It’s a different Malawi than the one tejas grew. Mike Kago of East Africa genes also has one…the Pineapple Malawi. I bet Malawi are all good. I had just one plant going when @Tejas seeded his. ( same batch)Mine was tiny and had a few seeds, but was still.really good. Makes me think that overall its a better Malawi…more consistency and stability…but unrefined lines seem to have gold too, if you pan for it:grin:. Growing mine I expected a soaring high. Maybe it is for someone else 
but not for me. RSC Malawi had a similar " indica" pheno that was ko for me. Unfortunately it was a hermie, but i passed out a few seeds from it. This one is hands down the stronger of the two though…and despite troublesome sisters, was sexually stable as well.
Once i stabilize my line I’ll likely release it and at that time will give up where it came from.
I personally think the true BAM is long flowering but with Nile River or Congo River Old Indica influence. I see that alot in East Africa.
Imo Uganda, Tanzania, Congo, South Sudan and Rwanda all have some ancient Indica in their family tree. Makes for chubby flowers, short Christmas tree phenos and a trancelike somewhat stoned high. I see the same shorter pheno in all those countries, except for Malawi, which were all tall stretchy plants…
I also see great uniformity across the individual strains i ran when it comes to flower term, smells, flavors and effects. The only clue at all about possible old Indica ( more properly i should just call them shortflowers) that I see are the short phenos in all of them. We see them across much of Africa. South African Durban and Swazi Red have a bush pheno. South Congo had them.
Uganda had one. Sudan had some…everything around Lake Victoria that I have grown had them.
I think there is influence from this genepool in the Malawi genepool. Just not much of it.
The MG preservation was from TLT seeds.
Thanks for the clarification @Upstate . Thanks for the comfirmation @Tejas . I knew your MG was from TLT, just wasn’t sure if the one Upstate was describing was from the same source. All clear now. I’m happy to have those genetics in my seed making arsenal.
The J burg Durban i have from Hieme Cheebas has a short bush pheno as well. Im relieved to hear of it , as i thought it may be mixed because of those couple different expressions.
Wow i had no idea hieme cheeba worked anything but skunk ! Interesting to say the least ooooh tell me whats the nose like ?
My online friend was buddys with Hieme and kept the line for 35 years. They were all Alaska Cannabis Catche. The smells range from sweet to slightly anise types. He mentioned two phenos and i have since noticed them as ive been growing those.
Pictured is a White Widow x Durban and a Durban bud at very bottom.
I’m not so sure. How fast is it? I’d believe 14 week plants might exist. Uganda had one around 14. Any faster i get suspicious
I think Durban is an old heirloom hybrid, so can be selected for shorter flowering. I’ve grown 4 Durbans an all were similar, except flowering time, which varied from 8-18 weeks amongst the 4. One 8-10 weeks, one 12-14 one 16-18 and one unknown. After all 4, I would call them all Durban. Didn’t see any other influence in any of them, but I’m sure they are all hybrid heirlooms. Panama Red is the same. Huge spread in flower times but similar in a way.
Yours has some chubby buds. Oddly the longest flowering version i grew had the biggest buds. Yours is the fast version?
Yes, fairly fast as well. It seems to dominate every cross and brings the big buds and stout structure.
I think Heime’s durban was what Dave Coulter grew in an old thread on icmag. It was great stuff and very pretty.
i’ve posted this elsewhere, but i figured i’d share here too. this is a Malawi Gold, the landrace team/TLT got the seeds from @Tejas . I took the plant down pretty much before flowering began. it wouldn’t finish in time and it drew too much attention. plant is about 15ft. and that’s not me in the pic. blue fence is 6ft.
I have been looking at some of those strains. I see you might have a restaurant next to you?
Too bad you couldn’t run it to harvest, it’s a special plant.
i didn’t get to run it through but i did pollinate 3 Malawi Gold phenos with a norther lights male. so i’ll be running those to completion. i’m calling it ‘Malawi Lights’. i’m thinking of starting a tester thread for them as well. check out my thread
I definitely would have been worried.
Beautiful plant.
they will rise!
Hell yea man!! I can’t wait to see how these go with you!!