Useful Seeds

Tester Report

Strain: Tranquil Chocolate

Breeder: Useful

Flower time: 69 days

Stretch: More than double.

Issues (stress): Heat, heat, and more heat. Took it well for the most part. Was also susceptible to a bit of Powdery Mildew.

Just began using Mega Crop, and these took the brunt of the learning curve.

Medium: Coco

Plant Size: Went into flower at 18” both finished around 40” in a 3 gallon Rootmaker airpot

Yield: TC #1: (Dark Pheno) 5.5 ozs

TC#2: 3 ozs

Aroma: TC #1: Smells dark, sweet coffee/coco, and something very familiar that I can’t pin down!

TC #2: Sweet berry something that is quite delicious.

Flavor: I can’t taste much anymore, way too many cigs early on. But they both taste similar, at least to me. Smooth on the tongue, both inhale and exhale

Effect: Powerful, relaxing for both body and mind. Seem to calm down my dodgy guts. #1 is a bit stronger, bordering on narcotic. 8-8.5/10

Bag Appeal: Great! Buds are tight, but not too tight, if that makes sense

Overall Impression (be honest): It’s good. Everyone that smoked it came back for more. Pretty easy to grow as long as the pH is kept in line.

Keeper?: Don't keep cuts, but will grow it again!

They were both grown at the same time, under the same conditions, and harvested in mid-September. #1 did not need any cold to turn darker.



I am so sorry this took me forever to get up, it’s probably already been released!LOL!

Almost forgot the pics!

TC #1






TC #2






Thanks for the opportunity to play with these, @Useful Seeds. I hope you can put them out, I wanna run them again!

Nothing picture-worthy going on in the tent today. Girls got a nice EWC/B.A.F./Malibu top dressing today. They are getting really thirsty, especially under the intense light. Gonna skip pics for now, but thought I’d hook you all up with some pics of my side project.

Ancient OG x Tranquil Elephantizer #1 - day 30



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Sour Strawberry Gelato #1, #2, #3 - day 30

GG#4 s1's at day 30 from breaking soil. All are showing good trich coverage. Going to top them today so I can take cuts earlier. Ignore the messed up leaves on them. I have been battling aphids and have been spraying them with neem and dish soap every 3 days for a few weeks now. Should have some lady bugs and Aphidoletes to release by Thursday. Hoping they do the trick.


Cheers

GreenHighlander said:

GG#4 s1's at day 30 from breaking soil. All are showing good trich coverage. Going to top them today so I can take cuts earlier. Ignore the messed up leaves on them. I have been battling aphids and have been spraying them with neem and dish soap every 3 days for a few weeks now. Should have some lady bugs and Aphidoletes to release by Thursday. Hoping they do the trick.
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Man I'm kinda jealous of those... Good luck with the bugs

DocofRock said:

Nothing picture-worthy going on in the tent today. Girls got a nice EWC/B.A.F./Malibu top dressing today. They are getting really thirsty, especially under the intense light. Gonna skip pics for now, but thought I’d hook you all up with some pics of my side project.


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Fungus?

TWest65 said:

Ancient OG x Tranquil Elephantizer #1 - day 30
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Looks like some thick stems on those girls. How long were they vegged before the flip? Any particular aromas from these yet?
Looking fantastic BTW!

Just a little update for my Useful homies. Things going pretty well so far since flip, though I have been trying to perfect my environment. Looking pretty good today. I definitely could have and could be doing a better job with canopy management and space optimization and efficiency, but truthfully.... eh, just been lazy. Anyway, here’s a pic of the girls.

jdoorn14 said:

Looks like some thick stems on those girls. How long were they vegged before the flip? Any particular aromas from these yet?
Looking fantastic BTW!

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Thanks. They were vegged for 12 weeks. 1 good week, followed by 8 wks of abuse, followed by 3 good weeks, then into flower. It's not a style I recommend. Lol

I do smell a couple different odors. But my sense of smell is muted and those girls are in a room with ECSD, LVTK, Grape Gelee, Heavenly Hashplant, and the Blue Dream x CD, so I can't pinpoint where any of the odors are coming from. I just know I like the smell. I wish they made an air freshener that smelled like that.

DocofRock said:

Just a little update for my Useful homies. Things going pretty well so far since flip, though I have been trying to perfect my environment. Looking pretty good today. I definitely could have and could be doing a better job with canopy management and space optimization and efficiency, but truthfully.... eh, just been lazy. Anyway, here’s a pic of the girls.

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Looks great dude! Super healthy and nice structure.

TWest65 said:

Thanks. They were vegged for 12 weeks. 1 good week, followed by 8 wks of abuse, followed by 3 good weeks, then into flower. It's not a style I recommend. Lol

I do smell a couple different odors. But my sense of smell is muted and those girls are in a room with ECSD, LVTK, Grape Gelee, Heavenly Hashplant, and the Blue Dream x CD, so I can't pinpoint where any of the odors are coming from. I just know I like the smell. I wish they made an air freshener that smelled like that.

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Police would go crazy looking for weed in your shit and not being able to find any!!! They would probably beat your ass up for it!!! "Where's the weed you sonovabitch!!!" We know it's in here cause we can smell it!!!

herbfanatic said:

Looks great dude! Super healthy and nice structure.

