Gello Gelato #43 is a hybrid from Sherbinskis, the brand Mario Guzman built around the original Gelato. It crosses Bacio Gelato with Mochi Gelato, two selections from the house Gelato family, so the whole plant stays inside one bloodline.
Weedmaps calls it an archival hybrid and describes its parents as two of the breeder's most fruitful Gelato phenotypes. Sherbinskis says the cross folds the complexities of her siblings into a single cultivar.
Mario Guzman and the Gelato family
Guzman, known as Mr. Sherbinski, launched Gelato around 2014, according to a 2022 LA Weekly profile. The original cross paired Sunset Sherbet with Thin Mint Cookies, and Sherbinskis still calls itself the home of the original Gelato.
The brand started in the Sunset District of San Francisco and is now based in Los Angeles. Guzman splits his time between LA and a farm in Mendocino County. He has won strain of the year twice and once partnered with Cookies founder Jigga.
The first Gelato hunt had outside help. LA Weekly reports that Steep Hill Labs co-founder Addison DeMoura supplied the science behind that original phenotype search. The hunt produced the numbered cuts that later took on their own names.
Bacio meets Mochi
Bacio Gelato is the Sherbinskis name for Gelato #41, a Sunset Sherbet and Thin Mint GSC cross. Leafly places it among the most potent strains in the Gelato lineup. Guzman told LA Weekly that Bacio and Acai are the two primary phenotypes of his Gelato.
Mochi Gelato is the other half of the pairing and sits beside Bacio in the current Sherbinskis lineup. Pairing them keeps the new cross anchored in the house Gelato program.
Today Sherbinskis sells four Gelato cultivars side by side: Bacio, Mochi, Acai Berry and Gello. Each gets its own short flavor tag on the brand site, and Gello's is fruit.
What the #43 stands for
The number follows the habit that produced Gelato #41, better known today as Bacio. Standout plants from Gelato hunts were tracked by number, and those numbers followed the cuts onto dispensary menus.
Guzman has never loved the practice. He told LA Weekly he was never into calling strains by number, comparing it to numbering your kids. Sherbinskis gave the parents word names, yet the flower still reaches shelves as Gello Gelato #43.
That tag appears on the retail jar. Weedmaps lists Sherbinskis Gello Gelato #43 as an eighth of flower in the big buds format, while Tryst delivery in Torrance carries a 7g indoor version under the same name.
On the shelf and in the garden
The Weedmaps product page lists the flower at 27% THC and describes it as hard to find in California. The same listing credits it with a bubblegum gas character that is entirely its own.
Sherbinskis flower ships hand-trimmed in the brand's signature orange glass jars. The company also makes live rosin joints, live resin cartridges and the Quattro, a dual-chamber live resin vape.
Gello Gelato has also moved beyond finished flower. SeedFinder lists it as a Sherbinskis hybrid sold only as feminized seed, suited to both indoor and outdoor gardens. The seeds are available through Royal Queen Seeds, which carries a run of related Sherbinskis genetics.
SeedFinder records no documented phenotype variations for the line. Its terpene listing leads with caryophyllene and limonene, followed by cis-nerolidol, linalool and humulene.
Effects in brief
Sherbinskis describes the effect as strong relaxation without sedation, leaving room for motivation and creativity. That places it as a social or evening smoke rather than a couch-lock strain.
Weedmaps frames it as a balance of sativa and indica traits, with physical relaxation alongside mental clarity. Leafly reviewers call it softer than Bacio and a bit calmer than Mochi, which fits a cross built from those two parents.