I ordered that baharak, wailing valley and kali ram and was lucky to catch the last shipment out of India. They haven’t arrived yet. Maybe this week. That Baharak looks similar to pics of deep chunk I’ve seen. I would grow that one right when i get it but it will rot in NY for sure. I would love to see pics of these as they grow. Looks like a genuine highland afghani. Pistachio flavored. I don’t know where but I’ve heard the old timers talk of the legendary pistachio bud and i jumped on it. Just one pack. Are you doing a seed increase? Perhaps a future swap for genetic diversity? I could run mine these this winter…
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I thought I saw a post from Landracemafia a bit back saying the last shipments were going out, and then he would be on lockdown for a bit. I’ll probably make some seeds, but I really hadn’t thought that far ahead. It’s only April, and I already have too much on my plate - going to be a long summer lol. I have plants I need to pollinate asap or it’s going to be too late. I should have done it tonight, but I’m just too freaking tired.
I’ll be curious what you decide to run first. 
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Me too lol! I have plans for Malana, Beldia and lolab valley kashmir for sure. Probably just packed together close for good natural pollenation outdoors. And then some others for head stash for me, with just a branch or two pollenated. I have lots to choose from. That kali ram looks real nice. It looked uncontaminated to my limited eye. The wailing valley is supposed to be remote and higher up than malana, but alot of plants in the pictures I’ve seen had fu@#ed up leaves. Fungal infections and mites. Would a native plant get botrytis? Mites? Only some have this issue. The dense ones. Is this hybrid contamination? I honestly don’t know, but if the dense buds are the best i will make a separate line out of it and select the more sativa no mold/ fungal issues plants ( for my area)for my main line. What are your thoughts on these?When my last orders come in I’ll make a list here of my recent acquisitions . Someone could probably talk me into growing any one of them . I want to try them all, but will have to limit myself to just a couple or a few at most. Tough decisions. My area gets really cold by mid october. Late plants would need help.
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I’m sure you’ll have some pollen left. I hope so anyway. A full plate beats an empty plate! As long as you like the "cooking ", that is.
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I am a landrace rookie lol. I’m sure people on here will know better than I about selections for landrace. In my experience, health of the plant plays a large role in it’s ability to ward off pests and pathogens. It would make me think a plant that is not well cared for in harsh climate would be prone to such problems. The same plant might be completely different in a controlled environment with a little love.
I am interested in the different Kashmirs. My only experience is some of the Bodhi hybrids. Would be cool to see what the different landrace Kashmirs look like. No promises, but I will try and collect/save some pollen from the Baharak.
I just talked to Landracemafia for a while. He’s a good guy. If anyone had questions, I would not hesitate to hit him up on IG. 
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Landrace Mafia do sound legit. He said he would send some freebies. Cant wait to see. I hope yr right about the fungal infections. Perhaps its a better pheno for drier years and is simply a part of the plants adaption to different extremes in different years. I too am a landrace rookie. I have heard of hybrid contamination in neighboring Malana valley. I wish i knew more about what traits to select for to eliminate introduced genetics. If you are able to get some pollen off the Baharak that would be great. If it’s too much i definately get it. Cant have too many irons in the fire at one time. Especially when making seeds. kashmir landraces are probably one of the only ones that will grow and finish in my area with no selection required.
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Hey @DesertGrown, I grew Smilestyle’s Golden Wedding outside last year. She was an easy grower and almost finished outside. I brought it inside for most of the last month.
It got pollinated late accidentally though so I want to run it seedless next. He also sent me some of the Lemon Thai and the Malawi Gold by itself. The GW never got too tall either… I left it in a 3 gallon pot I think, and it stayed around 6 feet or less. It was one of the easiest plants I ever grew. It could handle anything without any bumps in the grow at all. Let me see if I can dig up the pics. peace
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How many months flowering?my apologies if you mentioned that earlier in the thread. I remember you had talked about it…
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Hey @Upstate, It must have been 12 weeks. It must have gotten a full 8 weeks outside and I kept it in under a light inside or back outside if it was nice, for another month I believe. It finished sooner than I expected and just didn’t complain about a thing. It’s a sturdy fecking plant. It stayed a lemon lime color the whole time and had wine colored stalk and stems from the start. Even getting seeded, it yielded really well, all things considered.
'72 Colombian Gold x Malawi Gold (Afropips cut) = “Golden Wedding”. from @Smilestyle
peace
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I love those light green types. Less mold issues in my experience. doesn’t look like you had issues with mold on that one did you? 12 weeks isn’t bad at all. Are you going to grow that one again? It looks quite manageable. What type of pollen hit it?
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I had no mold problems or any other for that matter. She was really easy to grow. Even when she dried out she never complained. Other plants would wilt up and sag… heh.
I’m sure I’ll grow it again to get some sensimilla. I’m not 100% sure on the dad other than I think it’s one of two crosses I made. I was smoking a bowl and came across a seed so I figured just put in the dirt and forget about it to see how it did. Around a few weeks later I thought about it and sure enough it was up.
