Hey I know these are older pictures, but can you tell me if these are from seed, or cuttings in Sea of Green type method? I knew Lebanese was short but those are shorter than I expected.
they can be quite small if they are shaded or flowered with a short veg.
they can grow up to 5 feet in an outdoor season.
@zephyr How do they like being topped. I have three or four popped babys.
That’s great, glad you got some established. I need to get some of these lebanese popping for the outdoor season.
I haven’t topped one yet, they have such a variety of structures and growth habits I’m usually just curious to see how they develop. But I think they would respond well.
Give them a minute to get established though, wait until they start to take off or it might stunt them. They occasionally have a tendency to turn into dwarves when shaded out or stressed early on.
Some of the slow growing ones top themselves naturally and grow 4 to 8 colas in a low round bush structure. These ones don’t get more than 3 feet tall but have a lot of bud on their frames. I’d say leave the slow ones with dense internodes be, and top the lankier faster growing ones.
I think the ones with natural growth like totem poles or lanky christmas trees could really benefit from topping. They will probably fill in more, and if you can get the totem phenos to put out multiple tops they could give you a much better yield.
Maybe you’ll get them all looking like the branchy round shrub phenos, which would be a great outcome because those usually seem to produce the best yields and densest bud despite their short stature.
This is my ‘lebanese pink’ selection of 2014 real seed co lebanese (the original stock gathered in lebanon, not the real seed co in house repro).
This is from the first accession bred in 2017. it has two selections- lebanese green, and lebanese pink.
the pink selection produces a decent number of green and purple phenos with pink pistils, and a lot of dark purple plants.
I did a second accession in 2020, open pollinated by both leb green and leb pink males. They also pollinated 2014 rsc lebanese females.
This is a black pheno of my ‘lebanese pink’
outdoor 2021
description and smoke report:
It’s lightly seeded by bodhi’s china cangshan landrace sativa.
This is very leafy landrace bud and I gave it the full ‘san francisco’ trim- no leaf at all. Seeing these now, I can’t believe I put that much work into this. But it was worth it, the bud is incredible and it looks like nothing else.
This is a black pheno of my lebanese pink selection. while it was alive it had bright pink pistils, and was solid purple with a little bit of bright green at the center of the buds. This also had my favorite structure for the lebanese- a short round bush with about 8 big tops made of loose whispy bud.
Here’s what the tops look like in their natural form. Chunky, leafy, but loose enough to tolerate the heavy fall rains without rot.
This pheno was seeded with the original china cangshan males. It was very tough to make this cross because the lebanese is my earliest finisher, and it was actually ready to harvest by the time the cangshan males started to preflower.
Fortunately the lebanese foxtails after it’s ripe, so I was able to get some nice seeds from thos foxtail tips. I had to keep this plant alive and healthy until around thanksgiving to get any ripe seeds. By the time I harvested, the whole plant was solid black. I’ve only had one other plant that purpled all the way to black. Really impressive looking.
After 3 years in the jar, these buds look crazy. Deep black and gold with a hint of white at the base of the tiny calyxes. The smell is great. Dry wood, chocolate, rich malty beer, oregano, thyme, dried cranberry.
The high is excellent. Very relaxing easy feeling meditative happiness. And it hits very smooth and mild. Dank smelling smoke, old school hashy herbal mildly sweet flavor.
Not an easy plant to shuck- teeny tiny seeds in teeny tiny calyxes.
As I shucked it, all the unseeded calyxes just kind of popped off of the stems. So now I have a nice jar full of lebanese calyxes to smoke. For scale, these calyxes are much smaller than a grain of rice.
@MadScientist, Big Sur gave me some of those too. Interesting to note, he always said this strain is sativa not indica. That kind of fits with what the general understanding of cultivation in the middle east.
I haven’t grown mine out but they are safe in the refrigerator. If I didn’t have a big batch of other stuff growing now…