Chunky Cherry Malawi

[spring fed]

Positive,

100% germ rates within 48 hrs. I ended up with 5 females, 3 males, and 2 herms. Actually, one of the 5 females threw some nanners, but it wasn't out of hand, so I let her live. The photos were taken at 7 weeks and are mainly of one plant. I will take photos of the remaining plants at harvest. I overplanted this round, so they are tough to get to at the moment.

One of the females appears very deep chunk dominant with very little stretch. The others stretched between 2 to 3X. Yield appears moderate, but I flowered at only about 12". Definitely getting some honeysuckle in the aroma. I will try to describe smell/taste in more detail after curing.

Also, if someone could direct me to a tutorial on posting full size photos, I would appreciate it.

 

[Habel]

wow looks gr8, do they smell of cherry?

 

[jj7leaf]

beautiful...

 

[Mountain]

Definitely getting some honeysuckle in the aroma.

That's the Malawi. The cherry should come through on the cure. Hope you like the smoke and looking forward to your report. Hook me up with a PM to that link if you remember as I'm not here much lately.

Thx for the report and will get it to REv.

If you wanna post a full size pic just go to your post, click on the pic, it'll then show up full size, copy the URL for the full size pic, go back into your post to edit, delete the original pic, select the large yellow box icon with the Mountain image which when you mouseover says 'Insert Image' then click on that, insert the copied URL then save. You'll have to do this pic by pic till you're done.

The URL for the first image of the KOS seed baggie is: https://www.icmag.com/ic/picture.php?albumid=27795&pictureid=636888. This is what I got when I clicked on that little pic. This is the URL you'll enter when you get to the 'Insert Image' part. This is what it should look like after you're done...

That's a pretty big image and you may want to resize the original down to like 800 x whatever max. 1024 x 768 is a pretty big image full size.

The fem-to-male ratio is good. You got pics of the problem plants?

 

[ShroomDr]

Your leaf structure appears basically identical to mine (seeds from the Nov/Dec 10' release).

(To me, the leaves appear awfully thin for a Deep Chunk father. I know enough to know that, i dont know shit about MJ breeding, the fathers contributions, etc, but these are probably the skinniest leaves in all of my garden.)


Started 5 seeds, Ive got two females 17 days into flower. They are just starting to throw pistils, and im regretting not using larger containers (2Gal smartpots. 90/10 fine coco/chunky perlite).

Ive got them in bondage (bamboo stake & zip tie trellis), both plants have three (basically co-dominate) stems trained to the flat plain of the trellis (vertical lighting FTW).

At first i thought they were light feeders, then i gave the entire garden a heavy feeding and they loved it. @ 17 days of 12/12 they are probably slightly too light green for my liking, im gonna give them a heavier dose tonight.

How many days flowering are you planning spring fed? Those look nice and frosty for 49days, but they also look like they could still swell up hardcore, its hard to tell. What are your thoughts? Care to elaborate about those hermies? Full on both sexual expressions, etc?

(Yours appear to be the only pics of the recent CCM release)

 

[spring fed]

Thanks for the positive comments. Not getting a ton of cherry aroma, but we will see what happens after a cure. As far as the herms go, one displayed both sexes right away, the other threw tons of nanners (not pollen sacs) at about week 4. I'm very pleased with the m/f ratio, and I think it's important to prepare for herms. when growing from seed. Just be sure to discard those cuts.

Some new photos taken at day 56 of 12/12. They have been getting plain pH adjusted water from day 42. Not sure when to cut, but they are getting close.

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I'll follow up with details later.

 

[wemary]

looks yummy

 

[YosemiteSam]

Looks great.

I popped 10 (all of them made it). I would say 7 of mine are very Deep Chunk leaning...that fat unmistakeable leaf. Of the Malawi leaning ones I am surprised by how columnar they are.

Is there the possibility of very different flowering times?

Personally I am looking for as much Malawi as possible.

Mine are staying a lightish green also. They do not appear to be finicky eaters at all...happy with a light feed, happy with a heavy feed.

 

[Seismic]

Definitely staying tuned for further details, and I really like how #2 looks, at least structurally. Take care

 

[Mountain]

Not getting a ton of cherry aroma, but we will see what happens after a cure.

Some new photos taken at day 56 of 12/12. They have been getting plain pH adjusted water from day 42. Not sure when to cut, but they are getting close.

The CCM sample I got had the cherry aroma. It smelled almost identical to some REv grown Cherry Malawi I sampled. CM is CCM's mom. It was not Luden's Cherry cough drop type smell but definitely a cherry twang. Wait for the cure.

At 56 days you should be about done...you watching the trichomes? Where they at?

They do not appear to be finicky eaters at all...happy with a light feed, happy with a heavy feed.

Easy to grow in that respect and nice.

