New Caledonia and Zamaldelica x Kullu on the Chernozem

[yoss33]

Hello all!
The 2021 season has started and this year I'll try my luck outdoors with 2 pure sativas - New Caledonia and Zamaldelica x Kullu. I'm at 44 degrees north with weather usually having really bad spells in the second half of November.
I couldn't resist Dubi's description in the New Caledonia thread, bought a pack and started 2 seeds (both sprouted), will wait for them to show sex and then will transplant a female outdoors.
I'll also grow outdoors 1 ZamKullu plant, a cross from last year, with really nice results from the few small tester plants (thread: https://www.icmag.com/forum/icmag-v...ca-and-jarilla-de-sinaloa-by-the-danube/page9 ).
Started 16 ZamKullu seeds (14 sprouted) and 6 Kullu seeds (6 sprouted) with the intention to find an early ZamKullu male, which to use to pollinate the Zamaldelica mother clone and the Kullu females, in order to get some seeds of the back-crosses Zam x ZamKullu and Kullu x ZamKullu.
4 of the Kullu seeds are from the Kullu #2 female from the thread above, which had the most sharp and trippy effect, and the other 2 seeds - from the Kullu #3 female, which was the fastest from the 3 Kullu females grown last year.

The 14 ZamKullu, in 8 cups:

The 6 Kullu, in 3 cups:

And the 2 New Caledonia:

 

[La Buena Hierba]

 

[yoss33]

Welcome, LBH! I hope this grazing animal will not want salad with the popcorn, I have the feeling it will gladly eat everything green on this page, heh.

The plants are starting to show their sex, I guess I will transplant outdoors my 2 chosen plants after about 2 weeks as the weather permits. Will switch the indoor light to 12/12 (or 11/13) after a week to let the other plants flower for seeds.

New Caledonia
The bigger and more smelly #1, which is showing its first female preflowers, so it looks to be the plant to grow outdoors.

#2 which was late to sprout but is still vigorous (like #1), showing what looks like small male preflowers:

Kullu
Still small preflowers on all but the first plant that sprouted (a female).

 

[yoss33]

ZamKullu
I'm happy because there are 5 plants that have strong citric and cherry tutti-frutti stem smell like the Zam mother.

#1 and #2, tall and skinny, weak stem smell.

#3 and the tiny #4.
#3 was the first to sprout, with perhaps the strongest cherry stem smell and is now the first to show a pistil, so it's the favorite for the outdoor place.

#5 and #6. Both not very smelly. The shorter #6 was the first to show male preflowers.

#7 and #8. Not smelly.

 

[yoss33]

#9. Great looking and smelling plant. It first sported a few male flowers but now looks to be bringing out a couple of very small female preflowers... I hope I'm mistaken. If it is a firm male, it's the favorite for pollinating the Zam mother clone and Kullu.

#10 and #11. Both looking and smelling good. The taller and purple #10 has small female preflowers.

#12 and #13. The taller one (#12) has delicious stem smell and a few small preflowers that look female, but still not sure.

And the last one - #14, which was among if not the last to sprout, and was somewhat slow to start, but now is picking momentum, grows vigorously, with big leaves, and has the most horizontal well-developed branching. Lovely vigorous but short (compact) plant, that seems to be bringing out male preflowers. Its only downside is its not as smelly as the top smellers.

 

[yoss33]

The 2 selected plants have been transplanted outdoors a few days ago. The rest have been under 11/13 in the grow tent for about a week now.

ZamKullu

New Caledonia

 

[TexasTea]

Fun stuff! Will you put more outside? These are guerilla style I take it...subbed.

 

[Montuno]

Fun stuff! Will you put more outside? These are guerilla style I take it...subbed.

Heh, heh, heh... This is going to end up with trees of 3 meters, you'll see...

 

[TexasTea]

Yes, I just spent an hour reading his Danube thread, hehe...

 

[yoss33]

Unfortunately, ICMag seems to have problems with supplying the photos and this thread was skinned from its color.
One would think that they do tests before updating the server but it seems not to be the case. This level of technical incompetence is bothering. Yes, the site is free and good specialists are expensive, but damn, they better get the old version back and don't touch it if they can't afford someone capable to work on this.

