Final Results
Chocolate Trip Sour Diesel
CTSD1 Plant Shot:
CTSD1 Cut Shot:
CTSD2 Cut Shot:
Group Nug Shot:
A walk through of the 3 CTSD girls:
(366) Chocolate Diesel at the Chop! - YouTube
CTSD3 was short, green, and loose budded. Having less buzz than her sisters was the straw that took her out of contention right away.
CTSD1 has been the darling of the three all along. Having the tallest structure and dense buds, along with the chocolate color, made her the front runner. The flavor is light fuel with floral and leather sweet notes.
The buzz has a head band effect with warm ears. Conversational and engaging, rather that sedative. I would like more power and duration to declare it a winner, but we will be looking at this one more. You can see that 20 years ago this would have been immediate keeper.
CTSD2 has always been the tagalong sister that was shorter and bushier but still has some of the pretty looks. The flavor is deeper and coats the throat. Once again the fuel is light, but the sweet leather smelling smoke is very satisfying.
The buzz gives you the warm body effects of her sister, but with a touch more power and duration. She would be a keeper if the structure was better, but still certainly worthy of further looks.
Confirmation Grow
I started a confirmation grow about a month behind the main run.
3 Sisters in the Sun:
Video Walk Through
(366) Chocolate Diesel at 66 Days Bloom - YouTube
The confirmation grow results were the same with only incremental improvement. I grew them larger and pruned with knowledge this time. These plants are representative of what good weed looked like 20 years ago. However I don’t see anyone running rooms of them nowadays.
Neither of our 2 girls are worthy of the universal male treatment because they don’t have the full collection of all the traits of the strain. I am happy to report that we got a nice stash of seeds from these girls with reversed Sherb Cream Pie pollen. Certainly worth a look when searching for generational mashups of the best of old and new.
I have sent cuttings for folks growing in other media to grow out. For now I plan to hold 1 & 2 for further research.
I know that many folks are interested in growing these girls out for themselves. I would also like to preserve the genes for the community. So I will be giving cuttings of CTSD1 and CTSD2 away in exchange for your worthy cuts.
If you are interested, PM me for details. I’m looking for folks that post results, have things to trade, in the US, and have a positive reputation in the community. For cuttings; I’m looking for standouts that I can grow in head to head matchups and “taste of the town” adventures here in my forums (GreenRushFarms on ICMag, and als_weed on Overgrow).
I’m uppotting the original girls to bush them out, so it will be a little bit before the boxes fly.
As always, your comments and questions are welcome.
-al