Seeds of Africa seedbank???

[SpaceJunkOG]

here's the 1 female Mozambica at day 31, as you can see most of the fan leaves are gone, i got a gnarly leaf fungus and by the time i knocked it out it was too late for her.

really not expecting much from this one now that she's so stripped, the better phenos were the males actually, I got plenty of pollen from the 2 best and already got some F1 seeds of MZB X Durban and MZB x Trainwreck, so those should be interesting to sort through. we'll see if this lone female makes it another 10-or-so weeks or is even worth feeding for that long, poor thing without all her solar panels ...

 

[jay sus]

finallly found and ordered soa zamal reunion. zimbabwe, mozambique and malawi are on consideration. but limited space and time for all the strains

 

[SpaceJunkOG]

finallly found and ordered soa zamal reunion. zimbabwe, mozambique and malawi are on consideration. but limited space and time for all the strains

i really wanted those Zamal seeds but they were out of stock when i ordered! curious to hear how they go.

 

[Tangwena]

Hi Spacey love your choice of genetics, Africa is the holey grail for me as far as canna is concerned, I used to get swazi red from the train drivers it was always sweat cured and compressed, but your bud looks authentic, once cured, you will have nice sticky red stick of bud and it will look more authentic. The high should be crystal clear and make everything feel like your in a movie, very unreal but enjoyable.
Regards Tangwena

 

[4207365]

Its one of the hardest things to try track down some original ROI BART or DURBAN POISON.

Ive been searching South Africa, everywhere I go i ask.
The really well grown Swazi gold, roibart, DP, is very illusive..

 

[idiit]

for zamal i'd look at French Touch Seeds zamal k1 and mangu carrot. I haven't run either yet so no personal experience. there is a zamal breeder's collective that has worked with zamal exclusively since the '60's iirc. they bred the two French touch seeds zamal strains.

fritzman ( formerly brazilian seed company) made some Christophe zamal reproductions and i'm really impressed so far with what i'm seeing.

there's also double zamal fom tropical seeds company.

the seeds of Africa nld pheno zamals were pretty homogenous from what I ran. it's a fermented fruit pheno. even body/head high. not anything special from what I've seen so far. decent though. hard to find nld phenos ( aka sativa dom) in the soa zamal stock.

i'm really liking the look of dave coulier's durbans from old afropips stock. nguni seeds might have these in current viable seed stock. might not.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=307700&page=12

 

[SpaceJunkOG]

Its one of the hardest things to try track down some original ROI BART or DURBAN POISON.

Ive been searching South Africa, everywhere I go i ask.
The really well grown Swazi gold, roibart, DP, is very illusive..

I read an article from 2012 where the GHS Strainhunters guys basically went on a mission down there trying to find the Swazi Rooibaart, and it seems to have all but disappeared. here was the full article (i feel like they embellish / romanticize their stories a bit but there's probably a lot of truth to it)... here's the link

http://forums.strainhunters.com/sit...articles/landraces/south-africa-rooibaard-r16

 

[SpaceJunkOG]

Slightly off-topic since this is a Seeds Of Africa thread, but....


Has anybody grown any "Kwazulu" from any seed bank? I have some from World Of Seeds, so far every pack of seeds i've run from them is bunk / doesn't germinate so I haven't even tried it yet. Popping 5 Kiliminjaro beans from them and getting 0% germination (compared to usually 85%-ish) broke my heart. I wanted that Kilimanjaro / Tanzanian shit! I still have 5 more of those beans but I didn't want to risk another heartbreak and have them fail again.

Anyway, Kwazulu anybody?

 

[4207365]

Na never heard of it.

That sucks when they dont pop and you wait and wait in the hope that they will pop open...

 

[Tangwena]

Hi spacey just to add to your downer I had some friends who drove from Cairo to Capetown a while back and when they past through Malawi they had some southern sudanese and southern Tanzanian stuff that was the best they had had, till they got to Malawi that is.
I tried both in cobs and it was very strong speedy a bit scary too. Loved it to death till they left on their way to south Africa.
So its worth trying to get some Tanzanian, just hope you get good ones because there's a lot of average between the good.
Tangwena

 

[Genghis Kush]

Kwazulu-Natal is the province that Durban is in.

its probably a more accurate name for Durban weed, since Durban is a city.

don't know anything about what WOS is selling.


