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Gushers stamp, No. 51 in the Official Cannabis collection: a hexagonal gummy with three drops bursting from the top

Catalogue entry · lab-tested · every claim cited

Gushers strain

Gushers is an indica-leaning hybrid of Gelato #41 and Triangle Kush, credited to the San Francisco Bay Area’s Cookie Fam Genetics and named after a fruit snack.1,2,3 Leafly lists it as TK41, short for its two parents, with White Gushers as another name.4,5 It tests at a median total THC of 20.95% across 177 state lab tests of Gushers flower, with the middle half of results between 17.77% and 23.83%.6 CBD is negligible: none of the 87 tests that reported CBD reached 1%.6

The Fountain Mechanic stands laughing with both hands on her hips in front of a round stone fountain basin, looking up, her long grey-streaked black braid over one shoulder. She wears a cream shirt with rolled sleeves, an amber neckerchief and a red apron with a row of silver wrenches at the belt and a long yellow T-handled tool hanging at her side. Behind and above her a tall column of white spray rises into an amber sky and grey pigeons fly up through it.
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Design
A hexagonal gummy with three drops bursting from the top · No 51 in the collection
Type
Indica-leaning hybrid: 60% indica per AllBud and seed sellers; Leafly files it as a hybrid, mostly calming3,4,7,8
Parents
Gelato #41 × Triangle Kush, hence Leafly’s name for it, TK411,4,5,9
Origin
California’s Bay Area, on record by 2018; credited to Cookie Fam Genetics, though accounts differ1,2,10,11
THC (lab tests)
20.95% median; 17.77%–23.83% middle half; 177 tests in 4 states6
CBD (lab tests)
64 of the 87 tests that reported CBD found none, and the highest result was 0.21%6
Top terpenes (median)
β-caryophyllene 0.45%, limonene 0.33%, linalool 0.14%6
Flavor (as listed)
Tropical, sweet, berry (Leafly users); sweet, berry, pine (Weedmaps)1,4
Effects (Leafly’s top three)
Tingly, relaxed, euphoric4
Flowering time
60–70 days per Weedmaps; seed versions 55 days to 10 weeks1,7,8

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Quick answers

What strain is Gushers?

A hybrid of Gelato #41 and Triangle Kush, credited to the Bay Area breeders Cookie Fam Genetics and named after a fruit snack. Gelato #41 is one of the numbered Gelato phenotypes from the Cookies Family in California; Triangle Kush is a Florida indica named for Jacksonville, Miami and Tampa.1,2,3,12,13,14

Is Gushers indica or sativa?

An indica-leaning hybrid. AllBud, Royal Queen Seeds, Zamnesia and ILGM all give 60% indica and 40% sativa, and Weedmaps calls it indica-dominant; Leafly files it simply as a hybrid and rates its effects mostly calming. Its Triangle Kush parent is an indica, its Gelato #41 parent a hybrid.1,3,4,7,8,12,14,15

How strong is Gushers?

The median total THC across 177 state lab tests was 20.95%, with the middle half of results between 17.77% and 23.83%; 15.8% of tests reached 25% or more. In every year with at least 30 tests (2021, 2022, 2023) the yearly median stayed between 20.28% and 21.50%.6 Leafly lists 22% and AllBud 15–22%, while seed sellers advertise 24% to 28%.3,4,7,16

Why does Leafly call it TK41?

Leafly avoids the snack’s name. Its Gushers page is titled TK41, which Leafly explains as short for Triangle Kush × Gelato 41, and says the strain goes by a popular fruit snack name it won’t mention for legal reasons; another Leafly page calls “Gushers” an infringing name. Weedmaps uses Gushers.1,4,5,17

Is White Gushers the same as Gushers?

Usually, yes. Leafly lists White Gushers and White Gusherz as other names for Gushers, and Weedmaps says many dispensaries sell Gushers as White Gushers; AllBud files White Gushers separately, as a frosty phenotype of Gushers.1,4,18

Who created Gushers?

