Save me a few of these Zep, sounds yummy.
We talking 1-2 hit shit?
B#2 was kind of a creeper, so it was a little hard to pin down. I usually pack a snap at a time so I always get nice green flavorful hits. Usually 2 to 4 hits per bowl. One bowl was definitely enough, when I smoked several small bowls I was reeling.
I’ll set some aside.
I’m hoping to get these guava IX’s out to a few growers and patients, but still not sure when I’ll be able to send anything out.
If you wanted to share any of those crosses I’d be interesting in trying some , the guava x leb sounds interesting
I will send some of these your way next time I can get mail out.
I think these have a lot of potential but want to see what kind of expressions are in them before I give them out to patients who will depend on them for quality meds and a guaranteed harvest every time.
Found another one of those conjoined 5 seed star anise seed pods in the guava F #2
As usual it didn’t quite hold together when I took it out of the bud, now it’s like 2 twins and another seed dangling by a translucent membrane. Still crazy looking.
These seed clusters do something crazy during growth as well, but I don’t want to sound like a nut so I’ll just have to wait and see if that shows up in the f2’s I gave away to other growers.
its edges are visible between the pale twin and the single seed, and at the base of the single seed next to the darker twin. You can also see that these seeds have their tiger stripes on a thin membrane, which is often flaky or incomplete.
The twins often have their pistil stuck to them, right at the centerline. You can see that on the darker twin at the right. The pistil is kind of melded into the seed’s outer membrane.
you can even dissect the dried buds with no seed and look at the shriveled pod inside still attached to the pistil. I wonder if you can see evidence of what happened in there, like how it all began.
I wish I could find out whether this whole conjoined 5 way twin came from that one pistil. I’ve always read that a pistil can only be pollinated once. That would really be fascinating if all 5 came from a single grain of pollen.
I think these are cause by the chem / OG trait of a bundle of pistils inside of several layers of calyx.
In sinsemilla, it looks like a thick tuft of many orange pistils, wrapped up inside layers of extra large conjoined calyx.
I have only seen that conjoined calyx wrapped pistil tuft trait the Platinum OG cut, Deadhead OG (og x chem 4), and this guava hashplant.
Very interesting thread, although I’m a little late to the party. I really like the smoke reports. I am gonna do my best to include those in my grow legs. I’m interested in the psychedelic high described from the Lebanese. And I really wanna know what smokin some Krispy Kreme is like lol. I see that pesky ol’ Badger has already stopped by… I’ll just plant my chair next to him and enjoy the show.
A lebanese farmer’s description of their native cannabis strain:
“No sickness afflicts it. The bugs don’t attack it. The lack of water doesn’t affect it,” Mr. Chraif said. “There is a guarantee with the crop, and that is why the farmers went in that direction.”
The article also says it’s a high thc line. It’s in danger of disappearing because lebanon’s economic collapse has driven down profits from hash.
Nope, these are regular seeds made the all natural way,
with a male plant from bodhi’s guava hashplant f1 stock pollinating a selection of my guava hashplant f2 females.
I’m using the notation ix to indicate it is an in-cross.
this would be considered an in-cross and not a back-cross because I used a different f1 male than the original f1 parent that made the f2s.
Last week I harvested my Guava Hashplant f1 “F” keeper cut for the last time. I think this one likes the cooler temperatures during winter, because the ones I have harvested since fall have all been much louder and funkier than the previous batches.
I also timed my harvest differently. I have been harvesting these for maximum yield or maximum seed ripeness. This time I harvested for peak terpene production, and chopped them before the second stage of bud growth. I harvested this one when it started putting out new pistils; usually I would harvest after it had finished swelling, and no new pistils were coming in.
This is definitely skunkier than usual. I’ve written a few descriptions of the smell and flavor of this one.
I think the most conclusive thing I can say about this cut is that it smells different every time you experience it. the smell is very complex, and very subtle. There are definite notes of gas and skunk, but also agave like sweetness, toast, bitter kush, hair spray, milk, black pepper, and many other complex notes that come and go. You can never pin it down, but because of this, it triggers a lot of diverse sense memories as you try to figure it out.
Here are the guava seedlings I transplanted earlier this week. The two on the right are guava F f2s. They were very rootbound, so they are still getting over that stress, and getting established.
