Giant colas like these?
Going strong with no mold after two days of rain.
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I gotta give it a check when I get home, I’ve been away for a few days on a trip and it’s been hanging. I got pretty much what I expected from the description so far, African sativa bud structure bulked up and the internodes tightened by indica genetics, on a frame that’s pretty decent overall. The smells are indeed a mix of “African” terps I recognized from Nigerian hybrids, I haven’t had much Malawi but Nigerian crosses are some of my favorite to smoke for daytime anti-anxiety sativa. I’ve grown two different Nigerian Sunshine hybrids from @SCJedi that used different phenos, and both had fairly similar effects for me with the African genetics powering through clearly in taste and effect.
He used a green pheno that was more Nigerian and had the most insane terps that were very hard to put a finger on and a more sativa effect, and a purple one that was probably more Blue Moon Rocks that was good too but didn’t have quite the same medicinal effect for me, I don’t think. From the lack of purpling in late flower, I am guessing @Baudelaire also selected for a greener and more sativa African Sherbet mother to put against the Ortega “Banana” dad. As a grower who was part of the inner circle of Cali-O with Aeric77, I’m guessing that the African Sherbet was picked for that combo of Malawi and Cali-O genetics in the African Orange morther. Seems to have been the right idea!
Those and this Ortega Mix both had strong top notes of freshly sawn or sanded cedar or Palo Santo wood, a nose-tickling “spiciness” that is sometimes sneezy but not spicy tasting, and the sour mango or green papaya underripe sharp fruit. The Ortega Mix was also giving odors of Afghanica for sure, hashy, earthy, coffee or some other roasty slightly burnt slightly rotten note, basically “Kush” in the original sense with a capital K as in Hindu like he said earlier in this thread. And yes, definitely orange terps as well that I’m expecting to mature more forward with curing, when I cut they were fresh cut or zested tangerine peel like a Satsuma, but that’ll probably shift to something else over time.
He does, I agree! Breeder is starting to matter to me as much or more than what the specific genetics are the longer I grow and see what it means to breed cannabis carefully for seed instead of just pollen chucking and hunting for cuts. FDM is in my top three so far in my growing journey when it comes to consistency and well-balanced traits overall.
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I’m sure you’ll find fire in a single pack already. The C99 and SweetTooth didn’t disappoint in any way.
Thanks for the warm welcome, lads.
@Baudelaire
Will your beans be available through cannapot again at some stage?
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Id probably buy 3-4 packs of them. When I can, I try and buy at least 2-3 packs. Im also used to paying $100-$200 a pack,. So at $60 a pack, is a steal. I grew SweetTooth #4 long ago, but lost it.
They also have many other strains Im interested in.
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Very nice looking.
Now that it’s hanging it just smells like uncured weed, which is to say not much. I’ll update as it hits the cure but here’s a glamour shot of the stripped and partially dried full plant:
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I’m gonna run Fleur’s bubblegum very soon. I’ve been thinking about it for awhile now. Will post
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Going to block this topic.
I love your pictures I love the C99 and the OG mix.
A dollar a seed plus freebie. I’ll wait for some premium packs. I like the unique or unexpected.
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Hey Baudelair,
just to be sure that is the Sweet Tooth?
They are looking beautiful!!
I can not even remember who’s sweet tooth I grew out so many years ago now.
It was early in my disease, and I did not know I had it yet, but I was delirious from the effects of a raging FOMO sickness, seeking beans from every damn thread I would glean.
I’ll soon be searching for some beauties from my gripe of ESB, I got a while back.
Then once I save up the funds some Ortega, then the Sweet Tooth,
webe
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Hey @webeblzr its the real deal, when Steve decided to abandon his old SoL seedlines, he gave Baudelaire his blessing and breeding advice for preservation, it’s straight from the original breeder directly!
I gotta do the same, that one sounds pretty amazing.
@Baudelaire a question for you, I had a labeling mixup a while ago and have a few mystery ladies flowering, I think this the the Janis I planted? Does this look like her to you?
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Ortega mix first smoke report:
I tried this so far in a bowl and a joint, pretty nice in both already even without a cure. Super nostalgic taste for me, this has some element in it I haven’t tasted since I used to steal my dads weed or get old school headies locally in New England growing up. The first hit goes right to my spine and loosens up my back real nicely, I might end up making this my preferred one hittter weed for pain management and microdosing, it’s definitely got a lot more body to it than the sativas I usually prefer in the morning but I’m not feeling sleepy or sedated. So a medium-up head, not a rocket ship but also not a glass of warm milk, and the body seems mellow, gently spreading feelings of relaxation, but not heavy/numbing. Pretty nice stuff at a first taste, the flavors and smoke will obviously develop but the effects are perfect for my daily driver use at a first impression.
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Looks like Janis.
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Thank you sir! She was looking and smelling unlike anything I’ve grown yet so I figured it must be her, I think I’d recognize the other mystery girls by strain. It’s a lovely plant so far
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My first successful indoor grow was generals daughter. I posted the pics on overgrow back in the day. They even got intercepted by customs but fdm replaced them
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Good luck with those, Bro! I’ve wanted to try those for many years so hopefully you’ll be showing how a Master does things with them? Pretty please!
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Do you do a all in one dry/cure? Meaning you just keep in ideal conditions so it properly drys and starts curing itself?
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Sort of? I don’t control environment at the moment, at least not for my drying plants specifically. I keep my basement at 60-65RH (75-85F) in the summer so as long as I keep the dehumidifier empty I can do that. In the winter it runs more like 45-65RH and 70-75F so I have to keep an eye on things and get them into something before they dry out too fast. Either way I try to hit a steady 58-65RH in the sealed bins before I buck nuggets off the stems, I consider that phase of burping and drawing out moisture from the stems to be the first phase of curing, stabilizing the moisture content throughout. The real curing is the three months or so at room temp in very large Grove bags before I pack it off into the fridge. That’s a cold cure at 40-45F which is like 5-10x slower IME. So my goal is about a month before they get into the Groves, 2-3 months in those and then into the fridge, meaning most of the buds in there are sitting at something like six months cure on average (once you compensate for a year of fridge cure being like 2-3 months at room temp). The longest I’ve kept a bud was in a small sample bag from Grove that came with my order from them, that was two years and it was still terpy if muted, and I had that at room temp.
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Do you do any prep before it goes into the fridge? Or just chuck the grove bags in there?
And to stay on topic, FDM seeds are fueling my next grow… Indiana bubblegum and some sweet tooth #4. Can’t wait! 
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