Taskenti

[Carraxe]

I've just put these Taskentis into the flowering room. I'll use the males for an open pollination with the females I've kept from the 2005 run. If I remember correctly, these are the #1, #2, #3, #9 (from another batch), #12, #21, #22, #23, #24 and #25, and I have to determine the sex of numbers #31 and #32.

I keep, from that same line, several males in vegetative form, and several frozen pollen samples.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

I've repotted and put into flower this new selected cut. The general aspect of every one of the Taskentis I work with is lush and dark green.

In this last couple of years I've selected 4 different female cuts from 2 different Taskenti lines. I grew all of them several times, so I really know them. Now I've selected several good females and males from another line. I'm going to cross the 4 already selected females with a mix of pollen from all these males. I already know this line I got these last males from is the most homogeneous, so I hope that mixing this one with the most healthy specimens I've selected will provide a good and diverse offspring. I've got cuts of all of them, both males and females, just in case is there any problem with pollination.


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Sweet smokes

I like the last one I selected, TT125#4, more and more every day. The bouquet has been evolving from nothing (nothing, really) to a fine sensitive experience and the grind bud smells beautifully now. The smell is a complex, deep anise-eucalyptus mentholated feeling with a licorice background. I understand this terpene profile is rich in heavy terpenes like biterpenes, sesquiterpenes and such. Not the terpenes that evaporate quickly, like limonene and others in the commercial stinky bud, but the heavier, non volatile ones that only shine after a cure.

I asked my gf, who isn't a pothead and doesn't have her head in an ethernal cloud, what she thought about the smell, and she also loved it.

It is hard to smoke, but very strong. A perfect model of what I love in this strain.

 

[nepalnt21]

The smell is a complex, deep anise-eucalyptus mentholated feeling with a licorice background. I understand this terpene profile is rich in heavy terpenes like biterpenes, sesquiterpenes and such.

 

[Carraxe]

These are the males I'm using for this pollination, all of them come from the TT125 line and have been put into flower just 10 days ago. The females from this line are quite untamed, energetic and very much the most authentic old Taskentis I've grown. I still have a lot of seeds from this line, and I hope that many of them will sprout without problems in a near future.


These have been growing very fast and untopped, so they look quite columnar.

I've got ten tasty and gorgeous females from the 2005 line that need to be pollinated with these males, and I've just taken cuts from all of them. All of them are good, so I couldn't choose the best ones yet. I'll have pollen samples collected during the next days and I'll store it for the proper moment, that will be as soon as I get the cuts rooted and I can flower the mother plants.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

Today I'm using the pollen from the last post's males in three of the 10 TT05 females (#1, #31,#32). These are the females in the proper moment just now, but I will pollinate the other seven, with pollen from the same line, when I can.

I'm also using frozen TT05 pollen to pollinate 3 females from the same TT125 batch.

I've also decided to discard all the breeding material I've derived from the TT123 male. I've regularly found some specimens that don't match the characteristics I expect in a Taskenti and I believe this can be due to contamination. No surprise that this one was the most vigorous line. Anyway, after growing several times each of the lines, I've got the best matches done.

These are the females I'm pollinating today, near three weeks into flowering stage.

Bonus: this is just a random Black Domina S1 x Taskenti at just 5 weeks. It is a very short plant, just about 40 cm, less than half what I use to grow, because I put these to flower sooner than usual. Anyway, its hashplant spirit shows its strong dominance in the amount and size of trichomes.

Sweet smokes

 

[El Timbo]

Great work! Nice to see someone dedicating so much time to one variety.

 

[Carraxe]

These buds have been curing for more than two months, and now it is the moment their aromas and effects are totally developed and start to shine. Unfortunately, the big fat buds have already been smoked and these are the biggest ones I have for the pic.

During drying and first weeks of curing, the smells were subtle, nonexistent or slightly repulsive like burnt rubber or tobacco. Now, these rough smells have disappeared and while the whole bud doesn't smell at all, the grind bud has a subtle and pleasant aroma that as a first impression recalls that of a spring meadow near a pine forest under the sun, or something like that.

In general, the aroma, while subtle, is sweet, and anise, mint and heather can be felt into the mix. It is complex, and has a hint of a darker musk-garlic-armpit background that makes the feeling a whole.

The plants can show some variation, and I prefer the stronger smelling specimens. Some plants are more piney, other plants are more mint-eucalyptus and there are also catpiss anise variations.

