Nice, but you don't need to yell it. We believe you. Peace GS
I too love mikado,I know Im giving this thread a big bump but the passion I have for this strain can not be described.It was the first real strain I ran as a 16yr old ordered from Marc.I use to love his back few pages.Id study them for hours.
When they arrived they were the first plant I grew other than bagseed that I was excited about.I remember a plant that had visible trichs all over the insides of the leafs in veg.A very chemmy pukey piney smell in the stems and the dankest buds I or my family had ever seen.As a matter of fact it was the strain I was growing when I met my wife at 18.Now about to be 30 lol.
I left the strain behind when we moved in together,but hands down best in my circle.Im talking import,local whatever.Hands down best herb of my childhood/teenage years.
Only I remember slightly less bushy plants with the rasp cream taste.
I recently popped some orig stock carried on by Hazeman,and have 30 or so going.
I see 3 very distinct phenotypes.One very busy and the most vigerous out of the bunch.One smaller phenotype with very close node spacing and no bushing what so ever.It resembles affi/og kush in nature.I do have a dark leafed almost blue phenotype.That is one of the bushy phenotypes.But then their seems to be a mix of the two.Waiting on some clones to root to move on the perpetual.But these are all vegged nice for the most part and ready to go.
Im the founder of Seed no Evil if anyones heard of us.If not you will
As a breeder I have various plans for these.I have a pheno of each male selected from 30 beans and about 5 females that really stood out to me.I toss runts.If they arnt keeping up or show mutation in the bin they go.I looked for smell,node spacing,structure,stress resistance etc and these seem to fit the bill so far.I do have one female I thought was a male but I dont think Ill be using him in the end either way.If I do carry on the generation,Ill take a pheno of each and run an open pollination in the lab....Other than that various in and out crosses.Test some progeny so on and so forth.Since this strain started my growing career,and was my moms favorite back then,and I lost it.Our replacement became Lonestars Killerqueen cut(pacific g13 x bro grim c99) but unlike mikado is a sativa hybrid that leans strong to the sativa side.
Wish you were here by pink floyd was my moms favorite song,and the title to a strain I am making in remembrance of her.She pass ed on 11/7 last year.Ever since then this project has been on my mind and now I finally know what is worthy to combine the killerqueen with.It only makes sense it should end where it began.With out her supporting my growing at an early age,and allowing my skills to blossom Seed no Evil would no exist.I know yall dont know us yet.But I my self have been working towards this going on 6 years.A pipe dream for the last 10.We have our own site going up,14 creations of my own not including my two partners work.
Rather than flood the market with unstable work,our goal has always been quality.In the seeds and the buds grown.Even the variation Im seeing in the mikado lets me down.But I suppose any number of phenotypes could arise at any given time so lol at me.Especially with the spg rumors etc.For now Im going to go with what I know.Grow em all take cuts and keep the best most stable parents for breeding.
Anyone else see the non bushy phenotypes that I remember and am seeing now?
2016 BUMP! Got some Mikado from the folks doing a preservation project, just put 9 seeds in the water, (mikado X strawDiesel) X Mikado. Should be some dope in these...
Hazeman has Mikado seeds.
Federation was my fav seed house. I'm waiting patiently for Chimera to do a preservation project on those Cotton Candy beans he has. I won't hold my breath but he is the only one I know of who has those beans, my fav strain ever.