Citronade is Growing Pains' sativa-dominant Lemon Tree x Gelato 41. The Michigan brand publishes a tight flavor call, orange, citrus and gas, and a daytime profile it describes as a rush of euphoria to the head, heightened alertness and a lifted mood. Think lemon and orange zest over a Gelato body, with fuel underneath.
Where It Comes From
Growing Pains is a Michigan cannabis company that markets itself as a flavor-first operation, and its own catalog calls Citronade a longtime house favorite. It came up the way a lot of Michigan brands did, small rooms first and a commercial warehouse once the legal market opened, and it hand-selects cuts rather than building a signature breeding line from scratch.
One thing to flag up front: Gelonade carries the same published parents, usually written in the reverse order as Gelato 41 x Lemon Tree. Whether Citronade is a distinct cross, a separate phenotype selection from the same pairing, or a house name on a familiar cut has never been made public. Growing Pains publishes Lemon Tree x Gelato 41, and that is the lineage on the label.
The Cross
Growing Pains is the brand and the source of the published genetics. No breeder credit for the original cross is public. Lemon Tree contributes the sharp lemon peel, skunk and fuel it is consistently associated with. Gelato 41 brings cream, berry, floral sweetness and gas, and sits in the Sunset Sherbet and Thin Mint Cookies family.
The sativa-dominant label is Growing Pains' own classification. Read it as how the brand positions the cut, not as a chemical or genetic fact, since the split on a menu predicts far less than most people expect.
The official notes are orange, citrus and gas, and the orange is what separates Citronade from the pile of lemon hybrids. The brand leads with zesty orange and puts the fuel behind it rather than out front. That reads as a Lemon Tree top note softened by the Gelato side: citrus peel and orange oil first, then cream and sweetness, then earth and gas on the exhale.
Harvest timing, dry, cure, storage and age all move the citrus-to-fuel balance. Citrus is the first thing a hot dry strips out, so a jar that reads flat and gassy is usually a handling problem rather than the cultivar showing its real shape.
What It Left Behind
No competition placement is on record. Citronade's documented footprint is regional: a recurring flower and pre-roll SKU in Michigan dispensaries under the Growing Pains label, sitting in the same catalog as Bolo Runtz, Zyrup and Devils Candy. Anyone selling it as award-winning is using marketing language, not citing a result.
The High Rise Take
Citronade is Growing Pains' Michigan take on Lemon Tree x Gelato 41: orange and lemon zest over cream and gas, pitched at daytime. If the description holds for the batch you find, this is a morning-to-midday flower, and the tradeoff with anything fast and cerebral is that a large dose can tip from alert to scattered.
Start small if quick-onset head effects do not suit you. Dose, tolerance, format and setting decide more than the label does, and any potency number belongs to the tested lot rather than to the name. If the pairing interests you, Gelonade is the other side of the same parents.