Info on Tanzanian?/Tazmanian? Magic please, if thats what it is?.

[Esskie]

Hi there peeps,
I wonder if you good peole can help me pin this one down please?.
To fill in the picture, so to speak, I recieved them from Penguin of Seeds from the Igloo amongst a few other packets of various strains/packs just as he/they were closing down.
The packet has only TM on it?, taking Penguins location of Australia I'd thought Tazmanian something?, Magic maybe?. But African Seeds used to have a Tanzanian Magic advertised on SeedsDirect but I never got to read about it or see any pics.

Typically, I don't have any pics of it right now but will get some taken & uploaded by tomorrow at the latest so you can see it.
Until then I can say it looks to contain a fair amount of sativa going by the look of the plant's slim, narrow fingered fan leaf etc,. It's also a nice healthy lime to lush green colour, there were 4 germinated and there are 4 plants so if theres 4 females then stroll on!.

Basically, atm I just wondered if anyone has maybe any info, pics etc, on Tanzanian Magic or even a Tanzanian?. Anyone grown anything from the southern hemisphere with the characteristics described above?.

All the best, Esskie

 

[Esskie]

Pics!!

Pics!!

Hi there,
As promised in my first post, here are a couple of pics of 3 of 4 of these plants at approx 2 months old?, maybe a tad older?. They've been vegged under three crappy 30w fluros so they're smaller than I'm used to a 2month old plant being!.


I'd read that Tanzanian Magic can show

Leaves pencil slim.

:Genotype: Sativa
Indoor Maturation: 55 to 60 days
Sex Possibilities: Standard (M/F)
Stature: Very short and squat
African Seeds-
Original seed stock from the highland tea growing region in southern tanzania, this short fast flowering sativa gives short stocky plants with sticky compact buds. Leaves pencil slim. Suited well to indoor growing under lights or behind glass, flowering starts in 4 weeks with large bud formation in 8-10weeks. Good for cooler outdoor climates. Very potent electric high.

Well I'd say thats the Tanzanian out the window then huh .
The fingers on these fans are far from "pencil thin"!!..


I know the net makes the world a very small place but thinking geographically, thinking, Penguin/Igloo seeds were an Australian company (yes?) which isn't but a mere skip across not a lot of water from Tazmania. I know these could literally be anything! and theres nothing to even say Tazmanian but even if anyone thinks they look just like like the plants your growing, what are you growing at the moment?! lol.


It would be nice to investigate these a bit more if I can but we'll see how it goes for now, they're all very uniform btw. All 4 are near identical!. The pics are of 3 in 12/12 atm, 1 is still in veg as I want to see how long it takes to show sex in veg, these are just showing sex now after 3wks in 12/12 and it's just single pair of pistils no bigger than you get on vegging females. That could be a point worth noting?, the fact they don't kick in to flower for a while after put to 12/12.


Infact 2 of these are definately females but one isn't showing yet still, at 3wks.

This pic below is actually a pair of beautiful females that got taken away, they came from Gypsy's Magical Mystery Mix (MMM). Both are early on in flower here but they both developed typical skunk type long branching just covered with bud right along the length of the branches.

It/they? both also cloned easily enough but the more I look at the 'TM'? they seem similiar looking?, is it just me or does anyone think so?.




ATB, Esskie.

 

[Rattrap]

Hay esskie; nice looking babies!
I'm in tasmania (notice the 's' not the 'z') & i've never heard of that strain, not that i know everyone in Tassie! But i don't know of any seedbanks in Australia either which is a real pitty.

 

[Esskie]

Hi there Rattrap,
Hope you had a great xmas my friend and thanx for taking a minute to answer my post, it's appreciated.

Btw, I'm not dissing the way Tasmania is spelt bro . You see the seeds came from Seeds from the Igloo aswell as a few others as Penguin sent me a lot of his breeding stock & intermediates just as Igloo were shutting shop & they were in there.

I can't even remember where the Tasmanian Magic name came from but I was sure thats what they are but?...

The closest I've found (to the name anyway!) do you remember SeedsDirect before SeedBoutique at all Rattrap?.
Well African Seeds had a strain listed on there called Tanzanian Magic & despite scouring the net for the Tasmanian, all I've turned up is that .

If you read the description on the link for Tanzanian_Magic though it sounds like it's very much sativa where are mine look like hybrids?.

I germinated 4 & 4 have sprouted, so far there are 3 in flower and 1 still in veg, that's not a bad germ ratio for beans approx 3-4yrs old!. That said they've been kept in a fridge and taken out briefly but this is the first time I've grown them.

Suppose it's down to me growing full-on & mostly Indicas all the time until coming round to sativas, it was just the length of time they took in 12/12 that put me off tbh!.
Then, I managed to get a perpetual harvest situation going so I had 3-4 plants to harvest every 2-3wks or so aslong as I kept the clones coming you know?.

Call it being fussy if you like? but I think I just prefer to know what I'm growing by strain? ie; Afghan x Skunk#1 etc instead of names chosen by the breeder but thats just me. At the end of the day it's the same bud & smokes the same so....

I think you're the first grower I've spoken to so close to that great big white chunk of ice due-south?, a few buddies in Oz but haven't caught up with any of them for ages!.

