Sheberghan Hash Plant, Khalifa Genetics

[Chuck Roast]

First time posting on ICMAG, been a long time lurker, though. This year I decided to take on a little breeding project, with the long term goals being the preservation and safe keeping of Heirloom and Landrace Cultivars. As well as the production of my own personal IBLs, for example I'd really like turn all of the rare phenotypes from Mazar-I-Sharif into true breeding types.

For now though, I'm using this year to do a small scale "open population" breeding of the Sheberghan, while also potentially selective breeding if something truly outstanding appears.

Usually I have a pretty good idea of what I am getting into, but there is almost zero information about the cultivar outside of the breeders description, supposedly about 10% of the plants turn black once it gets cold. If true, that might be an interesting project to help me learn how to lock in recessive traits through line breeding.

Germination was pretty basic, just a wet paper towel shoved into a ziploc, had a 100% germination rate with a total time of roughly 72 hours with more that half popping with in 48 hours.

It really only took a couple days from being dropped in soil to showing their first true leaves, as a side note I will not be using this kind of container again.

They were roughly a week old at this point.

 

[Chuck Roast]

Spent last week throwing up this thing, cover crop of clover is slowly but surely taking over the space, also planted some garlic and a few California Poppies decided to make it their home as well.

Had to transplant the seedlings into cups, was not easy hence I'll never use one of those six pack abominations again.

I'll pick up where I'm currently at tomorrow, though I did lose one, but I already have a few replacement's ready.

 

[Chuck Roast]

Alright, time for another update, nothing too weird other than a possible leaf mutation/virus/sickness and a dwarf broad leaf.

Accidentally over fed a bit... this one is sizably shorter than the rest.

Leaf curl, no idea why.

 

[Creeperpark]

Thanks for sharing Chuck. Looks like you have a lot of plants to take care of. I noticed that your plant leaf tissue is swollen from excess water exposure. Let your soil dry a little more between waterings. I love your garden everything looks so pretty there, keep us posted friend.

 

[Chuck Roast]

Thanks for sharing Chuck. Looks like you have a lot of plants to take care of. I noticed that your plant leaf tissue is swollen from excess water exposure. Let your soil dry a little more between waterings. I love your garden everything looks so pretty there, keep us posted friend.

Thanks, and yeah I definitely over watered, also over fed and caused a little burn on the lower leaves. That being said, now that I've repaired my sprinkler system, I can hopefully get them in the ground soon

 

[Kimes]

would love an update on this grow..

 

[Chuck Roast]

Well guys time for an update, put on a cover, tldr, I underestimated the heat and humidity and fucked up my plants.

Good news one is kicking ass, and the rest are recovering, I definitely lost a few weeks worth of growth though.

Also started some training and topping as you can see.

 

[Chuck Roast]

Now I don't know about you all but, I love a good stem rub, it reminds me of how I trained my pallette on craft beer, my time as a chef, and also now on cannabis.

L1 or Left Field Row 1, the one with the beautiful crown of lateral branching, sells like sweet dill pickles with a gassy backing of pine sap.

 

[Chuck Roast]

L2, shares a simillar morphological structure to L1, but lost most of it's side branches due to my fuck up, live and learn I guess.

Lacks the sweet dill pickles and doubles down on the pine sap, if one is female and the other Male, I might breed these too together to lock in some of that pine and hopefully get some of the sweet dill pickle.

 

[Chuck Roast]

R 1, which is being trained with a pizza stand, took a real beating, is squatter and seems to have tighter inter nodal structure.

Still getting pickle here, but no sweetness, perhaps just a phantom of sourness???

 

[Chuck Roast]

R2, which is the one in the green cage, is quite frankly rather boring with just a bit of gass and some chlorophyll.

 

[Chuck Roast]

R3 was the midget with the giant leaves, which it lost most of, but damn if this thing dosen't get me excited.

It's like sweet dill pickles with a touch of soured cream, and an oddly savory note, I kinda wanto to slather it onto mash potatoes and smother it with some chives and cultured butter.

 

[Creeperpark]

I"m surprised you don't use a lot of hay mulch to help buffer the heat. Back in the old days when I grew in the wild, I had mulch days where I just pulled native grass all day long. Made big piles and mulched my plants heavily to hold water in the ground and keep the roots cool.

 

[Chuck Roast]

I"m surprised you don't use a lot of hay mulch to help buffer the heat. Back in the old days when I grew in the wild, I had mulch days where I just pulled native grass all day long. Made big piles and mulched my plants heavily to hold water in the ground and keep the roots cool.

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You know, last year I had the the whole plot covered in bark, and I'm probably going to bark it over again, I was hoping I'd be able to build up a layer of dead cover crop but I underestimated just how difficult that would prove to be

 

[Creeperpark]

You know, last year I had the the whole plot covered in bark, and I'm probably going to bark it over again, I was hoping I'd be able to build up a layer of dead cover crop but I underestimated just how difficult that would prove to be

Friend the only problem with bark is that it ties up nitrogen. All wood has to have nitrogen to decompose and it will cause problems. When people put wood mulch in their flower beds it ties up the nitrogen and won't allow grass to grow in the beds. That's why they use wood to stop plant growth. I never use wood mulch with cannabis because of this reason. The best mulch for cannabis is hay or local grass harvested from the area.