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Secret Recipe

thinman

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with all due respect ojd and truecannabliss, i recently grew out several Secret Recipe plants. the plants looked very good during veg and flower, but they never gave much smell when you'd rub a stem or squeeze a bud to get a wiff. i gave the plants the benefit of the doubt and let them finish.

the night i took the first SR down i was anxious to sample some of the finger hash from trimming. i could barely tell that i had smoked anything at all. no potency from finger hash? so i hung them to dry to get a better impression of the bud. the bud was so weak it was again difficult to tell that i had just smoked something which was suppose to be so strong and potent.

now that the buds are dry they have absolutely no smell. the smell is actually like dry straw or grass clippings from the lawn.

no smell! no potency! and what looked like a good yield has dried up and shrank to the point that the yield will be low.

i wasn't going to say anything about it and just move on, but that really wouldn't be fair to anyone else who had a similar experience with this stuff.

now, here's what i have to say, and i hope it is accepted in the good nature it is offered. Secret Recipe cannot be the offspring of two plants like original sour diesel#1 x chemd-bx2. maybe some seeds got mixed up. maybe one of your growers mislabeled the seeds. i have no idea what went wrong here. but the SR i grew was trash---no smell, no flavor, no potency. its nothing i want to smoke or offer to a friend. the grow was a waste of time and effort.

at one point during flowering i snipped a small sample bud and tried it through a vaporozor and it seemed to give me a little glow and the flavor was decent. this was a 30+ something day sample. i never took another sample until the plants were finished at 65 days of 12/12.

i don't want seed replacements or any other kind of compensation from you on this matter. i don't care if you believe me or not. and i don't have pictures that document my story. i say again: the SR cannot be sour diesel#1 x chemd-bx2. no way in the world.

if i had pictures of the grow they would indicate a great looking plant with large buds and heavy resin. this whole ordeal is bewildering to me. i've never seen such a beautiful plant that turned into some of the worst smoke i've sampled in many years.

like i said, not trying to stir shit or start a fight, but these plants (other than looks) have nothing going for them at all. they wasted my time. they wasted my space. they wasted my money. i wasn't going to report my sorry results. i would hope you'd want to investigate this a bit and look for what went wrong here.

once more: Secret Recipe cannot be the result of combining the sour diesel #1 and chemd-bx2. no way in this world. this stuff should never have been released for sale. it might have been an honest mistake. doesn't matter to me. the results for me would be the same. i'm the one who lost in this deal.

the truth is the truth...
 
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TREE KING

i agree with what your saying thinman i was so exited watching my secret recipe's grow out plus they had alot of crystals and a descent yield but the potency isnt any where near strong enough so i had to throw it out. i grew this strain practically perfect and it couldnt even compete with outdoor in my area. i feel like i wasted months of time it is what it is. i dont want compensation either.
 
sorry to here this bro....i got og/chem and labrador from that other place....hope this stuff is as good as they say it is...i put 5og/chem in and all 5 came up and are looking great..and my 5 labrador are doing the same so only time will tell for me..i spoke to truecannabliss be for i bought my order to ask him about the og/chem and it's the new stuff so i can't wait to see for myself, again sorry to here you got some bad stuff bro.
 

ojd

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sounds like you had 1 pheno the way you describing it

so how many phenos did you have?
like hay you say?
no smell no potency
very strange

i sold hundreds of packs of these and people found some greatn things from these
you and tree king both seemed to get a rough ride but out of more than 500 packs complaints seems very rare
this shouldnt been released? what you chatin about
what becuase you and treeking had bad results
im growing some secret recipe now after i see tree king comments
and will report back when i flower

you not got any pics so that doesnt help me see what phenos you had

the lineage is 100% what we posted

peace
 

thinman

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i started 5 Secret Recipe seeds. one did not germinate and i culled one male. of the three remaining females one looked much better, more vigorous, deeper green, wider leafs. the other two gals were thinner and taller with thinner leafs. i selected to keep the larger gal which got the nickname "bertha". the other two gals were held back until they were ready to flower. bertha went in about 10 days later once i saw roots from her cuts.

one of the thinner gals was not as vigorous and had a paler shade of green than her sisters. she was also slow. so i made the choice to cull her. i hated to do it. but she was just taking up space.

bertha, the biggest of them, is the plant i started this thread about. she was an absolute beauty of a plant and i was very excited when i had to tie her branches up because of the heavy buds. it was like a EUREKA moment every time i looked at her resin coated buds. so you must imagine how disappointed i was when the smoke turned out so weak and without flavor or smell. there was no potency.

so i now have a thinner gal drying and i haven't tried it yet. it might be fantastic. if it is i'll be the first one to congratulate you. i have no grievance with you guys. please believe that. i don't want anything from you. the Secret Recipe will be sold out soon. i'm happy that i didn't buy more packs during my excited period, which i started to do.

