Stinky, Garlicky Afghani
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Hi mate yeah I seen your post. Was any HID lights used or was it just that 26w uv?
I was kinda worried about whispy bud aswell. We got 4 going atm (amongst other strains) and all the afg's grew quite stretchy for indicas. The leaves are long 9-bladed skinny leaves too.
This one's the shortest out of the lot. We chopped off the fan leaves along the main stem (which was very long, skinny leaves)
Do you think this one will take as long as 11 weeks? (Seedsman say 7 weeks, but I don't believe them. I don't even believe it's an afghani#1).
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My experience was that they were typical Afghan cultivar plants. Short, fat leaves, tight internodes. Very uniform plants, you would have thought they were clones during veg. Not much variation in the finished product, fat tight nugs. Yield was average to good, 8-9 weeks flower. Typical sedative Indica high, nothing special, that's why I only grew it once. Looked NOTHING like the plant pic from Grossett's Dad. This was around 2005-2006 though, no telling what may have changed.
Got some really funky stuff when I crossed it with C99. Gross tasting. Rotting meat smell and the most horrible taste I can't describe. Gave it away, though it was mad potent
AF #1 I used high quality LED overhead and fluoros on the sides and a uvb cfl in the middle. Great light combo, most growers will not get close to it in quality of spectrum. A cmh with added uvb would be about as good.
I took mine 12 weeks but 10 would have done alright. I like dark trichs on the lower buds and that takes more time than most will allow for. Was waiting on a NL that never darkened on the pistils of the top buds so that was the main reason for waiting.
The high was typical indica so I guess the leaves looking sativa could be a fluke? Welderdan saying his were short fat leaved plants makes me wonder I was conned here with the seeds.
I took mine 12 weeks but 10 would have done alright. I like dark trichs on the lower buds and that takes more time than most will allow for. Was waiting on a NL that never darkened on the pistils of the top buds so that was the main reason for waiting.
The high was typical indica so I guess the leaves looking sativa could be a fluke? Welderdan saying his were short fat leaved plants makes me wonder I was conned here with the seeds.
Ya mon that doesn't look Afghan#1 to me, looks very Sativa Dominant, but that doesn't mean the Geno can't be an Indica in the profile, Either way it's not Affie in the true spirit of Afghans.
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For real though what is up with these seeds?? I fucking love disgusting smelling strains, thats my shit. I got a pheno in what I thought was Deadhead OG f2's (ended up being herm bagseed, with a surprisingly strong non-herm female offspring ratio) that smelled straight up soiled baby diaper with a hint of lemons. Shit was strong as fuck and burned the nostrils with its funk. I love those powerful odors that, if you weren't looking at a beautiful flower, could make you hurl.
MkUltra, Deathstar, Sour Cream, and Chem D are all great for that then
MKU I've come across smells like garlic and halitosis, Sour Cream is even stankier... Shit smelled like vinegar and a rotting pastrami sandwich from a deli
Holy Fuck that sounds fucking disgusting, hopefully you can still smoke it, I am not really into the disgusting smell or the floral ones, I like the spicey chemical smells, what are the best strains for such smells.
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Hi Lammy,
I think I was the last post in that thread. I was shocked at how you were treated. Not only that, but most of the replies were incorrect. Passionately, aggressively, incorrect
If you haven't seen my reply to you there, please check it out.
Buying Ortega to find a "berry" pheno is not a good plan. Despite MNS description, the berry pheno is only 20-25% of the offspring.
Your experience with the "onion" smells is much more common (most people use other words that onion to describe it, but the smell is there.)
Lots of great berry strains out there. Nothing at MNS is a "berry strain" per ce, but many of their strains will throw berry phenos.
To the OP asking about stinky, garlicky strains, all the recommendations of the Chem line and chem hybrids are right on. May also want to look into something like MNS Nordle which from all appearances is kind of a modern, stabilized (inbred) version of super skunk.
Last suggestion would be to go on seedbay and search on garlic, road kill, etc and see what pops up.
Chem Sister is garlic gym sock funk 
You are so right I love both and make my own beer too.its so easy and much better than you can buy just like weed! Peace
Why Shanti decided to call that strain Ortega is beyond me. Confusing at best.
MNS Ortega is not a descendant of MLI or the Afghan T or Afghan S that Nev got from Jim Ortega (among other things.)
It comes entirely from the NL line and produces phenos across the family: NL5, NL1 (hashplant), and NL2 ("kush").
Reports of herms are inconsistent at best. I had zero problems in my run.
Zero. It was easy to grow and very nice.
My opinion on the herms for what it is worth: Environmental problems. Common suggestion is to lolly pop the larf branches off the bottom after stretch finishes as that is where they have been reported. People associate it with low light. I ran mine under T5s.
Its a very good strain with a high quality average pheno and maybe 10% to 20% that are something special.
I'm not pushing it. Its a good versatile breeding tool, and I found 1 out of 5 females that great effects for me.
If you have light leaks everywhere, poor air movement/exchange, experimenting with nutes and making frequent mistakes, or a hot room, maybe you should worry.
Otherwise, I would not pass on Ortega just because of some herm reports if you have a rockin room and need what she offers.
On the other hand, there are some amazing indicas out there and available in seed.
I'm not sure what you are looking for specifically, but it's a great time to be running beans.
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I just woke up, but that's exactly what I read a few weeks ago...that Shanti got at least part of the strain from Jim Ortega. When I'm a little more awake I'll find it.
