I’ll grab some shots of the SyrianLeb pretty soon. Not much to see until they finish up and I get to testing. They’re like little blow pops of weed.
I’m going to call the cross ESL for Ethiopian Syrian Lebanese. But maybe the smoke will make me think I’m speaking English as a second language. Hopefully I’ll get a nice thcv selection in there.
My ethiopian x old mother afghani also get kind of raggedy looking like that when I let them get over ripe to make sure all the seeds are finished.
This is a really cool project. I was trying to cross my ethiopian hybrid to my lebanese selection outdoor this year, but my lebanese seedlings didn’t like the soil I used and none of them made it. Maybe next year.
can you remind me what the LPH stands for? (lebanese panama haze, maybe?)
I thought it might be because I boosted up the nutrients when I added the other plants. But it really faded out more and more in the last few weeks. It’s not a real long flowering strain, so it’s been done for a bit anyway.
What’s interesting about it is that the seeds have been completely busting out of the calyxes. They just fall out if you give it a good shake. I’ve seen some other sativas do that too.
LPH stands for Longmont purple haze. It’s panama haze crossed to Paonia purple paralyzer. It’s been a nice grow so far.
Just got caught up on this thread. Awesome job
Paps
Loved reading through this. Not in my budget at the moment to get into leaf testing but definitely something I will be planning/budgeting for for the next season. I know the science is still young but hopefully we will get some good tests like this for the other varins (particularly CBDV, my favorite phytocannabinoid) and the other side chain length phytocannabinoids (C4, C6, C7) so this can be used for more thorough chemotype selection for the home grower / small scale breeder.
If you’d like some of the ACE Beldia Kif x Ethiopia Highlands seed from the pollination run I just did, let me know. Seeds aren’t ready yet and unfortunately I didn’t do cannabinoid testing on either parent, but I figured you would be one of the first people on this site who might be interested because of the related breeding work you’re doing and I’ll have plenty of seed. Terpene profiles of both parents are nice at least 
Hey thanks for following along! I’ve been curious about the one, but I’m not certain if I’ve experienced it. What did you like about it?
I’d love to grab some of those from you. I can send along some from what I’ve doing as well.
Here’s an outdoor volunteer plant. I think it’s either Lebanese or SyrianLeb that came from my compost pile. Very tall, and already flowering. I’m pretty sure stretch is dunzo.
Looking good! I find it interesting that “volunteer” plants of any type, always seem to grow like crazy and do really well.
I’ll let you know when the seeds are ready. Looking at a few hundred seeds on the Beldia Kif female after I chopped the flowering stalk of the Ethiopian male today, so I’ll have plenty.
If you’ve had any strain with THCV expression that also expresses CBD you’ve likely experienced some of the effects of CBDV. I feel like THCV doesn’t really shine without it (likely along with CBCV, CBGV etc.). I would describe the effects as calm, peaceful, anti-anxiety (social, but also general), while also contributing a feeling of focus/flow. One thing that’s really interesting about it is that it does not lessen the euphoric effect of THC the same way CBD does even though if it reduces the anxiety/edge. Don’t want to make any strong medical claims but CBDV isolate/distillate tinctures can be very calming to the gut in my experience, moreso than any other cannabinoid I’ve tried.
These LPH are just about a week out I think and throwing some nice colors and fade. I believe they’re around 8 weeks right now.
The SyrianLebs could be done. I looked at a seed and it’s dark colored. I think I’ll probably let them go another week to be sure and then just let the dry up in place. I’ll be testing the ones with the best resin and short stature. Virtually no branching on any of them, which ought to help tame out the Ethiopian. I’m looking forward to growing the hybrid. I think I’ll just start growing and testing until I find something with THCV that I like and then I’ll probably do some backcrossing to the cut.
I’ll get the ESL cross into bigger pots next grow. Growing the SL in these tiny treepots is pretty challenging, and I want to see their full stature with normal root space. ESL will probably not tolerate treepots at all after the first couple weeks anyway.
Yesterday I shucked and cleaned Ethiopian highlands seeds. I don’t have a seed cleaner but I have a new low tech method using a deep tub and my electric leaf blower. 
Probably pulled a few thousand.
Ok this is pretty brilliant IMO. How deep of a tub? My blower is pretty damn powerful so maybe that’s a factor too? Seeds look nice and clean so it obviously worked pretty well. Nice haul there 
Looking forward to your TLC tests!
It’s about 4” deep I’d guess. So it’s not even especially deep. I stood back a few feet and just kind of moved around the air over the tub. My electric leaf blower has a pretty good throttle, but I was using it mostly open from a few feet back.
A slightly deeper tub might be better. I might try a storage tote next time and see how that goes.
Here’s my outdoor plant flowering hard in mid August! I’m thinking Lebanese or SyrianLeb. Leaves are about right, but hard to tell from the smell because I’m so used to growing it inside.
I slapped it with some Ethiopian thcv male pollen. She’s a beast! 
@Upstate @drgreensleeves pretty early flowering going here. I think she’ll be done mid-September
Whoah, she is a beast!
What is it like 9 feet?! 
Yeah those are 8ft T posts, but they’re probably buried a foot or two. I’d give her 10ft. She’s at the roof line of my house. So much for discreet…
I remember that feeling 
Amazing to see the early budding action, looks like she has a whole month headstart on flower. Incredible! 
I can’t wait to see how my BlackLeb Vikings turn out, I have 3 females outside. No preflowers yet but feels like any day now.
O_O didn’t know you crossed the Viking. That’s exciting. I’m surprised you’re not flowing yet with those. Isn’t the Viking bred as an early finisher?
Yeah the Viking is supposed to be an early finish, but I have some ridiculously huge trees out back that block out most of the sun, they’re only really getting a few hours direct morning sunlight. Could be why they haven’t really taken off into flower yet, I dunno. You would think if anything they would bud even quicker 
Here are some pics of the tops on the 3 BlackLeb Vikings
For comparison here is a Sinai Viking just starting to push some pistils out the ends
I think the black lebs don’t trigger as early as the blue hemp leb and the Syrian do. I think when I do selections on this ESL cross, I’m going to do selections under 14h. At least in the f2, I think I should be able to find it. It’s a valuable trait to me.
In the past few years, we’ve had some really bizarre early snow storms. Two years ago, we even had a snow storm over Labor Day.
