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This page describes how community smoke reports work on Landrace.Wiki and how to submit one.
What is a smoke report
A smoke report is a subjective written account of consuming a particular cannabis sample: aroma, flavour, smoke quality, and the effects observed. On this wiki, every smoke report is linked to a specific accession. Reports written about samples without a known accession cannot be filed here.
Smoke reports are not measurements. They are not peer-reviewed. They cannot replace laboratory data. They are useful, however, as a distributed record of what people have observed across a wide range of growing conditions and reviewer backgrounds. Read several reports of the same accession and patterns become visible that no single report could establish.
Why we collect them
Three reasons.
First, accessions documented on the wiki carry observation data only from the original collection point. Subsequent grow-outs in different climates, by different growers, with different cure regimes will produce different sensory profiles. Smoke reports capture this distribution.
Second, several wiki users have access to the same accession (Patreon supporters, collaborators, returning growers). Pooling their observations yields signal that no single grower would generate alone.
Third, smoke reports are a low-friction entry point for community members who want to contribute but are not field researchers. They produce real, useful, attributable content.
How to submit a report
There are two routes.
From an accession page
Open the accession page you want to report on. Click Add a smoke report (located near the bottom of the page). The form opens with the accession field already filled in.
This is the recommended route.
From the Community/Smoke Reports listing page
Open Community/Smoke Reports. Click Add a smoke report in the sidebar. Pick the accession from the autocomplete dropdown.
This works but is slower.
What to include
The form has several optional fields. The more you fill in, the more useful the report. At minimum:
- Sample provenance. What is this sample? Where did it come from? "Zomia Seeds Patreon Drop 2 2025." "Shared by [name] from 2024 harvest." "Pierre's seed pack from the 2023 expedition." This is what distinguishes one sample from another even when they share an accession.
- Report date. When you wrote the report.
- Reporter. Your username, or whatever attribution you want.
- Related accession. The accession this report is about.
Beyond those four, the most useful fields are usually:
- Sensory description. Aroma and flavour with specific descriptors. Citrus, pine, fuel, hay, lavender, spice, cheese, leather, ammonia, mint. Note primary versus secondary notes if you can. Avoid pure metaphor.
- Effects. The arc, not just the peak. Onset, build, plateau, comedown. Cerebral, body, balanced. Functional or sedative.
- Negatives. Anything you did not like. Anxiety, racing heart, harsh smoke, paranoia, headache, dry mouth. These are valuable to future readers.
- Context. Setting, time of day, your tolerance state, mood, recent sessions. Helps readers calibrate the report against their own experience.
What happens after you submit
The report is initially saved at Smoke Report Draft/.... A bot runs every five minutes and moves the report to its canonical location:
Community/Smoke Reports/<reporter>/<date>-<accession-id>
Once moved, the report appears:
- On Community/Smoke Reports in the latest reports listing
- On the related accession page in the smoke reports rollup section
- In the Category:Smoke Reports category
If your report does not move within ten minutes, check that the related accession field is filled in. The bot needs that field to construct the canonical name.
Editing or removing a report
Smoke reports are protected after submission. Anonymous and brand-new accounts cannot edit them. The original reporter, autoconfirmed users, and administrators can edit. An edit filter additionally warns users who are not the original reporter to think twice before editing.
To edit your own report, open it and click the edit button or use the form to amend the submission.
To request removal of a report, contact the wiki administrators via Landrace.Wiki:Questions. Removal requests from the original reporter are honoured. Removal of someone else's report requires demonstrating a clear policy violation.
What smoke reports do not do
Smoke reports do not contribute to an accession's official documented characteristics. The accession's own properties (chemotype, effects observed at point of origin, etc.) come from the original collection record and are not modified by community reports. Reports sit alongside the accession data, not within it.
Smoke reports do not establish chemistry. They cannot substitute for cannabinoid or terpene analysis.
Smoke reports do not establish identity. A sample that smells like another accession is not the same accession. Provenance is established by chain of custody, not by sensory similarity.
See also
- Community/Smoke Reports — the listing page
- Help:Accessions — what an accession is
- Help:Documenting Accessions — for collectors and researchers documenting populations in the field
- Landrace.Wiki:Norms — wiki-wide policy on evidence and contribution