Afghaniganza! NOW Black Afghani, Cherry Queen, Black Leb and Blue Hemp Leb

So excited after hearing this. Sounds awesome man, I’m still waiting for mine to arrive. Hope it’s soon ! Great work !

EDIT: seeds came in today. Safe and sound, thank you @lefthandseeds ! Wow ! Such awesome sounding strains. Very great. Will do a grow log as soon as I start! I’m excited, to get some amazing genetics !

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I can run a couple dude. It might be 3mos not 2. In the US tho. Thanks for giving folks a shot to grow your hard work. Good man. Be safe.
-J

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Get with me in a few weeks when these finish up. I’ll get some seeds over to you.

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DK Crosses

Gone for 5 days, but everyone seems to be OK still. These are close to finishing. Lowlands are foxtailing a bit. The lowland x dakini kush crosses are going to finish first. A few of these are probably about a week out. The black domina x dakini kush crosses are split, with some trending toward a longer finish.

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Getting nice fat bud off that lowland x dakini kush man! Awesome job! Didn’t have the heart to throw out my blue god hermie :frowning: so close to finish. 4 weeks or so and I finish. Then gonna plant the black Lebanese x black afghani ! :smile:

Keep up the awesome growing. Btw what do you feed your girls / medium you using … sorry if you’ve already mentioned it. ;p

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Thanks man! I really like the lowland Afghani x dk for structure and yield. We’ll see how the smoke is.

I use Coco in ~1gal square pots. I’ve been refining my own nutrient mix based on Jack’s 321. I’ve been adapting it for the special needs of Coco, and fixing a few small problems I have with it. I currently have a thread here called “Peter’s Perfect”, and I think I’m just about there.

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Great score on some excellent sounding genetics ,good luck with finding a few keepers!

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@lefthandseeds if you have any of the black afghani or cherry queen to spare I would love to add it to the collection.

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@Heritagefarms do have some I could give you. The females I had from the black afghani I’m a little shaky on. It’s a very nice strain and a great smoke, but all of my females hermed late flower. I think it may just be present in the line that USC offers. Right now, I’m thinking if I do an expanded run of the F2s I made and can’t find any that don’t herm, I might take an outcross, stabilize it, incross and stabilize again.

It’s not a huge deal, since the balls develop like 1-2 weeks before chop. Pretty much impossible to grow mature seeds from herm pollen in that timeframe. Just annoying…

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I did see that you had some issues with it, if all the plants went hermie I would have to pass , i thought there was one that dident ,but do agree it’s a line worth working if you have time.

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There was a female that I thought didn’t herm. It was the one that ran late. As I was trimming it, I found 1 cluster of a few balls. So it didn’t herm a lot, but the trait was still there. None of them opened or produced pollen at the time of cutting. I have 3 original seeds left that I’ll probably try sometime when I figure out what I want to do with this line – if I decide to stabilize it out.

For the Cherry Queen, I had 2 phenos for the females. #1 was structurally better, more piney, didn’t herm but threw a few stamen (probably in response to light leaks or some other stress). #3 was totally stable, cherry pheno, more leafy and slightly lower yield. Both were pollinated with 2 males.

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On average what are you pulling off for dried flower in these 6” pots and how long is your preferred veg period?

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It depends a lot on the strain. The Afghani Lowland I grew earlier in the thread yielded a nearly full gallon mason jar. Some of these other Afghanis, just a regular quart mason jar. So I’d say the range is about 2-8oz.

I usually grow pretty compact plants, and only give them about 14-16" square of space. I veg for 3-4 weeks, and start flower pretty small. But I’ve grown big plants, small plants… doesn’t really matter too much. You can fit a lot of roots in 1 gallon of coco. The main difference is how quickly the roots dry up the pots. If you scale down to the size I’m using, you compensate by feeding 3x per day usually. If you run 5 gallon pots, you probably feed 1x per day.

There’s a lot of variables that can affect the per plant yield. I haven’t done any kind of analysis on the oz/watt metric, which would be a better gauge. But I also don’t really care about yield, since I already struggle to give away the amount that I grow. I run high numbers so that I can do more selections when I make seeds. I’m usually throwing whole packs at a time, and if I want to grow it again, I go off whatever I make.

I guess if I weren’t making seeds, I’d be more concerned with trying to get the most out of each one. But I usually make at least 10x what I started with, so at some point seeds just pile up and you develop a disregard for the numbers you’re using. :joy:

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Just for reference, my current Lebanese outdoor plants:

ACE Leb #1:

ACE Leb #2.

Blue Hemp Leb x RSC Leb #1.

Blue Hemp Leb x RSC Leb #2.

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:heart_eyes: Thanks for sharing. There’s so much variation in the Lebanese! Those Blue Hemp x RSC look totally different than the regular Blue Hemps I grew. It’s fascinating.

I don’t have a great picture from before flower, but here’s Blue Hemps (2 farthest left, and 1 in back, 2nd row). All had pretty narrow leaves. But the Black Lebs (the other ones that were flopped in this pic) had wider leaves.

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2-8 oz from 1 gallon coco pots? Damn…that’s great! I just put 9 in 1 galls into my room, will veg them another week or so and flip. I’d be happy to get 2 from each but I’d definitely prefer 8 lol

How often do you have to water on average? I have a feeling I’m going to be doing ALOT of watering in the near future…

Edit: I’ll also have about 12-14" of room for each, it looks like you don’t top them?

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Yea, 14" would be about the same as me. I don’t top them. I’ve been flopping/supercropping them, like what @Mr.Sparkle does in his microgrows.

I actually think the plants like the smaller pots more, down to a certain size. It promotes more wet/dry cycles, which gives them more air.

My watering schedule goes something like –
Transplant to 1 gal pots after 2ish weeks in small pots, feed once every 2-3 days at first.
After about a week of that, feed about every day.
Change lights to 12/12 flower.
After about a week of 1x per day, increase to 2x per day.
Another week after that, increase to 3x per day.

You still gotta start them off slow and work up to 3x per day, but it goes pretty quickly. I just pick up the pots every couple days just before lights off, and check if they’re getting really light yet. If they’re feeling pretty dry, you can increase the number of feeds.

All that “can’t overwater coco” talk is total bullshit. Don’t believe anyone who says that. Maybe it won’t kill your plants, but they won’t be happy.

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I gotcha. Sounds like you have dialled in the perfect set up for your needs and more :v:

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3x per day?? Oh boy…what have I signed up for lol

I was watering my 2 gallon hempys every 3 days, so I was assuming these would be every 2 days or maybe 1 in the same space. I guess we’ll see. Thanks for the info!

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