A Taste of Africa from Malawi

[dubi]

that's indeed a good plan for growing outdoors in your conditions at your 47N latitude @Emeraldo
Force the flowering by providing in August (or even July if you can) a few hours of extra darkness per day when the summer sun is still strong, then stop the light dep around Sept with a similar (as much as possible) photoperiod, to let them finally finish under naural photoperiod.

 

[sdd420]

Pulling a tarp to induce flower is doable on a hoophouse pretty easily.

 

[Keif Cake]

 

[Emeraldo]

@Kiefcake please tell us about those purple flowers!

 

[Keif Cake]

They're not purple, it's more of a golden color, the purple is probably from the blue leds

 

[Emeraldo]

Beautiful Malawi flowers @Kiefcake

 

[Keif Cake]

Thank you! Can't wait to smoke them in a couple months, I am picking up a very familiar scent to what I had in one of my golden tigers, I couldn't describe then, and can't describe it now.

I'm really interested in seeing what this one crossed with the Afghani would throw out of it, I'm thinking I'll reverse the Afghan, hoping to keep more of the Malawi structure.

 

[Ol'_Haze_Nut]

Exhaling love to Ace Seeds for these milky treats. Top 5 of 50 in last grow for trich-o-mania. Pungent Juicyfruit Gum & sandalwood perfume. Très tasty
Standard Malawi grown @44 n, mostly outside w/light dep., 1 gal pot, low nutes, selectively seeded and harvested after 14 weeks of 11/13 . She handled all adversity unfazed

 

[Old Fogey]

This is a purple Ace Malawi regular, seeds purchased in 2017.

Finished in 65-70 days. Prominant main cola, productive lower branching. Rock hard buds. Balsamic vinegar scent. Average potency. Around 3.5 oz from a 1 gal pot, indoors under HPS lighting, hand fed in coco/perlite.

I crossed the plant to Peak Seeds BC Blueberry. Results have varied from ordinary to outstanding depending on the chemotype. This cross can work but better parentals and a proper breeding program would be required, some of the offspring are very high in CBD and their smoke is mild. On the other hand, a light green pheno had devastating potency, it was almost too strong.

Peace

 

[Mitsuharu]

This is a purple Ace Malawi

Finished in 65-70 days.

Prominant main cola

Rock hard buds.

Doesn't sound too much like a sativa... how's the turn?

 

[Old Fogey]

Doesn't sound too much like a sativa... how's the turn?

It was grown at 11.30/12.30 from seed. I chopped it roughly 54-58 days after it showed at around day 26 (... from memory, grown 5+ years ago). So I figured 10-14 days in transition on top.

The cola in the pic was roughly 18" long and thick like a body builder's forearms.

I still have the Malawi grow diaries somewhere, I'll update any details in my posts next time I stumble across them.

Peace

 

[tjmccoy]

I’ve got a real wild Malawi-F lady here, 4 weeks from flip, 3 Week veg, stretching like crazy, long internodes, super long sidebranching that’s had to be pruned. Has been very reluctant to flower. I never expected my lankiest most wispy plant to come from Malawi. To the right is a very tight internode early flowering zamaldelica, never expected that either! This Malawi is about to out stretch my most vigorous HxP. I’m picking up a different smell from this one but it’s faint. Think this will be a keeper?

 

[sublingual]

I’ve got a real wild Malawi-F lady here, 4 weeks from flip, 3 Week veg, stretching like crazy, long internodes, super long sidebranching that’s had to be pruned. Has been very reluctant to flower. I never expected my lankiest most wispy plant to come from Malawi. To the right is a very tight internode early flowering zamaldelica, never expected that either! This Malawi is about to out stretch my most vigorous HxP. I’m picking up a different smell from this one but it’s faint. Think this will be a keeper?


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Don't know your height in the room, but I would have topped her before trimming the side branches. I've never grown the Malawi but have grown the Panama x Malawi which seemed to go on forever. They stayed short because of deadheading and then developing the main spears by later trimming the bottom fluff. More like a popsicle than lollypop.

 

[tjmccoy]

Don't know your height in the room, but I would have topped her before trimming the side branches. I've never grown the Malawi but have grown the Panama x Malawi which seemed to go on forever. They stayed short because of deadheading and then developing the main spears by later trimming the bottom fluff. More like a popsicle than lollypop.

It’s a bit of a strange setup, they are in a 90 gallon round sip bed, vertical around 1k hps. Now I’ve added 2 315w cmh too. There’s 13 ladies in there! We have up to 8-9 feet of vertical space. So far I’m loving this set up, everyone gets really intense light, super easy to take care of one pot, just have to be kinda aggressive with pruning to make this work.

