So I found there are 2 phenotypes in the Chocolate Thai... (probably from the Big Sur Holy Weed) that was used as a Male a few generations back... but there is a shorter flowering pheno, and a long flowering pheno. The shorter flowering look more like a hybrid with tight, frosty buds and nice hybrid bud structure (tight swollen calyxs) and mine finished around day 65-70 flowering. The other phenotypes are the long flowering ones, which I pulled at 104 days flowering( probably could still go longer) and they have that more landrace/sativa type bud structure where a bud is made up of tiny "spindles" of bud, but overall the buds are very large, but airy and not dense.
Terpenes also ranged on the phenotypes, where during veg/flowering most had a cigar/cardboard/slight chocolate terp profile, but after drying/curing they all had differences. One of my favorite ones has Zero "weed" smell, and instead smells like a Fall Seasonal gift shop... (cloves, potpourri, pumpkin spice with hints of chocolate). Another pheno had an extreme lemon cleaner smell and smells/tastes almost like Lemon Pledge dusting spray. Out of the 6 females I ended up with, one of them had a very strong chocolate type aroma, but after drying it actually was pretty smell/flavorless and kind of smells shwaggy.
The high on all 6 females is very similar where its definitely a slow creeper, where the high comes on in waves and gets stronger and stronger. A very cerebral uplifting high where thoughts are racing, good body numbing buzz (almost like after a glass or 2 of wine) where you body feels relaxed and warm buzzing. Some of the phenos had more clarity in the high which I feel are the best, where thoughts are racing but not confusing. Other phenos have that thought racing but blank stare kind of high where you feel zoned out and could easily stare at things for quite some time before you catch yourself zoned out... LOL. Overall the high is amazing and I'm quite impressed, but I've never really smoked any pure or true thai strains before that I know of.
For those breeding or pollen chucking, I was not able to get any males out of the original set of seeds I popped. All female. Therefore I am popping more beans in hopes of a male which I will use to open pollinate my choice female phenos as well as cross pollinate with some other of my "mothers" and favorite strains.
The flowring time is really the biggest drawback, as 104 days is almost double most other strain flowering cycle times, so I will definitely be making sure to bring one of the shorter flowering phenos into my project.
Here are a couple pics... (I screwed up late flowering and overwatered them during an extreme dryspell and the plants kind of browned, so not my best grow).These are the 2 early flowering phenos.... #5 will be my keeper as the terps are amazing (clove, potpourri and autumn spices). *** I will post some photos of the long flowering phenos at a later time since I don't have them in my computer yet.