The Doc‘s new grow cycle had already been four days into the veg stage when one of his pals asked him whether he could use a spare Gelato #45 seed he had. Since he had made quite a generous space utilization plan, The Doc grabbed this feminized seed and had it belatedly join the party as he was naturally tremendously interested in this extremely promising Barney’s Farm variety. Having germinated within 2.5 days, the seedling had just two instead of three weeks to grow vegetatively, but the doctor had gained positive experience several times with such a shortened veg period. And his Gelato #45 plant did well, soon exhibiting vivid bushy growth. It measured 20 cm tall when The Doc triggered it into flowering.

The plant stretched quite a lot during the first four weeks of flowering, with internodal spacing increasing, opening a view of many flower clusters forming along the branches. The same happened, of course, at the top of the main stem and lateral branches, in a spectacular manner that flabbergasted even the old grow veteran The Doc: fat, chunky tops emerged that started to ooze out resin remarkably early, week by week pouring increasingly vast amounts of trichomes out. Near the end of flowering, after 65 days, the doctor reported, “Gelato #45 has proven to be an excessive trichome machine! These super-duper frosty flowers rank among the most resin-dripping and whitest stuff I’ve ever witnessed in my grow room. Let me put it like this – if these buds were mountains, you could ski down on them! This comparison to mountains is also a matching one because the buds are wildly crystalline and rock-hard. Well, then there’s that famous Gelato smell, which has fully come true with my plant, yippie-yeah! The buds smell extraordinarily sweet; that’s as much of a sweet dessert character as it gets with marijuana. Beneath its sugary aroma blanket, the minty, chocolatey, and fruity notes mentioned by Barney’s are gathering, intermingling into a multifaceted bouquet, I’d almost say total artwork.” In the second half of flowering, the upper leaves got partly tinted violet, further increasing the buds’ visual appeal. The Doc waited until the very end of the official maturity window and pulled out the harvest scissors after 70 days. “Ten weeks of flowering certainly isn’t a swift sprint, but every week of this sensational performance given by Gelato #45 was worth the wait!” The plant had reached a final height of 51 cm.