Finding Ethiopian strain.

[Stone Locust]

Heh, thanks man.

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[Alfred-cannaria]

Hi people.

BH, i´m agree with your preservation project, and if i can help you i´ll help you for all. Lmn and many people of canary islands are growing strains of many diferents parts of world, like to: Angola Roja, Bangui, Chitral, Chinesse cross with bangui and anymore. I like so veryt much the preservations porject and i´ll help you while you want.

Peace and love.

 

[Guest]

Cheers Alfred.

 

[Guest]

When I look at the list of strains that African Seeds used to sell I really wish I'd bought them all when I had the chance!

I think we have all the lines in hands now, but we need to reproduce them.

The Ethiopian is saved as we tested it with different growers, it was very nice to understand its different phenos. I think there are more than 1,000 seeds of it now. Some are F3 and F4 generations some are younger. Some people are still studying clones to understand better what is due to growing conditions and what is due to genetic.

At least, you know they are not lost at all for the internet place. It was quite hard to find multiple and reliable seed sources to maximize the founder population but hopefully, our numbers will be sufficient (around 20 original individuals per strain). It just takes a lot of time to do the work in a correct way.

 

[Alfred-cannaria]

Hi little and welcome.

The first idea is recuperate all the strains of African sees and reporduce it, it´s very difficult but i want to try this operation. In this moment searching Ethiopian and Tanzanian magic.

 

[Ganico]

I was gonna buy "Swazi Red" from african seeds, but like an asshole I put it off and they got bought, so now I'll never be able to try them.

Anyway, I also was looking for "Ethiopian Highland" for a while, I was told it had a mellow, euphoric sativa high, and that it was mainly a single colar plant, so it would be a nice strain to breed for it's structural qualities and well as to take some of the edge off of sativas that are too speedy without adding any indica

Hope it's available again someday

 

[Guest]

Anyway, I also was looking for "Ethiopian Highland" for a while, I was told it had a mellow, euphoric sativa high, and that it was mainly a single colar plant, so it would be a nice strain to breed for it's structural qualities and well as to take some of the edge off of sativas that are too speedy without adding any indica

She is a very complex lady, with many different potential highs according to how you grow it, when you harvest it and how you cure it.

There is one pheno that is columnar which finishes quickly. There is another pheno which is branchy with smaller buds, longer to finish. We are still wondering if this is simply a phenotype due to grow conditions or if they are genetic. I used to see a clone that was firstly branchy and then became columnar as we improved our grow conditions.

Here are some pics to explain better:

you can find a template about the strain here: http://www.vibescollective.org/strainguide/index.php/landraces/landrace/6/en

with different pics of the strain , various grow conditions from fluoros to hps/mh systems...


She is a Top 3 for me without a doubt. I should grow it in september, there is now 3 years since I grew the Ethiopian and I'm excited as if it was the first time although it is the fifth time I grow it myself !

 

[Alfred-cannaria]

Hi littel man, the pics are impresionant, have you more information Ethipian? liko to: taste, smell, yield??, if i have good luck, as soon as posible i´ll grow this strain, it´s very important for me.

Peace and love.

 

[Guest]

I remember a grow of Ethiopian Highland on the old OG site, the guy grew them outdoors and had two phenos, one was shorter, columnar, finished pretty quick, the other was a mroe bushy, more sativa type that took longer, just like little man describes. The shorter one was supposed to be the more sedativa smoke whereas the other one was quite uplifting.

 

[Guest]

Hi littel man, the pics are impresionant, have you more information Ethipian? liko to: taste, smell, yield??, if i have good luck, as soon as posible i´ll grow this strain, it´s very important for me.

Peace and love.

Hmm taste is special, as is smell. Not frequent to say the least. The yield is actually good for a pure sativa.

Big Book of buds says:
"Ethiopian Highland buds are loose, long and fluffy, tucked between the slender, light green foliage. When smoked, it has a very strong, burley Turkish aroma wich a licorice aftertaste. The buzz is electric and energetic, good for recreation or daytime use because mental clarity in intact and potentail for couchlock is low."

I agree with the licorice taste, smells also like tea. The high is very very dependent of your grow conditions, varying from a mellow inspirating high to a electric high very powerful with music.

Here are some pics of a member of our community named Polaris that grew it recently. The grower is good because the Ethiopian is not an easy strain.

Branchy pheno






Columnar pheno

 

[Alfred-cannaria]

OOOOOuuuuuu, incredible, i can smell this pics, hehehe.

 

[Alfred-cannaria]

How many phenos could find on this special strain?? and how is the level odor?

 

[Guest]

Ah, thoe remind of the old grow I saw on OG with a columnar pheno and a branchy pheno. I'm actually watching a documentary about rastafarianism now and they showed olf newsreel footage of ganja harvesting in Ethiopia, wasn't easy to make out many details of the plants though. And in a funny coincidence I was chatting to a friend on antoher site today and he said 'I just found a bag of Ethiopian Highland beans, I know you;re into landrace sats, want half?' so I'm hoping 20 Ethiopians will be landing on my doorstep shortly. Good timing for me as my Durban Poison failed to germ and I was going to pop some other sativa beans to replace them and I have some landrace beans from Southern Egypt a week old so be nice to have two different strains from Northeast Africa at the same time for comparisons sakes, although I was told the Egyptian seeds are a hash cultivar so maybe an indica, Egyptian x Ethiopian sounds like an interesting cross, depending on if I find any really nice individuals.

 

[Alfred-cannaria]

Hi Bh, today i was remembering your egyptian seeds, i hope that all are nice. Are indicas the egypcian strains?? sound very good, if you reproduce it we could make some change. Egyptian strain sound really interesting.

Cheers.

 

[Highlighter]

Most all the Egyptian strains originate via the beduoin smuggling routes thru Sinai, via Lebanon/Israel. Not to say they couldn't come from Ethiopian sources. :wink: Luxor & Dahab are the best places to score in Egypt.

 

[Alfred-cannaria]

Then egypcian seeds could have something in common with Libanese red??? it´s very

 

[Guest]

I am completely in the dark about the origins of these Egyptians seeds, I obtained them in Luxor a couple of years ago and was told they are from the plants grown locally for hashish. This could mean they are a middle eastern strain imported for hash production, or they could be an indigenous cultivar related to Sudanese and Ethiopian types. If they are an introduced middle eastern variety, they could have been introduced a long time ago and have become somewhat different due to acclimatisation to southern Egypt. Another possibility is that the seeds come from a variety that was imported to Egypt in herbal form and grown somewhere else in the region, it's all a mystery.

 

[Alfred-cannaria]

This mistery sound very good, i hope that as soon as posible show us some pics about this mistical strain, i´m very interesting.

Greeting.

 

[moe]

any update on the graal friends ?

 

[Limeygreen]

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