You're not going to start charging me rent in here are you.....I might be hanging out just that much. Lol
You mentioned a Columbian landrace. I had some Mango Biche about 2-3 years ago. Supposedly the original unhybridized strain was thought tp be extinct. They got caught in the hybrid craze back in the day to meet demand. It was allegedly discovered that the pure landracee, Mango Biche, was still be cultivated by a small tribe in Columbia. Who knows, the weed world is rife with weed lore. Blew the top of my head off, I'll tell you that. Lol Whatever the real story Is, it was a nice treat.
Man it's crickets in here, i ramble way too much, pull up a chair and our some coffee or bust out the sativas.
Not sure if i told this story on how i got them or not. Or just alluded to it.
I was at a KC bones (Kansas city grateful dead band) show in KC, and ended up having a drink and talking for a couple hours with this old deadhead that called himself boston mike. By the end of the convo and a few beers in i walked back to his place with him, and he showed me a bunch of cool stuff he mailed himself back from his backpacking gringo trips in south america. He had some really cool stuff. Dude didnt keep a cell phone, didnt even have tv. One of the cool things he showed me were some old pot seeds he got from some native dudes in columbia that had these "giant fire hair tree's" going. Based on his stories that was probably 10-15 years before i met him probably 10 years ago now, tbh i dont usually keep track of dates at all.
Im sure i gave a few good "omg what the f*ck no way's". i know i rambled about having a legal cultivation address and working for a commercial facility. But he gave me a bunch of them no questions asked.
I threw a dozen on a paper towel, and got 2 to pop. and both were more or less identical (implying true land race) Mexican fire hair sativa females, only they bushed out and tree'd up like no ones business unlike the mexican.
Boston Mike has since passed away as well. RIP.
This is a baby pic of that gain land race plant on the first page that pulled a little over 2 pounds under 1 light. (1kw hps) Cut at 13 weeks because root rot set in. Is probably a 16 week strain but i have no idea. This plant was the pollen donor for the feminized F1 peaceblaster generation i have outside right now.
The seed mother was a glue dream cookies pheno that had afghani, gg4, the original sativa dom animal cookies, and the original 70s afghani land race in it. That columbian pollen royally skunked up the peaceblaster too, in the best way possible.
I just found an old video of the DWC harvest on my apple accnt too. This video, that was all one single columbian land race plant in DWC pulled early from root rot. still managed to get her to 13 weeks though. I was never able to give this plant the length of season, nor the space, or enduring health to take her all the way. She was a tough plant and wanted altitude, and the equator. Chose to breed with her instead of totally loose her just because she was a hugely impractical plant to grow. Couldnt sell her either, no one wants a 12% thc sativa that smells almost like musty roadkill. I mostly smoked hash and wax i made with her because my tollerance was pretty up at the time. She had that grinning, smiley, chinese eye almost giggly high that's nowhere today.
Proud to have genetics like this in my peaceblaster. It's where the F1 vigor kicked into overdrive and many of the pheno's skunked out.