So, an update without photos.
Apart from the 2 plants outdoors, I have the following plants in the grow tent being under 11 on / 13 off lights for about 2 weeks, all unneeded female plants have been sacked.

The females:
A Zamaldelica mother clone that will be pollinated with ZamKullu pollen
A very small Zamaldelica mother clone that that will be pollinated with New Caledonia pollen
2 Kullus that will be pollinated with ZamKullu pollen
A Purple Mexican clone that I still haven't decided whether to pollinate with ZamKullu or New Caledonia pollen

The males:
A New Caledonia stud with large internodes, fat leaves and smelly top.
3 ZamKullus:
#6 - short and fast to flower, but weak smell; Leaves are relatively wide for a ZamKullu
#12 - a late male with very strong stem (and leaf stem) smell similar to the Zamaldelica mother, top is also smelling (without any rubbing); thin leaves
#13 - another late male that's short and not vigorous (perhaps because it sprouted late and #12 in the same cup had more aggressive roots), thin leaves; good stem smell (not as strong as #12 but still good) and surprisingly strong top smell, smelling the same but even stronger than the forming buds of the Zam mother clone. It smells as much as the Purple Mexican clone's buds! And this Purple Mexican is a stinker.

I like both #12 and #13 and still can't decide on what to bet on - #12's rubbed-stem smell or #13's flowering top smell.
After being pollinated, all females will be transplanted outdoors to mature their seeds under the sun and will be discarded after that. Only the Purple Mexican clone will be left to reveg for a normal autumn harvest together with the 2 plants that are already outdoors.

 

[dubi]

Thanks yoss33! An outdoor season here won't the same without your classic outdoor sativa grow diaries from up there in the North

As usual, i like a lot the sativa landrace/heairloom genetics you have chosen. A cross between Zamaldelica and New Caledonia also came to my mind after getting more familiarized with the NC sativas last year, with the right combination of parental plants, i'm sure the results will be outstanding for sativas lovers looking for fruity uplifting happy and mind expanding high quality sativas.

Best vibes for the grow!

 

[yoss33]

Thank you, Dubi!
All the pollination is done and the seeded plants are transplanted outdoors to finish ripening of the seeds. At some point about 2-3 weeks ago all 4 males (3 ZamKullu and 1 New Caledonia) hermied on their tops. I intentionally neglected and stressed them (living room irregular weak light, no watering) but I guess the triggering point was when they got fertilized with a general purpose 10-10-10 NPK fertilizer, that's what I had. Maybe the fertilizer has some hormones added, I don't know. Anyways the hermi-ing seemed temporary and the plants continued to produce only male flowers after that.
ZamKullu #12 was chosen and pollinated the Zam mother, Purple Mexican and Kullu females.
The New Caledonia male pollinated a smaller clone of the Zam mother that I think will still produce about 30-40 seeds.
Tried to upload a few photos to my album but the process is still buggy, so no photos.

 

[TexasTea]

I have not tried the old album method with the new site, but if you use your phone it is simple to reply to a thread and then hit add attachment. It pops up with an option to use your phone camera and you can snap a photo easily and add to the thread. Once added you can then choose the size and I always pick full size. Super simple compared to the old album system which I hated. The only negative I can see is you are limited to your phone camera so if you are an old school photo guy with fancy cameras like me then it could be a problem, or if you are worried about location and need to strip exif data....

 

[yoss33]

New Caledonia

 

[yoss33]

ZamKullu

 

[nepalnt21]

this is really great stuff.

 

[yoss33]

New Caledonia

And the seeded Kullus and Zamaldelica, I guess the seeds will be ready after a week or so:

 

[yoss33]

ZamKullu

 

[dubi]

Really appealing couple of tropicals, loving the tropical sativa branching and leaf shapes, thanks a lot for the update!
Have a great weekend yoss33

 

[yoss33]

Thank you, people!
We've had very wet beginning of the summer. The top buds of the Purple Mexican and Zamaldelica molded, so the seed harvest was less than half than what I planned, but anyways, seeds were produced. I'll harvest the seeded Kullus (with ZamKullu pollen) and Zamaldelica (with New Calledonia pollen) after a week.
The sun is finally back.

New Caledonia

Kullu