Taskenti

[Chills]

Hi Carraxe,

do you have any experience with the taskenti/uzbeki line from CSI Humbold? I think you mentioned the effekts get easily lost in the F-generations... I look for an heavy strong primal indica and taskenti was always interesting for me, also shirin gol is in consideration for me. Maybe you can lead me in some direction where to look for genetics with simillar effects than the tashkenti.

Thank you very much

 

[Carraxe]

Hi Carraxe,

do you have any experience with the taskenti/uzbeki line from CSI Humbold? I think you mentioned the effekts get easily lost in the F-generations... I look for an heavy strong primal indica and taskenti was always interesting for me, also shirin gol is in consideration for me. Maybe you can lead me in some direction where to look for genetics with simillar effects than the tashkenti.

Thank you very much

I would also like to know about anything with similar effects! But this effect is, to me, unique, and I haven't found anything comparable. There are very potent hybrids and indicas, but no one of them carries this different high.

This week I STSd one of the best Taskenti specimens I've selected, with the objective of starting a new dynasty of incrosses and outcrosses. This fact will initiate a line of work that will take most of my work time with pure indicas for years.

If I get this first feminisation right, I'll get a lot of info about how this strain behaves in its crosses, but in my experience, outcrosses between Taskentis and selected Afghans and Pakis are worse than the original weed.

I have several selected Taskentis from different families, and also different keepers from different pure Indica strains to cross to my feminised Taskentis.

I hate STSing plants, but working with feminised seeds will help a lot when selecting for these F1 specimens that deserve a further look.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

Taskenti is slower than the fastest indica strains. Here we can see the Taskenti outdoors side to side with a Matanuska (that I find to be a good example of a paki or afghan stinky indica selected indoors by its speed)

First picture: Taskenti #9 at the left side, and Matanuska at the right. The Taskenti didn't even show any flower until some days ago, and the Matanuska has already outumn colours. It isn't even September yet!

This one picture down is the Taskenti. It is the same clone I'm impregnating now with the Taskenti female I'm STSing

And this one is the Matanuska. This one will be ready well before October, while the Taskenti will need to get to there.

Cheers

 

[Carraxe]

This is the result of my first Taskenti reversal attempt. I started STSing 24 days ago and I sprayed 3 times. Wish me luck, I already know from Kaiki that this strain wasn't easy to reverse. Let's see if get some pollen.

Cheers

 

[goldskunk]

Evania- GeneSeeds
Lebanon#1 x Uzbekistan

 

[Carraxe]

I've been looking into the flowers of the STSed female TT123#7, and I was happy to see that it already had some mature flowers. Even better, they had already produced some pollen. At just 4 weeks since STS.

I know this pollen could be sterile, but I find this a good omen. This selected plant looks like very full of life and doesn't show symptoms of a limited gene pool.

Several plants labelled TT9, premium clones from a plant selected from another batch, have been flowering for about two weeks. In some days I'll try the pollination. This could be a step in my work and also the first legit feminized pollination between two selected Taskenti females in years.

Cheers

 

[bloyd]

I made some hybrids and ix'd taskenti some years back. My first pop of the seeds indicates further exploration may be warranted. Sherbet x taskenti 3 seeds popped.

 

[Carraxe]

I made some hybrids and ix'd taskenti some years back. My first pop of the seeds indicates further exploration may be warranted. Sherbet x taskenti 3 seeds popped.

These plants of yours look more like Sherbet than Taskenti. I used to think that Taskenti was pretty dominant but, I guess, it isn't as dominant I thought

 

[bloyd]

These plants of yours look more like Sherbet than Taskenti. I used to think that Taskenti was pretty dominant but, I guess, it isn't as dominant I thought

The original sherbet clone tends to dominate ime. That said, there is some strong taskenti traits in the resin of 2 of 3 just added purple and improved bud development.

I often thought of taskenti as a good but unrefined indica. Somewhat loose bud structure with soft terpenes. It's great positive was the ability to soften nerve pain without making you stupid. I'm hoping to go through some pure stock soon to find a warm fuzzy one but hopefully these give some of that experience. Will know soon.

I've enjoyed watching your focused efforts with taskenti and sativas over the years. It takes dedication to stick with lines long-term for personal refinement.

 

[Carraxe]

The original sherbet clone tends to dominate ime. That said, there is some strong taskenti traits in the resin of 2 of 3 just added purple and improved bud development.

I often thought of taskenti as a good but unrefined indica. Somewhat loose bud structure with soft terpenes. It's great positive was the ability to soften nerve pain without making you stupid. I'm hoping to go through some pure stock soon to find a warm fuzzy one but hopefully these give some of that experience. Will know soon.

I've enjoyed watching your focused efforts with taskenti and sativas over the years. It takes dedication to stick with lines long-term for personal refinement.