The one on the left is the only guava B f2, it wasn’t rootbound so it is establishing quicker with less stress.
Here is the purple leb seedling, transplanted almost 2 weeks ago. It’s looking ok to me, but it’s still getting established, and it is still working on adjusting its root zone ph. Looks like it’s almost there. That’s my favorite thing about organic soil, the plants do most of the work.
as you can see, I’m not too picky about my mulch, (especially during covid) so I use whatever useful organic matter I have available. at the moment, that consists primarily of organic herbal tea bags, and organic mushroom stems from the kitchen.
I’m hopping back on the Lebanese for a bit as well. I’ll get a thread started up tomorrow, but so far I have 2 nice looking adolescent Black Lebanon from Geneseeds and some Black & Blue Lebanese and Syrian babies that are recovering from a bit of neglect.
I like following along with your Lebanese grows. I’ll have some pictures to share pretty soon as well.
quick update-
I have smoke reports written for both phenos of the the guava “F” f2, ready to post as soon as I sort through the photos.
I’m starting another breeding project, I finally have a confirmed Maple Leaf Indica Male to go with the beautiful maple leaf female. The male sure took his time to show sex. He is a strange narrow leaf afghani, I’ll post some photos soon. They are a fun pair, narrow leaf male, broad leaf female.
I have cuttings of the female. I keep my cloning simple, I just put two in soil and two in water, and we’ll see what takes root. It’s a really nice looking female plant so far in veg and preflower.
I’m about to start flowering in both tents so I can grow some sinsemilla meds in one tent while I’m making seeds in the other. So given the circumstances I’ll probably just use these maple leaf cuttings for sinsemilla, and go back to the seed stock next time I want to breed or grow the maple leaf.
I actually got really lucky, out of the two plants that survived from my sensi seeds pack, I actually got a male and a female to reproduce.
Thanks again for that maple leaf x mazar olereynard, that was really helpful to have a contingency plan in case I didn’t end up with a male. If I didn’t get a male from these two plants, I would have reveged or taken cuttings of the maple leaf females, and bred them with your stock.
I’m very excited to grow those out. I will grow them alongside my maple leaf and use them to expand the diversity of the line. And of course I’ll send you stock of anything I make with them.
guava f2 B#2 concentrate-
this is just a simple everclear alcohol extract, which was called “honey oil” in the old prop 215 prop 420 california medical system.
Funky sweet smell, like agave with a tinge of artificial flavoring. It also has something that reminds me of the slight off / bitter smell of blue liquid food dye.
we just had what this city would consider a snow storm, which would really be average snow for the midwest or for the mountains. the city utilities are completely fucked up.
2 and a half hour power outage on friday, I was able to get my simple timers back on schedule within 5 minutes.
Then this morning starting around 4 am we had another power outage that lasted at least 9 hours. I have an autonomic condition and my body can’t adjust for sudden changes in temperature, so I’m not in great shape at the moment. severely impaired coordination, and still kinda numb in the extremities.
I opened up the tents to get some air circulation while the power was out. Plants looked ok, but had dew drops all over the leaves. All the mature plants should be ok, unless they cannot tolerate the lighting interruption.
I pulled the clones out of the tent because of high risk of mildew. Clones don’t tolerate low temperatures as well as mature plants. Hopefully at least one will make it.
When power came back on about an hour ago, I advanced the timers nine hours. I know the power was down when I woke up at 4 am, I think it may have already been down for a while because the house was already getting cold. I know what times the lights are supposed to turn off, so should be able to correct it if the timers are still off.
I’m running the heat higher than usual so the house will stay warm for a little longer if the electricity goes down again. And I’m filling all the thermoses up with boiling water and tea.
Fill the bath tub!
It’ll cool off in a few hours, but still.
I always find amusing how poorly prepared places farther south are for snow. I mean, I know you don’t have to deal with it every year, but you’d think they’d be ready for it.
There are natural and electronic hand warmers used by hunters that can help in cold temperatures. I bought a space blanket [mylar] for my brother when he was hospitalized and could not get warm. I bought the emergency blanket at Patagonia outdoor supplies for a few bucks. You will sound like Jiffy popcorn but you can sleep, sit in a chair or walk around with it.
