Taskenti

[Carraxe]

Today I harvested the Black Dominas that spent that last days indoor. I decided to wait a week more for the Taskentis, but some could be harvested as well. That's what the Taskentis look like:





They are tall and productive, and they have a lot of resin. There is one, the one with four tops, that didn't react very well indoors but there is a lot of good bud anyway.






Cheers

 

[Carraxe]

I don't manicure before harvest, but I removed some fan leaves to have a better look of the buds. These are plants from the 2008 seeds F2, and they make big hard buds.







I didn't want to wait more for the harvest, maybe a week more would be nice but I've got a lot of breeding work ahead.



Cheers

 

[Happy Times]

Today I harvested the Black Dominas that spent that last days indoor. I decided to wait a week more for the Taskentis, but some could be harvested as well. That's what the Taskentis look like:


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They are tall and productive, and they have a lot of resin. There is one, the one with four tops, that didn't react very well indoors but there is a lot of good bud anyway.



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Quite a unique hefty bud structure there!

 

[Carraxe]

7 weeks ago I planted a lot of seeds I made with the TT GZ cut and several males from the 2005 run. There are plenty of them, and I believe some will be kept.



The first weeks are boring, but they will start to grow faster now.

Dark and wide leaves, and very short internodes.






And these are some seeds I made in the outdoors season with the best 2008 F2 males and my Black Domina 1998 keeper. They started appearing now with the harvest works, but I believe I will find several more.







I think that a good selection work with these seeds can provide a very nice hybrid with the characteristics of the best Afghan plants, coming from the Black Domina, and the best plants from Uzbekistan hashmaking (Taskenti).


Tasty, productive and knock-out indica stone. Why not?


Cheers

 

[Carraxe]

These plants in the bottom are the new Taskentis made with 2005 males. Since I have to take cuts and save all the females, these will take some time.






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[Carraxe]

These plants keep growing. Pure Taskenti made with the 2005' males. When they get about 40 cm tall I'll switch the timer to 12/12, it will take maybe a couple of weeks, and then I'll take cuts of all the females.







And this one is the pure Taskenti mom I selected from the last run, with the 2012 males. Nice breeding tool for the next generation, I liked the aromas and effects a lot and I love to have the opportunity to test it in good conditions.





The structure is a lot like its mother's. When cloned, these plants show a lot of bushy branching.



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[GoatCheese]

Are you going to start a Bx project with your old Taskenti clone with one particular male..or are you only doing "open pollinations" using many males?

 

[Carraxe]

Are you going to start a Bx project with your old Taskenti clone with one particular male..or are you only doing "open pollinations" using many males?

Hi

Have a look at the thread, all the females I use have been carefully selected, in fact I'm actually selecting a second mother from a different batch. I also select and sort all the males I use and their offspring.

I don't understand why do you ask about a open pollination. That's not the way to improve.


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[GoatCheese]

Ok..
I got the impression from your post #109 that you're sometimes using multiple males, sort of open pollination with many selected males , but maybe i got that wrong.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=8417870&postcount=109


And what my question was
..are doing a Bx-project with your original keeper female= selecting a male from her offspring to make a back cross with the keeper female;then selecting a male from that generation for another Bx and so on?

 

[Carraxe]

Ok..
I got the impression from your post #109 that you're sometimes using multiple males, sort of open pollination with many selected males , but maybe i got that wrong.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=8417870&postcount=109


And what my question was
..are doing a Bx-project with your original keeper female= selecting a male from her offspring to make a back cross with the keeper female;then selecting a male from that generation for another Bx and so on?

If you read carefully, at the beginning of the thread I talk about endogamy. This specimen is very special, but the plants in her generation showed some signs of endogamy. So I'm working to avoid it, then I avoid backcrossing. I use her as parental but I also use males from old distributions to work.

Cheers

 

[Carraxe]

There they are, just as expected. Solid, bushy, dark, authentic. They've colonized the media, so I'll flower them in a week or maybe two.






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[GoatCheese]

If you read carefully, at the beginning of the thread I talk about endogamy. This specimen is very special, but the plants in her generation showed some signs of endogamy. So I'm working to avoid it, then I avoid backcrossing. I use her as parental but I also use males from old distributions to work.

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What kind of negative signs did you see? slow growth? mutants/freaks?
Could it be that it was because the male back then didn't suit the female and with different male i might have been better?

 

[Hookahhead]

I’m a biologist and a cannabis enthusiast, and this is the first time I’ve come across the word “endogamy“. I had to look it up, and I’ll go back and see what you wrote. Just wanted to say thanks for bringing something new to my attention.

 

[Carraxe]

What kind of negative signs did you see? slow growth? mutants/freaks?
Could it be that it was because the male back then didn't suit the female and with different male i might have been better?

I've written my perceptions in the first post. Could it be that the 2008 male didn't suit? Well, I've had very nice females out of this male, so I don't know.



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[Carraxe]

The plants have started to grow fast, so I've put the Taskentis in the flowering tent. In a week I'll sort the males and take cuts of the best specimens.

100% Taskenti flowering.



I'm also testing the clone I selected in the last run.

Cheers

 

[Carraxe]

19 days have passed since I switched the timer. Stretch is over, now the flowers start to appear. I took two of them out of the tent to have a better look at their robust structure.

Their stems smell strong, their leaves are dark and they look quite happy.



The resin is going to appear in the next days.
Have a good day, folks!

 

[Benny106]

Nicely documented!

 

[Im'One]

Hi
I own a cut of a very special pure indica from Cannabiogen. It is a Taskenti from some years ago. It has been bred by Kaiki from hashplants coming from Uzbekistan, and its flavour (not soft at all) and its effects (very hard body disconnection) are very good for pain and sleep. Unique, I'd say, since I never got something as strong in the indica side.

The seedbank has discontinued it but it is such a special weed that I felt in need of crossing and propagating it.

I made some F2 the year I grow them, so I have a good start point. I've been growing them but I find the original cut to be stronger. Anyway the growing of the F2 is impressing, they grow very big for an indica.

Since the strain has been inbreeded, I find interesting to backcross it in order to improve its genetic vigour. I've already crossed her with some special strong indicas, and I want to keep its unique effect (the most important thing). I'll check If I can improve the flavor across the generations.

I'll upload some pictures.

This is the original cut:

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After years of continuous growing, it has become faster (it takes 8 weeks now instead of 10) but production has decreased a lot also, as can be seen in the more recent next picture.

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I'll upload more pictures of the crosses I made.
Cheers

Your post really don't tell us the faults in the plant. As for endogamy that's is a sociological term referring to a marriage within ones tribe. Are you being obscure on purpose? I have no idea what you are referring to when you say the plant has issues.
Be more specific.

 

[Carraxe]

Your post really don't tell us the faults in the plant. As for endogamy that's is a sociological term referring to a marriage within ones tribe. Are you being obscure on purpose? I have no idea what you are referring to when you say the plant has issues.
Be more specific.

I was working on an elaborate answer but then I realized you don't deserve it.



Good day

 

[Carraxe]

Exactly at 3 weeks 12/12, resin appears. That's mathematical, very nice and never disappointing.

I find these plants made with 2005 males to have as a tough structure as these from 2008.



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