@Comacus I totally agree that they seem to have a time delay in them. To me it
became obvious when I saw it the first time living here. It’s so
different from back home with the sun going down between 6 and 7 and
coming up between 6 and 7 in the morning. The sunsets are so quick
this close to the equator too. If they didn’t have some sort of delay
or lesser sensitivity to the photo period trigger to flower (or
whatever you’d call this theoretical thing) they would start
flowering pretty fast. Same as if you’d bring an indoor seed here and
try to grow it outdoors it would probably react as if you started it
under 12/12 indoors and start flowering after just growing enough to
carry a few bud sites. I have seen this when doing the 12/12 from
seed experiment indoors.
I don’t know if changing the period to 11 light hours will do much with
regular indoor poly-hybrids but (never tried it myself) it could be a
good thing to test out with the almost pure or pure NLD types. I
never saw much difference when I tried it on some polys indoors but
then again they are pretty much “used” to the 12/12 indoor
flowering fixed schedule. I have seen some lighting systems that can
be programmed to mimic the sun up and down and changes over the
season… would be interesting to see data from such tests too. There
might be a better system than just fixing the timer on 12/12, but
that has worked damn fine though for me with indoor hybrids but with
landrace outdoor types it might be a good thing.
Yea, I know the other Tom Hill that was an Afghani, what was the name of
it… damn, never mind, it was supposedly pretty dominant in crosses,
Deep Chunk is the one I think about. I don’t know much about the
X-18. I have seen Thai crossed to NL1 first generation that didn’t
look anything like NL1 but much like a Thai. Some of the landrace
types can be pretty dominant.
The Ciskei looks real nice and healthy too
hope all is well. Some interesting stuff in the mix. 
