New Caledonia and Zamaldelica x Kullu on the Chernozem

[yoss33]

New Caledonia, which has the quick flowering initiation, big seeds and the resin of an indica. The resin is pungent and smells extremely attractive, sour fruity. It reminded me from the first whiff of a very compact hybrid plant grown by a friend from bag seed (unknown strain) some 20 years ago. It had a stony high but didn't really had the change to cure before being smoked. But I still remember that fruity smell with a sharp tasty sour note.

 

[yoss33]

ZamKullu, was surprisingly early to start flowering, but flowers slowly so far:

And a photo of the Kullu plant that was harvested for seeds from the ZamKullu male and revegged after that under the big New Caledonia plant. It's about but still hasn't started flowering:

 

[yoss33]

New Caledonia in the sunshine

 

[dubi]

Love the explosive vigor and growth of your outdoor plants every year yoss How tall are this year the ones from seed ?

It must be really exciting to have local hemp growing every season in big patches nearby your place, although must be a nightmare to keep your ganja plants sinsemilla.
Now i understand better why (beside your preference for the clearer pure sativa effects without ceiling) your preference for late flowering sativas for your northern latitude, to try to avoid most of pollen coming from the hemp plants.

Love to see your New Caledonia female already starting strong with the flowering and producing appealing resins and terpenes since the beginning.

 

[kokomarin]

New Caledonia looking perfect,kullus crosses also,pure kullus seems to late to trigger flowering.
I have some what still not flowering in original haze,and thhxoh from seeds.
But never ending summer,high temp,warm wind ,animals,pests and humans,in illegal mode,messing with never ending,low yelding
hazes is clear sighn of my madness
Wish you healty unseeded harvest,Yoss!





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[yoss33]

Thanks, Koko! I wish you to harvest enough to feed your madness for a year Original Haze must be starting to flower right now. It started on the 15th of September here, like most pure sativas, and only the most extreme (like Oldtimer's Haze x Thai) started later (beginning of October). I'm crossing fingers for your Hazes, would love to hear the season on the Balkans has been good for Haze
I guess the Kullu plant would have already be flowering too, if it was a big full-season plant instead of being put to flower in the summer and left to revegged. I did the same with last year's Kullu plants, which too started flowering late, but most probably would have started a few weeks earlier if full-season plants.

Hey, Dubi, hemp patches are a great sight! They are abundant in some areas, and missing in other parts of the country. Sometimes I see Romanian guys who travel to Greece for vacation by car and pass through Bulgaria can't resist but stop by the road and pick some hemp flowers hoping it will get them high, drying it on the car's engine or smuggling it back to Romania It seems they haven't seen and smoked hemp. We here learn it's worthless to try as soon as we start smoking, heh.
I have 3 friends growing within 30km from my place, and all 3 of them suffer much more from hemp pollen. My place is in a small valley with many trees that catch some of the pollen. Outside of the valley, on the big plane, every flower in July and August easily gets pollinated. Growing plants that start to flower in September is a "trick" that many growers here are not even aware of, because they buy only hyped strains that are all hybrids and flower quickly. Only greenhouses can save the early strains, to a varying degree of success.
On your question about the height of the 2 big plants, as far as I can measure, the ZamKullu is just above 4 meters and New Caledonia is some 30cm taller. They haven't grown in height much in the last month, more in width and thickness (small branches). It's been a dry second half of the summer and I'm watering a lot just to have the plants live. I have them big enough
We are now having a cold wave coming, it's still only windy but occasional rains are forecasted for the following 3 days. Because of the winds, one of the New Caledonia's branches started to break from the main stem, so it's now supported. In general, this plant's branches don't seem very strong in how they connect with the main stem, I hope not to have many broken branches when they get heavier from buds and rain.

 

[yoss33]

Another one of New Caledonia's branches broke during stronger winds a few days ago, this one fatally and was "harvested". I was tempted to take early samples anyways, and now I have enough to sample. The first impressions from dried in microwave oven samples are quite positive. Even microwaved, it has kept part of its flavors, and is tasty and flavorful, and the high is very nice - strong enough, with some pleasant body. In general, a bright mostly-sativa hybrid with positive feelings, no raciness or edge. Both the flavor and effect remind my of Nirvana's Nirvana Special (later called Royal Flush), that was Mexican Sativa x Jock Horror, but New Caledonia feels more pure sativa with more quality uplifting effect.
So far, both flavor and effect are just like advertised.

 

[dubi]

Thanks yoss33 glad you are enjoying some early NC samples from small broken branches while the rest of the big plant ripens All the best for autumn!

 

[TexasTea]

I bet you could harvest a bunch of that wild hemp and make CBD extracts.

