Decided to pull an older jar off the shelf last night, tripping down memory lane…LOL
This is a plant I grew two seasons ago, that was arguably my second best grow (modern times, wish I had a camera back in the day). Anyhow, this is a SH Panama Red female that stood out amongst the seedlings I sprouted that year. Only have room for a plant or two in garden so she made the grade.
Couple of thoughts on the grow.
These older Central American strains are really vigorous and very easy to grow. They are weeds in the ultimate sense and will grow as high and wide as you allow. Very easy to prune and shape, leading to a nice canopy that produced a lot of big colas. This grow used very little xtra nutes, I did a good job that season of building up the soil for the grow and only used a small amount of nutes towards the end to give the buds a boost.
Note the 9 & even 11 leaf fan leaves. Also the deep purple and red stems, a few of which bled red. Most of these were only early on, as the plant grew the fan leaves became more uniform.
If I remember correctly, I didn’t harvest until late Nov, meaning everything had plenty of time to mature. As you can see from some of the photos of the buds, the classic rusty hue, frosty but not like modern strains.
The high is very cerebral. I sort of forgot about this until last night. It is very psychoactive almost like dosing. Its a very functional high without being racy or anxious. Sometimes I would forget that I was high, then checking in, wow. None of the narcotic after effects either, woke up this am quite refreshed.
I would definitely like to breed this into something at some point, kinda wish I would have mothered the plant out. Fortunately have another 6 seeds, so should be able to pull something together when the time is right.
Because you never really know I always seed a lower branch. To grow something on the way to perfection and miss it isn’t something I’m going to do again.
It sounded like you didn’t get any seeds. With a beauty like that I would definitely want to see it again.
I suggested, if you get a chance at it again, pollinate a lower branch.
Ahhh yea gotcha. This is exactly why I joined the forum to learn such things. I considered trying to turn the plant into a mother, and probably should have. But had to many other things going on at the time, also wasn’t a part of this fine community at the time.
Live and learn, I still have 10 seeds I think so maybe preservation run at some point.
I’m glad to hear you kept 10 seeds. That means you probably have two more chances to reproduce, preserving the line and hopefully much more to grow. Out of 5 or 6 seeds germinated I have always found at least one male or at least one female. I am quite interested in PR as I am growing some now. It appears I didn’t buy great seeds. Out of the six I popped I got 3 males and 3 females. But each female show different structure. One traditionally long and lanky with long side branches, one columnar and one much darker green but more like a shrub. Here it is raining or I would pollinate now.
No, these are inside under lights. When the weather turns I am planning running Santa Marta and a 16 week Durban Poison outside. I know its doable as I twice grew Malawi at 22 and 16 weeks.
Ok, I am now growing inside the females. My males are outside as I don’t want ‘accidental’ pollination. When I pollinate I do it outside so there is no ‘accidental’ hybridization on days with no wind. When it rains I bring the males in but in a spot they can’t possibly pollinate. Or contaminate the pollen they have grown.
That’s beautiful work @Ratbastrd I’ve seen a few grows of the Freakers repro of Double Panama and you really did her justice, chunky buds! Glad to hear you like the strain and intend to reproduce your remaining seeds when it comes time. It’s great that we have access to this strain now thanks to @Upstate ’s preservation and the work we of @Guitarzan and the other Freakers Ball members, truly. But nothing compares to doing it all over again from F1 and then people will have an even better genepool to select from, two separate accessions that can be worked separately and/or recombined. That’s really what it’s all about for me, so thanks for the good intents going forward.
Hi, I’m new here and was referred by a friend. I must say this grow looks outstanding! Having smoked the real Panama Red “back in the day” this weed looks just like it. I hope it’s everything that the old stuff was.