Accounts differ. Weedmaps, Westword and SeedFinder credit Cookie Fam Genetics, the Bay Area breeders who made Girl Scout Cookies popular; High Times wrote in 2019 that Kush4Breakfast bred it from Cookie Family’s Gelato #41 and a Triangle Kush from Florida; Leafly lists the breeder as unknown.1,2,4,9,11

How strong Gushers tests

20.95%median total THC
17.77%–23.83%middle half of tests
177lab tests, 4 states
26testing labs

THC in 177 lab tests of Gushers flower

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Each bar counts tests in a one-point THC band; the shaded band is the middle half of results. 177 tests of Gushers flower from 4 states, 2020–2024.6

Full lab data: by year, by state, terpenes and the downloadable dataset →

From the lab report

  • 0% of Gushers flower tests reached 30%, while 60% reached 20% and 16% reached 25%.6
  • Both single THC figures checked for Gushers were above the lab median of 20.95%; Zamnesia was highest at 25%, reached by 16% of tests.6,8
  • In terpene panels, β-caryophyllene led 78% of tests, ahead of limonene at 22%.6

Read the full Gushers lab report →

A trending strain, then a parent of best-sellers

Gushers itself has not appeared in the best-seller rankings we checked: Leafly’s national dispensary orders for 2025 and Headset’s California flower top 10s for 2024 and 2025.19,20,21 Its record is one of reputation: 10th place in the licensed outdoor category at the 2018 Emerald Cup, a spot on High Times’ 2019 list of 20 trending strains, compiled from what readers searched for and asked about, and a place on Leafly’s list of cultivars trending up in 2021, which called it a California staple still migrating across the US “at a notable clip”.10,11,22 In 2019 Westword counted 11 Colorado dispensaries carrying some form of it.2

Its descendants sell. Gush Mintz, Purple City Genetics’ cross of Kush Mints with the combination of F1 Durb and TK41, was California’s ninth best-selling flower strain from January to November 2024, with $8.9 million in sales, and a nominee for Leafly’s Strain of the Year 2025; it dropped out of the California top 10 in 2025.20,21,23,24,25 In July 2026 Leafly’s 100 best strains of all time listed TK41 among its picks for feeling euphoric.26

Gushers next to similar strains

Lab-tested THC: Gushers and the 6 strains on our comparison pages

16% 20% 24% 28% GMO Cookies GMO Cookies: median 26.74%, middle half 23.46%–29.83%, 2,159 tests 26.7% n=2,159 Black Cherry Gelato Black Cherry Gelato: median 23.98%, middle half 21.13%–25.18%, 102 tests 24.0% n=102 Wedding Cake Wedding Cake: median 23.01%, middle half 20.25%–25.72%, 3,090 tests 23.0% n=3,090 Ice Cream Cake Ice Cream Cake: median 22.17%, middle half 19.85%–24.70%, 2,489 tests 22.2% n=2,489 Gelato Gelato: median 21.58%, middle half 18.91%–24.70%, 1,792 tests 21.6% n=1,792 Gushers Gushers: median 20.95%, middle half 17.77%–23.83%, 177 tests 20.9% n=177 Durban Poison Durban Poison: median 19.45%, middle half 17.33%–21.99%, 528 tests 19.4% n=528 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Same state lab dataset and matching rules for every strain.6 See the comparisons.

