Seeds of Africa seedbank???

[burmese]

i buyed with pickandmixseeds SOA //haha, low money//
and etiopian i had from bushdoctor or bushplanet growshop in WIEN around /2000+year/
-they were all outdoor and stolen as a seedlings,
next etiopian i buy from limited edition hemcy.at /and slightly later bodhi sales them i think/
all africans do fine, coffe is most colorful now //yellow green and red// and mozambique still has those dark green, pondo is the greenest//still no sex so i keep her to 5 liter earth yesterday//

 

[burmese]

 

[burmese]

sorry for quality and slightly damaged plant, // i dont care visuals//
this is mozambique, seeded around 2 months //grown only seeds,,low light!//

 

[burmese]

 

[burmese]

this is pondo mystic leaf shape, sorry really

 

[Genghis Kush]

no red stem on my plant though.

 

[MountZionCollec]

Has anyone noticed any hermis? I was under the impression a lot of these landrace African sativas have a fairly high number of hermis in the genes and these beings harvested from actual wild plants makes me just a "tad" but uncomfortable lol though that's awesome for breeders.

Look forward to seeing somebodies pictures of some outdoor in the future!

 

[GET MO]

durban magic...

 

[burmese]

i dont see any sings of hermafroditic on my africans but have always been seeded, anyway i find landraces are stronger resistant to stress and condition than most of commercials

 

[rexamus616]

Malawi Gold -SOA

Malawi Gold -SOA

I got some. (24 seeds)

There was one hollow, white, immature seed which was squished between my fingers.... The rest were fine, but there was quite a variety of sizes - small seeds with less patterns on, and bigger seeds with more mottled patterns. (I guess that goes to show that they're selling seeds which they've accquired, rather than grown... Which i think they mention on their website...)

I'm very stoked with WHATEVER I get, since the seeds traveled from Africa, to the UK, then to Aus.... Lucky they even germinate at all!!


(big seed below the others is for comparison, don't know the strain - just bagseed)


14 made it thru (although 20 germed - 6 rotted in the soil/media....)


Their little rooties are looking healthy....




Sown into coco. (with some perlite I couldn't be bothered to sift out... and I soaked the coco in 1/4 strength nutes first - as you do) fed 1/4 strength general purpose hydroponic nutrient + 1/4 strength seaweed. And alittle bit of 'go go juice'

Under an 80w CFL (until springtime anyway...then its ALL ORGANIC and FULL SUNSHINE!!)

Thanks to you all who've posted their SOA stuff!

 

[Thule]

Has anyone noticed any hermis? I was under the impression a lot of these landrace African sativas have a fairly high number of hermis in the genes and these beings harvested from actual wild plants makes me just a "tad" but uncomfortable lol though that's awesome for breeders.

Look forward to seeing somebodies pictures of some outdoor in the future!

Not too much hermies in most African strains, I've never encountered any. Besides, these are not seeds from wild plants but from cultivated plants. One can only find feral plants in Africa and seeds from those seldom if ever make it to the market.

 

[MountZionCollec]

Ok so not wild but from local breeders who are cultivating but not selective breeding?

Good to hear about the hermis thx for the info

 

[Genghis Kush]

@Burmese

which one has the red stem?
is that the Pondo or Coffee?

thanks

 

[burmese]

hi gengis, coffe has the darked red slightly brown stems and pink leaf petioles somewhere, also seed pouches endup that brownred
mozambique is very darkgreen leafs if you keep her nitrogenium, iron and magnesium //urtica dioica or nettle tea // and with more brown stems but lighter in shade
pondo is some livable plant for example mornings is little brown, middle day pure green white stems and evenings she is halfstems red

 

[burmese]

 

[burmese]

this is pondo but younger plant than now, now is older and more colorful

 

[Genghis Kush]

thanks Burmese.

I don't know why, but i'm really drawn towards the African plants with the red/brown stem.

I'll be ordering as these for sure,

 

[rexamus616]

Seedlings are coming along...

Most seem to have gone from one leaflet straight to 5 ( instead of 3, then 5, as i'm used to)

They're looking a bit broad... Although one looks abit thin and spiky...

