Afternoon folks

I have had the fortune of being sent a pack of Canna Biogens "Taksenti" for a test grow The plan is to find a keeper mother or two and use her as a clone mother for future. It was also my plan to turn all the finished bud and trim into bubble hash; seeing as this strain is billed as being good for hash production

Time wise this is going to take a while ... first step will be identifying the female plants and vegging them until they can be cloned. Once clones have been taken the original "seed" plants will be put into flowering. After flowering is complete each will be dried, frozen and then bubbled. Mean time the clones will be raised and one of each will be kept as a potential mother. Excess clones will go on to be flowered, dried, frozen and then bubbled.

Equipment being used for the grow consists of a twin 55W florescent unit for seedlings, clones and vegging. Flowering room is a Cool Tube using a 600W Son-T HPS bulb. Extraction and intake are handled by 2 6" RVK fans on a thermostatic fan speed controller. The extraction line is fitted it a 6" carbon filter to keep smells at bay. Plants are going to be grown in Biobizz allmix with accompanying grow and bloom feeds. Probably Topmax in there too.

On with the grow ...

Seeds came excellently packaged and sealed in a crush proof case as you can see ... contents were a strain catalogue and of course the seeds. Use by date is noted.



All accounted for and an extra one thrown in for luck. Colouring of the seeds is quite pale with not as colourful markings as some others i have seen. They look healthy enough

Germination is being done using "the paper towel" method. It's always worked for me in the past and i'm sure it won't fail me now. 6 seeds have been placed on a plate inside a few moist paper towels. Cling film has been stretched over the top to ensure a high humidity.



I'll update here as things happen. Banter and abuse welcome as always

- Kafka

Excellent, I am wandering what to go with this year. I'll be watching this one with interest M8......

Hope all goes according to plan Kafka
I may try a Cannabiogen strain later this year.

Good luck and normality all round..

Pickle

Looks like its going to be an excellent thread.

Hope all goes smoothly and well

All the best with the grow m8...Be keeping an eye on it see how ya get along

Looking forward to this one K .....

Best of luck ...


Laz

Looks as if we could be going for a cannabiogen grow-out this summer then eh Kafka...

I've got sandstorm (another king of hash-making plants) & the very stunning sugarloaf coming to me real soon... thank you Joolz!

Let me warm up a bit first

you meanie

I too am gonna give Taskenti (and Destroyer) a bash, the beans arrived this am (thanks Jools ) Will be good to compare notes Kafka

Cool looks as if you have evrything under control

Lets all it all goes to plan & they turn out as good as usual ,good luck with the grow mate

Building a new playhouse for your mites webby?

B

you may laugh, I rekon it's cos you is jealous

@webby

taskenti sounds good so i'll keep an eye out for this one kafka.
hope it goes well mate

nice informative thread BTW, sounds proper interesting right from the very start

hazy

Aternoon folks

Thanks for the interest folks

5/6 seeds have cracked and developed a tap root about an inch long. Seeds actually started showing signs of life after 18 hours. Each has been potted into a small container with allmix and has been placed in a zip-lock untill they sprout. Dull pic shown ...



Fingers crossed i should have some seedlings in 3-5 days ...

- Kafka

Hi Kafka
we have just germinated some Taskenti as well so will be interesting to compare, ours were started on the 13th pm using the paper towel method, they have started to sprout, once big enough they will be put into 1cm rockwool cubes then into Small net pots with clay pebbles and then into our rainforest then into a flood and drain system again with clay pebbles, we will be using canna nutes, once sexed will keep a couple for mothers all being well
cheers
Baz

Evening DDB

Good luck with your grow of Taskenti Post up a thread and keep us updated with how they go.

Update time ...

6/6 seeds have sprouted The last seed was poking it's head through the soil at about 2 am this morning. All are under the vegging light and waiting to be sexed.



All looking the same as expected

- Kafka

Afternoon folks

Seedlings are 5-6 days old now and growing strongly. Pretty uniform in size, colour, appearance and height so far. Looking like this ...