Where it is sold

MarketStoresMenu itemsMedian eighth
Los Angeles, CA 70 99 $25.00 (n=42)
Detroit, MI 26 28 $22.00 (n=21)
Baltimore, MD 24 32 $35.00 (n=21)
New York, NY 17 18 $40.00 (n=13)
Seattle, WA 10 14 $40.00 (n=9)
Oklahoma City, OK 10 10 $8.63 (n=7)

Stores within 50 miles listing Gushers flower on Weedmaps, Oct 4, 2026.27

All 27 markets, Germany and how we counted →

Genetics at a glance

Family tree

  • Gelato #41Hybrid; Sunset Sherbert × Thin Mint Cookies; Cookies Family, selected 2014
  • Triangle KushIndica; Florida; also sold as Triangle OG

Gushers

  • Gush MintzKush Mints × (F1 Durb × Gushers)
  • Poison GushersF1 Durban Poison × Gushers
  • Durban GushersF1 Durban × Gushers
  • Watermelon GushersCocomero Gelatti × Gushers
  • Wedding TK41Wedding Cake × Gushers
  • SplashGushers × Chauffeur
  • Gusher PieGushers × Rainbow Pie F2
Parents and offspring as reported by Leafly and Leafly News.4,5,12,14,17,22,23,28,29,30

Who bred it, why Leafly calls it TK41, and which Gushers aren’t: the full genetics page →

The Fountain Mechanic stands laughing with both hands on her hips in front of a round stone fountain basin, looking up, her long grey-streaked black braid over one shoulder. She wears a cream shirt with rolled sleeves, an amber neckerchief and a red apron with a row of silver wrenches at the belt and a long yellow T-handled tool hanging at her side. Behind and above her a tall column of white spray rises into an amber sky and grey pigeons fly up through it.

The Gushers universe

Your sign: The Fountain Mechanic

If Gushers is your strain, you can hear one stuck valve across a crowded square, and you have never once let noon arrive dry. Meet the Fountain Mechanic.

The issue printed on demand, nothing on sale yet

The whole issue →

Sources

  1. Weedmaps, Gushers (aka Gusherz) strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Westword, Why Colorado tokers love Gushers (Herbert Fuego) (2019-10-16). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. AllBud, Gushers marijuana strain information and reviews. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Leafly, TK41 (aka White Gushers, White Gusherz) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Leafly, Wedding TK41 strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. Royal Queen Seeds, Gushers feminized cannabis seeds. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  8. Zamnesia, Gushers (Zamnesia Seeds) feminized. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  9. SeedFinder, Gushers (Cookie Fam Genetics): strain info. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  10. SeedFinder, The Emerald Cup 2018: cup winners. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  11. High Times, 20 trending strains (Ab Hanna) (2019-09-19). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  12. Leafly, Gelato #41 (aka G41) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  13. Leafly, Just desserts: the Cookies and Cakes family genealogy (David Downs). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  14. Leafly, Triangle Kush (aka OG Triangle, Triangle OG) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  15. ILGM, Gushers cannabis strain information and review (2020-04-21). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  16. Seeds Here Now, Nasha Genetics Gushers S1, feminized. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  17. Leafly, Poison Gushers strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  18. AllBud, White Gushers marijuana strain information and reviews. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  19. Leafly, The best-selling weed strains of 2025 (Morgan Rosendale) (2026-02-02). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  20. Cannabis Business Times (Datawrapper), Best-selling flower strains in California: 2024 (chart in the Cannabis Business Times article; data: Headset). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  21. Cannabis Business Times, The top 10 bestselling flower strains in California in 2025 (Tony Lange) (2026-01-05). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  22. Leafly, Leafly Buzz: 8 cannabis cultivars trending up in 2021 (David Downs) (2021-01-07). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  23. Leafly, Gush Mintz (aka Gushmints, Gush Mints) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  24. Cannabis Business Times, The top 10 bestselling flower strains in California in 2024 (Tony Lange) (2024-12-30). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  25. Leafly, Announcing the nominees for Leafly Strain of the Year 2025 (Morgan Rosendale) (2026-01-27). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  26. Leafly, Leafly’s 100 best weed strains of all time (2026-07-14). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  27. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 4, 2026. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  28. Leafly, Durban Gushers strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  29. Leafly, Watermelon Gusherz (aka Watermelon Gushers, Watermelon TK41) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  30. Leafly, Splash strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.