 

[burmese]

sorry people, last Picture i sent here was coffe //but i wrote pondo -it was only usable Picture to look her to ghenghis kush //
and nice rexamus616, nice garden. mine growed straight to 7 and 9 bladed leafs too,
just be careful, they grow big and grow rather 11,5/12,5 or 11/13 system , good luck

 

[SpaceJunkOG]

wow i'm glad i found this thread.

I too am in the middle of playing with a few of these SoA lines. I got their Swazi Gold, Mozambica and Malawi Gold.

Currently I've got 2 pheno's of Swazi in week 11 of flowering (will get back to these in a minute) and 2 pheno's of Mozambica in their first week of flowering. Also just finished chopping some Mozambica males after collecting pollen.

first up; SWAZI GOLD (Seeds Of Africa)
[indoor grow: 1000w HPS, 12/12, easy on the nutes)

ended up with 2 keeper males and 2 keeper females. There were 2 distinct pheno's, one of each sex. So now I'm in week 11, and they are two COMPLETELY different plants. (i lost the males, long story, put them outside too early in the year and they reverted then died)

Pheno 1: smells like pineapples and mango, which is how everybody is describing Malawi it seems. It smells amazing though, and the bud structure is very nice - it's stretchy and lanky but somehow has nice dense buds that have way more "bag appeal" than i would have expected for a pure landrace. But I do believe it is a pure landrace. Will be ready to harvest in 1 or 2 weeks, so 12 or 13 weeks of flowering total - which is nice and short. Haven't tested it yet. No foxtails, not a very "wild sativa" look, but also doesn't look hybridised to me, seems to just be a very desireable phenotype. (and i'm KICKING MYSELF right now for not cloning this one, whoops).

Pheno 2: Foxtails like a muhfucka! This one has got at least another 5 - 7 weeks left - so I'm thinking about 18 weeks total of flowering. All of the buds are foxtails, from the top down to the bottom. It looks like many classic Sativa landraces. Very similar to a picture somebody posted pages ago in this thread of a mature branch of another SoA strain, the extremely airy buds and endless foxtails and classic African look. It continues to pump out bright white pistils in week 11 of flowering, while the other half of them are turning a very dark, burnt brown color. Trichs on this are still about 70% clear, 30% cloudy.

Both plants are seeded, with Pheno 1 being moderate; no visible bananas, just a few seeds in each bud. Pheno 2 is heavily seeded, and continues to pop out the odd banana - the seeds range from immature to completely mature, so this thing has just been pollinating itself the whole time basically. Honestly from everything I've read on Sativa landraces most of them are seeded at least to some extent, which means that they are technically hermaphrodites.
I don't do early tests anymore, as I feel like you really can't get an accurate barometer of the end result by testing buds without a proper dry and at least a short cure (that's just my weirdness, you can do whatever you want). So I can't comment yet on taste / high from the Swazi's yet, but I will soon.

MOZAMBICA:

I also, oddly enough, had 2 distinct pheno's of this, one male and one female each. The pheno's seemed almost completely identical in every way except height - one is twice as tall as the other. About a month into veg, I noticed that the shorter pheno was exhibiting signs of sickness, lower fan leaves were already falling off, and it looked like it had a major nutrient issue (but all other plants looked absolutely perfect). I continued with this pheno regardless, and now in week 1 of flower it is turning out to be even more of a runt: it is now less than half the size as the other pheno, the new growth is twisted, all of the fan leaves have fallen off, and I'm thinking about chucking it to make space actually.

I collected pollen from the taller, more vigorous Mozambica male (which was identical to the female that's currently thriving and looking great).

Haven't played with any of the Malawi yet but now I'm rethinking my plans after reading this thread, it seems to be the most desireable.

The extreme difference in my 2 Swazi Gold pheno's leads me to the conclusion that these are both not Swazi Gold plants. One takes 12 weeks, the other more like 18. One has foxtails and smells of cough syrup and pepper, and the other is dense and fat and smells of pineapple and mango. I am not sure why this would be the case although I have some theories (they just got seeds out of a brick and labeled them whatever). But then again these Mozambicas seem to be limited to 2 pheno's and are relatively uniform.

Anyway, will try and post up some pictures, these things really look like nothing else.

Long time reader / lurker, first time poster, thanks for all the knowledge I've picked up on here over the years.

SJ