Robar
Well-Known Member
It's been a while since I bought seeds as I usually do my own breeding and have thousands of seeds but we all get our genetics from somewhere right? The last thing I bought was Black Forrest from Kingdom Organic Seeds. This is a Vietnam Black BX that the Rev released last year. Here is his description.
Description
Let me first explain to you the F2/bx1 descriptor on this variety. The original Black Forrest was a straight up F1 hybrid, as you can read about below in more detail, but I made the original Black Forrest F1 almost 30 years ago. I germinated some a while back, and at the same time I germinated 4 of my 6 remaining Vietnam Black landrace jungle sativa seeds. I found a stellar female Black Forrest (BF) female—yowza, and, as luck would have it, 2 of my 4 Vietnam Black (VB) seeds sprouted. One of the VB sprouts was pretty weak out of the gate, as these VB seeds are more like 45 years old and were sent to me by my cousin who lives in Vietnam over 3 decades ago. But the one VB that remained was wicked strong and hearty and turned out to be a true stellar male.
So, this Black Forrest F2/bx1 is a “soft” backcross back to the landrace VB line. A hard backcross would be back to the original female/male VB individual that was an original P1 breeder. A hard backcross I label as Bx, a soft one I label as bx. The Black Forrest original F1 hybrid was my F3 Cherry Bomb (male) x VB. This version really leverages the wild side of cannabis with an insane potency, seriously edgy and full of energy.
If you do not have actual skills indoors, or growing in containers period, with running real deal landrace type sativas, my advice to you would be start flowering these much smaller than you would think. If you are familiar with growing wild-child sativas in containers, this one is an alfa strain indeed and can sustain ridiculous growth rates when happy—ridiculous! Outdoors in the right environment she will definitely get way off the chain and can easily get MUCH larger than you anticipated.
Even if you aren’t skilled enough yet to feel comfy growing these, just keep them sealed up light and air tight in your refrigerator and they will stay 80% viable for at least 20 years. Once you get your sativa container growing skills dialed in a bit you can break her out and experience the WoW!
Lineage
I haven't had a chance to get to these yet. I'm currently working on a Black Poison Skunk BX project (Another strain of his that I love and have been growing for a few years now.)
Description
Let me first explain to you the F2/bx1 descriptor on this variety. The original Black Forrest was a straight up F1 hybrid, as you can read about below in more detail, but I made the original Black Forrest F1 almost 30 years ago. I germinated some a while back, and at the same time I germinated 4 of my 6 remaining Vietnam Black landrace jungle sativa seeds. I found a stellar female Black Forrest (BF) female—yowza, and, as luck would have it, 2 of my 4 Vietnam Black (VB) seeds sprouted. One of the VB sprouts was pretty weak out of the gate, as these VB seeds are more like 45 years old and were sent to me by my cousin who lives in Vietnam over 3 decades ago. But the one VB that remained was wicked strong and hearty and turned out to be a true stellar male.
So, this Black Forrest F2/bx1 is a “soft” backcross back to the landrace VB line. A hard backcross would be back to the original female/male VB individual that was an original P1 breeder. A hard backcross I label as Bx, a soft one I label as bx. The Black Forrest original F1 hybrid was my F3 Cherry Bomb (male) x VB. This version really leverages the wild side of cannabis with an insane potency, seriously edgy and full of energy.
If you do not have actual skills indoors, or growing in containers period, with running real deal landrace type sativas, my advice to you would be start flowering these much smaller than you would think. If you are familiar with growing wild-child sativas in containers, this one is an alfa strain indeed and can sustain ridiculous growth rates when happy—ridiculous! Outdoors in the right environment she will definitely get way off the chain and can easily get MUCH larger than you anticipated.
Even if you aren’t skilled enough yet to feel comfy growing these, just keep them sealed up light and air tight in your refrigerator and they will stay 80% viable for at least 20 years. Once you get your sativa container growing skills dialed in a bit you can break her out and experience the WoW!
Lineage
- Male Breeder(s) Deets: 1 superior male of Vietnam Black jungle landrace sativa was the paternal P1 in this cross. These seeds are about 40 years old, I planted 4 seeds and ended up with one insanely hearty awesome and healthy true male, with extremely high resin production potential, per its offspring. Noice!
- Female Breeder(s) Deets: 1 Black Forrest female (crazy terpenes and resin production with beefy floral formation) was the maternal P1 in this cross. Uber high vigor and heartiness.
I haven't had a chance to get to these yet. I'm currently working on a Black Poison Skunk BX project (Another strain of his that I love and have been growing for a few years now.)
