Morglie
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That's an awesome concept. I love the idea.
Nice skinny leaves on the Hawaiian and Mulange.
Landrace Genetics 101
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Nice skinny leaves on the Hawaiian and Mulange.
tropics
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That's an awesome concept. I love the idea.
Nice skinny leaves on the Hawaiian and Mulange.
Thank you Morglie
I have spent a near fortune on seed stock from various outfits and seed companies over the years, mostly to be disappointed And the seed breeders may show finish bud pics, but I often wondered what the parents looked like, in one strain just for instance NL#5 so I though it would be cool to catalog through the threads so people can see. I think it is appauling when people pirate rename others work. Below is finished picture of Pineapple Banana bud, The name came out o the mother Hawaiian ancestry coming from legendary Kona Gold also know as Banana bud because of the beautifully curved golden buds found on the big Island. And Pineapple for the fragrance that comes through on some plants of the cross.
Below finished buds
I see what a believe are renamed strains a lot on IG.
tropics
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Hey Penny!
AHHH sorry IG?
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ZACATECAS TRIBUTE
BIG SUR HOLY WEED X OAXACAN GOLD Purple line
First time test grow.
This is my attempt to combine some of the finest Mexican genetics using a Zacatecas hybrid crossed to another legendary Mexican strain in an attempt to capture the essence of what Zacatecas Purple might have been like. So far the compactness and uniformity and genearal appearance are looking pretty promising.
BIG SUR HOLY WEED X OAXACAN GOLD Purple line
First time test grow.
This is my attempt to combine some of the finest Mexican genetics using a Zacatecas hybrid crossed to another legendary Mexican strain in an attempt to capture the essence of what Zacatecas Purple might have been like. So far the compactness and uniformity and genearal appearance are looking pretty promising.
Looking pretty sweet!
Dude Stoneder
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Lerugged,
I knew I wasn’t the only one who noticed the shift in the modern breeds. Homogenized is all I can say. I presume sloppy mutt breeding programs are to blame. Pollen chuckers, running puppy mill style breeding programs, has led to a largely monolithic product. Seems like the big differences between the individual breeds is shrinking. I just recently experienced my first legal dispensary while vacationing in Nevada. I was expecting a wide range of aromas and visual characteristics.....piney, fruity, spice ect.... Even though I loved the experience of freedom in the dispensary, I was disappointed by the lack of diversity in the selection. After smelling sample after sample, my conclusion was they all smelled the same for the most part. Basic skunk. Now my experience is limited, and it may be different in other states, but this is my experience so far. And after reading your assessment, I fear my experience is indeed, widespread.
Indeed, preservationists keeping landraces safely uncontaminated deserve our appreciation. To those of you here keeping landraces safe.... I SALUTE YOU!
kelticBlue
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Hey Tropics, I really dig the stems on these Nepalis. Is the dark stem dominant in all of that line? Does the Oaxacan have this trait too? I have some Vitality F3s that look pretty similar to the pictures below, I'll try to put up a photo of them.
Throw in some purple from Nepali Sativa.
tropics
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BIG SUR HOLY WEED
Selected female for Zacatecas tribute breeding, plenty of purple in this lady already
in the sunlight there is a purple cast under the sides of the big fans and strong stem coloration
Selected female for Zacatecas tribute breeding, plenty of purple in this lady already
in the sunlight there is a purple cast under the sides of the big fans and strong stem coloration
tropics
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KALAMATA RED
A twisted snarl of three plants trying to tame the beasts.it funny how similar all three are starting to look from just a week ago. Getting ready to knock up a few buds.
A twisted snarl of three plants trying to tame the beasts.it funny how similar all three are starting to look from just a week ago. Getting ready to knock up a few buds.
Pretty sweet
tropics
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Hey Penny!
I have been doing total bondage on these girls just to try and tame them.
I have been doing total bondage on these girls just to try and tame them.
Have you tried pinching them?
tropics
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You mean pinching the tips? I feel if I do that I will be cutting deep into the harvest. these seem to putout there wieght on the furthest extremities. I did take clones and I think like many sativa clones are better for growing out.
I suspect that a lot of us did; I know that I no longer kept "unknown" (not named) strains from Asia, Mexico and points south of it, Africa, and even naturalized local ones. It wasn't that I woke up one day and trashed them all, but over time they ended up getting replaced.
"Don't Know What You Got ('Till It's Gone)"
Most everyone in the USA is familiar with the Cavendish banana. Maybe not by name, but by experience, because it's what gets sold/consumed. If I remember (reading) correctly, the Gros Michel was once highly popular, but a fungus all but wiped it out. Commercial growers switched to the Cavendish, as it wasn't affected. Fast-forward through the years... and the Cavendish is in danger.
Whenever you have ONE strain/variety/cultivar of a thing, you are very much vulnerable to anything which attacks that specific strain. This is common sense, yeah? Okay, so we have 2,500+ different strains of cannabis, so why am I bringing this up, lol? Well, if 300 of them are "skunk" strains, 750 are "kush" strains, 229 of them are... A fungus or other nasty that affects some portion of the whole can be bad, both because it could devastate, say, the "skunks." And things mutate over time (Evolution 101). Seems to me this gets facilitated if/when there are so many crosses which contain a portion of the affected genetics; it might provide an easier path, so to speak. And with worldwide access to most of the commercially available strains, easier still. Geography stops becoming a barrier, and with genetic mixing, one loses that barrier as well.
tropics
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I hear yha!
But it is funny after 3 generations of most Dutch seeds I ran turned to lettuce or simply the genetics just fell apart, Thats why I like landrace and Heirlooms, they make great F1's and if someone runs F2 F3 F4 and so on from my seed lines, they are likely to develop really terrific very individualized lines that for all intents should run pretty uniform for many years.