Jar Opening, 6.4.25, 11:15
It’s a different jar, with a faux-wooden screw top. Cannect Wellness, a brand I do not know. I am not sure if they are independent or if this is merely a new or alternative label from a producer I already know.
Maybe I should back up to say that I bought this jar several months ago from the Beyond Hello dispensary in Sauget, IL. The package date is 6.28.2024. It was already five or six months in the jar when I bought it; not great. Doesn’t get you excited, does it?
But there is an intact wafer seal. Weigh-in. 3.48 grams, short. More than the last two jars I opened, though! Georgia Pie from Tales and Travels was 3.47. Cap Junky from Sinse was 3.46. Somebody please throw me a bone and put a full eighth in the package.
Inside I find three large nugs. The bud is still spongy but it’s slightly dry. Dark in color with a purple hue. Upon grinding, I remark that this is some of the darkest grind I can recall seeing in a while.
There is some sweet pine-funk aroma. The grind is also aromatic, more of a citrus scent being released. It’s all kinda sticky. I’ve got more than usual stuck in the grinder.
Smoke session later that day, 15:38
Another supposedly “extreme” rainfall event here in St. Louis County in the wet spring of 2025. When we keep getting heavy rains when do the extreme events begin to become the norm? I am becoming resigned to them.
The Açaí x Sherb is a representative Sherb/Gelato. There is some bite but I am catching a strong, heady high, and I’m enjoying myself despite the storms, despite water finding its way into the basement ductwork again. Alas, alackaday, amor.
(some unknown amount of time, perhaps an hour, elapses…)
It’s strong stuff. I’m still going. Can’t find my phone. That Açaí x Sherb from Cannect Wellness. It’s the best-ever high I’ve gotten from bud that dark, purple. I’ve smoked bud that looked like this but it’s always disappointed. I had begun to think it was a gimmick.
I have been planning for what must be the last hour to smoke again but I have not made any progress thus far. I’m ping-ponging. We’re going to hit three inches of rainfall today.
Acai x Sherb, Further Reflections
After the crazy rain Wednesday into Thursday it was time to head east to Okawville, IL, for my cousin’s wedding. It rained off and on pretty much all of that Friday and Saturday, making for a dank and muddy but otherwise decent weekend.
The best part was hanging out with my other cousin and his wife and their three kids and Corgie in the Meentemeyer family farmhouse for a couple of nights. It’s the house where my mom grew up but I’ve not spent hardly a moment there in the last decade.
We went out to The Blue Room in New Minden for the rehearsal party on Friday night. We were having a pretty good time, especially back at the house where the wine continued to flow.
But it flew a bit too much, you could say. At one point I broke out a joint of the Acai x Sherb, and my wife partook. She used to smoke joints with me occasionally but she hasn’t smoked much in the last year (she does like edibles). The Acai x Sherb must’ve caught her pretty good, along with red wine and that Blue Room Burger, all of which ended up on the carpet in the room we were staying in. Whoops!
I’m about to go through this eighth. I didn’t know the brand, and that faux-wooden top looked kind of kitsch but I’ve been drawn to Gelato and Sherb crosses so I figured what the heck, give it a go.
Now it’s a disappearing eighth and a strain of the year candidate. Even though I bought it in 2024 it’ll have to go into strain of the year contention for 2025. There’s a lag but I can’t go back in time, can I? All I have with which to work is the present, so here we are.
The jar as I return to it after the wedding is like the bottom of a dark cave. It’s dank in there. What is left has spent a couple of days with a moisture pack. I pull it out and behold the crystals.
I haven’t had anything else from Cannect Wellness. Haven’t seen that particular label around anywhere else, and it hasn’t shown up on IL menus since I sprung for the Acai x Sherb.
Quick check suggest Cannect is only in Illinois, and might in fact be independent, i.e. not just a label underneath a larger company. They might be on menus in Collinsville/Maryville/Edwardsville but I’m never up that way and I’m not sure I’d go up there just to buy flower.
All I can say is: Cannect, if you are reading this, drop some flower back on the Sauget menu. I’ll buy at least a couple jars of whatever you’ve got.
6.13.25, 15:02: Rolling the rest
Rolling the last of it, .83 grams. I’ll get two .38-gram joints from this. Then it will be gone.
It has been my go-to of several active jars/strains I’ve had going these last two weeks. It was not a passing flame.
Last of the Sherb: Clean Slate, Tabula Rasa, Palimpsest
It’s June 16, 2025, 18:02. I’m out at Farm. Not the same farm from earlier in the month. This one is not in the family. It’s my friends’ family farm. Out in eastern Miller County, MO.
I smoked an Acai x Sherb. Tasty. Not earthy or exhaust fume-y. There is some pleasantness to the flavor but I can’t put a name to it.
This was either my last or my penultimate joint.
Cannect. Give them a try. The Sherb or Gelato-esque strains continue to be some of my favorites. Anything with the name Bacio or Sherb or Gelato I’m going to give a go.
Lineage
This is one of those strains that doesn’t try to put a new strain name on the underlying cross. It’s name is the cross itself. Acai Gelato x Sherb.
Acai Gelato is a phenotype of Gelato. Gelato is a cross of GSC and Sunset Sherbet . Sunset Sherbet is GSC x Pink Panties. Pink Panties brings in the Burmese Sativa. Otherwise, the ingredients are a bunch of OG Kush from multiple directions and Durban Poison, the South African landrace.
In short, it’s a Gelato phenotype called Acai (which is also known as Gelato #25 versus the most common Gelato #41 (Bacio) or the less prominent Gelato #33 (aka Larry Bird). Gelato phenotype crossed with one of Gelato’s parent strains once more.
Source: Seedfinder. If you want to go down the Gelato rabbit hole, here you go. Click here and take a couple rolls with you!
Weeds of Grass 