Azad Kashmir Introgression and Line Breeding.

[Diggy_Soze]

TLDR: Circa 2019 I got some Azad Kashmir seeds.

I think you need to get to know a line before you know how to treat her, so a few years was spent just growing out as many siblings as possible.

Her colors don’t really fade to purple.
She’s more into pinks, coppers, and gold.

Very first run I fell head over heels.
The mom I kept had this minty chocolate orange, eucalyptus and lemon, gassy menthol sharpness. It was the kind of chemical engine exhaust odor where your brain just says “I should not be breathing this in.”
That top level is fleeting, tho. It would evaporate off during curing and leave behind a pure pink bubblegum aroma.

2021 Outdoor
2021 indoor;

She has a strong ‘up’ high I call hiking weed, and a harvest window you could drive a truck through. Slender leaves with a heavy serration, and an ‘open’ bud structure that gets them through 60 days of 90% humidity without budrot.

She is a line famous for her hashish, so she needed a pairing that could keep pace. Something sexually stable, short-flowering, frosty, and inbred.
I chose the Starfighter from Alien Genetics.
2022 outdoor.

I’m limited to ten pictures, so I’ll pause here, for now.
Thank you for stopping by. Fuck you, and fuck your mother.

 

[Creeperpark]

Beautiful plants with beautiful flowers. Man, you kicked ass on the plants above. I love the fade on your plants. Thanks for sharing your work with us. Keep us posted.

 

[Diggy_Soze]

Thank you much, brother.
I’m a terrible photographer. I took ninety shots yesterday and like, five are good. Lmfao

Azad Kashmir x Starfighter F1 testers. Day 2

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Day… uhhh… 35 veg

Day 35 veg
Day 101, stretching started IN JULY!

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Day 119, AUGUST 9th!

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[Diggy_Soze]

So the moniker Azad means “Free,” which is a painfully ironic name for this part of Pakistani Occupied Kashmir.

If you’re not familiar with Kashmir, yet, it might very well be a major battleground in World War 3. It’s centered in the Himalayas, alongside Indian Occupied Kashmir, and Chinese Occupied Kashmir, three nuclear powers who are increasingly desperate to control the water source.

You might have heard china newest map encroaches on even more land; or seen the video from a couple years back of Chinese and Indian soldiers fighting. Late 2019 India revoked Kashmir’s autonomy, and a rule that said foreigners couldn’t buy land in Kashmir. You’ve got Chinese investment in Pakistan leading to bombings in Baluchistan. Pakistan just had a military coup, and then a suicide bombing at a political rally. And Kashmir is dead center of it all.

But back to the plant. I tend to think the Azad Kashmir line came up from India, as opposed to the Pakistani / Afghani direction, because the morphology is so similar to the Rajahstani and Malana I’ve seen.
The plants as a whole, and the buds themselves, have a ‘open’ sort of structure that lets them thrive in a level of humidity that’ll turn afghans to liquid.

Look at this humidity for the month of July.

Then in October you’ve got the opposite problem. Cold, damp, and risk of torrential storms. Snow isn’t normal that early in the year, but it happens often enough that the line needs to be ready by Halloween, no exceptions.

 

[Diggy_Soze]

Day 126 for the F1 testers.

Guerrilla status.
Cleared the spot and prepped the soil in advance.
Watered-in the plants only once, at transplant, and let them do their own thing until harvest.

The downside of set-it-and-forget-it?
One plant got hit by some kind of subterranean dominatrix.
A mole, a vole, a gopher? Idk. As soon as the taproot gets severed, tho, they just start to rapidly lose turgor pressure. Today’s day three or four since I noticed the wilting start. She’s already devoured all of her fan leaves, and is likely moving onto sugar leaves tomorrow.

The same exact thing happened to a Sour Chem last year.

Oh well. Shit happens.

When the outdoors got planted I left 2 females and 3 males in tiny little 4” pots, to test the steadfastness of their sex. They were too hot, too humid, rootbound, overwatered, under-watered and malnourished. Under-loved, under-paid, and every once in a while I would call em ugly, just to really stress em out.

Passed with flying colors. Not a single intersex flower exhibited.

The females then went indoors. Too much nitrogen, light intensity too high, and intermittent dark-period disruptions.
Haven’t heard a complaint, yet.

Thank you for stopping by. Call your grandma. Have a great fucking day.

 

[Diggy_Soze]

Oh my god, I forgot!

They also went through this crazy period when they got too big for their pots, the wind would just fucking TAKE em. Lmfao.

I would go outside and stand them all back up, and I swear to god by the time I got back inside they would be knocked over again. This went on for WEEKS!

 

[goingrey]

Nice purple flowers on one of the males there.

Interesting line to dedicate so much time to. You must like it.