Have a great day!

 

[tjmccoy]

Here’s my other 2 Malawi’s, much more compact and way deeper into flower. Same light and soil so the lanky one is definitely genectics!

 

[PlasmaTube]

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Malawi Gummies.

Put it in the mail and send tobmy mouth...wow

 

[Mimpi Manis]

This post is Malawi-centric... namely in relation to Ace's KA5. (Cool we hope!). I bought three ACE seeds just over three years ago. Three fems. The package arrived with a huge round Ace sticker on back of package. Buggered if I know how it never got pinged. Ace fan in the mail room? Especially arriving in my neck of the southern temperate woods. (Think global). Anyway, kept them in the fridge and popped one a year. Last one powering along now, after a slow seasonal start (outdoor) re spring temps. The first two were very much typical from the all the pics I see here. But this one is more broad leaved and little different structure. Somewhat darker green. Guessing its fallen into more A5 genotype? Wondering which of the four phenos described by Dubi it might be? I was plugging for the silver pheno... but my eyes tell me perhaps not? Will post a pic in a day or two and solicit a little feedback. Feel free to if comment you have some insight already. BTW, after three years in the fridge, this last KA5 seed was first to tail. Extraordinary vigour right out of the skin. Double the speed of last years fresh crosses. A testiment to the quality of breeding coming out of Ace. We all stand on the shoulders of giants no doubt... but there's still some good work going on. Lucky for us.

I had a bit of a look at Dubi's 'group' images at KA5 intro and it was a little hard to tell... given mine is still in leaf stage. Many a sativa leaf starts of a little wider in early stages. But if I had to take a guess groups 7/8/9? Looking at all of those images it seems hard to go wrong either way dont it? Impressive grow out.

 

[goingrey]

This post is Malawi-centric... namely in relation to Ace's KA5. (Cool we hope!). I bought three ACE seeds just over three years ago. Three fems. The package arrived with a huge round Ace sticker on back of package. Buggered if I know how it never got pinged. Ace fan in the mail room? Especially arriving in my neck of the southern temperate woods. (Think global). Anyway, kept them in the fridge and popped one a year. Last one powering along now, after a slow seasonal start (outdoor) re spring temps. The first two were very much typical from the all the pics I see here. But this one is more broad leaved and little different structure. Somewhat darker green. Guessing its fallen into more A5 genotype? Wondering which of the four phenos described by Dubi it might be? I was plugging for the silver pheno... but my eyes tell me perhaps not? Will post a pic in a day or two and solicit a little feedback. Feel free to if comment you have some insight already. BTW, after three years in the fridge, this last KA5 seed was first to tail. Extraordinary vigour right out of the skin. Double the speed of last years fresh crosses. A testiment to the quality of breeding coming out of Ace. We all stand on the shoulders of giants no doubt... but there's still some good work going on. Lucky for us.

I had a bit of a look at Dubi's 'group' images at KA5 intro and it was a little hard to tell... given mine is still in leaf stage. Many a sativa leaf starts of a little wider in early stages. But if I had to take a guess groups 7/8/9? Looking at all of those images it seems hard to go wrong either way dont it? Impressive grow out.

It's cool but there's also an actual Killer A5 thread..

Killer A5 Haze

THE MYTHICAL A5 HAZE MEETS OUR MALAWI KILLER TO CREATE OUR MOST POWERFUL, TRIPPY AND NARCOTIC HYBRID Here at ACE Seeds we’ve done it again with Killer A5 Haze, creating a monstrous new sativa hybrid that has the potential to produce the most potent plants, with the highest amount of THC in our...

www.icmag.com

 

[Mimpi Manis]

It's cool but there's also an actual Killer A5 thread..

Killer A5 Haze

THE MYTHICAL A5 HAZE MEETS OUR MALAWI KILLER TO CREATE OUR MOST POWERFUL, TRIPPY AND NARCOTIC HYBRID Here at ACE Seeds we’ve done it again with Killer A5 Haze, creating a monstrous new sativa hybrid that has the potential to produce the most potent plants, with the highest amount of THC in our...

www.icmag.com

Yeh I know... but thought I'd just drop in on the cousins! I'll post there soonish when I get some pics happening. Still a bit dark here!

 

[goingrey]

Yeh I know... but thought I'd just drop in on the cousins! I'll post there soonish when I get some pics happening. Still a bit dark here!

Ok cool.

Shape of the serrated edge on the leaves might be something to look into when trying to identify between Malawi and NLHaze phenos in the KA5 cross?