Smell: cocoa powder, baking chocolate, dark chocolate, strawberries, berry
Taste: Crunch Berries (not sugary), slightly hashy, lingering dark chocolate exhale
Effect: starts with swollen eyes and slight raciness, calms into a functional heady indica after ~20-30mins. Overall duration ~1.5-2hrs
Growing:
Stretch: roughly doubled initial flowering height
Flowering Time: 58-63 days
Nutes: Moderate to Heavy feeder, she is a forgiving plant that can thrive in a wide range of nutrient concentrations.
Taste
When you first crack open a full jar of the Chocolate Covered Strawberries F2 (
CCS), this dark/bitter baker’s chocolate immediately floods out of the crusted nugs. Hovering your nose over the jar and taking a long draw sniff reveals the berries just underneath the initially overwhelming cocoa aroma. The berry component has a light resemblance to fresh strawberries, but has been described by others as having a more generic berry (generic meaning not one particular type of berry) splash to the complex nose. Neither the chocolate nor berry has a sweet/sugary aspect, more of a bitter chocolate and natural berry qualities.
On the exhale, you definitely pick up berry flavoring. At first you think, “It’s like blueberries, strawberries, grape, raspberry...” and then it hits, Crunch Berries! She tastes like Cap’n Crunch Crunch Berries cereal. This resemblance to the cereal does not have the overly sweet/sugary aspect that the cereal has, but the flavoring is very similar. This mix of all things berry gives way to the dark cocoa hash foreshadowed in the smell. The chocolate taste lingers in your mouth after the berries. The CCS is able to produce this complex flavor profile long after the first “green hits” are a memory in your smoke session.
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Effect
The first thing you notice after a few minutes is the heaviness of swelled eyelids. A tingling starts behind the eyes and a sense of “rush” begins to fill your chest. An uptick in heart rate makes you double take to make sure she’s still “indica”. The beginnings of raciness begin to take over for about 10-15mins as your body tries to acclimate to the huge chemical bath you just gave your brain. This subsides rather quickly leaving you in a spacey cloud of upbeat energetic relaxation. The CCS has a calming and mood-elevating characteristic.
She does not have an overwhelming couch-lock, but can definitely mellow you out. Her effect is one of a functional indica that would be a great midday smoke loosening you up without putting you to sleep. The CCS is a solid “
good-time” smoke that is great for social situations either preparing you for them or accentuating a get-together.
Overall
The Chocolate Covered Strawberries F2 has a very enjoyable and complex aroma that truly does not disappoint. We can all rattle off many strains we’ve come across with very descriptive names that fall well short once smelled/tasted/experienced that you’d expect from such colorful, flavorful, bombastic names. This is one that lives up to the name.
She is a breeze to grow with great vigor. She can handle any training techniques and will begin to purple at about week 5-6 of flower. The CCS would be very kind to newer growers or those that prefer fewer headaches when growing as she can handle a wide range of feeding without throwing fits. Her shorter flowering time ensures a brisk end to an easy grow cycle.
Her genetic background is solidly indica but has expressed a great headiness, which makes for very functional daytime smoke. The CCS has great bag appeal and a generous coating of frost.
If you’re looking for complex flavorful cannabis that is easy to grow, rewards with a nice relaxing upbeat effect, and has cover girl appeal, look no further than the Chocolate Covered Strawberries F2.
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