the cc1 is like chinese black tea, funky dried seaweed, and hints of dried cranberries.
It’s almost smoky. Think dried nori or konbu seaweed, with lapsang souchong which is a chinese black tea that is smoked with pine needles during the drying process.
This year it came out a little fresher/ fruitier with less smoke and funk. Maybe because of the earlier harvest, the smell seemed to get funkier the longer it was exposed to cold weather and morning frosts.
I’ll miss this cut, but I’m excited to get into the hybrids and pure preservation seeds. This one is the bigger more vigorous plant, easier to grow and less picky. I’ve never found that funky smoky seaweed smell before and I love it.
the cc2 is like green tea, cedar, marzipan, and dried cranberries. If you’ve ever had “milk oolong” fermented oolong tea, it’s kind of like that.
overall the cc2 is the stronger smelling and frostier plant. It has larger buds too. But it’s very finnicky in veg, and you really have to baby it along for a few weeks after each transplant. Just more work for the reward.
I’m glad this cut rooted for me again this year, it’s very special.
I’m looking forward to hybridizing it with an indica of some kind. so far all the chinese females have been seeded by other sativa lines.
yeah, I definitely think the CC cuts have acclimatized. They are finishing earlier outdoor each year, and indoor they are now much less susceptible to light burn. Before they could only tolerate fluorescent light if they were far enough from the bulbs. Now they can tolerate fluorescent within 2" of the foliage, and they can handle my main 350 watt ceramic lights.
I also flowered a cc2 indoor early this year, and it was stable. It didn’t come close to finishing after 3 months of flowering, but it didn’t freak out or herm.
I think this cangshan is the most dramatic example of acclimatization that I have seen in a clone.
Acclimatization is the main reason I do outdoor breeding projects. I have noticed rapid improvements in performance, disease and pest resistance, and stability when I grow and breed landraces multiple seasons outdoor.
like my rsc 2014 lebanese import ibl line. some people have reported poor mildew resistance and bud rot in rainy weather growing the reproduction stock from real seed co. but after 3 generations of breeding for this particular outdoor environment mine have become very reliable.
I think can certainly be bonus. I was never trying to breed, but when I could grow outside, I was given “G-13” seeds by a insufferable pot snob. Right, lol, Mid-90’s, I didn’t have a clue about genetics, you grew whatever seeds you got out of the best you smoked last year.
I suspect it may have been Nevil’s G-13 Haze F2’s. It was really good. I had pollinated a couple of branches because I’d read you could do that in High Times, lol, and got seeds.
Ran them for around 10 years doing the same thing. Every year the harvests got earlier, and pests and molds got less. I wasn’t even selecting.
I’d also read about early sexing in HT, lol, and put 2 month old seedlings (I was much better at vegging then, ha!) in a dark box for 14 hrs to get them to show. After 5 or 6 maybe 7 years of that they started showing by themselves. Just pre-flowers, never had to reveg.
Don’t you love that about weed? How quick it is to adapt? So cool…
I remember that. Not necessarily seeds, but just that all of the indoor-grown “kind bud” was always whatever they were talking about in HighTimes that month haha. G13, Hashplant, Northern Lights… It was all great weed, but who knows what it really was? Maybe those bags really were what the dealer said they were, I dunno… haha.
