Zamal Reunion

[PotChimp]

What strain is it? Zamal Reunion - Seeds of Africa (6 regular seeds).

Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? Sativa.

Is it in Veg or Flower stage? Seeds will be germed on 07/12/2014 @ 4:20 P.M. using the paper towel method.

If in Veg... For how long? N/A.

If in Flower stage... For how long? N/A.

Indoor or outdoor? Indoor.

Soil or Hydro? Soil and soilless.

If soil... what is in your mix? Roots Organics for seedling and SSM#4 for veg and bloom.

If soil... What size pot? 3 gallon.

Size of light?
-Seedling and vegetative: 200 watt Feliz blue spectrum mogul-based CFL.
-Flowering: 400 watt Eye Hortilux HPS with 250/400 watt digital Lumatek ballast.

Is it aircooled? Air-cooled reflector; 8" inline fan (out); passive airflow (in).

Temp of Room/cab? around 84-86 degrees F.

RH of Room/cab? 50-55%

PH of media or res? I don't check it unless there's a problem.

Any Pests ? Gnats.

How often are you watering? I expect to water 2 times/week.

Type and strength of ferts used? To be determined.

ooh ooh ooh, AHH AHH AHH!!!!!

 

[PotChimp]

Seeds are wet
I'll be doing a 3 week seedling stage of 18/6 under a 200 watt blue spectrum mogul base CFL, at which point I may set the timer to 13/11 until the plants reach just over a foot tall. I'll be watching the growth rate of these (it's supposed to be a lot). I'm going to run them at 9/15 after that until I chop them (to quicken the bloom time and to see if I can keep a Sativa's size controlled this way). I am hoping for 2 females but I expect 3-4. If I get 2 I'll try to SCROG the grow but if it's more, expect one of my Chimptastic clusterphux again.

 

[High yogi]

Subbed for this big time. Been staring at the seedfinder description of Zameldica for almost two years. I stumbled upon researching other strains and it fascinated me, I feel Hunger for that strain. Said to be naturally multi branching and wide. Remeber Afro.Pips? I grew his Tribal Vision once soooo sorry I had no other seeds, it was fantastic. Just this year I got another African delight, malawi, out in a stealth spot so not huge but ex itied none the less. I watch with great interest PotChimp. You should do a Planet of the Apes themed grow lol name it Caesar or something.

 

[PotChimp]

Welcome High yogi So far I got one out of six beans opened up. It's been over 1-1/2 days and I know it takes a little more sometimes, but I'm ready to pop the next six beans I have. Those are bad numbers. Hopefully this will be the first African strain I like; Kwazulu wasn't that good. I haven't tried a straight Malawi cut yet.

 

[shottafire]

subbed for the african adventure.

 

[PotChimp]

Hey welcome shottafire hope it starts going better so there actually is an adventure the one seed has a tail and another cracked open, but there's still four that aren't doing anything. If they get black, I'll start the next 6.

 

[Graytail]

Zamal!

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[PotChimp]

Hey what's up Graytail yep got this grow started now

P.S.:

 

[PotChimp]

Cannabis Seeds Of Africa Zamal Reunion Seeds Info

A small island off the east Coast of Africa, Reunion Island is home to its indigenous "Zamal" plant.

This Tropical Sativa is renowned for its colossal size. Big buds, a Lot of branches, highly populated bud clusters with a massive yield. Zamal has a strong spicy flavor to go along with its unique, and intense high.

Excellent for cross pollination.

Maybe I better listen to my common sense here and not wind up with another overgrown mess. I have two seeds in 4" peat pots, one with a 1/4" tail I'm going to put in right now, and another that just cracked open. That will leave two, and if they don't open I'm staying the course with the ones I have and not germing more seeds. Post pics when there's something to pic

 

[High yogi]

Yeah I hear that, those African sativas are big. Malawi staying in a 2.5gl fimmed and lst'd. Maybe you should name one King the other Kong he came from a mythical island off the coast of africa..... maybe the script writers were a bunch of burners sneaking in a zamal allegory lol

 

[Bardo]

Mega awesome!!

 

[PotChimp]

Upon inspection this morning I saw hairs no those aren't follicles those are hairs I tell you hairs and a further inspection of my empty weed jar tells me that the cloudy trichomes I see on this plant indicate prime harvest time is upon me. Yes both trichomes and I tell you those are trichomes and not microscopic specks of my drool this plant's ready for chop I'll post a smoke report later thanks everybody for the interest in this thread and I hope it wasn't too long winded:

Just kidding thought I'd post a pic of the first one to pop out of the soil. The other two that didn't open yet are about a 10% chance at this point. They're getting dark. As soon as veg hits I'm going to find a dark place for these. The method I'm going to attempt to keep the size down on these is run the veg period at 13/11, and the flowering period is going straight to 9/15 as opposed to DLR. It would be cool if there were only 2 females; I'd like to dust one of my Chem project plants with some of the male pollen from this grow and maybe put a small clone of a good female Zamal Reunion in with it to get a stable strain to breed

 

[Graytail]

It'll be nice to see you run 9/15 - I haven't run across it much here. In the 80s, we always ran our Columbians at 9/15. At the time, I thought it was managing hermies, but now I realize that it was morely likely that we simply culled out the hermies over time, since we cloned. But they did flower earlier and more firmly with the shorter light - the harvest went a little longer, but it kept them manageable.

 

[PotChimp]

Glad to know it might work thanks for the info Graytail and just for that I might just let those drool specks oops I mean trichs go to amber before I chop 'er

 

[mrrobert420]

this should be good - subbed !

 

[PotChimp]

Hey welcome mrrobert420 the second one just broke the soil and as soon as all 4 are up, if they come up (the other 2 seeds were duds) I'll take a few more pics. I think I may start using compost teas at this point, and I'll do it here first. Probably going to be simple at first. Alaskan forest humus, worm compost, molasses, a bit of alfalfa meal through veg, some rock phosphate, a bit of fish bone meal through flower, a bit of Sierra Hills, and a small amount of my grow and bloom guanos. So much for noncomplicated, huh?

 

[KingJohnC]

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[PotChimp]

Hey welcome again KJC sorry I didn't get back earlier. It looks like this will be a 3 plant grow. As bummed as I am about the poor germ rates I am glad that I will only have 1-2 females so I can handle the growth. And if this strain is good for breeding, any father should do for a start (and I have 6 more seeds I can do). The leaves look thin and haunting memories of my Haze grows are coming back to me

Post pics soon,

 

[PotChimp]

Not very impressive but here they are

 

[PotChimp]

I'm putting these into 1 gallon pots tomorrow; I thought I could go with these 4" peat pots for now, but putting them right up under the bulb like I do to keep the stretch down dries them out too fast. I am going to add 1/2 cup of Sierra Foothills mix (a 100% soil amendment) to all the pots as well.