A nice way to test these subtle, dark and less volatile terpenes and derivatives, is to strongly drag air from a fat joint that isn't lit yet. Taskenti makes you quickly feel some anise mint freshness in the tip of your tongue that evolves fast to an intense and a little unpleasant feeling similar to the smell of pure lavender oil. That, when concentrated, smells nothing like lavender.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

The mutual pollination of these two Taskenti lines has succeeded in the 7 plants involved. I plan to pollinate some more in the next days.

And this last one is a Northern Lights x Blueberry. I gave up in trying to get some good seeds from these old strains, so I decided to try this one as a last resort to get some good indica genes to cross. This plant is very tall, like some Blueberries used to be, but of course the flavor isn't that good. Anyway, I want to experiment these crosses.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

At 45 days 12/12, these little SAD x Taskenti plants keep me astonished. My plants are usually around 1m tall while in flower, but I flowered these ones earlier than usual and they are just about half a meter. And still, they look like a bigger plant, full of buds and an impressive amount of resin.

They look so good, that I plan to make a backcross with a selected Taskenti, using this old cross or the newer Black Domina x Taskenti. Who knows if with some selection, I can find some aromatic and superstrong weed.

Sweet smokes

 

[50shadesofgreen]

Unbeliavable work man. I have to admit I watch this thread from time to time.
I had chance to try pure Uzbek just once, years ago. My friend was there for 5 months welding some oil pipelines so he got some seeds from local people. Just received few buds from him as a gift. Never actualy grew it myself. Pretty strong and heavy plant. I still remember very well...I was totaly baked and my other friend turned white and almost vomit while on the bus
However never tried this particular Kaiki's line....thisone looks more at ''indica/hashplant'' side....the one we had looked more like sativa/indica hybrid. Big fat golf ball buds but long internodes and a bit more narrow leaves. Leaves were almost not covered with trichomes, only calyxes were, but those vere very frosty.

 

[Carraxe]

Next generations on their way, and these reproductive plants look great. I bet the seeds will be good, vital and strong, premium Taskenti examples, but I'll wait to grow all the specific incrosses I made to make a definitive conclusion.

I love to watch how that layer of resin starts to appear in a matter of days. Taskenti is special.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

Everything keeps going well.

In three weeks, these plants will be done and all the seeds will be mature. During the last months I've managed to correct several problems I had going in my grow, so these plants look healthier and stronger than ever. I'll try to make better pics, but I'll have to take these plants out of the tent.

Sweet smokes

 

[exoticrobotic]

Lovely and frosty. How's the resin smell?

They are showing really nice vigour.

 

[El Timbo]

Great looking plants!

 

[Carraxe]

Lovely and frosty. How's the resin smell?

They are showing really nice vigour.

I can't say, now it is very sticky and smells similar to hash, with a fresher turn. Anyway, it smells very different when dried. This one is not a stinky one when growing.

 

[Carraxe]

Just a week more to go, for the last Taskenti seeds I made. Everything goes fine.

And today I pollinated these selected Taskentis, doing exactly the same cross I did five weeks ago, but now I used the parentals in the opposite way.

I neglected them for a while for the logic of the space available, so they showed their Taskenti enormous size for a pure indica and they are taller than a meter.

Since I've already selected and crossed enough specimens from the piney phenos, now I'm aiming for the best crosses to get healthy plants from the more difficult, capricious eucalyptus/liquorice/garlic pheno, that is extrangely much subtle in aromas but that carries deeper and more interesting ones. This pheno is much harsher to smoke, but also much stronger in flavor and effects, and very special. It also produces less than the productive piney pheno. TT125#4 would be a nice example of this pheno, and I believe TT05 #2, #22, #23, #24 and #25 could also be, still testing. No idea yet about #31 and #32.

Since I've started selecting and keeping males from these lines, now I need to know which of them carry the eucalyptus/liquorice/garlic for preservation.

A friend of mine liked the piney pheno a lot, I'm eager to hear what he has to say about the other one, but I'm still testing the specimens to choose the best one.

Best wishes.

 

[Carraxe]

I've just harvested seven seeded plants and several unseeded ones (these were from phenos I've already secured). There are some outstanding specimens among them, from which I have cuts, and the frozen pollen worked perfectly: there are tons of seeds.

This is just one of the plants, sunbathing. It is difficult to picture how it feels to see it in reality, but it is a fine example of a good hashplant.

Sweet smokes

 

[Carraxe]

This is the only ACE's Bubba Kush x PCK male I got. I wasn't very lucky this time, and for some reason only five plants sprouted. I'm using this pure Indica genetics to pollinate some nice Taskentis and, of course, I'll make F2 with the four Bubba x PCK females.

This one is a little tall and the smell of the stem is strong but pleasant, like weed and resin, unlike other Indicas that smell a little unpleasant.

Sweet smokes