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Deebs

The Sentient Naturewalker
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Still down for Balkhi.

Have Master Kush f2’s available from Nirvana regular seed stock and will be taking them to f3 soon.
@Gentlemancorpse was sent the Balkhi to run. Another member was going to run them (@GhestViewingLimit ), but I was unable to follow through due to life stuffs. Since you say your still interested, I take it you are one in the same? If so my apologies.
 

Kanzeon

In Bloom
I'm actually doing a run of RSC's Afghan Mix and Afgaan 90 along with USC's Black Afghani together. I'm both hybridizing the nicest plants overall and continuing the A90 line, hybridizing and preserving aren't necessarily on different sides of a dichotomy.

Looking forward to getting my beans to join the fun!
 

DopeDaniel

Taste The Spectrum
IPM Forum Moderator
These were donated to the project from @Phylex. He was using this as part of his projects. Would probably have to go through the posts on here to compile a background, and info.
I found some info -
Just a quick update:

As all of you are aware of what's been going on in the world around us for these last few months, time has been reprioritized for more pressing matters. I do occasionally pop in from time to time when time permits to try and keep a pulse on what people are up to and catch updates. I appreciate everyone who's running my gear and posting how their grow is going. I may not be nearly as active, but I'm still very thankful. With that said, I want to give a quick update on what's new and I what I've been working on.

My Nepalese Projects - I've been working with Nepalese Highland from Tropical Seeds.

Strain: Nepal Highland

Strain Type: Highland Nepalese 5th generation is a traditional pure landrace charas cultivated at himalayan Nepal an altitude of between 1000m - 3000m received by Refeerman.

Flowering times: 60-70 days, mid-end Oct.

Yield: High yielder indoor and outdoors

Bouquet: From floral, citrus and sweet-creams scents

Effect: Strong high, uplitfing and corporal, full body effect

I was originally planning an open pollination to create a surplus for more of these seeds before beginning to dive in deep. However one male's structure was absolutely impeccable. It was hands down the best naturally structured plant I have ever grown. So I chose to cull all of the other males in the room to ensure everything produced was the progeny strictly from this stand out male.

I of course hit every Nepalese Highland female with this male and will have an abundance to search through and gift out in the future. But I decided I wasn't going to stop there.

Other very intriguing pollinations hit with this Nepalese Male:

Dark Star - is a 100% pure indica strain that was bred by TH Seeds for the purpose of creating a medical strain that was true to its Afghan roots without overpowering its benefits. This strain was born by crossing two already infamous strains, Purple Kush and Mazar-I-Sharif, to create this mind-numbing, though not particularly strong bud that is a favorite amongst all users whether medical or recreational is your top choice. It's not really too surprising that this is a medicinal favorite, especially amongst newer users, as its THC comes in on average at around 19% and almost guarantees consistent results. Covered in crystal trichomes and pink hairs, these forest green, almost navy blue, buds are truly a sight to see. The smell is aromatic with coffee and earth notes on the forefront and hints of tangy kush on the back. The taste is sweet and rich with herbs and coffee notes dancing on your palate. The high hits you right from the jump, leaving you hazy and euphoric immediately. Though the cerebral effects are short-lived, sometimes even non-existent, the body buzz is long lasting and fully relaxing. As happiness and tingles fill your head and neck, the slow creeping warmth will make its way down your back and out to your limbs. As it does, it wipes you of any motivation and gives you pleasant, uplifting thoughts. This phase lasts for hours if you’re one of the lucky ones that don’t fall right to sleep. Be sure to set yourself up with some snacks as this strain kicks the munchies in hard.

Moontang Mystery #3

BCK Phylex Cut

God O War #3, #4, #8, #9, #10, and #11


In the coming months I'm also planning a massive sale on GK Genetics once these projects are wrapped up.

I hope everyone is in good health and keeping their morale high throughout this new chapter. Stay strong and I'm wishing all of you and your families the warmest, kindest wishes.

