Ethiopian sativa

[weedsmoker420]

My Ethiopian adventure is still going on. I got 5 females which seemed to fall into two types - shorter and somewhat manageable (left), and taller and stretchy, almost vine-like (right). I kept one of each and cloned them to flower out.

They were on 12/12 light schedule for a few weeks, now down to 11/13.

 

[dubi]

Excited to learn through the flowering stage more about your 5 indoor Ethiopian girls @weedsmoker420

 

[weedsmoker420]

Excited to learn through the flowering stage more about your 5 indoor Ethiopian girls @weedsmoker420

Thanks dubi! My description may have been unclear - I actually only kept two females, one of the shorter type and one taller.

I vegged them all until they showed sex, selected the two females I liked best, took clones, and put one clone of each into flowering light schedule a week after they rooted. I'm glad I didn't let them veg any longer, because those two tiny clones are now pretty well filling my 3x3ft tent...

 

[Sensistar42]

Lemon, wood, sweet, Ethiopian at week 9 for the first 2 and then the rest are week 11.

 

[Sensistar42]

A few shots at week 13ish wrong filter though so a little yellow looking. Compared to my green honduras top bud next to it.

 

[dubi]

Are you getting pretty decent buds for your first time growing these types indoors @Sensistar42 already finishing the Ethiopian ?

 

[Sensistar42]

Are you getting pretty decent buds for your first time growing these types indoors @Sensistar42 already finishing the Ethiopian ?

Sorry didn’t see the message. Yes I would say they are decent size for being in a 1 gallon pot. The one pictured had a 2week veg in the 1 gallon before flip. The stretch was much bigger on this one then the more orangey citrus one.
It was bent in a z shape pattern against the trellis. So it didn’t go above the lights.

They are down now, all of the run. I took pics of everything and will post them up. When I get them on the camera.

This one pictured after a day of cure, same lemon wood sweet as before and feels like coffee, but relaxed.

I feel like with this strain it’s a straight coffee feel at its base and genetics. So what ever you feel after a cup of coffee is how it makes your mental state feel.

But then add the terpenes to it and how they effect your body.

So for me I’m learning the lemon woody sweet feels cheerful, euphoric, but relaxed from the sweetness of it (Ocimine).

So like if anyone was wondering it feels a cup of morning coffee and a really light relaxed hybrid combined. My lemon wood sweet pheno.

Then the citrusy one, last time if I had .5 g or more with coffee it was almost too much of a coffee feel in the morning. Love it, but I believe you gotta watch having the coffee effect with added coffee. can’t wait to try this one. Maybe I will later today!!

These 2 will in my upcoming seed run of making an open pollenation of China yunnan. I don’t think they will have a decent winter run with how my set up is, only 72 in the house with the tent against a wall and with leds.

I’m hoping the China will lower the flowering times on it, while adding some “cold” resistance to it and bumping up the trichome production.

I want to try the pck by itself in the future. I’ve only had Violeta and the oily mechanics grease terpenes gave me and the gf slight headaches when having it. Which will be crossed to the China as well and then let go. But I’m assuming it was the purple Malawi in it. So I want to try the green citrus phenos and grape ones to see if either work medicinally or just vibe with my life and give that a shot against the sativas I have. I just can make a bunch of possible headache strains since we are sensitive.

Thy being said I love the orient express and it’s been my go to cannabis to make my mind feel completely normal and functional as far as adhd/autism goes so I’m giving the China repro a shot to see how it does by itself. And to figure out if it’s terpene profile,the Vietnam black or the China itself.

 

[burningfire]

Nice.

That was my experience with the pure Ethiopian. Very active and coffee like. My tolerances for caffeine and thc are both quite low relatively and coffee with the Ethiopian was clearly too much for me. I did find myself pacing around the room trying to find my keys.

The duration wasn't the longest but there was this nice feeling of being lifted and carried by the crown, just something that makes you stand taller. I had a tester bud from the CBD1 x Ethiopian and that lifting feeling was present.

