The Lebathon Returns
Welcome back Lebafans! 
Can’t tell you how excited I am to be soaking seeds again. It’s always a happy day. I’ve made my selections for this round – and I can’t wait to see what comes up.
Genetics on the list this time are –
Syrian (1) x Black/Blue Lebanese (medium). The Syrian 1 was an apical plant of medium height, compared to her sisters, which were both dwarfs. Syrian 1 was pretty much a monopole, nicely shaped buds of good density, uniform orange pistils, sap goo and sub-50 day flowering time.
Scents were robust, rich smells, like coffee and mahogany. Resin was good, but smoke is psychologically mild, almost caffeinating effects. Very unique, lovely strain.
I have crossed it to Black & Blue Lebanese – a male resembling the Black Lebanon, branchy, later flowering and medium height. As juvenile plants, I will be looking for varieties that have good branching, to select away from the apical traits of the Syrian.
The grow show will predominantly feature these as females, as many as I can get. I will probably discard males.
In the male hunt, I’m looking at using –
(RSC Lebanese non-quad x Black/Blue Lebanese) x Black/Blue Lebanese (tall)
This is technically a backcross of Black/Blue Lebanese using two different dads; however the female RSC Leb x Black/Blue Lebanese was a heavy RSC Leb pheno. In leaf shape and bud density, the plant was more sativa oriented, but also very squat and heavily resinous. I crossed the tall BB Leb to it in order to stretch it out and promote branching. For yield, I am hoping that the RSC pheno opens up larger flowers – a trait that is not common among the other Lebanese/Syrian plants I’m growing.
I will be looking for males from this line – vigor, branching and hopefully presentation of large male flower clusters.
Last, I will also grow some Black Lebanon BX (Black Leb black pheno x Black/Blue Lebanese)
These are a mix of medium and tall males, backcrossed to the black leaf pheno (clone 2). I chose the black here, because I prefer the spicy, piney smells compared to the purple pheno, which brings berry smells.
I would like to find 1-2 males, also for crossing to the selected females.