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MeOhMyOhio

MeOhMyOhio

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ttystikk said:
Is this a sativa dominant? How long does it take to flower?
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The Malawi is a landrace African sativa from Ace seeds. Lots of cool threads on it from growers who finished it right, and used it for smoke. When I harvested it at 18 weeks the pistils were brown, and the trichs were all amber. I was ripening the seeds and let it go till the seeds were harder and brown.
I never gave it a proper cure and just hung the branches until they were very dry, and crumbled most of it up to get the seeds.
All the grow reviews and journals inspired me to use it for breeding. The female I flowered kept stretching and building giant huge colas for weeks. It stretched and grew outward, 3-4 times its initial size when it went into 12/12 at 3 weeks old. The branches all required support, when the buds started fattening.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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MeOhMyOhio said:
The Malawi is a landrace African sativa from Ace seeds. Lots of cool threads on it from growers who finished it right, and used it for smoke. When I harvested it at 18 weeks the pistils were brown, and the trichs were all amber. I was ripening the seeds and let it go till the seeds were harder and brown.
I never gave it a proper cure and just hung the branches until they were very dry, and crumbled most of it up to get the seeds.
All the grow reviews and journals inspired me to use it for breeding. The female I flowered kept stretching and building giant huge colas for weeks. It stretched and grew outward, 3-4 times its initial size when it went into 12/12 at 3 weeks old. The branches all required support, when the buds started fattening.
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So it took 15 weeks of bloom to finish??
 
MeOhMyOhio

MeOhMyOhio

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ttystikk said:
So it took 15 weeks of bloom to finish??
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Given from the first sign of calyx, and pistil formation, yes. Once it started forming buds, it was easily 12-14 weeks more. As I said, I only grew it for seeds. I never kept track of exact times the first pistils emerged etc...The time people refer to "flowering" is often more of the switch to 12/12.
It went in at 3 weeks old, at about 14" tall, and spent 18 weeks in the tent. I would go in, squeeze out a seed, and waited until they became brown and mottled, before I harvested them.
I know several grow reports I've read on the Malawi, say it takes 16 weeks.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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MeOhMyOhio said:
Given from the first sign of calyx, and pistil formation, yes. Once it started forming buds, it was easily 12-14 weeks more. As I said, I only grew it for seeds. I never kept track of exact times the first pistils emerged etc...The time people refer to "flowering" is often more of the switch to 12/12.
It went in at 3 weeks old, at about 14" tall, and spent 18 weeks in the tent. I would go in, squeeze out a seed, and waited until they became brown and mottled, before I harvested them.
I know several grow reports I've read on the Malawi, say it takes 16 weeks.
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So not I'm even more confused... but I love me a good sativa so help me out?

I occasionally see pre flowers before flip but I count from the start of 12/12. How long from flip did these take? Or if you didn't record that, how big was the plant when it started showing sex?
 
MeOhMyOhio

MeOhMyOhio

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ttystikk said:
So not I'm even more confused... but I love me a good sativa so help me out?

I occasionally see pre flowers before flip but I count from the start of 12/12. How long from flip did these take? Or if you didn't record that, how big was the plant when it started showing sex?
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The reason it seems vague is...I used a newer femmed version of Ace seeds Malawi. I knew it was a girl, so I put it in the tent on 12/12 before I saw any pre-flowers.
At about 3 weeks in veg, when it was a youngster, it went in the flowering tent. It was about 12"-14" tall. It had no pre-flowers when it went into 12/12. I don't recall at which week, it started showing pre-flowers. I just watched it stretch. It spent 18 weeks in 12/12. I waited until about 9 weeks in, when it had fat, white haired buds and dusted it.
The smoke is strong and sedative. I'm sure it was over-ripe.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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MeOhMyOhio said:
The reason it seems vague is...I used a newer femmed version of Ace seeds Malawi. I knew it was a girl, so I put it in the tent on 12/12 before I saw any pre-flowers.
At about 3 weeks in veg, when it was a youngster, it went in the flowering tent. It was about 12"-14" tall. It had no pre-flowers when it went into 12/12. I don't recall at which week, it started showing pre-flowers. I just watched it stretch. It spent 18 weeks in 12/12. I waited until about 9 weeks in, when it had fat, white haired buds and dusted it.
The smoke is strong and sedative. I'm sure it was over-ripe.
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Okay, so you took it long to make seeds. Do you think it would be ripe in 9 weeks? Also, would you be willing to share a few of those seeds? ;)
 
MeOhMyOhio

MeOhMyOhio

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ttystikk said:
Okay, so you took it long to make seeds. Do you think it would be ripe in 9 weeks? Also, would you be willing to share a few of those seeds? ;)
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I would be glad to share the seeds of the cross I made! I think the cross will finish in 9 - 10 weeks.
The Malawi itself, is a very long flowering sativa, like Hazes. I have a few Malawi fems if you want to try them.
 
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