Kind Regards
Phylex

@Deebs , like you, I've felt most genetics are rather diluted. The purpose of my Nepalese projects is creating ceiling-less, old school highs that I remember. I have a couple of roadmaps I planned out in an attempt to get there. Knowing this journey is going to take some time, I threw in a couple of side projects to play with along the way as well. I'm aiming for something that not only includes, but has higher levels of THC-V. Without any solid, scientific evidence, since cannabinoids are still rather unknown with how they react with each other, it's my personal opinion that THC-V is a key component in unlocking the old school goals I'm after. THC-V is a known property of Nepalese which is the primary reason I chose it.



I don't have any solid, personal feedback to give you at this point in time. I started my Nepalese project earlier this year. Shortly after I started and dunked all of the seeds to hunt through, COVID happened. I decided it was best to shut down for awhile for personal reasons. I put all of my projects on hold. Since I knew projects were temporarily shutting down, and my hunt was going to be postponed, I used that opportunity to create more stock for future use. I was originally planning an open pollination for preservation purposes of the Nepal Highland. However one male in particular had impeccable structure. It was hands down the best naturally structured plant I have ever come across. So I mildly changed course because of it. I decided rather than doing an open pollination, I only used the pollen from this perfectly structured male. I let him pollinate every Nepalese female I had. I wanted to ensure his structure had an opportunity to influence any future stock that would be used when the hunt resumed post COVID. Because of this, I cannot give you personal feedback on any details of the strain because this is only as far as I've gotten with it. Everything was pollinated and I'm still shucking seeds from that run. I wasn't afforded the luxury of multiple grows or selecting females as previously mentioned. That is all still TBD and will take time.

What I do know is it's milder THC% wise. Which was of no concern to me because I'm not chasing the highest THC% possible but rather a specific cannabinoid profile. I personally don't believe it's all about THC% but rather the cannabinoid profile and how they react with each other, and more importantly THC-V.

Here's a few documented notes from other sources:

Strain Type: Highland Nepalese 5th generation- Nepal Highland P5 is a traditional pure landrace charas cultivated at Himalayan Nepal an altitude of between 1000m - 3000m received by Refeerman.

- Quick flowering mountain sativa.

- It's a plant of medium size, not specially long internodes, and very easy for growing. It has medium and strong branches. Also finding some much more conical production plants with not very developed branches.

- It has an acceptable size for any kind of space, both in outdoor and indoors.

- It flowers between 60-70 days giving some very good quality flowers. The majority of times they're dense and strong buds, but also there are some more sativa like-buds; a bit more airy.

Bouquet: From floral, citrus and sweet-creams scents

Effect: Strong high, uplifting and corporal, full body effect

Yield: High yielder indoor and outdoors



Nothing in particular other than I'm always looking for older, harder to come by genetics to add into the vault. Out of curiosity, what did you have that you were thinking about trading?

The Short Story:
In short, Darshan is a God O War f1 x Nepal Highland IBL. Its inception was never intended this early on. The numbering of the Darshan's represent the GOW phenotype that was pollinated. Darshan is nothing more than informational gathering at this point. There's a much longer backstory if you're up for a read.

The Long Story:
@jaguarlax don't mind the copy and paste. It made it easier to answer possible questions.

History of Darshan and the Nepalese in my garden; and where we're at today

Late last year I started working on the God O War F2 project. I was narrowing down my top ladies to #3 #4 and #8. All were gorgeous flowers with a nicely balanced hybrid stone that I like. #10 and #11 were visually the heaviest producers, with #11 looking the heaviest. Neither #10 or #11 expressed any color. #7 and #9 weren't going to make it past the second round.

I still needed to find my male. I had chosen two, but I accidentally culled my favorite one. I was planning a round three to look for a male similar to the one I culled. While searching for him, I was going to keep looking through the females to see if there was something even better than my selections. I also wanted to continue growing my initial selections before choosing a final candidate.

While round two of the GOW f2 project is growing, I decided to start my Nepalese project concurrently.

What is the purpose of the Nepalese Project?
I'm trying to recreate the strongest stone I can remember. The effects were more like an acid trip rather than just smoking some weed. You'd be high for 6-8 hours after smoking one blunt. This was pretty typical feedback. No one knew what it was genetically. We didn't even ask those questions back then. Even so, during that time, everything was pretty much called chronic. It was 1995 and '96. That old school, psychedelic effect is what I'm chasing.

