One from the bucket list - Malawi Landrace

Moflow said:

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I got the Malawi regular seeds a couple yrs back with the intention to get a male for "pollen chucking" just for the genetics alone.
I grew out 1 male and 2 females and one of them was a 16.5 weeker and could have gone longer lol
Covered in crystals. Light fluffy buds.
I cured it for 3 months or more. Very clear up high. Not much smell off it, maybe a slight sweet smell if you stuck your nose in the jar.
Ace seeds said it was a more tropical pheno.

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Thanks for the info. I am going to try and stretch these out to 20+ weeks. I find even though buds appear to stop growing earlier, they continue getting denser and considerably heavier the longer a guy can stretch them out.

My last crop was a 9-10 week strain and i took it to 13.5 weeks. After the 10 week mark the cylaxes really swelled up. Definitely worth the wait.

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I'm running some long flowering stuff as well (Landrace & Haze), IMO they can be tricky. Using LED's I have learned that they do better in the corners of the grow where there is less light. If they get the same strength of light as my hybrids they will keep stretching & take forever to start flowering. Once the buds start forming I give them more light. Essentially they can stay in the corners while your faster strains finish, so you dont run of weed lol! Props to only running the Malawi in a scrog I have to run other plants with my sativas as I said above.

The "sativas dont need a lot of nitrogen" thing is kinda BS to me. Almost 2 months of stretching before they flower & you telling me to go light on the nitrogen? Been there done that & the plants always end up starving. I feed the same strength as my other plants if it's not burning them, If they got burned then the others probably did as well.

Dont be afraid to super crop & top if need be.

Malawi Seedlings

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August 23rd


I would have to say Ace Seeds vigor is great. I am really impressed with the results so far.

They will probably need a transplant in 5-6 days.

King Avitas said:

Malawi Seedlings

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I would have to say Ace Seeds vigor is great. I am really impressed with the results so far.

They will probably need a transplant in 5-6 days.

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It is looking like it's going to be hard deciding which to cull

Flannel said:

It is looking like it's going to be hard deciding which to cull

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A buddy of mine is gonna adopt two. They are too nice to just toss out.

Transplant day.

The lower leaves were getting a little yellow, so I figured it was time to start feeding them with some living soil. Give em the nutes they need to grow up big and strong.

I did the Malberry Malawi years ago. A great genetic, biggest leaves I’ve ever seen and sticky stem rubs but flavour and yield was not that great. Huge plants outdoor but too fluffy a flower (probably due to environmental differences from its homeland). No one liked the flower but the edibles that got made were mad and super trippy.

HenryTheEighth said:

I did the Malberry Malawi years ago. A great genetic, biggest leaves I’ve ever seen and sticky stem rubs but flavour and yield was not that great. Huge plants outdoor but too fluffy a flower (probably due to environmental differences from its homeland). No one liked the flower but the edibles that got made were mad and super trippy.

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Starting to see quite a few people saying they didn't much care for the taste. Hopefully I can avoid this with some strict evironmental controls. I really don't want to spend 30+ weeks vegging and flowering something no one wants to smoke.

King Avitas said:

Starting to see quite a few people saying they didn't much care for the taste. Hopefully I can avoid this with some strict evironmental controls. I really don't want to spend 30+ weeks vegging and flowering something no one wants to smoke.

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Yeah that’s the thin line with ACE gear. You have to be prepared for the old school flower and taste.
You also need to realise that it ain’t over after the 30+ weeks veg and flower.
You got to dry and cure it well for it to be truly special.

You would likely want to check out the Malawi cob curing thread at icmag too if you want the best out of your Malawi.

I am more likely to use ACE for males these days.

HenryTheEighth said:

Yeah that’s the thin line with ACE gear. You have to be prepared for the old school flower and taste.
You also need to realise that it ain’t over after the 30+ weeks veg and flower.
You got to dry and cure it well for it to be truly special.

You would likely want to check out the Malawi cob curing thread at icmag too if you want the best out of your Malawi.

I am more likely to use ACE for males these days.

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I am very fussy about drying and curing. I always use my grow room to dry since it is climate controlled. I set my humidity to 65% and temp to 62%. These parameters usually allow me 12-14 days drying time.

For the first 4 or 5 days the dehumidifier is running, then after that I am actually using dual humidifiers to maintain my humidity.