 

[Diggy_Soze]

So what has been learned of the F1 tester batch;

* First and foremost they look like she will definitely finish outdoors.
* Trichome production increased.
* The essential oils are pure Kashmiri.
* Flower morphology is a perfect 50/50 mix of the two parents. (The Starfighter is a bit leafier, so there’ll need to be a conscious effort to select back towards the Kashmir side.)
* Bulletproof sexual stability.
* Stem rub on the right plants smells like you spilled bleach on your hands. Not sure what to do with that information, but it’s noteworthy.

^Cordyceps growing on a crab spider.

Thank you for your time, and remember, smart and stupid are measured on two different scales. Everyone is both.

 

[dramamine]

That Kashmir seems like a great one. No doubt there'll be great plants in the cross. They sound killer.

 

[Diggy_Soze]

F1 testers are looking good, so next step is to make some F2s.

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[Diggy_Soze]

Crazy how far into flower they are.

We just got over seven days and nine nights of rain, in a fucking row.

Couple buds needed to be excised, on the two females who get the least sunlight. The largest females and the ones who get the most sunlight seem unaffected. Couple hurricanes in our future but for the moment there’s no evidence they’ll do us any significant harm.

Thanks for stopping by.

 

[goingrey]

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Morning Glory?

 

[ronsonmatsuo]

hey brothers I’m wanting to do a landrace/heirloom run and trying to find this azad kashmir I only found crosses. I want to ask if anyone knows a recommendation?

 

[Creeperpark]

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Let's keep our fingers crossed that you make it without any more problems. Thanks for sharing a very detailed post. Very interesting.

 

[Digger102]

Thanks for documenting these. Hope everything is cool.

 

[Diggy_Soze]

@goingrey Yup! The morning glories have been following me for a little over a decade, now. Every couple years some extra seeds get poured into the gene pool, and assimilated. One year something didn’t mix properly, and some of the progeny had these beautiful little convoluted double-blooms, that didn’t even look like morning glory flowers.

@ronsonmatsuo Yeah, that sounds right. Barefrog did the original distribution of Azad Kashmir and some went to Bodhi, but bodhi only released them pure once, to help fund repairs on a monastery or something like that.
Then the dude who runs Generic seeds reproduced the Bodhi line, found hermies, and released the seeds anyway. After MAD people complained, and were refused refunds, the site put up a warning that you’re buying hermie seeds.

This line of Azad Kashmir never touched bodhi’s hands, tho. This branch of the family tree also originated with that batch that Barefrog reproduced, but all of the plants in this thread are thanks to Carty and Argo.

@Creeperpark @Digger102 Much appreciated. Have only run into a handful of flowers that lessens my ADD, and half of em don’t even exist anymore, so trying to make this one a staple.

Outdoors is coming to an end. Indoors is just about to get interesting;

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[Digger102]

Carty is the best!! The gifter!! The seed whisperer!! He sent me some Azad F1 x F2 and F2's I believe made by Gardentroll. Now I gotta get them wet before the month is over!! Thanks for doing the journal. I'll be following along.

 

[Diggy_Soze]

Today:

Three weeks into flower the first pollen sacks are opening. Everything got lightly misted until they were dripping, and then the males, decapitated. They’ll hover over parchment for the next two weeks, until the females are ready. Call it the Metal Comb Tek.

When the females are ready I’ll mix equal amounts of each pollen in a little jar, and shake the life out of it, before pollinating.

Couldn’t I just let the males do their thing when the time is right?
Sure. I could. But this is the easiest way, for me, to make sure there’s equal distribution of each parent in each successive generation.

 

[Digger102]

Have you ever considered cloning the males and flowering them before you make the breeding so you can pick the best one out of the run?

 

[Diggy_Soze]

Have you ever considered cloning the males and flowering them before you make the breeding so you can pick the best one out of the run?

For this run? I have not even considered it.

I’m of the school of thought that in order to produce a population with a strong genetic fitness, you have to leave all of the unimportant genes as variable as possible. The most obvious example is if you’re selling your seeds as Blueberry, the smells and tastes are gunna be make-or-break traits. Instead of keeping the one plant that smells the most blueberry, use all of the plants that smell like blueberry and remove only the ones that don’t. The idea is when you move the population to a different environment or run into a new pathogen the plants have the greatest chance of adapting, because we haven’t been unnecessarily removing alleles.

If the parents were polyhybrids or if this was a different F-generation it would be a totally different story. Because both parents are relatively consistent lines the seven female testers outdoors are all remarkably similar. You could mix all of the buds up and pick out a single pound with no way of knowing which bud came from which plant.

The F2 and F3 generations will be a major hunt, tho. I’ll probably reverse the best F2s and make full-sibling femme F3s.