

JFG is a fuely, fresh zinger on the nose backed up with a dark peppery musk undertone holding the floor together like a perfectly stoned bassist in a low-key jazz band.

It’s not revelatory, but that’s not a bad thing.

The familiar slick-backed hair, the genuine, thoroughly broken-in leather jacket that was passed down to Tony Jr. by his father, Tony Sr., the dominant after-astringency of after-shave, and the aged, ripped denim that no off-the-rack pre-worn denim company can produce.

It’s an undying (“future classic”, in this case, given the strain, is a relatively new one from Compound Genetics) classic.

No, it’s nothing new, but it’s welcoming, recognizable, and familiar, with bold details that help reassure you that you have indeed bought some interesting weed, something with a personality, a bit of attitude. It’s not all fruity Tangie and grape notes here, no sir.

This weed will invade the immediate vicinity and fill whatever air there is if you’re sitting indoors, which is a nice way to whet the appetite of your partner or friend’s pre-smoke sesh.

The gas is expanding and potent, exciting without overpowering or being offensive.

As more of a citrus-Trop lover, this seems like a great introduction to more fuel strains without diving into the deepest of deep ends like you get with other big astringent terpene profiles like Chem or Permanent Marker, for example.

Sensation: Fast-Hitting Yet Controllably Creative

The gradual yet rapid hitting head high of this strain is very satisfying. Think prototypical “sativa” in terms of sharpness of mental impact, vs the more sedating variety of prototypical indica-leaning strains.

Going from 0 to 20,000 feet without realizing it and then trying to figure out how long you’ve been high is not how this builds.

No, you inhale, you exhale, and there she is, with you, piloting you, faster, higher, like a take-off in a jumbo jet. You are the co-pilot. Jet Fuel Gelato will take care of the heavy lifting.

You feel yourself rolling down the runway with increasing speed, feel the thrust, and feel the engines propel you upwards diligently and exponentially.

The high also seems relatively creative. It feels like someone injected a bubbly syringe of Red Bull into the creative part of my brain.

Deep conversations were had, UFO documentaries were consumed, and things that were considered “givens” were reconsidered. This review was composed.

Jet Fuel Gelato caused me to ponder a great deal, which I like very much.

I played out fantasies of opening a food truck, serving dope-ass deep-fried chicken cutlets, fried squid, and tofu (I’m pretty high, I originally wrote jicken for “chicken” here).

The entrepreneurial fantasies expanded quickly, reflecting light in an oil-slick collage of shiny bubbles floating up lazily but determinedly into a rainy night, defying raindrops, on an unrelenting mission to space.

Jet Fuel Gelato would thus fall into the “creative, buzzy” type of high that lends itself well to artistic work.

It’s not all zingy sativa, though. My head is heavy; I nod a bit as my tunes bump along and my typing slows. Eyelids are only up at about 60-70% normal openness.

Come on, you can do it. Power through the review, Erik!

I have been listening to Ryan Celsius Quarantine and Chill lo-fi on YouTube on our 50-inch wall-mounted Sony television.

Time isn’t moving at a measurable pace for me at this point.

The gas is doing its thang.

Perhaps I should just continue watching a Netflix documentary on black holes or the Documentary Now comedy series.

But the conversation in my head continued to flow unabated, never lazy, always light, bouncing, focused, hoping merrily down a clean forest path on a crisp spring morning, chasing early rays of pure sunshine.

I could see this being a decent socializing weed.

This is not necessarily for large groups or high-pressure scenarios, but with groups of close friends that you can comfortably riff off.

It’s definitely a strain for having an active mind, whether you stimulate your mind with conversation or you prefer to passively consume dope ass YouTube video music, or just geek out in your weed journal.

Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with Jet Fuel Gelato. Oregrown and Fox Flora very rarely disappoint.

This leap of faith in selecting this amount of this unfamiliar strain resulted in a happy ending, like a good mainstream Christmas-themed American 1980s family comedy, with a director filming it all jacked up on just a smidge of cocaine.

Gas doesn’t have to be feared. Ultimately, it is simply kinetic potential. Simply apply the spark and use the momentum of the explosion of creativity it imparts for whatever application you choose.

Harness the energy and delight in the activity it fuels.

Jet Fuel Gelato Summary: An Active Yet Well-Balanced Strain

Jet Fuel Gelato is dope. It’s a great way to explore the gas without spontaneously combusting. JFG would be worth considering if you’ve been gas-curious but haven’t taken the plunge.

The effect is intense but pleasant and persistent, and it didn’t catch me off-guard at any point, which, combined with its odorous duality, makes it a pretty versatile flower for daytime or evening use.

Things never got too loony, which makes it a solid contender for social settings or functioning functionally in public scenarios without geeking out.

Just be warned, the munchies were strong with this one!