 

[YosemiteSam]

spring fed...hope you do not mind another pic in your thread. If you do say and I will edit it out.

Here are my starts. Sorry about the HPS light and horrible pic quality but hopefully you can see the variety in these things. No mistaking the Deep Chunk influence on some of these babies...

 

[Mountain]

Is there the possibility of very different flowering times?

REv said the flowering times should be pretty close but outdoors when the phenos would trigger will vary. He also said the high type plant-to-plant should be pretty close.

I popped 10 (all of them made it).

At least the germination rates are great...lol. Since I'm mostly responsible for getting the CCM's onto ICMag (SeedBay) keen to see how they work out for peeps. I know grow space is valuable.

Very interested how this all shakes out. Thx for the pix.

 

[spring fed]

YosemiteSam,
My ccm were all very similar in veg.. I was thinking dc dominant at first, but it seems the Cherry Malawi is expressing herself (thank goodness). I bet you will get a nice variation.

Mountain,
Thanks for all your hard work on getting this out to the public. I can't wait to consume her! The extra work you put into the seed pack art is also appreciated. I'm sure folks love that extra personal touch, I know I do. A collectors item of sorts.

 

[ShroomDr]

Great example pic Sam. I guess i got two very far leaning Malawis; just hoping they dont go 10+ weeks. Even my male had some skinny fans.

 

[Mountain]

just hoping they dont go 10+ weeks

I highly doubt they'll even come close to that with this polyhybrid. Don't worry mate.

Thanks for all your hard work on getting this out to the public.

Thx man. Just interested in helping to put smiles on peeps faces.

Looking forward to some smoke reports and seems we're pretty close. I do believe CCM will twist your melon in a different way.

 

[3rdEye]

Awesome. I'm happy to see a thread about these. I grew 4 of these out. 3 females 1 male. I'll go check my notes for more info, but my yields were nice for my set-up and my favorite girls had a strong honeysuckle smell. Very unique and pleasing.

Your light will, more likely than not, have an impact on smells and possibly hightype as well. I was running a 400W EYE Blue light which did the trick nicely. Yields were good in my book, but i'd like to run them outdoors as well as under some bigger lights.

Twist the melon? lol It sure does that. I've got a good tolerance and even smoking them daily for a few months didn't affect the quality of the hightype. If you get a more sativa dom, like i did, the high was uplifting and motivational. Apparently some people get hit pretty hard by it up front and i had some friends that were kind of stunned for the first 30 minutes or so before the high went UP.

Thanks again Mountain for helping these get out. Very good medicinally as well. If i didn't have to chop the whole garden due to rust mold i'd still be running those cuttings. Thankfully i still have some seeds left.

Springfed Your plants look great. Very nice job. I didn't get any intergendered (hermie) plants in my run FYI. You are going to love this smoke. Mind if i post some pics in your thread as well? Maybe make this a general CCM thread?

 

[Mountain]

Thanks again Mountain for helping these get out.

Yeah REv owes me a few of his famous burgers. I think I'm up to like 5 by now...lol. Thx for the report...for sure CCM is something different.

As for the high type thing...pretty sure while the structure of the plants may be different the high types will be fairly close as in some ways the Malawi stomped all over the other genetics in the mix. I'm also a big fan of more blue spectrum bulbs for flowering and that will make a difference. The sample I, Subrob and Nomaad got was grown by 4C outdoors in CO.

 

[ShroomDr]

Got an update spring fed?


I think my two girls leaned back towards the sensitive side. Although, it could be a potting size/plant thirst issue too, i only had them in 2Gal smart pots until flower, they had filled them out by that time (About a week into 12/12 i put the 2Gal pots into 3Gal smart pots and back-filled; shouldnt have been too hard on the rootzone).

They also received over 5 straight 24 hour periods without illumination. Other strains/phenos ive ran before, received the same conditions, i expected disaster, didnt notice much of an effect (I will treat this as 1 night cycle).

Still have probably 30 days or so left, I will probably give these CCM another round, before i pass too much judgement.

 

[spring fed]

Some dried bud shots. It really is some unique smoke. Heady, focused high. Aroma ranges from slightly astringent to honeysuckle/fruit. A common response from people after they exhale is to stare off into space and get real quiet for a minute or so. It can make me pretty damned scatter brained, but if you have something to focus on, it's great.
I used a ccm male for my first pollen chuck attempt. I hit Mystic Gem, two phenos of Critical +, West Coast Dawg, and f2's. You might be able to see some beans in the #5.
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I'd love to see some photos from other folks.

 

[Mountain]

A common response from people after they exhale is to stare off into space and get real quiet for a minute or so.

Ha ha. Glad you like it. The buds look nice. Sounds a lot like the Cherry Malawi mom but the high is a little cleaner meaning I do not get any scattered feeling. Glad the CM is really coming through in all aspects! Seems the Deep Chunk adds some intensity.