[Lean Green]

Is my pleasure Dubi!
I saved one male of the two. It is the most compact plant of them all but has heavy branching. I stuck him outside and I'm waiting for the flowers to open now. They where close to opening when I stuck him outside, so the long days won't mater.

I'll get some new pics up soon of the new flowers.

[bloyd]

What's the verdict LG? Does it seem like the same Congo that you've worked in the deep Congo line? I asked at ace but didn't get a straight answer, I think it was a translation issue.

[Lean Green]

Still too early for me to tell much about their aromas. The plant closest to the door in my room has a generic woody scent to the trichs that most sativas have to some degree. Flowers are forming up nicely this past week, so more details about the scents to come should be revealed soon.

[Lean Green]

Plants are done and harvested. I had some intersex issues with the majority of them, a couple of timer malfunctions didn't help. One of the females stood out from the rest. She had no nanners pop out and just so happens that is the one I had chosen to pollinate.

I have not smoked much of it yet, but I did cob cure the lower buds for a traditional African type product.

[Lean Green]

[ULMW]

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Beautiful plant!!! Congratulations on your harvest Lean Green!

[porn]

Nice plant Lean Green, look like African octopus, Congo is in my list, maybe also I will look at Original Delicatessen, looking for a good congo expression. waiting for smoke report! nice work.

[dubi]

Hi Lean Green,

I'm super thankful that you have posted pics of the Congo 3 x Ethiopian F1 regular hybrid.
I think you are one of the very few persons that has tested and finished this new hybrid.

The outcome of your grow is really impressive, looks like the hybrid is mainly dominated by the ethiopian, but i also can see lots of hybrid vigor in this F1.

I'm sorry to hear that some plants showed intersex problems, but i think this is quite normal when working with direct crosses of landraces at P1 and P2 generation, the parental plants used in the cross are still very close to their original landrace genepool which has been grown only outdoors for many generations, but not indoors, another thing that could induce the intersex problems are the erratic indoor photoperiods.

Was the problem serious ? I mean, Did they produced a few bananas in late flowering ? if that's the case, were they fertile ? Or some of the females produced full developed male flowers ?

[Lean Green]

Hi Dubi, all the plants were similar except for the one in the last 2 pics in post #35. I assume it leans more to the Congo side.
The intersex was not too much of a problem, I knew to be on the look out and caught the flowers before too much pollen flew. One plant threw male flowers on its own and the others did not until weeks later when the timer malfunctioned.

The plant I made F2s with did not have any male parts show up and I think the male was the same pheno type.

Here is a pic of some buds and cob.


Chewing the cobs is an awesome high of energetic bliss! These are all made with the lower buds.

[dubi]

Hi Lean Green,

I'm glad to hear you are already enjoying the energetic effects of the new Congo # 3 x Ethiopian regular F1 hybrid

The the one in the last 2 pics in post #35 looks more ethiopian influenced, but chunkier thanks to the hybrid vigor, excellent flower/leaf ratio as well
I'm glad to see you are already following Tangwena's african curing method