I did, I took clones and the images of the two phenotypes are the results.
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@Love.of.landrace on Instagram offering killer flash sale on his Malawi and kwazulu-natal strains on Instagram.
Only live for 2-3 more days. He can give details on Instagram just thought I’d share.
$1 a bean plus shipping
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@Elpolloloco Thanks for the heads up on that one. I don’t have an IG account so I was curious if he has an email address?
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Hey bud; I’ll ask if there is another way to order and let you know
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Some molds have hallucinogenic properties. Maybe that’s a secret ingredient in some of these exotic strains. Fermented ergot cannabis🤔
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probably. but i hallucinated on 5 days dried weed ASWELL.
but possible it was the case with black african,
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Any chance you’ve got some fully mature flowers on that Ethiopian? Lovely pics, I was planning to get this one going at some point soon.
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It was a fully seeded plant, so probably not very representative of how it would look if I had grown it sensi. But I left it a few weeks after it was done and this is right before I chopped it.
I also did TLC testing and found a good bit of THCV in a few plants. The first 3 on the left are the males and the one on the right is the female.
I selected shorter plants from what I sprouted, but in lower percentages, there are also very wide branching plants that would probably get tall.
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Thanks so much for sharing the latest perspective, really appreciate your being so thorough and doing the TLC testing!! How would you rate the density of the flowers? What sort of scents did you detect?
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Got a pic of an Ethiopian sativa landrace line from Axum (Northern Ethiopia):
So the guy that preserved this line claims that the following pictures are a reproduction of the flower above, presuming the first pic was in situ/country. Would love to hear the community’s thoughts on the likelihood that the pictures below are indicative of a continuation of original line or whether there has been something added to “stabilize” / or “jazz” it up:
(flower pictured on the left)
for reference:
@Upstate @Guitarzan @YoBigdaddy @Roms @romanoweed @RoryBorealis @lefthandseeds @TexasTea @deeez99 @Motaco @HumblePie420 @Wuachuma
(i apologize if i forgot to add you to the @ list, bit tired after a long day, would love for any input from all members)
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even i dont believe him.
see hybrids tend to have the resin more outside the bud than inside. its looking like resing “falling out”. so, for me the fat bud looks a bit hybrid. also in my short romano-meditation, its not the same
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Yeah, I’d say there is almost no denying that it has been hybridized. It can be a good thing with first generation removed from the landrace. It looks like my Oaxaca x Lemon Thai (it has some indica heritage and creates 8 week plants that flower early) that made the Oax landrace fatten up. .
But, yeah, I wouldn’t take those buds as an African landrace. But, I would sure try the smoke! 
I have one Swaziland Red from @Roms and will get pics up. I’m really excited for that one. It’s growing in a pot next to a couple of Lambsbread and a couple of Ace of Haze x Zacatecas that will finish inside once the weather changes.
The Swazi is my favorite so far. I may veg some Swazi this winter and put them out early in spring. Its trying to begin flowering where the others aren’t quite there yet. I have all 5 sativa in 5 gallon felt pots since they stayed in 1 or 2 gal pots for too long before. They’re all staying around the 18-24" height now. They’ll be easy to deal with and still yield a bunch of nice buds.
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There were so many seeds it’s hard for me to really say. It seems like flowers don’t grow the same if you really pollinate the shit out of them. But I will say that it’s my impression that there’s very likely both a shorter pheno with more density and a wide branching pheno that had longer internodes and would likely have airy buds. I only flowered the shorter phenos.
The smells were earthy with maybe a bit of lemon and pine. It was relatively fast flowering at 13ish weeks.
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Just the one on the left and not the one on the right?
It is nothing like the first picture though. I don’t know a lot about Ethiopian strains, but in my experience it is not surprising to find two phenos in lines from landraces in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and probably Iran with accompanying differences in bud density.
Ethiopia also has a lot of mountainous area as well as sea level in the tropical zone. So it is probably the case that there is a lot of variation.
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Yes - just the one on the left, the one on the right is a skittlez cross with this Ethiopian.
Good point on the pheno variability, but curious to what is an appropriate deviation threshold? I wonder whether it’s possible that the more feral sativa/wispy variants of the aforementioned landraces were the originals that were at some point mixed with more resinous drug type cultivars to boost hash yields?
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Axum, Ethiopia is an extremely rugged terrain. There were no modern roads built there until the late 1980’s. There was an airport built there with in the last 10 years. The benefit of such a rugged terrain is isolation. I know many Ethiopians from different tribes. When speaking with them about cannabis, I learned that it is not common to smoke it in Axum, due to the heavy Biblical culture and the possible proximity to the Ark of the Covenant. Cultivation is even more rare. There are some very small, scattered farms far in to the countryside, mostly landrace/heirloom cultivars that have been passed down since the days of the early Ethiopian kingdoms. It has taken a long time to reach the West because, the place has very little appeal to hippies and trust fund kids.
There is some good, untampered cannabis there, but it takes a long time to build those relationships. Most of the cannabis cultivation/culture is centered in Shashamane. There is a pocket of Jamaicans that have moved there because of the Rasta culture and it’s ties to King Haile Selassie. Cannabis grown there is most likely contaminated with foreign genetics.
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sounds like its the ethiopian from lefthand seeds, wich is originally from ACE Seeds?
yeah, i am always saying i dont know… but you wanted a yes or no…
now that you indicate its from a trustable source, have i ever seen such variation ?
not yet…
does this line show those two phenos often ? OR is it a oneoff?
If its often, it would be interesting Base to specualte wether no Landrace that is Thin is necessarly Pure…
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