African photo thread

[lasko]

my 2cents
two hibrids containing african strains
on left is pine tar kush x ciskei bushman like 50/50 hibrid, on right mauricius x ciskei. Both plants 11/13 from seeds.

more pics please

 

[resinfingers]

awesome tread dudes, afew questions

im a newbie and started my first outdoor grow planted a bit late but has veged nicely so far plant size is bout 3x3 foot and very bushy (topped 2x). the strain is power malawi (malawi gold x ppp) apparently it takes 10-12 weeks so i expect to harvest may (australia). just started showing pre flowers. growing in potting mix mixed with some perlite and peat coir. have been using sesol seweed (trace elements minerals) and power feed fish emulsion as fert, which is 12 nitrogen, 1.4 phos, 7 potassium and 3 potassium humate. will this be sufficent for flowering. or do i need something else. and what are the feeding paterns and doses.pz

 

[sondeos]

banghi-uzbeka interior 4 semanas de floracion

banghi-uzbeka interior 4 semanas de floracion

hello friends, today I leave some photos of other African I'm growing, although this has a little blood Uzbek. Banghi x Uzbek "black hand" f2 -4 weeks flowering. ground organic cultivation. fertilizers: BIOCANNA flower, liquid guano "COMPO" Ms. EC 1.1 osmosis water pH 6.8. if you want more information ask cultivation.

nice vibes

 

[sondeos]

awesome tread dudes, afew questions

im a newbie and started my first outdoor grow planted a bit late but has veged nicely so far plant size is bout 3x3 foot and very bushy (topped 2x). the strain is power malawi (malawi gold x ppp) apparently it takes 10-12 weeks so i expect to harvest may (australia). just started showing pre flowers. growing in potting mix mixed with some perlite and peat coir. have been using sesol seweed (trace elements minerals) and power feed fish emulsion as fert, which is 12 nitrogen, 1.4 phos, 7 potassium and 3 potassium humate. will this be sufficent for flowering. or do i need something else. and what are the feeding paterns and doses.pz

I think if you will serve to increase the fertilizer for flowering you say but you need a low-nitrogen fertilizer to induce flowering, fertilizers with a high percentage of nitrogen delay flowering, look at any nitrogen at a rate around 4 percent and if you see half of flowering plant that gets a little yellow you can put some of that growth that you hope help, a greeting.

 

[indifferent]

Very nice banghi x uzbeki. A friend is growing lesotho x uzbeki and angola x banghi.

Here is my West African, I have two plants in one 3.5 litre pot of coco. One is not looking great, it has the odd pistils but they are very short and it looks like it won't flower indoors, but the other one is flowering nicely, stretching like hell but has big calyxes with an unusually high resin level for a pure sat and the gland heads are a good big size for a pure sat. I'm hoping this one is special. I pollinated her with a little Deep Chunk dust, could be an interesting hybrid.

 

[Londinium]

Lovely plants people!!!
Great Info about the cloning WAM.....nice one! I got my best Transkei from near Port St.John years back and some Transkei seeds I have been sent recently were from close to that area too circa '98....so fingers crossed. ;]

 

[indifferent]

I'm currently reading a book about Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War, and I've read a few other books about the Boer War and one thing strikes me as quite funny. While the Brits were holed up in Ladysmith, Kimberly and Mafeking under siege by the Boers, the Indian labourers who worked for the mining companies were stoned out of their minds waiting for the silly white fellas to stop shooting at each other. You see, the British companies who ran the mines noticed early on, in the 1890s that their imported Indian labourers were trading with the local Bantu people for wild Dagga to smoke. So the enterprising Brits planted their own fields of cannabis for the use of their Indian workers. The Indians were even given the option of taking part of their wages as cannabis and during the sieges, the Brits were happy for them to keep quiet and smoke as much as they liked! The Brits didn't obtain local wild Dagga seeds, they imported the best cannabis from India. I find it amusing that some British civil servant sat in an office in South Africa wrote to some other British Servant sat in an office in India to request a shipment of cannabis seeds so they could grow loads of dope!

 

[spliphy]

facsinating history

facsinating history

You see, the British companies who ran the mines noticed early on, in the 1890s that their imported Indian labourers were trading with the local Bantu people for wild Dagga to smoke. So the enterprising Brits planted their own fields of cannabis for the use of their Indian workers. The Indians were even given the option of taking part of their wages as cannabis and during the sieges, the Brits were happy for them to keep quiet and smoke as much as they liked! The Brits didn't obtain local wild Dagga seeds, they imported the best cannabis from India. I find it amusing that some British civil servant sat in an office in South Africa wrote to some other British Servant sat in an office in India to request a shipment of cannabis seeds so they could grow loads of dope!

This is my conclusion also that the bulk of genetics came late in the 1800's from India as a result of Indian mine workers imported to the country. The British hand is a surprise though as well as the wild Dagga from the Bantus. This thread has all the elements of genetics...so I won't follow up in the thread I started about the same.

