[ShootinBudz]

So I'm waiting for a pack of the highland mex blueberry, and right now I was going to send an email to SD.to and find out if the had received my registered and insured letter with payment. So what do I find but a notice that as of 6/25 SD.to ceased to exist and gypsy got the site back and has nothing to do with it. Check your pm's chimera.

[rabid]

I hope Chimera can help you out but I was under the impression he had no more of this strain in his possession. I got mine from sd more than 4 months ago when they were still open. Good luck...

[Ulysses]

A brief update for those interested:

As you know, I germed only 5 seeds, 4 female one male resulted... I was able to get the sole indoor plant to go 9 weeks before I was forced to take it down... Still, even at this stage, it was silvery with resin.

The smoke is none the less fantastic with about a month cure. Like fine tobacco, these buds really do need to cure... I took a doobie to the Labor Day cookout and smoked out 3 of my buddies- two heads and one less experienced- all of us got about 3 puffs... and there was a small argument over the roach!

Comments included the wicked wild scent left in the air- even the non-smokers commented, trying to figure out exactly what it smelled like. And "This Shit should come with a WARNING label!!!", "I feel like I'm tripping on acid" (from someone who's never done acid, hehehe)... In all truth, it is very stimulating and I see possiblility of electric results with a better grown plant... Very satisfying smoke, old school richness... Caveat: we all had several beers under our belts at the time of testing

I don't think I could possibly do a better job at a smoke report than Martian313 wrote up a few pages back. Well thought out and spot on, my friend!

Outdoors, three sturdy girls reach for the sun and are a good 8 or 9 feet tall and rapidly outgrowing the surrounding vegetation giving me some concern... I continue to flower out the male in a secluded spot- it just popped a few sparse flowers... I hope to f2 if all goes well...

The females are my main concern. It's clear to me these are heavy Mex dom and there are only a few long pistils popping on the plants! Hey, it's September 1st! All my other plants are well into flower! Yeah, what's going on at the top of the plant I don't know- can't see that far up- hehehe...

Plently of budsites, no buds. Am I blowing it somehow? Did I use too much N??? Ten to twelve weeks from now puts me at a Thanksgiving harvest at best- that's a bit late on 40'N... I think all my cover will be dead by then and I'll be standing in a flat brown field with huge green Mex trees waving in the wind from the local news helicopter hovering overhead... I insist on taking these to a proper finish!!!

[rabid]

Thanks for the update Ulysses. I'm starting mine very soon. Did you veg more than 7 weeks (as you reported on 23rd April)? Mine will go outside when the monsoon rains quit in October. Were they light feeders or nute hogs? What was the pot size for indoor and what light cycle did ya use?

Please keep us posted as to your progress. Is anyone else out there growing these???

[dank phunk]

are any more of these gona be made available?
these plants produced the best weed ive ever had

chimera any chance these will come around again?

by the way your mental floss, red eyed bride & sweetest sativa are also some of my favourite grows and smokes.

respect to you!

[ShootinBudz]

sounds like this plant could really create some legends around it! That's what I need because I set the bar prety high when I started growing and still havent found anything to replace that first one.

[Ulysses]

Whoa. The Highland Mex x BB is still stretching! I hope we get the stretch phase over with (like today would be good) and these plants start to pack on pistils...

The tail end of Ike (the hurricane) swept past last night and a preliminary glance toward the patch this morning showed a broken tree. Probably fell pretty close but I think it missed... Stressing... I'll have to investigate after work... The winds really whipped all vegetation here...

Best I can figure is the fact I transplanted late in the season and delayed flowering 2-4 weeks? Actually, I simply lifted the rootbound plant out of the container and placed the rootball in the container's hole- sure I chucked in some EWC and potting soil around the thing but I don't count it as a full blown transplant... Light green vegetative growth continues to appear in quantity...

This strain eats well. I feel it consumed the FF Fruit & Flower by July as the container was solid rootmass- where did the dirt go? hehehe. I top dressed with a homemade Budswell consisting of EWC, a bit of N guano, and a bit more P guano and mych- I let that 'bloom' until nicely covered with fungi then applied it... If I am in the patch, I hit it with PureBlend Pro Bloom for soil- I am using about an ounce to an ounce and a half per gallon- one gallon per plant... It looks like they could easily consume more as leaves start to yellow and fall off if I miss a fertilization.

These plants are 10' tall. I think they grew a foot in two weeks... The tops are exploding with sub-branches which I hope signals the end of stretch. Flower clusters are becoming visible with 6-8 long thick wispy white hairs per cluster- some clusters becoming very dark purple...

