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Miss Sticky and wild lady are both flowering although I think wild will snap out and not progress too far. Sticky flowers early and is more advanced. I don't Have the minimum no of weeks to finish her(9) before daylight hours are too many to flower so ill bring her in the last few weeks
Growth is strong and they are loving the pots. Here they are...

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Transkei... the seeded female is about ready. The beans from the first round of pollination are already loose. The are mostly tucked deep in The buds so safe and happy. I've put 4 in some wet paper yesterday afternoon and two are popping already .Looking forward to giving these babies a long season . :)
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The other transkei ladies are doing nicely some reveg happening but it's not going to set them too far back.
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Great looking plants there @Lerugged.

Good luck with the new seedlings.

For clones, what are you using for rooting hormones??

Thanks for the tip on plucking the pistols. I'll try that with my next round.
 
Great looking plants there @Lerugged.

Good luck with the new seedlings.

For clones, what are you using for rooting hormones??

Thanks for the tip on plucking the pistols. I'll try that with my next round.
Hey Bo. I use a powder called tap root for semi hard wood. Works everytime.
 
Ok never heard of any chem like phenos in DP or any local landrace. Bit confused about it now, my understanding was that in the 70's some european guys took seed from there and called it durban poison. They worked it with a supposedly afghan a bit and that's what sold overseas as DP. The name also stuck locally, before that it was just seen as the local landrace. How did the chem like terpene profile enter locally? Would it be from outside genetics?

Curiously the kei plants you are growing out look very similar to the stuffs coming out of the kei now. Makes me wonder if the strains havent been that muddied by outside genetics.
I grew up in Durban in the seventies and eighties, and so I smoked only dp to start with. The first time I ever smelt it burning was in a car and it was the most peculiar smell ever... something about it reminds me of burnt fish. It's a distinctive flavour profile I pick up and I smell it in green herb. Maybe someone else has a nice descriptor for it than burnt fish! LR's DPs are beautiful smoke and I am getting that flavour profile that I have only ever found in our local Durban sativa. Of course, as in the case of Swaziland, where the sativa was badly corrupted by skunk, similar happened in Durban. My Durban Skunk is super tasty and has DP notes in her. I find LR's project quite unique and very special, and his smoke is testimony to his hard work and expertise. He is very knowledgable and plant intuitive, and it is really cool to have him as a neighour :hippy:
 
Yeah not chem like sour diesel etc. It's a manky off smell and the closest I can describe it is like poison. Maybe a little like cough syrup ish.
Correct with the name but as far as I've researched that's why they chose that name. Who knows. I guess It would be more accurate for me to refer to the area the seeds were collected. So kosi, Midlands, isimangaliso, jozini etc would be more accurate.
You are correct in that the strain was taken over seas and worked although some say afgan others skunk.
Miss Sticky is the one that has the sickly poison smell ( for lack of better description) she is from the area next to moz. A lot of variation in terps mostly dependant on area and terrior. She is just the one I like most. The smell is only noticeable after a long cure. Wild lady is mostly minty,earthy and pine but she also gets a manky off scent after a long cure. Not the same as sticky though.
Hopefully I'll find a better example of the scent. @Carmen Ray describes It as spicy..
It's possible that some kei is still pretty clean. Unlikely but maybe not to badly dirtied?
Maybe your description of a manky off smell is what I term the burnt fish smell... I must find a nicer, more appealing way of describing it lol. I am interested to see that Miss Sticky is from that area. I used to do work up in that area when I was consulting and NGOing, and I always got off big time on bud from Cozi area. I got off big time just being in Cozi! I am interested to see you use the term Ismangaliso. Is that an historic geographical location? I know that when Andrew Zaloumis took over management of the area back in the early part of Democracy, it was called Ismangaliso Conservation Trust or Park or something? God time flies! I did some training with Andrew back in the day. I tried to find contact info for him recently actually, unsuccessfully. I actually wanted to talk to him about weed growers in the area for research purposes. I wonder where he is. They didn't treat him very well in the end and he and his family poured love and devotion into conservation and social development for generations... so sad.
 
It's been bothering me.
So growing up in SA you must have come across loquats. Those yellow delicious tasting fruits with the fuzzy skin.... so it smells like those when they are fermented or off. Bitter and manky.
It's bothering me too and has done my whole life hahaha... here's a fun thing I just found Odor Descriptor
 
Went through my under sink cupboard smell all the poisons. Smells like this but sweeter .
It's oregano phosphate. I wouldn't know how else to describe it.
bahahahaha, indeed! burnt fish = organophosphate hahahaha... #smokin :passitleft:
 
Maybe your description of a manky off smell is what I term the burnt fish smell... I must find a nicer, more appealing way of describing it lol. I am interested to see that Miss Sticky is from that area. I used to do work up in that area when I was consulting and NGOing, and I always got off big time on bud from Cozi area. I got off big time just being in Cozi! I am interested to see you use the term Ismangaliso. Is that an historic geographical location? I know that when Andrew Zaloumis took over management of the area back in the early part of Democracy, it was called Ismangaliso Conservation Trust or Park or something? God time flies! I did some training with Andrew back in the day. I tried to find contact info for him recently actually, unsuccessfully. I actually wanted to talk to him about weed growers in the area for research purposes. I wonder where he is. They didn't treat him very well in the end and he and his family poured love and devotion into conservation and social development for generations... so sad.
Yeah Kosi bay is my absolute favourite place on the planet. The mouth is unbelievably beautiful and the salt water fly fishing is epic. The aquarium lives up to her name. Just wild and beauty everywhere you look at Kosi.
Isimamgaliso wetlands park stretches from St Lucia wetlands park all the way to kosi bay and mozimbique border. You are spoilt for wildlife and the big 5 can be found whilst driving to the beach. Cape vidal is another stunning spot. We saw so much game. When driving from St Lucia everything from the highway until the sea is on the right is reserve. I'm also very impressed with the quality of the game parks that area... hlhulwe/imfolozi is way underrated as far as a game reserve goes. 1000x better than Kruger..imho.
Yeah just a very special place for me .
 
You guys are killing me! I've always wanted to visit sub Saharan Africa. Your making South Africa sound epic.
Bring your friends and come! It's often not for the faint of heart, but it is deffo epic! I am so glad to have this patch as my homeland :circle-of-love:
 
You guys are killing me! I've always wanted to visit sub Saharan Africa. Your making South Africa sound epic.
Yeah as many problems as we have here there are so many more reasons to live here. South africa is beautiful. Have a Google of Kosi mouth. This beach you can more often than not , have all to yourself. If you see 10 people during the entire day it's a lot.
Don't even want to start with how beautiful cape town is. Everywhere you look it's stunning. I love Africa.
I couldn't imagine living anywhere else .
 
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