Breeding for authentic sativa happiness. Mextiza, Thai, Angola, Senegal...

I have some Mextiza f2 or f3 seeds. Not many like 10. Will see if they sprout. Need to cross them with a stable Mexican line like my Michoacan. Ethiopian left me flat on the high. Not a bad high at all, just not that great for me.

yesum said:

I have some Mextiza f2 or f3 seeds. Not many like 10. Will see if they sprout. Need to cross them with a stable Mexican line like my Michoacan. Ethiopian left me flat on the high. Not a bad high at all, just not that great for me.

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That's real nice. Where do they come from? Did you make them yourself?
Cross all the males, select the best females and keep us informed. That's a jewel you've got there.

What do you mean by left flat with the high?
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They came from a guy that made seeds and gives them to a few people that have asked for them, seed sharing. The Ethiopian lacked in euphoria for me. Had a nice vibe like spiritual maybe, but not fun at all.

A lot of work ahead, and a lot of positive feelings as well. Repotting time.
These are the last Mextiza. Some look mutant, but there are enough healthy ones.


And these are the Thai Angola Mextiza. I've just finished smoking the ones I harvested two months ago and I love this weed. I am sure the aromas and effects will increase a lot when I allow them to mature properly, this one time I harvested them after just 7 weeks 12/12.


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ACE Honduras. I got just a couple of males in the bunch, and both of them have double serrated edge. They show a lot of flowers for only two weeks they've been 12/12.

Everything goes on well. These are some seeds I made, there are plenty more Jack Herer x Mextiza and Thai Angola x Mextiza in the fridge. Both nice crosses. I'll test the other ones in the months to come.



And these little plants are the Mextizas I found in the fridge a month ago, mixed with Thai Angola Mextiza. Some mutants but there are plenty of specimens to select.



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4 and 1/2 weeks. The SSSDH x Mextiza looks like this:





And this one is the Mextiza x Ghana I made several years ago. It is showing some features from the Ghana, but there is resin already, and that's good.






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ACE Honduras at 5 weeks. I've pollinated some plants, the first picture shows the most seeded one. And, of course, I've pollinated a Super Silver Sour Diesel Haze and my Mextiza.



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Hi. I guess I'll upload more pictures these days under the fucking quarantine.

This is the tent where I keep both the Mextiza F2 and the Thai Angola x Mextiza. They'll be ready to put them to flower soon, maybe a week. I keep finding mutations in some Mextizas I didn't purge, so I'll have to be cautious.

I must select males and females for the Mextiza and I'll just select the best females of the Thai Angola Mextiza.





Have a nice quarantine, or enjoy your freedom if you can. Whatever the case, make the most of it.

A couple of pictures of the two female Ghana x Mextiza just in their 8th week. Mextiza is really dominant, showing many characteristics of her in any cross, even when crossed with such a crazy landrace as Ghana is.

Lots of resin and fast maturation for these two. I expected they'd be closer to the Ghana strain, although the shape of the buds in one of the plants really reminds the freaky Ghana buds.




This one is a Ghana I grew years ago.






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I put the bunch of Thai Angola x Mextiza into the flowering room less than a week ago and I've already sort most of the males. These are just 3 of them. Most of the plants are female.

I'll give them a full maturation and I guess they'll rock. I say that because last time I picked them really early and immature, at just 7 weeks, and the weed was still great. Pure stimulating high.



Cheers

There are some great pics in this thread and kudos to all the people who have the discipline to work with them.

It's been many years (decades) since I've grown the long season Sativas and these pictures really take me back. I never really managed to develop anything too great out of the crosses I made back in the day with these types of Sativas. Although some of my crosses were promising, none of them were every anything too special, still, they were all fun. (My typical cross would get you cola's the size of two liter pop bottles grown inside, that weighed only a half ounce dry, took six months to grow and maybe hit 7% lol).

It took more discipline and patience than I had to continue working with them but it's great to see that people are keeping them going. And if not for the guys like Nevil and the rest of the early guys crossing these, none of our modern strains would exist today. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out if modern breeders don't find themselves with bottlenecks in their programs that demand they go back to some of these strains to break through to the next big thing.

Hats off to all you Sativa breeders!!

This is a great thread. Amazing plants, grower!

I've taken some pictures of two strange plants I grew. A Mextiza female was crossed with a Ghana male from Cannabiogen and I got two females between the seeds I planted. They are different, but both of them show features both from Mextiza and from the Ghana strain.

Ghana was one of the freakish plants I've ever grown. Probably, with the Ethiopian from ACE, the most authentic, real and extreme sativas I've ever grown in the last +20 years.

They were the classical plants that take a real lot of time to mature, but the mix with Mextiza in this case made the descendants to mature quite fast (they are now at 9 weeks) and to produce a lot of resin, considering their landrace origin and the usual dominance of these strains.

These two plants aren't very similar in shape, but one of them has a spicy smell that I like a lot. Let's see how they smoke.

This is the one that's more similar to the Ghana. I like a lot these stiff pistils coming out of the buds. Low buds are strangely compact and resinous. For some reason, it appears that low buds mature faster than the top, that's growing new flowers non-stop.





This is the other one, that's more similar to the Mextiza. The top and a side branch.



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These are some Honduras from ACE Seeds. They are at 8 weeks, and they were pollinated 5 weeks ago, now looking like this. Tall plants with long fluffy colas with quite a lot of resin and a fucking lot of seeds. The seeds are the result of pollinating with several Honduras males 5 weeks ago, so I'll have some seeds of this strain for the future.

For a landrace, they are easy to grow, they go fast and they are really resinous. Fortunately, this is not a pain in the ass like most of pure sativas out there.



Smells are complex, I can't say yet what do they recall.

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These are a couple of the Mextiza F2 I keep. There are about half a dozen without any kind of leaf shortening, and I'll take cuts of all of these in a week. They show the characteristic asymmetry of the branches and the weedy stem.




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After putting the Thai Angola Mextiza (TAM) population at 12/12 for two weeks, all the males have been purged and cuts have been taken from all the females.

This is a view of the forest I'm growing. I've got very high expectations with these plants, after the last very positive experience.




And these are ACE Honduras, at 9 weeks they show some nice colas to picture.



And seeds keep maturing.



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3 and a half week flowering. These Thai Angola Mextiza stopped stretching, started budding and also started growing resin glands.

I put a 80W UVA led over these plants just to test if it works in some way increasing THC and terpene content in the resin as some studies suggest.

I like a lot their shape and their very thin leaves, as a sign of their Sativa heritage.



This one is an OJD SSSDH, a very well known and very strong commercial sativa. I upload this pic to compare with the TAM. It's been flowering for about the same time. The differences in shape are obvious, and this one looks much more like an hybrid. It happens the same with the effect, being SSSDH more sedative.



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Such thick, strong-looking stems!! Nice plants. What size containers do you grow in?

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Such thick, strong-looking stems!! Nice plants. What size containers do you grow in?

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I flower in 3l pots filled with coco