[D3pthCharg3]

I can't let everyone else have all the fun. So here goes a small test run of 2 plants as plant counts are a concern. The seeds were graciously donated by Baked Beanz and greedily scoffed up by the masses, including myself, for next to nothing in price. I was lucky enough to aquire an f3 version of Dutch Flowers' Chocolate Trip selected by Baked Beanz, and selected at f2 by Bodhi.

Here is a description of the original cross by Dutch Flowers:

Chocolate Trip will please indoor growers looking for exotic sativa quality in a highly manageable hybrid exhibiting the curiously strong chocolaty sweetness and brain-wiring psychoactivity of fabled Chocolate Thai pure landrace. Chocolate Trip's stocky, tight-noded phenotype thrives under indoor lighting, and will reward with an abundant yield of dense buds of top notch headstash quality.

We obtained Chocolate Thai from growers in Hawaii (who also sourced our Lemon Thai, already offered here). The Chocolate Thai had a classically thunderous, soaring high that immediately won everyone's preference. Unfortunately, the superb quality came with a 14 week flowering period price tag. The buds were incredibly aromatic and resin coated, but very spindly, with strings venturing on their own out of the thin main floral cluster, giving it an overall skimpy braided look. Curious structure, definitely landrace looking, but hardly productive even outdoors. Our Chocolate Thai source had warned that to obtain a reasonable yield outdoors, his method was to crowd many plants in a limited space outdoors, in a style reminiscent of hemp grown for fiber.

While the Lemon Thai only needed heavy parent selection, the Chocolate Thai demanded a lot of work to make it worth growing for the indoor grower. We used an Indigo Diamond female crossed to a male Chocolate Thai and selected the best female out of over a hundred seedlings. This female was then pollinized with a pollen pool composed of the three best males of a twin cross where the roles were reversed, i.e. a Chocolate Thai mother crossed with an Indigo Diamond male.

The resulting Chocolate Trip passes with flying colours the flowering time and yield breeding goals: it takes around 50 days or less to flower, and is an extremely generous producer of hefty, thick buds that carry the trademark spicy sweetness of the Chocolate Thai. As a result of heavy selection, the Chocolate Trip exhibits an amazingly short and bushy phenotype: will finish under a meter (40 inches) tall if flowering is induced at 16 inches. This plant will yield an average of 4.5 ounces of exceptionally aromatic buds that retain the vanilla candy taste and trippy psychoactivity of the Chocolate Thai.
The Chocolate Thai has passed all its extreme sweetness and spicy exotic taste on to our Chocolate Trip. The taste is exceedingly sweet, and flavor is highly appealing with a very strong vanilla note over a peanut butter background. It is this extreme vanilla sweetness over a peanutty base that brings the smell so close to chocolate, although we are sure that the uncanny chocolate smell in some imported Thai is the result of a peculiar curing procedure that may include substances unrelated to cannabis.

Chocolate Trip's Indica base hits very hard, but still gives an extremely energetic, lucid, visual high. It has both a lot of "bass" and "treble", yet the overall tune is definitely speedy, like a dance track. The Chocolate Trip prowess is to satisfy the Indica and Sativa lovers equally, even when it is clearly sativa dominant in both high and taste. This allows for a powerhouse high, but there is no "dumb" or "lock" effect: remarkably cerebral and active, with a knack for inducing visuals (as some smokers report colours).

Stocky, tight noded phenotype, great yield, quick flowerer, Chocolate Thai high and taste with a hard punching Indica base make the Chocolate Trip an excellent all-around strain for growers looking for landrace qualities in an easy to manage plant.

Lineage: (Indigo Diamond X Chocolate Thai) X (Chocolate Thai X Indigo Diamond)
Indoor Harvest Time: 50 Days

The 2 seeds were started in the usual manner for me. I soak them in pure water for 24-36 hrs, then put the soaked seeds in media in a pint sized clear cup (to see roots) with a colored cup outside it to block the light. My media of choice as of late has been Royal Gold's Basement Mix. It is a lightly amended coco based media, that is not to strong, not too weak....just right. I usually add a bit of Mykos and Azos to the starting hole too. These seedlings both broke ground the same day, 2 days after being buried. They will continue to reside under my 425w Chinese panel LED, which works amazing in veg. The clear inner cups allowed me to view better than average root growth in comparison to other seedlings I start.

More info and pictures to follow...

[Clarence]

Awesome. Welcome to the party. Can't wait to see how this goes.

Thanks

C

[D3pthCharg3]

Seedlings a few days after cracking the soil.



...and here we are a couple weeks down the road, notice the roots developing in the clear cups...

[D3pthCharg3]

Thanks for the welcome Clarence. How could I not participate with such awesome company? ...and another special thank you to Baked Beanz for making the seeds. If you can post some pictures or info on the parents selected, or anything else, thanks and please feel free.

...and here are a few more pictures right before transplant. The taller plant is starting to show what appears to be a calyx. I have been fooled before so I will wait to make a determination. If these are males I will be pollenating at least GG4, probably a few others, so the show will continue. I think GG4 with more chocolate sounds nice.

The shorter one thus far, we'll call it Choco1:





...and the taller one Choco2:





...more to come, and we should know the sex of at least one...

awesome , nice healthy starts , thanks for the compliments and also for joining in .

very nice choice , too

[ElGringrow]

Looks good so far. I picked up a pack of them on the relist to hold on to for the future. I can't wait to see how they progress.

what was the result here , think they were going to show sex ? without going back through the thread . hope you got atleast one girl .

[D3pthCharg3]

Hello all, sorry for any delays. Things are progressing nicely. The good news is that I have two confirmed females. In the interim I have re-potted both of them into 1 gallon square RootMaker pots. These pots are great as they direct the plants' roots back into the core of the media, allowing me to keep a larger plant in a comparatively smaller container. The media of choice on the bottom 1" of the container is my own 'hot' amended mix, with plenty of Mykos and Azos, and filled in with my favorite container mix, Basement Mix by Royal Gold. This combo will allow for a water only paradigm during veg, and subsequently into flower, while remaining all-natural with no synthetic chelates. I should mention that both plants are nicely fragrant in veg with an in-your-face old school smell. Very exciting. These will be re-potted again and flowered very shortly from now, as I don't want large finished plants and I am trying to move things along.

Choco1 (shorty)




Choco2 (taller)




more to come...

[Tynehead Tom]

looking good man !!
super healthy lookin

[Morcheeba*]

DC,

these are looking super happy....im here for the duration.


peace