Why Nepal Highland?
Without knowing the genetic make-up, I needed to decide my course. The first thing I thought of was, "old school." I remember the transition in time going from brick weed to green bud. It was the prime of White Widow, Northern Lights, etc. Today, there's been 25 years of cross breeding and the genetic roadmap growing far away from its roots. So I knew I wanted to start with a landrace. For me, that feels like a blank canvas and a good starting point.

I understand how we're in the infancy stages of understanding cannabinoid profiles and how they interact with each other. I also believe in my gut that THC-V plays an important part in my quest. So a cultivar known to produce THC-V was another box I wanted checked.

Most of the stronger landraces come from higher altitudes. The Himalayas being one of them. Nepal Highland checked the box of a higher altitude landrace, and is known to produce higher levels of THC-V. It's suppose to produce highly resinous plants with sturdy structure, and a slightly shorter than normal flowering time for a sativa. So I figured it was worth a hunt and a good starting point.

So what traits should you be looking out for?
Shortly after I started the Nepalese seeds, the pandemic happened and the decision was made to shut down completely. I was turning off all of the lights without knowing when I'd turn them back on. So I had to let my entire library go. Keep in mind both my round two GOW f2 project and all of the Nepalese are beginning flower at this point. Thankfully I had already chosen what visually looked like a potential stand out Nepalese male. He hands down had the best, natural structure of any plant I've grown. Aside from that, and a stinkier stem rub, I still don't know much about him at all. Even with such limited information about him, I decided to let him pollinate every plant in the flower room since I was letting them all go due to the unforeseen shut down. It was a Hail Mary attempt to try and preserve those genetics, to some degree, so I could restart my projects in the future. So I hit every Nepalese female, to produce more Nepalese seeds to hunt through later when I decided to restart this project. My GOW F1 girls were in the same room. So they were hit too as innocent by-standers. It also helped in preserving those particular GOW phenotypes I was never afforded the time to get to know and decide on. But I never would have intended for any of the crossbreeding to begin otherwise. BCK, Darkstar, Moontang Mystery, and GOW #'s 3,4,8,7,9,10,11 were all apart of getting some Nepali pollen. That's how they came about.

What do I expect from them?
That's hard to know considering I was never afforded the time with these projects nor were they ever planned at this juncture. The GOW f2 project needs to be started from scratch with all new f1's, and I need to restart a hunt and familiarize myself with the Nepalese first and foremost. These unplanned Nepalese crosses are still in the earliest phases of discovery and quite frankly, they're just seeds at this point to explore if time or desire permits.

I'm not presently taking the Nepalese crosses too seriously, nor do I plan to do anything with them for some time. Unless of course one of them is undeniably a show stopper. I only consider those a glimpse into how the Nepalese might pair over-all regarding plant and flower structure, smell, and possibly effect. More importantly, if similar traits are present amongst the crossbreeds, this could potentially be documented as possible dominant traits passed along from the father. This could give me good intel into the Nepalese hunt since I did a selective pollination with the same father.

So what's the best approach with them?
Informational gathering right now. Any bit of feedback is important. Everything is new and uncharted. So vigor, plant structure, flower structure, ease of grow, any resistances, aromas, flavors, bag appeal, effect, etc.

Lastly
Darshan means "The act of looking. An opportunity or occasion of seeing a holy person or the image of a deity." Hindus attach great importance to a Darshan, or view, of a saint or holy image. I found this to be a very fitting name considering it's a God O War x Nepal Highland IBL.

Inferring the numbers 1-10 represent each female. I'll start with No. 1 please.
 

Brokehoe

CHOOSE YOUR TITLE
I'm not in a position to do this yet but I would like to purchase at least a 12 pack of Lebanese from RSC and run those for the preservation.
I would also like to run the Syrian and Tashkurgan to compare and even cross some, if I get something worth while. I'm ? it will be nice. It's been kind of a dream to get that good Lebanon Hash flavor

I'm gonna do some practice chucker runs first. If anyone wants to jump on these that would be awesome.
 
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