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This will be an outdoor grow so there wont be a lot of activity for several weeks still but I thought I would start off with a photo and an introduction.
Hello, I am Tom. AKA Proto from Treehouse Genetics. AKA just some guy from Maine.
A handful of years ago my brother in laws brother in law who had been making yearly trips to Amsterdam since the mid eighties gifted me with some seeds that he had purchased from The Seed Bank in 1989. He had heard that I was getting more seriously into breeding and starting a small seed company to release a few of my own strains and he thought I might be interested in a couple of gems from the vault to work with. He was right but sadly the timing couldn't have been worse.
To actually make a long story short I'll just say after losing a son to a car accident, a sister to cancer and getting robbed I found it necessary to take a break from the world for a while. The only thing I managed to save was a small handful of seeds including some of my strains,some landrace sativas and a thousand or so NL#5 F2's.
My wife and I just moved into our forever home, built on family land that I have been gorilla growing on since I was 14 and I am finally ready to start growing and breeding again.
I have several other strains going as well but a large part of my focus for this year will be to grow out 60-80 of the NL89 with the goal of selecting a few gem seed mothers and one or more fathers. As I understand it this original NL#5 was made by crossing NL#1 (a pure afghani selection) to a Thai sativa then back crossing to the NL#1 twice making it roughly 90% indica. Since these are an F2 of that back cross I expect some variation and will most likely be able to choose more than one direction to go but mainly I would like to recreate the NL#5 that I smoked in the late eighties and early nineties.
Piney and skunky with an odd sweet green funk. A euphoric buzz that painted a smile on your face and made you feel like you were floating. Basically it was as ghani as it could be while still having some notable Thai in the buzz and a touch of it in the terps. Of course this was just the particular pheno that was grown in this area at that time but it would be nice to revisit. The other criteria for this selection will be early to flip and fast to finish. A 45 day pheno that is done by the first week in September is the goal.
When I do my outdoor selection I will start those seeds outside in may and document the grow here and on the Treehouse genetics YouTube channel. I have also started a few of the NL89 early to have all sexed and ready when it's time to put plants outside. Here's one now at 5 weeks.
Hello, I am Tom. AKA Proto from Treehouse Genetics. AKA just some guy from Maine.
A handful of years ago my brother in laws brother in law who had been making yearly trips to Amsterdam since the mid eighties gifted me with some seeds that he had purchased from The Seed Bank in 1989. He had heard that I was getting more seriously into breeding and starting a small seed company to release a few of my own strains and he thought I might be interested in a couple of gems from the vault to work with. He was right but sadly the timing couldn't have been worse.
To actually make a long story short I'll just say after losing a son to a car accident, a sister to cancer and getting robbed I found it necessary to take a break from the world for a while. The only thing I managed to save was a small handful of seeds including some of my strains,some landrace sativas and a thousand or so NL#5 F2's.
My wife and I just moved into our forever home, built on family land that I have been gorilla growing on since I was 14 and I am finally ready to start growing and breeding again.
I have several other strains going as well but a large part of my focus for this year will be to grow out 60-80 of the NL89 with the goal of selecting a few gem seed mothers and one or more fathers. As I understand it this original NL#5 was made by crossing NL#1 (a pure afghani selection) to a Thai sativa then back crossing to the NL#1 twice making it roughly 90% indica. Since these are an F2 of that back cross I expect some variation and will most likely be able to choose more than one direction to go but mainly I would like to recreate the NL#5 that I smoked in the late eighties and early nineties.
Piney and skunky with an odd sweet green funk. A euphoric buzz that painted a smile on your face and made you feel like you were floating. Basically it was as ghani as it could be while still having some notable Thai in the buzz and a touch of it in the terps. Of course this was just the particular pheno that was grown in this area at that time but it would be nice to revisit. The other criteria for this selection will be early to flip and fast to finish. A 45 day pheno that is done by the first week in September is the goal.
When I do my outdoor selection I will start those seeds outside in may and document the grow here and on the Treehouse genetics YouTube channel. I have also started a few of the NL89 early to have all sexed and ready when it's time to put plants outside. Here's one now at 5 weeks.