What you growing yourself there Rattrap?.

 

[Payaso]

Tasmanian Magic

Tasmanian Magic

Have you asked Wally Duck, he's here down under and knows alot about genetics indeed... I'll give him a shout... he's just up the road...

Meanwhile, there's some awfully good stuff down here, many varieties and most delightful LOL...!

If anyone knows about it that would be Wally Duck at the WallyDuck vendors forum...

Peace,
~Payaso

 

[Esskie]

Have you asked Wally Duck, he's here down under and knows alot about genetics indeed... I'll give him a shout... he's just up the road...

Meanwhile, there's some awfully good stuff down here, many varieties and most delightful LOL...!

If anyone knows about it that would be Wally Duck at the WallyDuck vendors forum...

Peace,
~Payaso

Hi there payaso,
You know mate, I never thought about asking W.D, I've been offline since around May/June (I think?) & I have to admit to loosing contact with a lot of good friends, also the general goings on here at IC.

You know, these might not even be native to that part of the world just because they came from a breeder in Australia!. He did say he'd sent me some of his breeding stock but Penguin's strains were predominantly Ozghani, Ozgum, Guava#1, W1347 (W.Widow/G13/AK47/LPS) & LPS (Local Purple Sativa). The latter I had 2 of but they were taken too .

Methinks I'll just call em 'TM' as I've been doing. You gotta call em something?! , and just do a grow thread without any genetic details.

I have to say though, what I saw of that LPS (Local Purple Sativa) was/is a cracking looking plant & I would take more of those if they were to crop up
ATB, Esskie

 

[Rattrap]

Hay Esskie, yeah i was only messing with u over the spelling of Tasmania.
I've got an indoor scrog of Bubbleious & hollands hoop (2 of each) under a 600W HPS at the moment.
I also have a couple of outdoor girls i'm expermenting with. Last year my outdoor was a major fuckup. After fighting off hungry wallabies, possums, rabbits & bush rats i got hit with bud rot. when it comes in cold here it comes in real quick & wet. They were just some beans a mate gave me, i've seen his end product & it was good but then he's a lot lower in elevation - at almost sea level so he has a much longer growing season & a gentler onset of winter. Also they were a sativa strain - long flowering. This year i've put some hollands hoop & bubbleious outdoors, both are indica & fast flowering. And finally, to replace the scrog when its done, i've just planted some Lightstorm beans, sadly only 3 successful germinations but thats OK, i like to keep my plant numbers down.

I know what u mean about knowing your strains, i have a couple of packs of beans that i'm yet to put in because i don't know just what they are so i'm leaving to later.

 

[Guest]

I just found the following description on some seeds from a private breeder known as "Goldking"

Tanzian magic is a pure african sativa, she is reported to be a autoflowering strain that shows sex at 4wks and grows to only one meter..i found them to show sex under 24/7 light at 6-8 weeks.but they did not autoflower and bud due to my geographical location which has no outdoor photoperiod only 24/7 summer sun. they did however stop growing at one meter even after spending 157 days under the 24/7 sun. they flower fine under 12/12 lights indoor producing long slender spicy flavored buds.. i believe due to its short stature it would be a great stealth like outdoor plant and with any photoperiod they should finish in 8-10 weeks as advertised. pencil thin sativa leaves. these seeds (10pk) are TM x TM not f2s but still InBreed pure.

 

[Harry Gypsna]

Esskie mate///LPS, istill got those ones man....u want back??

 

[goldking]

tanzian magic

tanzian magic

I,d guess you have some tanzanian magic seeds, or a mild cross. that originated from the African Seed co. some time ago.

they were advertised as flowering by age and not by photoperiod and only growing to a 1 meter height.

i found them to presex early but not flower under 24/7 light. they did not grow over a meter tall no matter how long in the 24/7 sunshine.

Tanzania africa does have a Photoperiod so i can only guess they might bud by age with 14/10 -16/8 photoperiod, but i can quarantee they don,t flower under 24/7 like Lowryder does

funny but i actually have some growing now for another auto flower breeding project.

the leaf in the pix does look a little wider then what i had, but it can be just a diff pheno, or a cross???? or a Tasmanian Magic (if there is such a strain)

i,m surprised anyone read my post, let alone saved one all these years LOL

stay warm GK

 

[Arf]

Yeah, they were just that pheno, I sent the seeds to ThePenguin back in 2002, they were F2's I made from African Seeds Tanzanian Magic I got from Gypsy, I thin TP grew them out and made F3s. Some of the phenos were crazy, pencil thin but terrible yield indoors. I remember one which was a 3 foot high plant with with 12" from the cotyledons to the first node, and all the other internodes being an inch or so apart, looked like a small thin 3' high mop. I didn't send him that pheno! Are African Seeds still around? They had some interesting lines back then.

 

[bigmotaman48]

I grew Tanzanian Magic 10 years ago they have pencil thin I really mean pencil thin leaves , these are probably not Tanzanian Magic and they are also very short like Hindu Kush just with the thinnest leaves I have ever seen . The smoke was like church incense smelled odd wake and bake stuff .

 

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