The Mountain: Grow Support From The Over 50 Club

There ya' go! I was wondering if you were going to pass it back around or keep it as payment for my joking about your hometown. :)
 
Hey Dust Bunnies! :laughtwo: Not sure what goes down in here but I'm gonna sub in!
 
Well here I yam. Let's talk old skool genetics... Anybody working some classic strains with proven lineage? Acapulco Gold, the REAL ATF/MTF, I know there's a lot of solid old Trainwreck genetics still around out there etc... I know a couple of you guys gotta be holding on to some classics...Where my early 80's farmers at!?!?

Currently running some Northern Wreck(NL5xTrainwreck) that dates back to '99. It is one of 3 phenos that were kept from an F1 crop of a tired NL5 mother that had been running for about 3 years. She was bred with a Trainwreck male that was essentially landraced over about 20 years in the Seiad Valley near the Klamath.

That brings us to this...and sadly, it's the last one I know of. Even at 20/4, her flowering could not be stopped.

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Peace.
Trig
 
I'm still in a phase of naturalizing few strains to my local climate. Indica-wise I'm good, and now I'm searching for a perfect sativa :smokin2:

This is my first Mexican landrace, Jarilla de Sinaloa aka Cola de Borrego:

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Hello friends. I am a long time vegetable gardener, long time cannabis enthusiast shall I say, and now first time grower in Oregon. And I'm well over 50. Did I find the right place. If there is a central link for the old guys' forum. Please direct me. I am just in the process of creating a grow journal. I will post that very soon. I'm so happy to be growing for my first time here in Oregon.
 
Hi everyone, I am a old first time grower in the Portland, Oregon area. I've got four girls green and growing at about 9 weeks old. Two are in the ground outside. Two are outside in pots. Here are two pics. The two each ground and pots. We're moving into flowering and I'd love some input. Here are the pics, but I do have a grow journal now. First Time Grow Journal - Outside - Kaya Gold & Freebies

All help and comments would be greatly appreciated.

Ground, 5.5 and 4.5 feet tall. One freebie sativa and one Kaya Gold:

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In pots 8 gallons, one about 3.5 foot and the other 3 feet approx. Both Kaya Gold.

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Hey Trig and Conradino! I am in negotiations with the Bride of Holler to finally let me post photos on the site. So..hopefully I will be able to post a photo of my Merry- Go- Round strain. Like you Trig she is the last of her kind and I have my fingers crossed as she is growing right now. The line went extremely hermie on me. I started in about '78 with getting a handful of Afghani seeds from the docks in Chicago along with some pickles of black hash! They were stocky skunky /fruity resin coated monsters that began flowering about mid July in Southern Illinois. They were the ticket I was looking for. Now I could try to cross my late flowering Mexican and Columbian sativas and try to get an earlier flowering cross. In the meantime some friends of mine who were in a band got a sweet gig in Jamaica playing at a resort. They knew I was a grower and brought me some Lambsbread seeds in about '80 or 81'. It was late flowering but a very energetic buzz. After crossing these 2 I had a very small plant that actually only developed one viable seed. The next year that seed was grown and babied and developed into a monster drying out at 29 ounces of very trippy weed. Then I hit the pay dirt plant. I found some folks in western Kentucky that had been growing the same weed for decades. It was a of unknown lineage but appeared to be somewhat sativa dominate but flowered early developing yard long baseball bat colas by the first week of October. It was very piney light green and resin coated. Similar to Texas Time warp. I crossed the ( Jamaican x Afghani ) X Kentucky Wonderweed and Merry- Go- Round was born. It was actually named by the people who I gave it to because it was a long lasting very upbeat buzz that literally let you go about your day in a very energetic hppy go lucky kind of way. An energetic mood enhancer thus the name. I focused my breeding on stabilizing the strain and trying to continue to get her to flowr earlier without sacrificing the size of the plant or the quality of the buzz. Unfortunately I took my eye off of the ball and decided to cross my best phenol with a similar but herm producing pheno of the same strain. I had basically up to this time just been inbreeding her and I thought that I was pretty stinking solid in the line. The seeds that were produced were predictably all female. 2 years ago my plants looked unbelievable and I thought that I was really on it......then ...I went out to check them on morning. From 100 feet away Iknew I was in trouble. The plants looked entirely yellow. Top to bottom the buds shot out male flowers in unbelievable quantites. I almost cried. I grew those seeds last year and every one went hermie almost immediately after flowering began. This year I found 5 seeds in a film canister marked MGR. One germinated and it was a weakling but I have grown her out shes about 6 feet wide and flowering well. I probably should have cloned her but I didn't. So she is it. Her daughter Carnival Ride is more of a couch lock Indica dominate plant with a different buzz so I am going to try to introduce some fresh Jamaican or Mexican genetics into her and see what develops. Folks don't consider the human factor in breeding programs enough. You have to maintain focus. It's hard. I got side tracked and it bit me
 
Hmm sht happens man! Hermie gene is quite common in Mexican and Colombian sativas. A long history of free pollination is the reason unfortunately. My Mexi from Sinaloa also hermied as I found 3 seeds, one viable that I kept cause you never know. Unforfunately hermie gene can be recessive which means nothing happens in F1 and then boom in F2 some plants just hermie. You have to grow shitloads of seeds to be sure it wasn't passed onto the next generation. This cross sounds pretty exciting though, I might do something like that in the future myself. For starters I was thinking about reviving my true OG Kush line with some pure sativa genetics cause OG carries too much mold susceptibility and is too hempy in general. Maybe I'll get around it next year.
 
Dang man what a ride for that lineage! I hope you are able to dial it back in and keep the playground open! Awesome story man that's the type of stuff I like to read when I'm reading about our mother plant!!!
 
I'd love to get my hands on some seeds or a clone of the pine smelling sativa that used to be available around Christmas time back around the mid 80's. This stuff was only available in limited quantities and when it was gone it was gone until the following Christmas rolled around. Everyone in my area began referring to is as Christmas Pine Sense. Then low and behold around 88' or so when Christmas was nearing there was still no sign of the now famous Christmas Pine and I've never had it again since.

This stuff was the cats pajamas. IMHO the Colombian, Hawaiian, Panama Red, etc was 2nd rate stuff compared to the Christmas Pine. Does anyone know the story behind this strain?
 
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