Update in a week

- Kafka

Looking forward to seeing how yours go my friend

Looks like we have started well seeing as we both have 6 out of 6 sprouted

Owd

High Kafka. I'm finishing up 3 Taskenti ladies as we speak. They've got another 2 wks or so to go. Once I figure out how to loads pics here I'll post some of them. I'm also flowering out a Hercules of a male to make more seeds. I seed the lower branches and leave them after I harvest the rest of the plant till the seeds are fifnished. For some reason though, I have been totally unsuccessful at cloning ANY of the Task, male or female. They're all molding before they root. They're in the same humidity dome as my seedling and they don't mold expect the rare weakling. I'm going to give the big yielder another try at taking a cutting but I've failed through out the entire flowering cycle to get one to survive. I'm sure you'll have better luck than me. Rock on.

Stay SAFE
WBB

Seedlings are now 17 days old now. They are pretty uniform in size and height but have been getting low levels of light due to an over crowded veg room . One is looking like a mutant too ...

and the other 3 ...



- Kaka

24 ish days now and the seedlings are starting to become more interesting ! Short, compact looking plants with wide leaves. Side branching is starting on most of the seedlings and even the "runt" is looking quite normal growth wise. Few poor pics this week ....



As expected no sign of sex yet.

- Kafka

valentines day on tues matey - you may get lucky then ...

Hi Kafka
just wondering if your Taskenti have shown sex yet ??
reason I ask is ours are just showing ( there in hydro) but they look strange to me ( I'm no expert by a long shot) but don't usually have a problem sexing plants but I'm stuffed if I can tell what they are, just have to give them a few more days and see
cheers
DDB

Evening DDB

Nope no signs yet for me ! Just checked them the now and they still have nothing on display ... I'm holding off potting them up untill i know who's who, then cloning them off. How old are your plants now ? Mine are about 36 days old.

- Kafka

Hi Kafka, thanks for the reply
ours are 40 days from going into 1" rockwool cubes and stand about 10"'s
they are the ones in the hydro at the back, I have a feeling this is going to be a fussy strain to grow, lets hope they clone ok
cheers
DDB

Hiya DDB

Nice Cool Tube setup there ! I'm running something similar only with the one light for flowering Some pics i meant to post 4 days ago ..



- Kafka

Hi Kafka
well they certainly look similar which I,m glad as I said were fairly new to this
Its a new grow room set up, I got a deal on the tubes, theres 4 in total (4 x 600w)
just hope they do this business in the summer
cheers
DDB

Hi Kafka
wondered How your Taskenti are coming on and whether you have sexed them yet ?

Ours are 7 days into 12/12 and have taken of like rockets don't know if height is an issue for you but there going to be tall !!
cheers
DDB

Evening

I've been meaning to update up until now have had no certainty of males or females. Pre-flowers have been there for a while but they were not developed enough to make an accurate decision.

After just checking though i have 2 females, 3 males and a non-descript .. which looks male. I'm happy with the two females for the moment. They'll be topped and clones will be taken in a few weeks time. Plants are still quite stout. Iffy pics here ...

Classic male pre-flower : [attachmentid=67464]

Female pre-flower : [attachmentid=67465]

Here's one of the females : [attachmentid=67466]

So far though the plants are looking a litle ill. They seem to like dry conditions during veg growth and have been looking sad ever since i watered them from the word go. Temps have been a little low which may have something to do with nutrient problems being displayed. Other clones and mothers in the same room are fine though.

Update soon ....

- Kafka

Late update .....

Final result is 3 females Looks like i have 2 leggy and a short pheno ...



Side view of the shorter ... each plant is about a 12" tall. Cuttings will be taken in a week or so with any luck.

- Kafka

2 cuttings from each plant have been taken today. Plants have also been topped.

- Kafka

Nice one Kaf

Ive still got one still to show,which is amazing really as the first one shown nearly 7 weeks ago

Glad you got some girls,now lets see how they go in flower

Owd

We toped ours as well, kin good job there taller than jacks kin beanstalk
theres no way this is 100% indica more like 100% sunflower

Just to let you all know Just pulled a Hermie Taskenti
Keep ya eyes pealed

....really hope my sandstorm or destroyer dont hermie on me , now that would upset me

Looking nice & bushy there kafka no doubt theyll mature to fine young ladies

Thanks for the interest folks



So you ended up topping after all ? How much height have you got left ? I think that you're going to get variation between seeds no matter what strain you buy ... shame you got what seems to be pretty leggy plants. Might turn out to be a cracking smoke though

Something i meant to ask though about how you vegged the plants. Was it done under HPS bulbs ? Also did you lower the lights so they were closer to the plants or raise the plants closer to the lights ? This might account for some of the stretch.




