i have to comment that i DON'T like that statistical style of smoke reporting, ESPECIALLY in those "forget me EVER reading them wall of check boxes" ones.
bag appeal? i HATE sticky, skunky rock hard nugs! fluffy & easy to break apart columbian gold is what i like. that's too subjective to even comment on. in fact, it FORCES a bias towards indicas which only equal bag contempt for me
yield? how are you expected to know the yield on a bud you buy on the street or wherever? i can't even say what the yield was on the gear i grew as i didn't weigh it. haze skunk is a lot bigger and has a lot more buds than LSD is about as specific as i can get there.
it's a regimented and abstract way to define a strain's qualities that doesn't agree with me at all. it gets in the way of defining the SUBTLETIES of strains. it's to mechanical. my mind is allergic to abstractions. i ONLY speak in plain english and my favorite smoke reports do it that way too. i don't care how interested i am in a strain, if someone posts one of those HIDEOUS wall of checkboxes "smoke reports" you can't skim in a minute & get the idea on, i IGNORE it!
i like just reporting on "the high & comments". as hard as it is to find good lowdown on strains even when you beg & plead for it as i did for literally a couple years looking for "best indoor thai" at overgrow, are you REALLY going to toss out reports here when people do them their way in their own words?
i can SEE why the "format" would be needed for those, like so many, that don't know what an adjective is and that think "best shit i ever smoked!" or "this is some serious DANK!" is all the comment needed . as someone who can't stand couchlock one bit... THAT should be the one category mentioned in every strain report, but it gets overlooked in that list as well as in many of the reports i've read here. i read a ton of raves for jilly bean until i FINALLY stumbled on one that mentions it's stoney.
all those stats on "growth"... on the gear that i DID grow, i don't take any notes on flowering times etc. and could only tell you that LSD (well... flumpy's lowdown mystery actually) was the shortest strain i grew and that highland thai was the slowest & fussiest. all i care about is how a strain SMOKES. anything else is spam in my book.
all that other stuff belongs in grow reports and i hate grow reports because they never deliver the goods on the smoke reporting. smoke reporting is just that... telling how it tastes and how it affects you. yield has nothing to do with smoking. again, THAT too forces a bias towards indicas and there's all ready too much of that on the streets that it shouldn't be here too.
personally, i'd like to see the reporting split up by indicas and sativas. then i wouldn't have to waste so much time wading through crap i have no interest in looking for rare gear that gets you high.
, regardless, its better now
