Congrats on your indoor NC harvest this August @Fronk
A tiny plant but very resinous and well developed! Eager to hear your smoke report after some curing, and once you get more familiarized with her, enjoy!
New Caledonia
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Congrats on your indoor NC harvest this August @Fronk
A tiny plant but very resinous and well developed! Eager to hear your smoke report after some curing, and once you get more familiarized with her, enjoy!
Congrats also on your NC harvest @Common Sense
glad you managed to finish her so well despite the initial revegging problems. Flowers look great, i would let the ripe 7-10 days more to my taste.Seems to be a classic potent sativa pheno of loud sweet fruity terps.
How would you describe her as she nears 3 months post harvest?
Happy indoor sativa harvests @entonces 
you did an excellent job with them during the hot summer.
Great colas on your New Caledonian after 95 days of flowering
Usually the purple ones are divergent expressions and not as fruity as the main pheno described in the strain description.
Please keep us updated in a couple of months with your insights about her!
you did an excellent job with them during the hot summer.Great colas on your New Caledonian after 95 days of flowering
Usually the purple ones are divergent expressions and not as fruity as the main pheno described in the strain description. Please keep us updated in a couple of months with your insights about her!
I totally agree with this. @dugzy Outdoor lines (especially tropical sativas) that have some hermie tendencies often show these traits more prominently indoors, especially when young plants are forced to flower before reaching sexual maturity. Some outdoor lines simply don't adapt well to indoor conditions, which can also lead to hermie problems indoors. Overfeeding with strong flowering fertilizers and stimulators also can further encourage these plants to display hermie traits indoors.
Great looking flower and expressions @Popey
glad the delicate sweet fruity terps are dominant in your plants. Let them cure a few weeks more and please get back to us with your first impressions!
Sorry to hear it @Cactus Squatter hopefully you miss enough this strain to germinate more seeds and look for more interesting females
thank you for seeds once more. it was very nice experience, worthy. and yeah very uplifting weed.Very happy you have found a couple of females of your taste of uplifting, cerebraal trippy effects @MAHA KALAWhat pollen donor did you choose to pollinate New Caledonia ?
I keep NC#4 and NC#5 cuts.
my NC#4 buds from cut are curing still. I will give smoke report when I will have time in winter...
I made NC#4 x three caledonian males, and NC#4 x posi haze. I also made few seeds of Kona Gold x three caledonian males...
NC#5
yes, it could be, I used that male only at heirlooms which contain some indica in it, like Kona Gold or Holyweed. now it is time to make step further and try him with some wilder sativas. and new caledonia long flowering ones can be right choice. like you say clear and energetic.
I am looking forward to your NC hybrids... do you have some ideas already?
Common Sense
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Yes, she is nearing 3 months in the jar. You are spot on, she does smell pretty loud, sweet fruity. The fruity is of the overripe cantaloupe type. Taste when vaped at 180° is for a short moment at first draws fruity, then more incensy, spicy with a menthol side.Congrats also on your NC harvest @Common Sense
Seems to be a classic potent sativa pheno of loud sweet fruity terps.
How would you describe her as she nears 3 months post harvest?
Her effects are outstanding. This is special cannabis for me.
I have never had anything like this before. She gives a very euphoric, clear and clean high that I can only describe as pure.
Never experienced weed with an effect so pure. She does come on with an energetic wave that you can feel as a slight buzz, but that wanes off and leaves you with a crystal clear head high without any buzz. It leaves you completely functional, enjoying what ever you like to enjoy doing with a smile forced on your face and yourself under full controll. Great for daytime use, obviously. The pheno I harvested is not very powerful and very kind, not racy at all. I would not call her particularly psychedelic and the closed eye visuals are not overly obtrusive. But the euphoric, uplifting effects of her are of the highest quality. From all the cannabis varieties I have tried, New Caledonia would be the champagne of cannabis. I am actually not a fan of real champage, but I think you get the point. For me, she is a strain for special occasions*. Would be great to try her out with others in a social setting.
I haven't had a chance to try Oldtimer's Haze, but I can imagine they might be similar.
* Edit: but not only for that...
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Thank you so much for the positive feedback @Common Sense when i read your description of the terps i knew you had the fruity pheno of blissful, bright, expansive and energetic effects. It's one of the best sativa highs i have had the pleasure to experience. Enjoy!
when i read your description of the terps i knew you had the fruity pheno of blissful, bright, expansive and energetic effects. It's one of the best sativa highs i have had the pleasure to experience. Enjoy!
