Casamance Landrace Project

DomForester I've just come back from a long stay in West-Africa and had learned to appreciate their "Bushweed" which turned out to be as close to a pure sativa landrace as it gets. And a somewhat unexplored one at that - if anyone has experience with Gambia or Casamance strains let me know! Sensimilla is almost unheard of among the folks I've met over there so, needless to say, I took a bunch of seeds home to give them a shot. In Senegambia, just north of the equator, these are exclusively grown outdoors at an almost constant 12/12 light cycle. In theory great for flower, but these babies pop out of their seed and immediately think it's time to go for it. Add limited water and nutrition, next to no trim, and dried outside in the heat, the end product had the looks and smoke quality of a German hedge at the end of a dry summer. I'm hoping that, with appropriate day-night cycles to veg in Northern European summer, and a controlled flip, flower, and finish in my tent under two MarsHydro FC1500 EVOs, will give them something akin to buds and terpene expression. To not risk cutting short my own supply, I'm adding four Purple #1s from DutchPassion into the mix. I bought these unfeminized and see how many males and females I'll get. Once I've figured out who's who, I'll start thinking about a little side project to produce a Casamance X Purple#1 cross, pollinate a few lower bud sides to get seeds, then cull the males. I've started all of them in my tent under dimmed lights (30-45% at 35cm) until they're strong enough - and nights get warm enough - to move them outdoors. While they do their vegging business outdoors I'm finishing an Auto run in the tent. The Photos will be moved back into the tent when the Autos are done around late August/early September. The neighbours don't mind me growing whatever I want as long as it doesn't stank up their gardens and living rooms. So during flower, tent with carbon filter it is. NB - A few seedlings didn't establish after planting so I germed and planted two more Purples (Jimi & Marshall) a week later. These will catch up during outdoor veg.