I've heard good things about the herb in Uganda.

 

[SpaceJunkOG]

Thanks Tangwena & Genghis, . . . . .

while I'm here, here's some updated shots of the SoA (back on topic now) Mozambica: she's at 37 or 38 days in this pic. FINALLY starting to smell: It's the African list of adjectives: pepper, carrots, pineapple / mango, fermented fruit, something bitter like liqueur / fennel / cough medicine (that's how I describe the 'anise' smell, to me it smells kinda like......Poison! lol, or an after-dinner wine), all coming out now.

She's definitely got some narrow blades, 13 on the bigger fans.

Aaand I got quality pollen from 2 of her brothers (a tall guy and a short guy) so her family legacy can live on. Anyway on with the show....


(as you can see she takes up about as much space as the 3 other non-landrace plants combined, and that's after some serious supercropping & tying)

her brothers pollinated these 2 plants, got some HUGE seeds growing on a few branches of each of em. Did selective branch pollinations with the tall MB male and the short one separately to see which guy is a better sperm donor for future pollination...

Durban Poison (SensiSeeds) - pregnant with Mozambica's children...
(sorry not best quality picture)


Trainwreck - also preggers with Mozambica's children...
(this pic from harvest day on my last harvest, same mother plant)



We shall see what the offspring are like! And of course their mom, she's growing up quite healthy and beautiful now.

 

[rexamus616]

nice work SpaceJunkOG. good luck with your children!


I've got 7 females and 6 males so far of my 14 malawi gold.

One of the males I realised this morning has a bunch of pistils on some lower shoots, with male tip on top.... (hermi)


Other than that, they're awesome so far.... The stems of some of them smell like fake pineapple lollies.... And some have purpling on the stems and some on the tips of the leaves and on some of the male flowers....

Heres 6 of the females ( I forgot one )

From above

And heres the males.... they're outside in the cold... (#3 is the hermi, and the one off to the side hasn't shown sex yet)

The male flowers have very long stems on them.... (i'll try get a picture of it soon... as well as the hermi)

 

[purplestyle1]

nice thread
my tip for a interesting strain
SOUTHAFRICAN KWAZULU - WORLD OF SEEDS

greetings

 

[SpaceJunkOG]

nice thread
my tip for a interesting strain
SOUTHAFRICAN KWAZULU - WORLD OF SEEDS

greetings

hey, i was actually askin about this very strain a little earlier in the thread, as i've got it but haven't popped any yet.

did you grow it or can you give any other info on it? would be 'preciated.

 

[Cannabisso]

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[Only Ornamental]

'Sativa' and 'indica' are just phenotypical descriptors and completely neglect biology/science etc.
Cannabis has been introduced to America by humans not that long ago; who knows what exactly they imported?
Even the word landrace isn't proper English (land race would be the right term) and the definition of a 'true' land race usually doesn't apply to cannabis plants.
It's too often just toker slang and advertisement ;( .

 

[jay sus]

i think intended purpose/ end product of a cannabis strain, hash or ganja seems to have more to do with it´s properties/qualities than indica/sativa divide. and american drug cultivars originate from indian workers who came to caribbean area in 19th century. to africa most likely via arabic slavers and merchants. and from angola to brazil with slaves. good things tend to go around with folks. who even knows. and properties of growing place, climate, altitude, etc are relevant too

 

[Thcvhunter]

I've smoked a 14-week NLD Panama that put me to sleep after a very heavy high.
I'ved smoked a 7-8 week WLD that had me inspired and motivated.
The more you play with cannabis the more you learn its not a set species (sativa/indica) but an amorphous gene pool of dominance and recessiveness

 

[waveguide]

Thanks Tangwena & Genghis, . . . . .

dang major flashback... tamaghis, ghadis..


may have to buy these again.. popped 4x seedsman indian haze, presoaked in CaNO3, fulvic, mesquite honey.. (very small quantities..) stock several years old. had to crack three but all throwing tails, with a few heads up already.

SoA singles i didn't treat due to date and reports here.. cracked all but one after four days, tails are still real slow. meal looks healthy, white with good liners, but something (high temps? ambient is in 80s) is pretty daunting about the prospect.

soon as i'm awake i'll dig em all out and swill em in h2o2 and nute mix... just like ancient indigenous people have done since time immemorial