Cover is falling fast and I'm desparately trying NOT to leave an evident trail right to the patch- plants this tall often get spotted/ripped and/or busted but you'd have to have a sharp eye and know exactly what you were looking for and where... Someone looking for a sliced ball or their damn dog could stumble right into them without the wall of weeds screening them. At least 2 months remain for full flower...

[bigmoneygrip]

anything with highland mexican in it will be sweet. if you ever get a chance to grow some pure mexican sativas you will see the foxtail/wheat growth was standard in the seeds I got from LMN (peace be upon him) you dont have to have old stock to get that 70's groove just connections in that part of the world.

[rabid]

Hey Ulysses how about an update? Ya still with us bro?

[Ulysses]

Thanks for the interest- the results are in...


These plants came down a bit early. Somewhere in the 8-9 week range…

The storm that felled a branch near the garden was pretty strong and flattened the field in which they grew. Three glorious 10’ Highland Mex trees where the only thing left standing!!!

I also had to cross that field to ‘tend’-- and while originally following a deer trail, it became clear a ‘road’ was forming- used by both me and the deer… I made a management decision to pull them- too obvious. Stood in a deserted field at midnight on a full moon and limbed them with clippers and sawed through the stump and distributed the pieces widely. I grew these for soo long, it was like cutting down my pets! Ouch! The trash can liner puffed open like magic with a warm wind and received the long branches—And I was outta there! Hehehe, I could barely carry them!


Growing Highland Mex


As you may remember, I only sprouted 5 beans. Grew one female indoor and 3 females and one male outdoors. Yes, I kept the male! Separated of course… These plants spent the majority of the veg in three gallon gro bags in a mychorrizae heavy ProMix, Earthworm Castings and Perlite type mix… I LSTed them a bit to promote branching but this may not be nessesary- they love to branch! They migrated outdoors into #6 deep procans with a similar soil mix . Outgrew the pot by mid July and went right into the soil and just took off from there. Easy to grow and easy to clone. If I can clone it, it’s easy!

I had trouble keeping these happy later in flower. Lots of leaf yellowing at the bottom of the plant. I began feeding them PureBlendPro bloom for soil and a bit of Liquid Karma mixed- they loved it but it was a chore getting it to the site. I attribute the yellowing to Cal/Mag defieicney. I used pelletized lime and got uneven distribution through the soil. Next time, I’m using pulverized dolomitic lime… I feel these plants ate everything I threw at them but start light with the nutes as always and work up from there.

The plants were remarkably similar in appearance including the male. Each developed into 4 dominant branches including the plant that got accidently topped. On my plants, the buds that faced the tree line side of the grow- partially shaded- didn’t develop as well as the buds at the top and the sunny side. The very top of each branch began to sub-branch and very long white pistils appeared everywhere. I was surprised at the solidness of the bud- the calyces had just begun to swell… Some branch tips went dark purple- almost random on my plants- should I attribute this to the Blueberry influence or some deficiency possibly??? In any case, when hung and dried these upper buds appeared as long bird feathers- very interesting…

Does It Taste Like Blueberry?

Well, no it doesn’t. Possibly better. This Highland Mex leans heavily to the Guerran side of the cross. Yet, the Mexican genes in the selected Blueberry male melded flawlessly to that regions genes. The resulting taste and smell catapults your mind to 1969 concerts, a thick, rich incense-like cloud of blue smoke...

The Blueberry adds RESIN! Tall, clear, standing trichomes with bulbous heads. Like millions of lollipops... I don't remember seeing resin on any Mex strain I ever smoked! Some of the sticky smaller buds got smashed in transport and turned into little hash-like clusters... Yummy... Bud structure probably didn't suffer much from the introduction of the BB genes either...

The Experience

I get a very trippy high from this pot. Like a good mild mushroom ride. If you are active and doing something interesting you will be very in to it-- but if you sit down and veg out, you can space for hours... The high is long lasting 3-4 hours with a smooth touch down. Mixes well with alcohol- doesn't knock you out... There is virtually no tolerance build up as far as I can tell. However, the intensity of a good bong session may cause you to hesitate from non-stop smoking the stuff... Connoisseur head stash category. Special occassion stuff- like a concert, party, holiday...


I got alot of mileage from 5 beans. The other 5 are secreted away as my f2s failed- but a few stray seeds continue to be found- probably from that male Original Flo I set loose... Properly grown, Chimera’s Highland Mexican x Blueberry is among the best Mexican strains currently available…