Weed World - Growing Chocolope

Our preferred method of growing this strain is in everything. The Choco-Lope likes all medium's Hydro, Coco Beds, Soil, NFT systems its all good. But we usually like to veg our plant's 3-4 weeks depending on strain. Less is more in our book, Bigger plants less Numbers of plants. She dosent mind the nutes so push her she will surprise you.

When this variety is grown using our growing methods the Choco-Lope will yield on the average 100 grams per plant But if you want to avoid a 3-4 week veg and plant 20-25 per sq. meter you will get 400-600 grams.per sq. mtr.

I grow in beds using Cocos from Plagroon with Worm castings and Super Bio mix as an additive, This is my base medium. Also I added Guano Peru, Maril, and Sea Weed. All from Plagroon. This is just to pump up the medium after every use so as not to waste time, money, and effort in buying new coco etc. I am planting the Chocolope clones 12 per square meter. The clones I got off my mate who bought a pack off DNA at there shop in Amsterdam.

The First Week

For he first week or so I will give no food in the water so I do not shock the small clones with minimum root mass. After I have seen growth and am confident there is sufficient rooting within the bed I start to feed. In the vegetive stage I did not feed that much just some liquid guano, enzymes, and Noburn , which is basically, diluted liquid yucca. The noburn provides a good buffer zone and keeps you from having to water as much. Also after the first week I begin my spray program of Neem oil, Clove oil, and Garlic oil. I sprayed every 3-4 days up into the 3rd week of flower. I have found if you spray kind of heavy in the vegetive state and into 3 weeks of flower you usually wont have a problem with bugs or powder etc.

After the Second Week

O.K. after 2 weeks these babies are filling out the bed. Now I am feeding Mother Earth Super Tea Grow along with the enzyme, noburn, and Guano. I am P.H.ing at 5.9-6.2. DNA says to super crop to keep under control and flower at a decent size to maximize yield. I have super cropped some multiple places and others not at all, as a result I have an even canopy at the time of trigger to flower. I have noticed there are some plants that are half the size of the rest but the only way to tell is to look under at the stocks because the bed is completely filled! The Chocolope are going into flower at about 2 feet from coco line and completely full. I am now feeding Mother Earth Super Tea Bloom as well as the other nutes. The Chocolope after week 1 flower you notice the site formation within the bed and it looks like nothing but tops.

At week 2 flower along with the other nutrients I start using "Missing Link" from Bionova, this helps correct any deficiencies as well as give special trace elements and beneficial microbs. O.K. now barely 2 weeks in flower and the Chocolope already smells!!! A mate who gave me the clones told me about the amazing smell but I never had weed smell after 2 weeks!!! Another thing I've noticed is the bed is all sites, top after top!! I put nets up between the 2-3rd weeks as advised by my mate, and at this point they have doubled in size!! Now the description DNA gave on there web site sounds right on these birds are big!! All I can keep saying is how the smell dominates all other plants in my room! And at 4 weeks the Chocolope keeps getting sweeter and sweeter!! At this point I have been pumping these girls and no sign of burn or trouble.

After Week Five

Finally at week 5 they stop growing up!! At about 5-6 feet (1.5-2 meters) and week 5 they officially are done growing up and now growing out!! The crystals are so sticky at this point even brushing slightly against them you reek with this smell of fruit and trying to smell another strain after you squeeze the Chocolope is virtually impossible!! The Chocolope DOMINATES!!!

Week Six

At week 6 the smell is changing, once very fruity but now something else is there, still the fruit element is there just not as dominant. The best way to describe it I guess would be "dirty" or "thick" I dunno if this makes sense but that's how me and my mate can describe it "dirty, thick, fruit". At the end of the 6th week I start to flush using only P.H.'d water.

The DNA web site says 9-10 weeks but my mate who has grown many runs of Chocolope said to cut her down at 8 weeks. This is for the sweetest tasting buds. He had the odd Chocolope from seed go 10+ weeks but it wasn't nearly as tasty. So the pheno I have is the Cannalope pheno, fast, sweet, and a big yielder.

D Day

So at 55 days I cut these babies down and WOW the smell is incredible!! Fruity and thick and strong and sweet!!! I will let these birds hang for 7-10 days before trimming. I would like to wait a bit longer but my room is very dry and I don't want them too dry too fast. After trimming I put the buds in a cardboard box for another week or so, so the buds all dry at the same speed and this helps the dryer buds get more moist and visa versa, making a evenly dried box of weed.

My yield was almost 600 grams per sq. mtr.!! Cant complain with that!! The smoke report? All I can say is WOW! I did not smell any chocolate in the plants while they were growing but as the buds cure the coco smell comes thru slightly before getting stamped out by the "dirty fruit" smell. The proof is in the pudding as they say. Well the Chocolate pudding that is. As my pals and I smoke all we can keep referencing is the old school up high and flavor of the Chocolope. It reminds me of chocolate Thai. The high is up and the flavor is tasty all the way to the end.

This is top-notch connoisseur weed. The ease of this plant to grow and he pay off in the smoke makes this Chocolope a dream plant for the indoor gardener. And if you were lucky enough to taste real chocolate Thai in the 80's welcome back, and if you were not lucky enough to taste real chocolate Thai here is your chance.

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