 

[yoss33]

Sure, I guess I could, though I'd rather just buy some, as it's widely available

Some photos from a few days ago.

New Caledonia

 

[yoss33]

Kullu

Zam x New Caledonia

Zam x ZamKullu

And a small plant growing on its own, from fallen seed on the track to my spot, most probably ZamJarilla x hemp

 

[yoss33]

ZamKullu

 

[yoss33]

Damn, the effect of barely-dried ZamKullu, picked a week ago, with still small trichomes only on the flowers, is superb, and potent! Even more than Kullu, it makes me wonder how such small total trichome volume can pack such a punch. Even if these trichomes are made of 100% THC, it still is a small amount for how it kicks. It seems the mother Zam's insane potency has coupled with Kullu's small trichomes.
Pure stimulation, really all in the head, until I smoked more and got that tight throat feeling (ball in throat) that goes with anxiety, but here it was a sort of pleasant anxiety. Superb rush without bad feelings.
One hit from the pipe in the morning and it feels like some great soft Arabica coffee.

 

[yoss33]

I've been smoking almost exclusively ZamKullu for the last 5 days, and I feel this is the most pure sativa I've ever smoked! And it's very deeply moving, the closest to acid that I've tried. One hit from the pipe is like microdosing on the edge, 2 hits feel like strong weed and 3 hits make it hard to drive a car! So far, I haven't dared trying more hits
That was the good part, the bad part is that the ZamKullu plant is dying, or at least has its leaves dying. I don't know if it's from a strong morning frost, all other plants seem happy and not affected at all. But maybe this totally green plant is not cold resistant... Two other friends that grow in the area complained recently about big plants suddenly dying in early flowering without any obvious reason.
Anyways, even if the plant doesn't get much further, I'll have a bit to smoke. I'll also try the 2 ZamKullu plants grown by friends and if they are as good as my plant, we'll surely grow ZamKullu or Zam x ZamKullu next year again.

ZamKullu

 

[yoss33]

We don't have luck with the weather this season - it was very dry in the second half of summer, in September it was dry and cold, and now in October we have bad weather that is typical of November. The forecasts are for 5 days of rain starting from tomorrow, and 0*C after that... I'll be building a shelter (a mini-greenhouse) over a Purple Mexican plant that I grow for medical oil, so that it doesn't get all spoiled from the rains.
We'll see how the chunky New Caledonia handles the rains, it's too big to get protected. I'll harvest on the first signs of it starting to spoil.

 

[Hombre del mont]

Hi Yoss, where do you get the Zamkullu from, it sounds exciting!

 

[yoss33]

It's some seeds I made last year, the mother is a very trippy and potent Zamaldelica (2012 Ace release), and the father is a stable Kullu Valley male (2019 Khalifa seeds). I have about a hundred seeds left to play with. Also about 50 seeds of Zam (same Zam mother) x ZamKullu male (a pungent one) - a backcross to the mother. Me and my local grower friends will surely play more with these seeds in the following years.
Seeing how nice ZamKullu is, I'm also keen on trying some of the Purple Mexican x ZamKullu seeds that I made this season. I tried sprouting some seeds as early as they were harvested in July, but it was too hot and dry already and they didn't sprout/survive.
Here's the Purple Mexican clone that I used for the seeds, revegging after the seed harvest and now flowering again, this time sinsemilla. Just built some shelter for it, preparing it for the coming rains.

It's strange that I've grown this same Purple Mexican plant at ecactly the same place last year, and then it started flowering earlier, had red buds and the flowering smell was mostly common indica smell, and this year it started flowering 2-3 weeks later, has purple buds and the flowering smell is quite more exotic, more in line with the other Purple Mexican plants that I've smelled. Maybe the cold September and October now are making the difference?

 

[dubi]

Wow! That ZamKullu sounds truly electric and trippy yoss33 your smoke report is really intriguing, especially considering your experience and taste for these type of effects.
A pitty ZamKullu is not showing good cold resistance ... there are several reason why a plant can suddenly die in that way in a few days, and in your case obviously seems to be too much cold. I also find that fully green tropical sativa plants less resistant to cold than their colorful counterparts from same-similar genepool.

The upcoming days of cold wave are going to be a rough yet interesting test for the New Caledonian.

 

[TexasTea]

Wow, super interesting developments. Your NC is amazing looking, and zam ku smoke report sounds great.

I have a Purple Mexican going indoors, halfway through flowering and perfectly healthy, that suddenly threw some balls...I spied some white dust on lower leaf yesterday...can't figure that one out as I don't think there were any stressors

 

[TexasTea]

Man, I would take a few branches as an insurance policy now ...