Breeding for the best stimulating effect

[Carraxe]

I dont think all plants of New Caledonia have 20% thc. most plants I got were mild in potency. there are some exceptions though. a lot of them shorter flowering ones remind me mexicans. dubi was talking about mexican hashplant.. like this one:

smelled great! fruity lemony.

crossed with mextiza, it can be good weed, better than most "mexicans" available today. and very uppity stimulating. I recommend it for your stimulating effect breeding.

Nice to know about these Caledonians. I always make selections to get the preferred specimens, let's see what I get. I've seen your pictures and they look very good.

Mextiza is one of the most appreciated cuts I use for crosses, and I usually cross her with all the sativas I grow. I know this strain very well and I know the downsides of doing that systematically, specially while planning on long term breeding, but what I get out of this cut is magic. I've never seen anything so extreme, and its magic effect when crossed with long flowering sativas, but selection and continuous outcrossing are mandatory.

Let me know if you grow this cross before I make it, it looks very well, but it will take me some months to do. Now I'm busy with the Taskentis.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

I've used this sunny day to make some macro pics with an old compact camera. These are Jack Herer, TAM and Thai Angola buds.

This one is the Jack. Big flowers, big trichomes all around. Bud looks obviously like the hybrid it comes from, but this strain has been developed using mostly sativa genetics. Effect is very strong but mixed, after a head high there is a comedown. Still one of my favorite strains: fast, strong, productive (for a sativa leaning hybrid), tasty and vital. I've just made S1 from this one.

This other one under this text is the Thai Angola. She is completely different. Flowers are minuscule, trichomes are very very little and they are all over the flowers, but not in the leaves, just some in the tiniest ones. It is, no doubt, the purest Sativa I keep always in my garden. I even think it could be the real deal, made just with F1-ing unmixed genetics. Its characteristics are the ones I'd expect over a cross made with pure sativa plants grown and selected for generations without mixing with any hashplant or any other indica.

The second pic is a zoom over the first.

And this one is my favourite. TAM. This one is a selected specimen I've kept for years. The cross of the Thai Angola with the Mextiza has brought a plant that carries the amount of resin of the Oaxaca '79 and at the same time an effect that is much better than Mextiza's but also much stronger than the delicate special Thai Angola effect.

Trichomes are mixed in size, somewhere between JH and Thai Angola. But the amount of resin all around the leaves is spectacular. The second pic is a zoom over the first.

So, that's it. The goal of all this work is to get plants with the biggest amount of resin, easy to grow, tasty, but also that have an effect with no comedown. And the trick for that, as always, is to cross and select.

Sweet smokes

 

[Chills]

Wow very beautyfull. Thank you for sharing, it was a pleasure to read.

 

[MAHA KALA]

well I have different opinion on mextiza as far as the effect goes, but I will not present it here, it is you thread, I respect your opinion. I crossed oaxacan79/mextiza males to some haze cuts, like titans haze, posi haze phenos or incense haze/sweet skunk, and it was good. so I agree that oaxacan79 genetics is good parent for longer flowering sativas and its terps are top top

 

[MAHA KALA]

angola thai looks good. good luck with taskenti.

 

[Carraxe]

angola thai looks good. good luck with taskenti.

Thanks man. Hope your grows go well and you keep getting nice experiences with these plants.

About Mextiza... I think I understand you. I got bored of her years ago and I haven't flowered her for anything else than making seeds, or the occasional mother plant I flower once a year to keep the memory alive. Taste is special, maturation time is unbeatable for a sativa, but the effect isn't as inspiring as it was years ago, when I discovered it and was my inspiration for a long time.

But I like a lot Mextiza for a breeding tool, I haven't found anything better ever.

Every cross I make with her and some extremer sativa I get something better, I believe you agree on that since you have been doing something similar for a while, if I'm correct. So I suppose that each one of us is crossing and selecting guided by our own taste.

I am an extremely seasoned smoker, it isn't rare that I smoke 5-10 grams of weed most of days. It means, appart that I have a lot of memory loss, that many plants I smoke in the fine special landrace-ish sativa extreme don't have much effect on me. Even when I charge such an enormous load in a Volcano, for example, that it would be impossible to smoke in a joint, effects I get are fun but not strong enough.

It is that special combo between Mextiza and other sativas that does the trick for me, and it has worked for several years. I know Oaxaca '79 based strains have a very narrow gene pool that means that outcrosses are mandatory and you have to be careful not to put too much of it on any cross. But still, I'm crossing it and enjoying quite a lot.

Enjoy whatever does the trick for you. After the so many years of smoke I wear, there is nothing that can get me high in a stimulating way at night once I've been heavily cannabis-stimulated since first hour in the morning. That's the moment I swap TAM for Taskenti.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

A friend sent me some pictures of the TAM cut grown in a greenhouse at a very wet Atlantic weather at 42ºN. It made it very well till the second half of October, and it wasn't fertilized until the last week, but still looks good.

 

[Carraxe]

I've been watching a looot of variation between the TAM and Black Domina hybrids. Some of them look like hashplants while others look like sativa-leaning hybrids. There is a lot of selection possibilities in case I want to keep testing this cross. Some look like great producers.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

I love the ultra-flash-flowering genetics from the Mextiza. These TAM from seed have it expressed and after just a week under 12h of light, I've already figured out the males.

Since I plan to use them as breeding material, the most of them I use the better. So I've made a quick selection and I just discarded one whose phyllotaxis didn't match the model. I've found that phyllotaxis is the most important and easy to spot morphological characteristics and one of the first symptoms of a gene pool depression.

These in the pics are the other males, looking healthy and energetic, slender, thin and flexible. After rubbing the stems they smell like spring and summer, fresh, weedy and floral like sativas tend to do. Indicas and hybrids have usually harsher bouquets.

Sweet smokes