[Mustafunk]

I would like to share with all the community a small preservation project with a very special line I received from a good friend, the infamous Philippines Sagada. This strain cames from Overgrow. A philippino grower shared the seeds from several lines, Sagada, Kalinga and others with the community many years ago and after all this time, a few ended in my hands.



Beautiful landscape of Sagada:



The hanging tombs... seen them so many times in documentaries!



I think this strain it’s specially interesting due to the harsh drug laws in Philippines, where you can even be condemned to death penalty for cannabis possession. So growing weed is a very high risk there! That's the reason I don't think many traditional farmers will preserve old pinoy strains and probably the smugglers growing pot are already running hybrids to improve crops and profits. There isn’t many info on Philippines strains either but it seems cannabis growing operations are still common there, besides the risk:

https://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/re...ijuana-hotspot



https://www.manilatimes.net/vast-mari...village/11815/




The seeds were gifted by the great Rahan, a great inspiration who spread also lots of information on rare and native lines from all over the word and did a great landrace list in the past that could be found in Overgrow and the Ultimate Sativa Thread. He and other friends and great growers from the community also inspired me to contribute filling that list and keep gaining and sharing knowledge about landraces and cannabis diversity all over the globe.

Seeds were made around 2005, so they were quite old already. Unfortunately, from the 15 seeds I got only 5 sprouted properly and at the end, just 4 made it. This it’s been always a great issue for all of us, germinating very old seeds that have a very special value is such a challenge, but at the end there is not much we can do when they get old or weak to open and survive. It's a very big fucking pressure when you expect them to sprout and you don't have any more seeds plus you know they are super rare...

I tried desperately with different techniques with the beans, even home made surgery with them, helping them out as much as I could and always trying to make them moist and warm enough, while keeping everything sterilised with H2O2 and so on to avoid fungus and damage… but not much success so at the end I couldn’t get any other to come to life. It’s really disappointing and sad but it’s how it is. So guys, better sprout those special seeds you have been storing for years and keep them fresh each few years, otherwise they will get lost for ever!

I really hope to get at least one nice male and stable females to do a seed run and have fresh seeds to keep studying the line.

There isn’t many info on them. Rahan told me they were very much like the other SE Asian lines, but faster flowering than thais and maybe not so many hermies among them.


Quoting him:

The Sagada comes straight from Filipinos, I still may have the stamp of the package. I received them from a member of overgrow that was not very active. It was the same source than those of Dubi (ACE seeds) who received also both Sagada and Kalinga and preferred the Kalinga, more south asian electric sativa. We preferred the Sagada, more "quiet and zen" thai style. There were some hermies in the line but not as many as with classical thais and they were discarded from the reproduction. It was the time when people living in exotic countries were visiting forums like overgrow to exchange native lines with modern hybrid lines. Most probably, weed dealers who had strong interest (due to harsh law) to enhance productivity and lower flowering time so that to avoid risk exposure and enhance money.

Let’s see how they behave. I will keep this thread updated with some pictures and information regularly so anyone can enjoy as I will.

Vibes.

P.S: There is some info on the Philippines Kalinga in this thread as well... but nothing about Sagadas I'm afraid:

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=49138

[Mustafunk]

The show begins...

Nice long first pair of leaflets, this one looks weaker but I had to crack the seedpot by myself and plant the embryo straight into the soil as the taproot wasn't developing any more:



The bigger one, the only one who sprouted without any help and managed to come out from the soil by itself:



The Sagada Squad:


Field of weed in Philippines mountains:



Peace all.

[numide]

Good luck Musta!!!
Nice preserving project, hope you'll find all what you want

There's some good cannabis in the P.I (or at least there was 30 years ago ..lol) I'm looking forward to this thread, I'm hoping those four little Pinoys grow into big fat trees for you.

I spent many long holidays during the 80's in the Philippines, some of the best laughing weed I've ever smoked was from there......I still remember it vividly with great fondness (as does everyone else who remembers buds that had a high that was special for them, so special that they can still recall the great nights and times you had with them decades later)

[stonfofish]

this 3D is really interesting

[RandyCalifornia]

Good luck Musta

[blan-k-flor]

Good luck with them bro!! You are a shining light in the preservation path

[purple_man]

hellz yeah!!! looking forward to this one

good luck bro!
blessss

[advancedbrain]

Good luck man! Preservation of rare strains is always a great thing to do. I'm interested to see how it turns out!

[red rider]

Very interesting project I certainly wish you the best.

red rider