I think we had different experiences with Taskenti, the flavor in the plants I grow is one of the most hard and intense of all cannabis. It is even a little difficult to smoke because this superstrong earthy flavor and makes cough more than other strains. I don't know what you mean by soft terpenes, but these are definitely not soft.

I think what you mean about the terpenes is that this weed doesn't reek like modern hybrids. The smell on the buds is very natural and pleasant, not like the volatile skunky ones that dissapear quickly. I find this to be a nice feature, but I understand that other people have different likes.

I've just taken these pictures of an 8 weeker TT123#16. Flavor is intense and buds are really hard, but I found better plants for breeding, so I discarded this one.

Cheers

 

[Carraxe]

These are some of the females I'm testing now (about a dozen). I've made cuts of all of them and I also keep some males to use in due time. They are now 32 days from flip and they show a nice resin growth, so I expect them to start getting fat now. They look quite similar to the last batch I grew, from which I selected a very nice female, and I had some nice diversity in flavors and shapes.

I still don't know if the pollination with the TT123#7 reversed female did work, I made the pollination more than a week ago.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

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Also the frozen taskenti pollen I used to pollinate the TT123#7 female (probably the best of the bunch) worked, and these both being the most different branches of the lines I'm working with, I guess I hit an interesting point.

I've saved the males from the batch of seeds I am flowering. These are the ones made with the 2005 version males and the selected 2008 cut. I'm pollinating the selected females made from the males in the 2012 version to mix the most different lines. If I get a good offspring these seeds will be very valuable for me.

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Sweet smokes

I had already forgotten that pollination. So I got nicely surprised when some seeds started appearing in the TT123#7 buds I wanted to smoke. Just some seeds, but there may be more to come. They will show how well the most different branches of the strain will cross, so they have an special value to this project.

They are just about a dozen of hard enormous healthy seeds (for now)

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

I've found some more dozens of seeds. These were made with frozen pollen that was probably badly stored, that's why there aren't many of them.

These seeds are enormous. At the right side of the picture, you can see these just made Taskenti seeds. Left side, a cross of Mextiza.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

Hi.
About a month ago I pollinated a selected cut of Taskenti with the pollen coming from a different reversed Taskenti female. I don't think the pollination was successful, but I'll have to wait some more weeks to cut the plant and have a look.

Anyway, I decided to step forward and use all the Taskenti males and females I've got growing. I have three different Taskenti females selected from the last years' work, and a bunch of plants from seed growing from a different line. That's what I am going to do: I am going to use all the males there are in that batch to pollinate all of the different selected females. After that, I'll have a lot of seeds I can grow and make conclussions about the compatibility of these lines, and the genetic quality of this endogamic population.

After that, I'll make new selections from different batches and I'll repeat the process, both reversing and using males from seed.

I'll document all this.
Cheers

 

[Carraxe]

Some pics. These are the several TT125 I am currently running, just waiting for being harvested. The code means that they were made with the original cut Taskenti GZ and the #5 male from the 2012 batch of CBG seeds. I have cuts of them, so I'll select the one or two best specimens.
The side of the tent, where there is a nice crowd:

And these are the pictures of three different specimens, some are branchier than others:

Last one is the branchy one. It would be nice to have a week more for a better maturity, but I've got many plants in vegetative that need to be put to flower. Anyway, 8 weeks will be enough to get the selection done.

I'll upload more pics, but in a new post. I believe the number of pics per post is limited.

 

[Carraxe]

These are some of the plants I selected during last years, TT9 and TT123#2. They still need some more days, but they look great. I have selected more plants, like TT123#7, that's very productive, but I haven't any flowering along these ones.

Sweet smokes

 

[goldeneagledist]

wow

 

[Carraxe]

Today I made some cuts from all the plants from this specific batch (made with 2005 males). I discarded a couple of mutants I found. After the years, I've found that this line is the one closer to the model I seek, and also the most homogeneous one, or maybe I should say "less diverse". That's why I plan to use the best males from this line for outcrossing with other pure indica strains.

It is, or course, the heaviest inbreed line. The other lines coming from 2012 males are healthier in the way of showing no freakish mutations.

One of the first symptoms of inbreeding I find is the lack of symmetry of the branches along the main stem.

The other plants in the batch I'm growing look healthy and OK

I'll flower them anyway. Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

I've put these Taskentis to flower in a very little tent I've got. I have cuts of them, that's why they are so severely crippled, and I will use the males I get to pollinate several plants I put into flower last week. Some of the plants I'll pollinate are Taskentis from a different batch, but I also have also chosen some different Indica leaning strains to pollinate, like Black Domina and Matanuska. This strain could use some fresh blood.

Sweet smokes

 

[Nirrity]

Not much odor, as expected in this strain,

the flavor in the plants I grow is one of the most hard and intense of all cannabis

this is confusing.
Carraxe, so what's the odor level on Taskenti? is it a low odor strain, or one needs a good carbon filter to grow indoors?