Thanks for the heads up .. got a pic of it ? Late male showing itself maybe ?


- Kafka

Hi Kafka
I meant they were toped while in veg, since then I have tied them back,
we have about 12/18" left in head room, they will be 3wks in 12/12 this Thursday.

as I said I found this strain hard to sex the male / female pre flowers looked very similar, the hermie was well into flower and had good buds but I was a bit unsure of it, tonight it had definite male flowers which were just opening I hope they didn't dump any pollen, sorry no pics its gone.

They were vegged in hydro under 2x 600w MH in cool tubes so it was not a stretch for light, everything else in the room is well sorted and they have not been stressed, beans that cost allot get well treated

Using canna aqua nutes with the EC 1.8 they seem to like to feed, lets hope your right and the smoke is good
cheers
DDB

Cuttings have rooted and been potted onto smaller pots I took a second lot of cuttings from main plants 1 and 2 and the main plants were put in flowering on April 3rd.

Plant 3 is still in veg as i was waiting to get more cuttings from her. Seeing as the cuttings from her have rooted i'll put her in flowering in the next few days.

- Kafka

Well, nice show up to now. Thanks for letting us know.

Pure Uzbekistan strain, and their hybrid result called as Taskenti, always showed us two main phenos.. Hard to take them out from the original landrace strain... as well. Or columnar or taller pheno with longer internodals... Never changed after its breeding, both types were in offsprings selected as well but the longest and latest phenos showed us some very strong traits.. kind of narcotic effect suites into hard nugged plants (golf ball type nugs)

Originally both were used for charas hash type. Our selections used always the most potent ones, although longer internodals). As pure, the Uzbekistan may need 12-14 weeks to fully mature and its potency is really atonishing. Hpefully, Taskenti yhbrid seems to reduce much better its flowering time. A Sensi's "Nothern Lights" was originally crossed to it for quickest results and meisosis.. anyhow, its own aroma, type of charas hash, and potency leaded the breeding on such direction as the most interesting.

Hermis were not on them so I was little surprised by its appearence... not often at all anyhow.

Best luck
Kaiki

Hi Kafka, Nice Grow'n'show!

Kaiki, Are there any other ways the two phenos can be recognized?

Take care, caddis

Hi Caddis,

Sure, quickest phenos are columnar shape ones (hope to find some pictures from original landraces acomplish this). After F5 most of phenos were looking agaqin after the longest Uzbeki traits... (first breeding selection steps were more focused on fastest and best producers ones) so can make longer internodals and very thinck and hard buds.. aslo tend to finish 2 weeks later than other phenotype.

Kaiki

Hi Kaiki
don't know if you have seen this thread here geuss we got the strechy pheno's then
DDB

Hi Kaiki, Instead of mucking up this fine grow show, I'll start another thread or try and post in the pinned Taskenti thread.

Take care, caddis

Thanks for the info kaiki

Plants 1 + 2 are have been in flowering for a week now and plant 3 was put in last night ...



Plant 1 shown above. Stretching a little and i also noticed all the leaves are developing what looks like additional growth tips. You can see it in the second picture.

Plant 2 and 3 shown here ..



Leggy looking and bound to get leggier ... they both look pretty similar but plant 3 on the right is a week behind.

Cuttings are rooting nicely and have been potted up into allmix.

- Kafka

Looking well good M8. Nice work

Nice looking indeed as Arnold says.

Taskenti dont like much feeding or watering on first weeks.... seems not to accept them so easely.... little hard to get the accurate dosage... need moist/dry regimen.... also tend to react a little slow to flowering cyles (12/12)...

...then, suddenly, they speed up building buds like crazy.... pure Uzbekistan nature

Lets see how they come
Bet luck
Kaiki