Was difficult to nail and I could not spend much time with her (just enough to cut and hang), since I was all day in trim jail with two other plants. 
I’ll report when I’ll meet her again.
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Nice one on the two pound harvest, and that it smells incredible, you vape a quick dynavap of handrub when you were hanging it to sample? 
End Oct is cut off point here so it should work, the purpling may be a hardyness sign. Good to hear there’s vigour too,
Just in from taking down a UELx OHz and some Mountain Gold, had a vape of the Oaxacan leaning MG charas, holy fuck it’s good, soaring here. It’s a nighttime visit spot and no flash photos, will get some shots together at the dry trimmed stage.
Excited to try the UELxOHz next, it’s oozing hazyness, aromas of great potential. Very little trimming here too, and barely a spec of mould. Not great against septoria - think its the UEL side.
UELxPurple Satellite turned out stellar - (late Sept) - up to a month earlier than PS, in the large dense flower league. More potent than PS, in a good way. The Nepbaglung and Oaxacan segregate like they’re at F2 via the UEL hybrid. Some of the baglung leaners are trippy and sedating in a warm pleasant way, Oaxacan leaners less sedating. Good septoria resiatance, not great with bud mould, but it was a relentlessly wet end Sept.
I think UELxMountain Gold will be awesome.
The narrowleaf Mextiza S1 turned out to be early - 10th Oct, interesting acrid/chlorine aromas, large calyx and trichomes, none of the lemonyness I’ve come across in other Mextiza S1. High is very nice so far, functional and not crazy intense, but tolerance is high again at the moment. It made some ripe seeds from UEL and UELxPurpleSatellite
Her sister has yet to some down - much more lemony, but tiny on yield in comparison.
@Arnold 's UELsativa x Mextiza fem came down early Oct, its an energising daytime vape, all high notes, citrus orange/lemon/conifer/ love this one.
The selection pressures on the UEL plot ended up with only 2 females and 2 males (out of 192), the high on #1 is much cleaner than #2 but #2 is of merit also.
Interestingly @Hyp3 's Verde Limon is budding away strongly, still another 2 weeks to go at least. It certainly seems to have the cold tolerance to bud and resin up properly, very dense for late Oct. They are some of the most septoria resistant of the plot this year also, and looking good against bud mould so far, I wonder what they vape like… not very lemony smelling at the mo.
@Pigeonman have been checking out your grow, they went well, a nice reward for the work. Spicy sounds good! You make any seeds on her?
You like the effect of the ABC @Upstate ?
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Thanks @bonghopper for the love! I wish I did. Next year I’m growing and cloning and will sts at sometime unless there’s a male in the initial seeds grown out for the outdoor stock. Male jail with pollen collection if there is a male. 
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Nice to hear you were able to get a good variety of heavy NLD leaning buds in @bonghopper ! Despite our Northern context and bad weather.
Very curious what your smoke conclusions will be at the end of winter.
Great to see a gamble with the Mountain Gold play out well for you, especially curious if the smoke testing will hold true for that one.
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Didn’t you have an older Ciskei release? Any more beans? Sounds epic. I have some seeds from a member here, but I don’t know if something has changed in the strain or not. Yours looks like a pure Sativa. What kind of smell?
@Pigeonman I’m looking forward to seeing pictures. Does she require a cure?
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Here y’all go!
Sneak peek:
More linked below!
The smoke the very next day after was was fantastic! So I’m hoping the cure makes it ever better!
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Yeah they are 10 years old something like that. Only have 2 beans left, hopefully they’ll be male and female Smell was hard to describe and I did not spend much time with it, I will report when I’ll meet her again, she’s far from home atm.
@Pigeonman was waiting for this shots! I should have been less lazy and search in your thread. She’s a beauty. I bet the high is very good, it had that reputation over here.
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I found a nice plant in a 12 pack the first time, and the second time I found 3. The trick is finding one that is thc dominant and breeding her offspring to fix the trait. Will take a few years. I took a Beldia break this summer, but will try again soon. There’s good potential.
Recently, I befriended a Moroccan man from Fez, South of the Riff. He has offered to take me there, and has already talked to family members that grow the old Beldia about sending me seed, which they agreed to do as well. He explained to me that there are 3 Moroccan strains. The old Beldia Sativa is one. It tops out at 6 feet
There is also an old Lebanese style plant, that grows short and stocky, often under 3 feet. I was led to believe thru my reading that these plants should have Pakistani influence. They don’t, according to him. He said they are a very old Moroccan genepool. He then asked me what desert plants normally look like, and i replied and told him they should be short, to maintain all the water they can, with thick foliage to shade the ground and protect the buds. " exactly", he replied. There is a taller lanky ancient sativa cultivated for ganja smoking ( mostly in home gardens today), and also an ancient shorter line used for commercial production.
Then there is a 3rd type farmed. This one is the most common today. It’s been mixed with Afghan to satisfy the modern European market. I don’t remember the name, but it’s similar to Beldia. I’ll find out.
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I started over drying some of my plants so they do not cure. I swear some of them are less potent afterwards. Maybe even half of them. Speaking of Landraces here of course…but Queen Mother is similar. My rule now is that if I really enjoy the effect when it’s fresh dry, I will freeze some to keep it that way…just in case.
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That’s an interesting it, will have to test/try that.
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I find the sativa " rush" after smoking to be tamed in some strains upon curing. These are always the ones that smoke good right at harvest time. If you get a resinous plant that does not smoke good at harvest time, Of course it needs to cure.
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My Thai smokes great picked early and uncured. Picked late( normal) and cured I didn’t even smoke it. I gave it away. I don’t know what changes, but something does.
Of course, there are strains that smoke good right at harvest time and smoke even better after curing…
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It’s no surprise the beldia isn’t that resistant to mold or such things, given it comes from a dry region. Probably more resistant to lack of water. I’ve found similar stories than @Upstate about it.
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This topic really interests me. I’m not allowed to grow outdoors, but that list of traits (desirable and undesirable) caught my attention. So I’m pulling my Canadian Tire Canvas brand fake wicker rocking chair. 
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You may want to look into flash frozen live resin extraction.
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It had decent mold resistance too. Our summer was really wet the first year I grew it. I did keep the rain off of it but it handled our high humidity, To my surprise. It did get powdery mildew, however.
I thought drought resistance was great. The plants are like camels. They’ll suck up water like it’s going out of style, but then they can sit in a dry pot for a week out in the baking( 80 degrees lol) heat.
If I had allowed the plants to remain in the rain, they likely would have turned to mush. Still, it’s the most moisture resistant desert landrace I’ve found to date.
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Was thinking about that too, or fresh frozen hash. Too bad for the Thaï!
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Is your dry/cure area in a controlled environment (IE 60% RH w/ 60F’)? My understanding is that terpenes start evaporating after 62-63F’
one of the reasons i like cobbing is b.c i don’t have a dedicated controlled environment and for the amplification of effects as well as preservation of terpenes
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My house ranges from 55-65, depending on how close to the Woodstove you are. My curing area is around 55- 60 and humidity varies. I’ve been curing weed for 32 years, with great success. The weed is better before a cure phenomenon only popped up once I started growing tropical landraces. Tropical pot is great at harvest( can be). Temperate pot needs a cure. Ime.
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