as to why you have not received more complaints on it, i can't answer that. i can speak for myself and tell you that when the service at a restaurant is bad, or the food is lousy, i will pay my bill and leave a tip...but i probably will never go back. its the path of least resistance that most people follow.
 

lou

New member
This is a shit review...come on 1 plant? I pop hundreds of seeds a year all paid for, sorry man the odds of finding a decent plant from three females is pretty rare.
I'm running 3 packs of these right now, If they are mostly hay phenos you can bet im gonna post about it.
Not tryn to jump on you thinman, there are way to many positive reviews on this site from children who get a few free testers, but if you were only gonna run a couple beans and needed something decent SR wouldn't be my first choice.
 
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Homer J Pimpin

I ran a whole pack and found nothing any good....decent enough I guess...but Lou....at the price thats being asked for untested seeds I think it a rather fair expectation to find a keeper in one pack.......
 

AzGrOw-N-sMoKe

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Imo the bud described sounds like it was harvested early, imo 65days is quick for the parents are 70+ers themselves... without pics this is at least my assumption.... what do the trichs look like... Az
 
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Homer J Pimpin

dude by 65 days you should be able to gague whats coming even if not fully ready......just my 2 cents.....
 

lost in a sea

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the plants were definitely not taken long enough if cut at 65.. and its easy to fuck things up towards the end.. but i dont dispute the reviews as i haven't grown it..
 
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TREE KING

This is a shit review...come on 1 plant? I pop hundreds of seeds a year all paid for, sorry man the odds of finding a decent plant from three females is pretty rare.
I'm running 3 packs of these right now, If they are mostly hay phenos you can bet im gonna post about it.
Not tryn to jump on you thinman, there are way to many positive reviews on this site from children who get a few free testers, but if you were only gonna run a couple beans and needed something decent SR wouldn't be my first choice.

we'll i had 31 seedlings and around 18-19 females to choose from and there was nothing impressive and no strong smells from any of them. and after the buds dried you can barely smell any chem at all. im co-signing thinman 100% it boggles my mind that weed like this can come from chem d, og kush, and diesel.
 
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TREE KING

dude by 65 days you should be able to gague whats coming even if not fully ready......just my 2 cents.....

definitely homer ive burned plants to a crisp and harvested those same plants a week early and it was still much much better than these secret recipe's. i took mine to around 70 days and the trichs were half amber and it still wasnt fire
 
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TREE KING

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ojd

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again homer j

these were tested prior to release on icmag

thin sorry you didnt find what you wanted
but 3 seeds and sounds like you only tried 1 pheno
plus 65 day if from seed def not enough
if you mothered it out took cuts then flowered yes 65 days you should see something

tree king

your pics look good
looks big yield
they look frosty
so what can i say
sorry you didnt like it
i know you wernt happy seen you posted around the net etc

but ive had alot of happy customers over the years
you get a few who were not happy

most of them pop one seed or half a pack or half fuck it up themself and then blame me

if someone post me pics etc il be more than happy to give them a replacement or even another strain if they really were put of by it

so to both you guys sorry you didnt find the winner but you cant win them all

peace
 

genetic freaked

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Not trying to say I don't believe these 2 as I always look at their grows and am amazed.
But this is the first time I'm hearing anything bad about this strain.
From memory all I ever heard was how good this plant would yeild and how great the smoke is.
If you look in the strains section of IC you will see everyone talking this strain up in every dept including bag appeal
I think you guys either had bad luck on the pack or something else was up. There are just took many good reports about this strain.

And you know this strain is hood when people are upset OJD and true lost the breeding stock and can't recreate it.
 

the gnome

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its hard if not impossible to gauge a strain by 2 seeds/plants that didn't do it for ya imo
all that tells you is there are gonna be some pheno's in this strain that you won't like.

that said my 1st run ith SR 5 seeds, 2 ladies and both were smokin asspotent
I had 1 bertha pheno which i still run and the other i let go because my bertha did it all
and 164grams trimmed and dry weight, my best take to date.
i have several people who want only my secret recipe because the quality.
very potent but functional and an easy comedown to terra firma.
big dense nugs, and an easy trim.
i run testers @ 35 days, and my tester said my SR bertha pheno was the best he's had
in that amount of bloom time.

and from 2 seeds its hard not to say this is one great strain from my exp.
but realistically what it means is there are many more gems to be had in this strain for sure!
i bought 2 paks originally and then got 3 more to make sure i had this one years down the road.

sorry i recommended this one to ya TM :shucks:
its like putting 2 out of 10 seeds in the soil and because 2 didn't make it
doesn't mean they'll all follow that no gro path ;)

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Hammerhead

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Theres going to be great plants ,good plants and not so good plants in many breeders seeds if not all of them. Mother nature at her best.
 
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