Black Lebanon x Lebanese Red

DiggySoze · July 13, 2019, 11:33am

This thread is the test of a cross between GeneSeeds’ Black Lebanon and BlueHemps’ Lebanese.
The Black Lebanon @lefthandseeds ran was a spectacular specimen, if you haven’t seen it.

GeneSeeds says it’s a cross of two different families, one highly-inbred varietal, and another from “a territory of Lebanon War” that I guess refers to the coast. The 60 day flower time and more indica-structure would also suggest a more temperate climate in the ancestry.

BlueHemps Lebanese on the other hand sounds like the same family as Ace and RSC, which are from Bekaa. The entire country is only 10,000 square km – a little smaller than the state of Connecticut, so how many distinct varietals can they really have anyway? The Bekaa Valley is one of the more harsh environments, hot and dry, with an average of next to no rain at all in summer, pretty neatly explaining the semi-auto characteristics Ace found.

Before we start, I would like to apologize for my phone. Whenever I decide to take a picture of a seedling the camera asks itself, “what is the focus of this picture?” and the answer always seems to be “Perlite!”

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Mongobongo · June 22, 2019, 5:54pm

Cool I’m excited to see what variations you can get with this one.

lefthandseeds · June 22, 2019, 11:38pm

I’m really looking forward to seeing what these turn out. Subbed!

hush · June 23, 2019, 12:23am

Sweet. I’ll tag along.

George · June 23, 2019, 12:45am

Seems Lebanese are in trend . Thanks for the introduction, good to know the stories behind. Will be interesting to follow your progress, good luck …

ShiskaberrySavior · June 23, 2019, 2:53am

Looks like I better get a early seat think it’s gonna get busy in here! Interesting strains you’ve got going.

Meesh · June 23, 2019, 5:05am

Interesting! I’ll be checking in for sure

OleReynard · July 25, 2019, 8:07pm

Nice project, I’ll be by for a visit to see what’s rollin out.

OleReynard · July 27, 2019, 11:35pm

How are these going?

DiggySoze · July 31, 2019, 12:49am

Now that temps are below 100, they’ve no complaints. They started showing sex recently and were upgraded from solo cups to a bed on casters, where they’ll spend the rest of eternity as mother plants. Water only for the most part, but once in a while I share some coconut water or sst with em.
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2) Definite Female

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4) Definite Female

5) This one is a fricken miracle plant.

If you can see the little nub at ground level, it looks like she was topped, but she wasn’t

This is her a couple weeks ago. She had no meristem, so I left her alone and the growth came out of the cotyledon node!

There’s five Lowland Afghani x Dakini Kush on the left half of the bed.

The lanky one in the back on the right is a male kashmir.

Chainmaker · July 31, 2019, 12:47pm

Following for the grow

lefthandseeds · October 8, 2019, 5:00am

Did these finish? Would be awesome to see some pics!

DiggySoze · October 8, 2019, 12:19pm

Out of five, three were female. One male pretty much autoflowered at 16/8 on/off, the other kept his composure.

They had a rough summer starting with spider mites, and then when that problem was resolved I screwed up by letting the temps get too high and they stretched into a Dr. Grinspoon look-alike. They’re about three weeks away from harvest, give or take. As pregnant as pregnant can be with Kashmiri babes. Smells of rotten mangoes maybe?

@lefthandseeds My apologies for the lack of updates on this run. As soon as these three are done a second round will start and get this journal back on track.

lefthandseeds · October 8, 2019, 1:39pm

That’s pretty wild! It actually structurally looks a lot like BH Lebanese, but with a lot more resin from the Black Leb. Recently, I’ve been thinking about trying to grow a bunch of them out and do a selection or two.

DiggySoze · November 1, 2019, 9:59pm

Smells of over-ripe fruit and bubblegum.

lefthandseeds · November 1, 2019, 10:10pm

Looks really good. What’s the smoke like? Structure is a lot like the blue hemp leb, but it has way more resin like the black.

Papalag · November 1, 2019, 10:30pm

Damn nice bud my friend @DiggySoze

cogitech · November 1, 2019, 10:51pm

How’d I miss this thread? I’m another grower/chucker who has been playing with some Lebanese strains.

Thanks for posting and good luck with the next run!

OleReynard · November 1, 2019, 10:53pm

Lefty what’s the head like on the blue hemp or is it mainly breeding stock?

DiggySoze · November 2, 2019, 12:23am

Turned it into dabs.
I don’t really enjoy dabbing, so they get layered in a bowl pack like hot fudge or tiger-striped across a rolling paper. Smoking a bowl now, for reference, …
Halfway through the bowl and the high’s like a heavy blanket fresh out the dryer. I’mma bet there’s some cbd in the mix.

Frozen to around 0F. Quick-washed with 190 Everclear, swirling for 30 seconds on the dot, drained for about ten seconds to get the clear golden fraction.

Second wash immediately, neither timed nor temp controlled, soaking and swirling to get anything leftover. Yielded about twice as much, still not too dark.