Doing it this way has been giving me very good weed that usually has very high terpene levels.

I have messed it up before though. Forgot to turn on the humidifiers and went away for a few days. Weed dried too fast and was shit.

But no one is perfect.

Recommend 6 to 12 month cure on the Malawi when the time comes.

With the right pheno, the high after the cure is ridiculously potent and will knock a seasoned smoker on his arse.

Taste leaves a lot to be desired unfortunately, but the strain isn’t known for is terps…

Hope you have a decent run.

King Avitas said:

I am very fussy about drying and curing. I always use my grow room to dry since it is climate controlled. I set my humidity to 65% and temp to 62%. These parameters usually allow me 12-14 days drying time.

For the first 4 or 5 days the dehumidifier is running, then after that I am actually using dual humidifiers to maintain my humidity.

Doing it this way has been giving me very good weed that usually has very high terpene levels.

I have messed it up before though. Forgot to turn on the humidifiers and went away for a few days. Weed dried too fast and was shit.

But no one is perfect.

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Sounds like you have your drying game pretty tight.

My method when I was into drying flower was to do an initial dry then slow things down with different sized cardboard boxes as another form of humidity control.

You defs do want to check out the Malawi cob curing method over at icmag since you like precision.
It is kind of the next level for this type of flower. Changes the taste in good ways apparently - more sweet and hashy. It also makes the effect stronger from nearly all reports. Fermented terps?

I like it because I’m lazy and it gives me a quality product thats quicker and easier to iso wash
It also cuts initial drying down to days and takes a month or two off curing as far as I can tell.
You compress and vac it partially wet and sweat ferment it. It’s like a process they do for fine tobacco afaik..

i have done it with an African x cbd cross I made.
I didn’t do the twine wrapped cobs thing though I made round bricks by compressing into 6” cake tins with a mini grape/wine press. Vac’d the bricks into vac bags.
Then I bought a black garlic fermenter out of China eBay as the temp controlled fermenting chamber.
My results were ok - I didn’t nail it the first time as I dried it too much before compressing (it could have been wetter!)
So my bricks didn’t get smoked as I don’t smoke anymore they went in to ISO wash for some RSO which was strong.

It is a method I will use again because it is easier and faster.
Great method if you want a product for making joints I’d Imagine.

The Dude who champions the thread on it slices off bubblegum pellet size pieces of cob and chews it for a crazy African buzz he says.

So I guess long story short is there is hope for any Malawi that don’t smell that good if a different curing process can make it edible lol

Tangwena or something is the cob thread on Ic.

Definitely worth a read, but I can’t say I enjoyed the cob I’ve made anywhere near as much as bud.
We’re all different and our boats float differently…

So the plants were left a little longer in the tent due to my work schedule than I had originally planned. Leaving them in there definitely slowed things down with the lower power lighting and no CO².

But tonight they go into the flower room to fill out the scrog nets. I am guessing 30 days or so should do the trick.

They are looking great

So the plants were intentionally slowed down again. My step-dad had a heart attack but thankfully survived it and the following surgery to put two stints in his heart. He's a strong 75 year old in decent shape so recovery is going very well. But as I was saying I left the plants at a lower lighting level and watered enough to keep them alive.

Now that I can give them the attention they need, I bumped up the lighting levels to 45% power or about 550umol. I also topped them and installed my scrog net. CO² is set at 800ppm and things should pick up in the old grow room now.

Guessing about 21 days to fill the net but we'll see.

Not much to say. Sitting and watching eveything do it's thing.

So far I haven't fed them anything but tap water.

The plants hare growing exceptionally quick. The old scrog net will be full soon. Getting a few inches everyday on these branches.

Going ok in the old grow room. I am pretty sure the predator mites I ordered have killed off all of the fungus gnats I had. Haven't seen any flying around lately. But now I have big fat predator mites everywhere but the people I got them from said this is normal and they will die off fairly quickly once their food source (the now extinct fungus gnats) is gone. I just hope they die soon. I am not going to bud until their numbers drop off, the last thing I need to be smoking is predator mites and their poop.

Getting lots of tops and the canopy is looking nice. I trimmed off some of the lower branches and fan leaves to allow more air flow.

No food as of yet added, just un-ph'ed tap water. Loving this living soil thing.

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