I made a cross with the Ethiopian and a plant that has some PCK ( a green lively one ) in it.
While my cross contains a personal Nepalese in the mix and the selection doesn't lean heavily on the PCK it still has the resin coverage and contented feeling the PCK usually brings. I only could grow 3 of the resulting cross and while one was tighter in bud structure the effect was kind of cold and muted in a weird way. My favorite had the clear and happy head of the Ethiopian with a little more intoxication of the NCH cross. The taste and aromas were very minty. That's a plus for me as the NCH cross lacks in the flavor department. It's only a little slow for outdoors @ 45N but it still produced very potent bud

I would go for it.

( my favorite pheno of the Ethiopian cross from last year, ethiopian bud structure with increased resin coverage )

 

[Sensistar42]

Nice.

That was my experience with the pure Ethiopian. Very active and coffee like. My tolerances for caffeine and thc are both quite low relatively and coffee with the Ethiopian was clearly too much for me. I did find myself pacing around the room trying to find my keys.

The duration wasn't the longest but there was this nice feeling of being lifted and carried by the crown, just something that makes you stand taller. I had a tester bud from the CBD1 x Ethiopian and that lifting feeling was present.

I made a cross with the Ethiopian and a plant that has some PCK ( a green lively one ) in it.
While my cross contains a personal Nepalese in the mix and the selection doesn't lean heavily on the PCK it still has the resin coverage and contented feeling the PCK usually brings. I only could grow 3 of the resulting cross and while one was tighter in bud structure the effect was kind of cold and muted in a weird way. My favorite had the clear and happy head of the Ethiopian with a little more intoxication of the NCH cross. The taste and aromas were very minty. That's a plus for me as the NCH cross lacks in the flavor department. It's only a little slow for outdoors @ 45N but it still produced very potent bud

I would go for it.

( my favorite pheno of the Ethiopian cross from last year, ethiopian bud structure with increased resin coverage )

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Yes!! That’s exactly what I’m trying to get out of these crosses I want to make. Thanks for posting that because it makes my thoughts plausible.

And I know if I ever want to do outdoor I need to have some temp resistance and flowering time reduction. Near Buffalo Ny.

That being said I had my citrusy pheno last night and damn I gotta say I was running around last night with tons of energy and happiness, but I had a headache from the begining of the day and it didn’t help that. Not as happy as the sweet one but I believe it’s give and take with that. This one and my orient are my top two strains I’ve seen so far for energy. Orient being more relaxed then this one but makes me want to clean and do home improvements etc.

 

[Sensistar42]

Had some of my citrusy pheno before trick or treating last night to bring my energy up from being sick. It’s nice being able to medicate and and have energy to run door to door with the kid with out being Stoney.

 

[weedsmoker420]

My Ethiopian adventure continues...

The plant on the right was slow to start flowering but is now almost all brown pistils without much reflowering. The smell is vaguely floral, not really something I recall smelling in weed before. Not a strong scent but very intriguing...I cut a couple a tester buds from it today just to sample it, which is not something I often do...

The left side plant is looking a bit more stressed out, but steadily growing new white pistils. I'm excited to see how it turns out!

 

[dubi]

Thanks for the correction @weedsmoker420 Your 2 girls are forming great looking colas and so far i like traits from both expressions. How many weeks are they into flowering ?

 

[dubi]

Sorry didn’t see the message. Yes I would say they are decent size for being in a 1 gallon pot. The one pictured had a 2week veg in the 1 gallon before flip. The stretch was much bigger on this one then the more orangey citrus one.
It was bent in a z shape pattern against the trellis. So it didn’t go above the lights.

They are down now, all of the run. I took pics of everything and will post them up. When I get them on the camera.

This one pictured after a day of cure, same lemon wood sweet as before and feels like coffee, but relaxed.

I feel like with this strain it’s a straight coffee feel at its base and genetics. So what ever you feel after a cup of coffee is how it makes your mental state feel.

But then add the terpenes to it and how they effect your body.

So for me I’m learning the lemon woody sweet feels cheerful, euphoric, but relaxed from the sweetness of it (Ocimine).

So like if anyone was wondering it feels a cup of morning coffee and a really light relaxed hybrid combined. My lemon wood sweet pheno.

Then the citrusy one, last time if I had .5 g or more with coffee it was almost too much of a coffee feel in the morning. Love it, but I believe you gotta watch having the coffee effect with added coffee. can’t wait to try this one. Maybe I will later today!!