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Thanks dude. While I’ve been admittedly lazy with my training, I also constantly assess my girls and at the first sign of any unhappiness I address it. I’m definitely in tune with my plants and I definitely try to PREVENT issues wherever possible. Only thing I’ve really experienced thus far is maybe a little bit of mag def — I use RO water and I’m under LEDs, so factors driving transpiration I try to optimize as much as possible. I’ve been mainly sticking to organic, dry amendments (top dressings, mulching, organic additives, and compost teas) through this grow. That said, I did give the girls a solid half-strength dose of the NFTG “sample kit” lineup (which I have been thoroughly impressed with) the other day. Smell is REALLY starting to be prominent. Here’s some pics from this morning and today.

Girls wake up praying every morning, hard. I use an Emerson effect (far red) light from 15 min before lights out to 10 minutes after lights out. This morning:



And this afternoon:



Edit: These gals are 10-11 days since 12/12.

Edit 2: Best pic of the night:

Blackjack X Banana OG. Switch flipped

DocofRock said:

Nothing picture-worthy going on in the tent today. Girls got a nice EWC/B.A.F./Malibu top dressing today. They are getting really thirsty, especially under the intense light. Gonna skip pics for now, but thought I’d hook you all up with some pics of my side project.


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Are those shrooms? If so, how easy or hard is it to get them to grow?

TWest65 said:

Are those shrooms? If so, how easy or hard is it to get them to grow?

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Psilocybe Cubensis, to be precise. IMO, there’s nothing to it. The important part is to ensure sterility of the substrate before and during inoculation. You are inoculating a medium that has the propensity for growing fungi and potentially harmful microbial pathogens — you want to make sure that only the DESIRED fungi is growing in it. This is usually done via pressure cookers on a small scale; then, inoculation is done with sterile technique.

if you are interested in specifics, shoot me a message. For the record, these were only inoculated about 15 days ago. They’ll be ready for birthing and fruiting in probably 8 days. So 23 days (a little over three weeks) until you’re fruiting. From there, you’ll likely be able to fruit your colonized substrate 3-4 times every maybe 5-10 days?

If you just want an idea of what I’m doing, look up PF Tek. Here’s today:

Probably 85% colonized. At 100%, 1 week of consolidation then birthed.


P.S. - This is what healthy psilocybe cubensis mycelium looks like. It’s white and ropey. It will be first evident at the exact place in the medium it inoculated, rapidly colonizing once the mycelium first appears (generally 3-6 days). This is my 4th time cultivating, though this is the first time in about a decade that I’ve revisited it (just cuz my wife wants to try it). PF Tek is easy for cultivating a small to moderate amounts of dried cubes, though there are other methods (similarly equal in level of difficulty or involvement) to cultivate larger amounts. IME, I have no use for a metric shit ton of dried cubes — I don’t sell (anything, ever) and trippin shrooms ain’t something I would do with any regularity. I opted for the smaller, super simple cultivation strategy this time around.

I like your explanation of the process. That sounds interesting. I will do a little studying up on it. I've been thinking about trying minidosing for my depression and social anxiety disorder.

TWest65 said:

I like your explanation of the process. That sounds interesting. I will do a little studying up on it. I've been thinking about trying minidosing for my depression and social anxiety disorder.

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There are some valid studies that have been conducted over the years that look into the potential therapeutic benefit of psilocybin, especially as it relates to depression/anxiety, and interestingly, even for addiction.

BDGrows said:

Any updates on the Tranquil and Black Lime @Useful Seeds? Also, is the Sunny Diesel (SSDD x Chocolate D)? Hope all is well and cant wait for the drop brosky!

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My apologies for being late on a response. The Black Lime f4 is on hold, the germination test was not desirable at this point. I did a test a week ago, I was not happy with the %. Dropped some more today, and will see. I will NOT be shippin em out as of now.

As far as the Tranquil Chocolate they are fine, I have 30 packs. I also have a lil batch of Jungle Spice x Chocolate Diesel fems, some Sunny Diesel fems, which is Sunshine Daydream x Chocolate Diesel, small batch of Double Dipped Strawberries fems.

Again, I know a BUNCH of folks were lookin forward to the Black Lime F4, but I just can't provide em at the moment.

I'm still gonna do the BOGO at JBC though, full packs of 10. Freebie list is as follows

Chocolate Trip x Wolf Pack
Super Lemon Haze x Sour Diesel
Banana OG x I-95
Headbanger #4 x Wolf Pack
Sour Diesel x I-95
Blueberry Hashplant x Agent Orange x Sour Diesel
Lime OG x Sour Diesel
Grape Godhead x Sour Diesel
Bag of Oranges x Jabba's Stash
3 In The Pink x Wolf Pack
Mint Chocolate Chip x Wolf Pack

I really do appreciate all of you and your continued support, I think you all know that but I can't say it enough.

DocofRock said:

There are some valid studies that have been conducted over the years that look into the potential therapeutic benefit of psilocybin, especially as it relates to depression/anxiety, and interestingly, even for addiction.

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YES, there have actually been extensive studies on this very issue. Microdosing of psilocybin has proven to help folks with many issues. Amazing how natural plants/fungus ect, that are actually beneficial to humanity, are frowned upon by the powers that be???

Control is tenuous if you think freely!