DNA Chocolope history

I've asked this around before but I still don't have a good answer, or any answer at all actually.

Does anyone know specifically or can someone even give an educated guess as to when DNA lost the original Chocolate Thai that they crossed with to breed the Chocolope?

The reason that I want to know so badly is that I recently successfully sprouted a 6-8 year old seed and she is a beast, currently in flower for about a week now. What has me so intrigued is that her smell came on early in veg and its really prominent. It's the only thing that I can smell along with all of the OG crosses that I have in the garden atm. She smells of dry coffee and sweet wet dank if that makes any sense. It's a collision type smell that smacks your brain. I haven't been this excited about something that I haven't ran to be tried and true for a long time.

At the end of the day, I don't really care if there is any choc thai in there, as I haven't ever had any, ever. It's just the knowledge that I'm after in this pursuit. Also, as stated previously, I'm stoked to smoke her and I need to pass the time somehow.



She is the one up front, Cherry Bomb is poking up behind her.

Al Yamoni said:

Does anyone know specifically or can someone even give an educated guess as to when DNA lost the original Chocolate Thai that they crossed with to breed the Chocolope?

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Can you share the story about DNA "losing the original Thai choco"?

Sativied said:

Can you share the story about DNA "losing the original Thai choco"?

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Stand by.

I can't seem to find anything but random posts here on RIU, IC, and over @ The Bay..

You made me curious because I have a cross based on a chocolate fondue plant I've grown about a year ago. Chocolate fondue is chocolope x uk cheese. Smelled the chocolate only on my fingers after crumbling dried and cured buds, not on the plant. I created another cross that is sort of inspired by the Chocolate fondue, which is chunk x cannalope haze, similar to CF but on purpose without the thai in the linage.

That chocolate cheese sounds funky funk! yum.

Sativied said:

You made me curious because I have a cross based on a chocolate fondue plant I've grown about a year ago. Chocolate fondue is chocolope x uk cheese. Smelled the chocolate only on my fingers after crumbling dried and cured buds, not on the plant. I created another cross that is sort of inspired by the Chocolate fondue, which is chunk x cannalope haze, similar to CF but on purpose without the thai in the linage.

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i've grown eskobars chocolate rain, and not a scent of chocolate in any of the ones i grew.. chocolate rain is chocolope x dj shorts cocoa kush i do believe..

Al Yamoni said:

That chocolate cheese sounds funky funk! yum.

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It's to me like a better version of chocolope:

racerboy71 said:

i've grown eskobars chocolate rain, and not a scent of chocolate in any of the ones i grew.. chocolate rain is chocolope x dj shorts cocoa kush i do believe..

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I took a piece of bud to DNA genetics to show off, and I remember saying I didn't taste or smell the chocolate but it was not like it was lacking anything. Couple of weeks later I crumbled some longer dried/cured bud and was genuinely surprised that my fingers smelled like actually chocolate. I had 3 of them, not sure the one seed (yes 1) I got from it was from the chocolate pheno. That seed resulted in a super sweet but lanky low yielding haze. I crossed it with the cannalope haze, parent of chocolope, grandparent of CF, it's the one I call Late Night in my journal. It theoretically could still contain the choco genes, won't have the time+space to find out for a while.

I bought 2 chocolope seeds along with various other strains and the chocolope seeds sprouted and died shortly after. I don't know why and what happened but every other strain flourished under the same conditions and soil. I feel like they are weak seeds or something. Wont buy again for the price they charge for them.

Cpappa27 said:

I bought 2 chocolope seeds along with various other strains and the chocolope seeds sprouted and died shortly after. I don't know why and what happened but every other strain flourished under the same conditions and soil. I feel like they are weak seeds or something. Wont buy again for the price they charge for them.

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You probably had sativa phenos that couldnt take the hotness of the soil that non sativas can handle pretty easily. Sativas can be real sensitive to nutrients from seedlings up through stretch.

I've run both the Eskobar Chocolate Rain and the Chocolope and for me there was no comparison. The Rain ran great but the later version of Chocolope I ran hermied late for me.

althor said:

You probably had sativa phenos that couldnt take the hotness of the soil that non sativas can handle pretty easily. Sativas can be real sensitive to nutrients from seedlings up through stretch.

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Its weird, because they sprouted and once they had started growing their first true set of leaves about a week in the stems started to get really thin in the middle. It kept getting thinner and thinner till the seedling fell over and died. Its wasn't stretched at all either.

that coffee warm dank smell is most likely from the chocolate thai. Drawoh's Chocolate thai smelled just like your description, and it was the same OG chocolate thai that DNA used.