It turned out to be male so I wanted to watch it grow out and planned on cuting it before it dropped pollen but I waited too long. I came home one day to a strong east wind (we never get east winds) and the plant was dropping all of the pollen and blowing directly at all the plants I grew last year, heh.
So, the dad is, I think, a cross I did with Green Manalishi(NAW seeds) x Lemon Fantasy ((deathstar x SFV og) x lemon skunk) from Le rat in Geneva. I call. it Rhino Blood or Manalishi Fantasy.
It’s a powerhouse but not super memorable in the flavor dept. The other choice I think it could be, just based on which bud I would have been smoking at the time, is from another cross I did of Folsom Prison Blues(SFV og x UK Blues) x the Rhino Blood f1 above.
So, no telling what I’ll have on my hands. The same friend sent me some straight Malawi Gold, and two versions of Lemon Thai so, I want to run them all eventually. I may take some to the mountains where I have a friend with a 16’ high geodesic greenhouse and see if he’ll let me run a few inside there. I think I could get them to finish in his greenhouse.
I’m still getting my feet wet with growing sativa strains. I have some haze strains people have gifted me as well. So, the plan is to eventually get my space downstairs dialed in for environment and run them down there. It has 9’ tall ceilings and I could run them all in there. I’m just short on cash these days, needed for more lights, and fans. I’ll get there, just slower than others. peace
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Green manalishi, now there’s a name I haven’t heard In 30 years…great collection. 
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Whatever it was that it got crossed with, should be some interesting offspring. last year I got my feet wet with sativas. This year I’m jumping in. I’ll be making a room as well. We are in very similar cicumstances. It seems when there’s time there’s no money and when there’s money there’s no time. Vicious circle. I’m going to justify the expense of a room by growing some veggies around the edges.
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Green Manalishi (Pacific G13 x (G13 x Hash Plant)) is a really nice, strong cross from MotaRebel.
@GMan, that’s a really nice looking Golden Wedding plant… with a very sativa structure and growth pattern. I really want to grow some outdoors this season.
Smilestyle also sent me some seeds of pure Malawi, Lemon Thai and Lemon Cindy (Lemon Thai x C99). He’s a good and generous man and has a keen eye for breeding.
I’ve grown his Lemon Thai a few times and it is a great strain, but you gotta like lemon flavors… it’s a potent cross and a favorite of Mrs. DesertGrown.
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Just gearing the room up for perpetual landrace and first cross grow. Seedlings ready for up pot and veg.
2-ace Panama red (1 runt hanging on)
2 Moroccan beldi Kif
1- Matanuska Thunderfuck
2-mystery seed from good stock(WW, G-13, Black pearl, Skunk#1)
Also will be running
Durban poison Sativa
Bangi Haze
Alaskan kush x Black Pearl
Skunk1 x Black pearl
Blue Mnt gold x lambs breath x columbian gold
Orange gogi
And working on a few others
Vietnamese Balack and x’s
Royal purple Thai
Vietnamese gold
Willie Nelson
Golden tiger ands x’s
Malawi and x’s
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This is going to be a busy season for you @Instg8ter… that’s a lot of strains to grow!
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Ok. Here is my list of newly acquired landraces/ heirlooms. Not up for trade at the moment but will be once grown. ( I plan on gifting as well) Definately growing the Malana, Beldia and kashmir ( lolab valley) assuming i get germination. They are by region. Himalaya’s… Johaar, Kumaoni, Rasol, Malana, Nepal Rolpa, Kullu, Pulga Valley, (and Wailing valley and Kali Ram hashplant… waiting for these) Tropical India…Manipuri, kerala chellakutti, Tripura, Odisha, Karnataka, and Nashik, (Maharastra) Afghanistan/ Pakistan…Balkhi, Tashkurgan, Shebergan, Baharak ( coming… hindu kush),chitral,x=18, Lolab Valley Kashmir … from Africa… Ghana, Congo, Ace Malawi, afropips Malawi, Dankest Africa Malawi and Swazi Red, Durban, Moroccan Beldia. And finally Khmer Gold from Cambodia or Laos and Panama and Cabeca De Negro from south and Central America. Lebanese too .I have a few more from trades that are not listed . If you see anything you’ve absolutely wanted to try, I’m looking for a couple more of these to try and I’ll make some beans
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Variety is the Spice of Life.
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I’m imagining all my seeds lined up like on a Risk game like miniature armies. It would appear that I have some conquering to do in Central and South America, as well as southeast Asia and the islands LOL! Let us not forget the Middle East and the near east!
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I think the gbomb is going to be a failure. None of the seeds I put into the solution had cracked open when I took them out today. I put them into paper towels wetted with a kelp/tm7 humic/bacillus solution for nutrients. We’ll see if they finally decide to come out and play.
Not sure why these are being such a pain in my ass, but perhaps they just weren’t viable to begin with. They’re brown and normal looking… maybe a bit on the small side. Perhaps they are underdeveloped or something.
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