Hope to have some pics. of flowering La Nina X Ethiopian Highland (High Nina) after visiting my friend's house tomorrow morning.

 

[indifferent]

High Nina sounds lovely.

I reckon the genepool in South Africa is a proper hodge-podge of genes introduced at different times from different places. Before the Suez Canal was built, so much trade had to go round the horn and sailing ships always put in at a port like Cape Town or Durban or Lourenco Marques so the possible number of ships that passed by carrying seeds is immense, from the 1500s to the late 1800s when Suez was dug, millions of voyages must have passed the Cape.

Then again, I'm sure the influx of Indian migrants in the post Zulu War era had a corresponding influx of cannabis genes accompanying it, and planting fields of Indian ganja must have had an impact on the local genepool. I expect they were grown sinsemilla as new seeds were readily available from India and the Indians had knowledge of sinsemilla growing. They were producing crops for their own consumption so I expect they tried to produce the best ganja they could.

 

[Londinium]

Great Info once again Indi.... ;]

 

[indifferent]

I'm just guessing at parts of it, but growing some Africans and this thread have inspired me to do some research into South Africa's cannabis history so look out for an article on said subject eventually, hopefully I can find some good info.

 

[spliphy]

High Nina

High Nina

only female out of 6

 

[spliphy]

I'm just guessing at parts of it, but growing some Africans and this thread have inspired me to do some research into South Africa's cannabis history so look out for an article on said subject eventually, hopefully I can find some good info.

The Churchill info of the British importation of seeds is great...and why not? after all Queen Victoria used Cannabis preparation for her monthly 'visitations'. Also, the exhaustive Cannabis investigations that the British carried out in India just before the turn to 20th century clearly concluded the substance to be innocuous.

"I reckon the genepool in South Africa is a proper hodge-podge of genes introduced at different times from different places. Before the Suez Canal was built, so much trade had to go round the horn and sailing ships always put in at a port like Cape Town or Durban or Lourenco Marques so the possible number of ships that passed by carrying seeds is immense, from the 1500s to the late 1800s when Suez was dug, millions of voyages must have passed the Cape."

Yes, they set up 'way stations' to resupply the ships in S. Africa. However, we should not extrapolate that there was an actual 'market' for Cannabis seeds as exists today. Those possibly interested in 'new' genetics were maybe the Bushmen not the white companies restocking the ships. No market for Cannabis seeds existed in Britain that I'm aware of, so this commodity would not normally be transported.

"Then again, I'm sure the influx of Indian migrants in the post Zulu War era had a corresponding influx of cannabis genes accompanying it, and planting fields of Indian ganja must have had an impact on the local genepool. I expect they were grown sinsemilla as new seeds were readily available from India and the Indians had knowledge of sinsemilla growing. They were producing crops for their own consumption so I expect they tried to produce the best ganja they could."

Agreed that they tried to grow the best, but...the mechanisms of potent Cannabis production were not clearly understood as today. Among the Indian folklore even reported in the 1970's was to place a Cannabis seed in the mouth of a dead cobra head and bury it for potent herb. I doubt they where very systematic. They eventually found some good genes through trial and error probably.

 

[indifferent]

True, there wasn't a market as such, but there would have been lively trade, I can't comment further on what might have happened till I do some more research.

The Europeans established trading stations all along the African coastline, the Brits and Dutch were trading nations, the British Empire was built on trade, I think studying that trade might turn up some interesting info.

I've heard of them using cobra heads before, and also using stakes driven through the stem etc to cause stress and make a bit more resin.

 

[indifferent]

Quick update on my mystery Africans, still suspect it's from West Africa, reminds me of a strain from Ghana I grew years ago but this one is nicer and the early resin is very promising, she has more resin than most sats of this type I've grown. Very nute sensitive so I'm feeding her mostly Jaggery Goor, Molasses, Seaweed, Humic Acid and a little 5-6-8 seaweed feed and 2-1-4 general purpose liquid organic. Anything about ec 1.4 seems too much for her and results in leaf clawing, over 1.5 burns her tips.

 

[indifferent]

Couple of macros showing her promising resin production:

 

[oldbootz]

looking promising indeed

 

[BioPart]

Looking good. highly professional appearance Sativa in my opinion
I read that Affrican strains are very psychedelic, I never smoked, but I love to watch..

 

[indifferent]

looking promising indeed

Cheers man, she has a fair bit more resin than either of my Durbans females, the bigger and later flowering of the two shown in pics below, she is at around 35 days of 12/12.

Looking good. highly professional appearance Sativa in my opinion
I read that Affrican strains are very psychedelic, I never smoked, but I love to watch..

It's certainly one of the more extreme sativas I've grown, looks like she will take a few more months to finish, I am going to reduce my lighting to 10/14 soon to encourage these Africans to finish.

 

[indifferent]

Some Durban macros, one of the males hermied so I'm keeping a close eye on these for male flowers, can't find any so far, fingers crossed!