Hi @MAHA KALA i'm in the middle of smoking tests of a New Caledonia (early hybrid pheno) x Kali China new hybrid that will be released next year as limited edition. I have many ideas in mind for breeding with the New Caledonia sativa phenos, but won't happen in short term since we are busy with other projects.
Unfortunately clones of the sativa keepers were lost
so we will need to look for keepers again from their offspring before planning any hybridization project.
good things need some time..
I see it is shorter flowering hybrid, but sounds nice.
NC#4 x posi haze babies
¿No tenéis planes de seguir trabajando con NC puro para estabilizar el fenotipo afrutado? Maybe a feminized version with a greater tendency towards that special phenotype?
I have some packs of NC seeds, but I don´t have enough time and space to working with regular seeds and searching a pheno
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Hi. After a month of curing I tested all 3 phenotypes.
I started with 1 - pheno called "tall"
The best of all three. Very happy high, feeling of lightness of the body, minimal anxiety at the beginning (which was easily overcome, and I am very sensitive to THC). I don't think I have ever smoked weed that had such a happy sativa effect without other negative accompanying symptoms (paranoia, drowsiness).
On the second day I tested pheno no. 2 called "hair" - from the curly hairs in the buds.
This phenotype gave a much more introspective type of high. In addition, very strong visualizations, listening to music was on a completely different level, a lot of thoughts about images I saw in music videos. Complete lack of paranoia and other negative effects the whole time I was high!!! When I was high and started to miss the lightness of the pheno I smoked the day before, I would soon find that the one I was smoking now was so pleasant for the whole body that I forgot about the previous pheno haha Very long high. This type of high reminds me of a good mostly sativa from ~20 years ago.
On the third day I tested the "big bud" pheno.
This pheno turned out to be the worst. The high was similar to the pheno from the second day "hair" but every now and then paranoia and other negative thoughts would appear. For this reason I removed the clone from this phenotype.
To sum up: the old rule that I have always trusted has been confirmed - if you want a good sativa - it will be a tall plant with loose buds. Pheno no. 1 will stay with me for a long time, the second one is also ok but to smoke closer to the evening than the morning, the third pheno was eliminated.
Regards.
I started with 1 - pheno called "tall"
The best of all three. Very happy high, feeling of lightness of the body, minimal anxiety at the beginning (which was easily overcome, and I am very sensitive to THC). I don't think I have ever smoked weed that had such a happy sativa effect without other negative accompanying symptoms (paranoia, drowsiness).
On the second day I tested pheno no. 2 called "hair" - from the curly hairs in the buds.
This phenotype gave a much more introspective type of high. In addition, very strong visualizations, listening to music was on a completely different level, a lot of thoughts about images I saw in music videos. Complete lack of paranoia and other negative effects the whole time I was high!!! When I was high and started to miss the lightness of the pheno I smoked the day before, I would soon find that the one I was smoking now was so pleasant for the whole body that I forgot about the previous pheno haha Very long high. This type of high reminds me of a good mostly sativa from ~20 years ago.
On the third day I tested the "big bud" pheno.
This pheno turned out to be the worst. The high was similar to the pheno from the second day "hair" but every now and then paranoia and other negative thoughts would appear. For this reason I removed the clone from this phenotype.
To sum up: the old rule that I have always trusted has been confirmed - if you want a good sativa - it will be a tall plant with loose buds. Pheno no. 1 will stay with me for a long time, the second one is also ok but to smoke closer to the evening than the morning, the third pheno was eliminated.
Regards.
¿No tenéis planes de seguir trabajando con NC puro para estabilizar el fenotipo afrutado? Maybe a feminized version with a greater tendency towards that special phenotype?
I have some packs of NC seeds, but I don´t have enough time and space to working with regular seeds and searching a pheno
As explained in the initial posts of the thread, we bred toward the sativa expressions for this release/version, yet some recessive sativa/indica traits kept appearing in certain lines. It takes time to stabilize new 'landraces' toward a specific expression, and it's even more challenging with hermie-prone lines. Most of the time, it's not possible to achieve this in one generation while still preserving most of the desirable expressions from the original gene pool in seed form for the future.
Thanks for getting back to us with your initial insights about New Caledonia @Popey
Glad you found two really, really good expressions from your three females
.Feel so blessed that more and more people are experiencing the unique qualities this strain has to offer.
The terps and effects will still improve significantly over the next two months, but in my opinion, after six months of curing the fruity phenos lose a bit of the fresh fire.
