New Caledonia

[dubi]

New Caledonia.
14 weeks.
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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!

 

[dubi]

After a week of drying, I tried to do the usual trimming, but most of the lower growth was just impossible to trim. Really fluffy, wooly, airy buds on thin stems from the accidental revegging. But very sticky and resinous. I strained a bunch of it off the stems with just my fingers, put it in the grinder and filled the vape for a test. Whoa! Terpene bomb! Despite the fact there was no curing at all and I took some from down below where there was no direct light, the rush of the terpenes and the effect from just two big hits made my eyes bulge out with suprise. I have the feeling this is going to be really nice.
For a good week now, it has been in the jars and in some grove bags, I am testing these for the first time. I think I let it dry a little too long, the RH is now at 54%, but the smell from the portions in the grove bags seems to be stronger than the (larger) portions in the glass jars. The fluffy stuff, I just put in the jar with the stems, it really was impossible to do a normal trimming.

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?

 

[dubi]

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!

 

[dubi]

I think with these varieties that are from outdoor environments it is not good to flip them to flowering hours whilst they are still in opposite phyllotaxy. The plant is in it's seedling or pre floral state

This is where there is a hermaphrodite response in the flowers that are then produced. Does not mean to say that there will be none at all when flowered from alternate phyllotaxy, lots of potential stressors in the indoor environment too.

Finding a way to get material that has changed to alternate phyllotaxy into flower will very likely reduce the incidence of strong hermaphrodites. Best route to this is a longer veg time and taking cuttings from all the uppermost portions of the plant. Appreciate this may not work for many due to constraints of indoor environment.

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.

 

[dubi]

Hello after 3 weeks. Here are my 3 female New Caledonias. The first pheno looks the best. The second the worst but the smell of the buds is amazing, extremely sweet, like fruit jam. I love smelling it hehe The third pheno (fat bud) has lost its berry smell, now it's more unpleasant.

I'm very curious about the effects after smoking.

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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!

 

[dubi]

Unfortunately the boy parts came out to play. Was hoping it was a female, but nada.
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Oh well.

Sorry to hear it @Cactus Squatter hopefully you miss enough this strain to germinate more seeds and look for more interesting females

 

[MAHA KALA]

Very happy you have found a couple of females of your taste of uplifting, cerebraal trippy effects @MAHA KALA What pollen donor did you choose to pollinate New Caledonia ?

thank you for seeds once more. it was very nice experience, worthy. and yeah very uplifting weed.

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

 

[dubi]

A really good New Caledonian of refined sweet fruity floral terps and joyful, expansive, energetic, clear, inspiring effects, crossed to a Thai dom THH would be amazing.

 

[MAHA KALA]

A really good New Caledonian of refined sweet fruity floral terps and joyful, expansive, energetic, clear, inspiring effects, crossed to a Thai dom THH would be amazing.

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]

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?

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.
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.