Crossing African strains with European strains.

[lowridersa]

Cross them, experiment and discover something new.

I think budtoker has it right, you may come across some duds, but you are sure to find a heavy producer fast grower with a mix of genes, and mix taste of africa.
It is important to keep our landrace strains as if we cross pollinate we wont have the originals for much longer, the original durban is very hard to find, and even harder to sprout beans. I think the one in amsterdam is always advertised as pre 80's or something. There have been a few initiatives to save african landraces from across the world, seedbanks to private growers, for decades.

 

[Hort1]

Its been 6 weeks now so I broke a few seeds out to check.Nice and brown but still a few with a little green so I will let them go another week before I chop the plants.

 

[simple gardener]

i prefer to keep strains "pure" rather than cross them. the reason? control. i can do a custom blend every time i smoke. also, more complexity is possible in a blend than in a hybrid of the same strains, especially in terms of traits of low heritability, like flavour. let's say you have strains with the purest flavours you have ever tasted, like liquorice, orange, pineapple, mango etc. if you hybridize them you will probably lose those flavours, the only way then to have them all in one smoke is to blend them. that's how i see it anyway. peace

 

[InsanityRules]

I'm with the mindset of as long as you don't just let pollen fly OD and ruin the countryside what the hell. Those Kickass long flowering Sats would be wickly awesome one half parental stock for a killer pure Indica. Bring down the flowertimes and give you some different types of stone. I think it would be a killer idea. Shit with the kickass sun you all get there I'd personally be running my FEMALE hybs made from such crosses every damn season. Just keep the responsibility to the pure landrace in mind and the skys the limit. I'd hate to be limited to only a handfull of variations!

Good luck man. Make some ass whoopin crosses and offer em up on SB PLEASE. Even the Landrace beans. I'd love to see some REAL diversity of African genetic avaliable for us here in the US to play with!!!

Good luck brother. If we were all narrow minded and unadverterous we would still be in the stone age!!!!!

I.R...

 

[lowridersa]

I'm with the mindset of as long as you don't just let pollen fly OD and ruin the countryside what the hell.

I was on a farm with a friend who lives for cannabis, hard to explain. He was shocked when i assassinated a dud male, even after pulling it out the ground, I snapped the stem as he would have tried to transplant it. He hates seeing any plant being killed.

 

[Hort1]

I planted out 40 of the seeds I made in my veg room and about 3/4 have sprouted .I was thinking maybe planting them into 2l bottles and running them 12/12 right from week 2 just to speed things up a little. Not much point in making clones now that I am sitting with hundreds of seeds and it will be nice to cut out the veg time.

 

[lowridersa]

Nice man, your own seeds you made, that is a good percentage. Why the hell not, flip the switch, faster buds, less time. What are the crosses you made?

 

[bigbrokush]

i prefer to keep strains "pure" rather than cross them. the reason? control. i can do a custom blend every time i smoke. also, more complexity is possible in a blend than in a hybrid of the same strains, especially in terms of traits of low heritability, like flavour. let's say you have strains with the purest flavours you have ever tasted, like liquorice, orange, pineapple, mango etc. if you hybridize them you will probably lose those flavours, the only way then to have them all in one smoke is to blend them. that's how i see it anyway. peace

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