These 2 will in my upcoming seed run of making an open pollenation of China yunnan. I don’t think they will have a decent winter run with how my set up is, only 72 in the house with the tent against a wall and with leds.

I’m hoping the China will lower the flowering times on it, while adding some “cold” resistance to it and bumping up the trichome production.

I want to try the pck by itself in the future. I’ve only had Violeta and the oily mechanics grease terpenes gave me and the gf slight headaches when having it. Which will be crossed to the China as well and then let go. But I’m assuming it was the purple Malawi in it. So I want to try the green citrus phenos and grape ones to see if either work medicinally or just vibe with my life and give that a shot against the sativas I have. I just can make a bunch of possible headache strains since we are sensitive.

Thy being said I love the orient express and it’s been my go to cannabis to make my mind feel completely normal and functional as far as adhd/autism goes so I’m giving the China repro a shot to see how it does by itself. And to figure out if it’s terpene profile,the Vietnam black or the China itself.

Ethiopian indeed has a very clean, energetic effect without sedation, much like the green phenos of Honduras. I used to enjoy both with coffee in the mornings during testing before their release, and the mix really uplifted my work mornings.

 

[Sensistar42]

Ethiopian indeed has a very clean, energetic effect without sedation, much like the green phenos of Honduras. I used to enjoy both with coffee in the mornings during testing before their release, and the mix really uplifted my work mornings.

Interesting you say you like mixing bothe the honduras & ethiopian together in the morning. Im usually I single strain person at a time. But I’ve been testing what they feel like together for crosses and what happens when mixing the different terps profiles together. I feel like mixing the Ethiopian with the honduras, makes the dreamy/internal thought provoking down. And feels more mentally focused but still maintaining the more nerve relaxation and carefreeness of the honduras. I’m specifically talking about my purple honduras and both of the Ethiopian at different times.

Having being able to test both honduras my fluffy green pheno and my purple. I can tell the difference quite a lot. The purple is curing into a lime popsicle stick with meat at the end. And the green pheno is heavy on the floral then slight citrus and sweet wood. I feel like the heavier lime compared to most lemony like things has a more clear headed feel then a heavy floral. I’ve noticed this with the Ethiopian E1 which I do not run but will be in the open pollenation of chinas I’m doing was heavy floral and felt dumbing compared to any other of the Ethiopians.

Also I need to get those pictures up! I haven’t forgot!

 

[weedsmoker420]

Thanks for the correction @weedsmoker420 Your 2 girls are forming great looking colas and so far i like traits from both expressions. How many weeks are they into flowering ?

Thanks @dubi ! They are about 10 weeks into flowering in those pics. I can definitely see how this strain would be considered a high yielder.

 

[dubi]

Thanks @dubi ! They are about 10 weeks into flowering in those pics. I can definitely see how this strain would be considered a high yielder.

Such phenos are indeed high yielding under proper conditions for a pure sativa.

 

[weedsmoker420]

I've started harvesting my first Ethiopian, around 11 weeks since flip to 12/12 (now down to 10.5/13.5). Planning to gradually harvest it over the next couple of weeks.

A lot of the fan leaves are falling off but it doesn't look too bad from up close. Some bud shots

I've been smoking on the sample buds I cut last week and so far I really like it. Very chill, engaging, sociable, and no tiredness afterwards, basically as described in post #1 of this thread. Very different from the modern poly-hybrids that are everywhere nowadays. Feel like I need more of this strain in my life...

 

[dubi]

Glad early smoke tests are clean and promising keep us updated after 3 months of curing.
These tropical landrace sativas definitely deliver effects that are entirely different from modern Kush polyhybrids.

 

[weedsmoker420]

I started harvesting the second Ethiopian plant, around 12 weeks since flip to flower from a rooted clone. This one has a higher bud-to-leaf ratio and has been dropping what few leaves it had for the past few weeks

I chopped off the largest cola, which had basically no leaves left... Planning to do a gradual harvest over the course of a few weeks like I'm doing with the other plant

The lower buds aren't as mature but in are better health, I'll leave them to ripen a while...

The smell is very lemon/citrus right now

 

[dubi]

Looks very close to my favorite Ethiopian mum for all traits @weedsmoker420 congrats on the harvest, one of the best indoor Ethiopian grows i've seen here in the forums, thanks for sharing your experience, enjoy your well deserved harvest!