My Namkading seed run

[Rasterman]

I got some Namkading (or Nam Kading) seeds from TRSC. It took five weeks to arrive here from Spain, and I got it two days ago and immediately put six seeds in Root Riots (some generic pod, actually). I got 100% germination and am calling today day 1.


The reason for growing this landrace is to make a bunch of seeds, to find out the average percentage of good females, and raise that percentage in my own IBL. And if I find a particularly awesome pheno, self it and keep the seeds for further breeding. But my plan primarily will be to find 8-10 fire females and do open pollination each generation until close to 100% of the female offspring are good smoke.

TRSC has this to say about the strain:
Genetics: Traditional Lao – Thai Cannabis Landrace
Sourcing: The Real Seed Company, Laos, Southeast Asia, 2023
Purpose: Ganja (seedless or lightly seeded buds)
Latitude: 18° N
Regional Harvest: Approx. 6 months from seed to harvest
Height: 2 – 4 metres
Characteristics: Intense rich aromas; euphoric luminous high; Sativa-type architecture
Classification: Cannabis sativa subsp. indica var. indica
Grow Type: Greenhouse or outdoors

An authentic cannabis landrace accession from a crucial Lao centre of production of ‘Thai’ ganja a short way north along the Mekong River from a famous town for ‘Thai Stick’, Nakhon Phanom.

Ganja is a common household plant in this region of Laos, particularly among ethnic Thai rice-farming lowland communities such as the Lao. Families may also cultivate large fields as an additional source of income, to supplement low salaries.

In Central Laos, commercial cultivation of ganja expanded with Western demand for Thai Stick in the late 60s and increased through the 80s after US-driven crackdowns across the Mekong in northern Isan.

Throughout the tropics ganja is cultivated as a 6-month crop, seed to harvest.

Expect classic Sativa architecture, rich intense aromas, and highs that bring a positivity most tokers in the West have forgotten exists.

 

[Rasterman]

When I said I wanted to create "my" IBL, I really meant two things:

1. In the '70s and '80s, trying a new bag of weed was exciting. You could tell by the smell, always, whether it was good or exceptional weed. But you never knew how it was going to affect you. With modern hybrids there's not nearly as much diversity in effect as there was back then. So I just want to make the strain better. I hope to find several good females and a few good males. If a female is robust and potent and the effect is good or medicinal, it's part of the breeding program.
2. Every once in awhile back then, I encountered some herb that had particularly rare and awesome effects. If I run into a mom like that, I'll turn it into a strain of its own (and also leave it in the breeding program).

I don't think that testing for compounds is the best way to breed good cannabis. So smoking the plant is how I'm going to test. To me that's the only test that matters.

 

[Rasterman]

So today all the seedlings are doing well.


Right now they're getting 20 hours of light a day. Once they get large enough and I can move the other plants in there outside, I'll put them on 10/14 schedule (10 hours light) and let them do their thing.

 

[Rasterman]

I was going to wait until Friday, but these Namkading are quite vigorous and growing fast already. So here are a couple of pictures.

 

[Frosty78]

Loving it. I grew some lao sa from real seed company and had Mullumbimby madness growing with it. Laos I can see was definitely it it. What else it was crossed with? A Highland Thai, or different Laos, Cambodian some other Asian or maybe even png sativa I'm not sure. I'm very keen to watch your grow. If you want to ibl and.maybe cross and create some new hybrid I can say without a doubt they are vigorous and the humidity, mold resistance is insane. I'm in winter here still flowering and won't be done till middle of winter. Not a spot of mold or rot and they are sitting in an el cheap greenhouse all night to help stop any frosts/cold get to them.
Again, stoked to watch your preservation run mate.
Good stuff

 

[Rasterman]

Loving it. I grew some lao sa from real seed company and had Mullumbimby madness growing with it. Laos I can see was definitely it it. What else it was crossed with? A Highland Thai, or different Laos, Cambodian some other Asian or maybe even png sativa I'm not sure. I'm very keen to watch your grow. If you want to ibl and.maybe cross and create some new hybrid I can say without a doubt they are vigorous and the humidity, mold resistance is insane. I'm in winter here still flowering and won't be done till middle of winter. Not a spot of mold or rot and they are sitting in an el cheap greenhouse all night to help stop any frosts/cold get to them.
Again, stoked to watch your preservation run mate.
Good stuff

Thanks for watching! I've grown a few other landraces but this time once I have made some seeds I'm going to fill my tent with as many one liter pots that will fit and start hunting phenos. I'm doing a huge grow now of mostly hybrids to give me enough flower to cover my risk, so if I grow a bunch of crappy smoke I'll at least have some good smoke while I'm hunting.

I'll probably throw its leftover pollen on everything in the tent just for grins. But no, right now I don't have plans to do any serious hybrids unless I luck out and find a fire pheno right out of the gate. But an IBL - that's in my plans. I suspect this strain has a lot of crap phenos and a fairly small percentage of good ones. My plan is to guide the strain to mostly smokable females without losing diversity in the effects. And without limiting the strain to a specific phenotype.

Back in the old days every baggie was different and I want to keep that in this IBL if such diversity exists like it probably does.

Have you logged or posted any pictures of the landraces you're growing/have grown? I'd like to see them.

 

[Frosty78]

Thanks for watching! I've grown a few other landraces but this time once I have made some seeds I'm going to fill my tent with as many one liter pots that will fit and start hunting phenos. I'm doing a huge grow now of mostly hybrids to give me enough flower to cover my risk, so if I grow a bunch of crappy smoke I'll at least have some good smoke while I'm hunting.

I'll probably throw its leftover pollen on everything in the tent just for grins. But no, right now I don't have plans to do any serious hybrids unless I luck out and find a fire pheno right out of the gate. But an IBL - that's in my plans. I suspect this strain has a lot of crap phenos and a fairly small percentage of good ones. My plan is to guide the strain to mostly smokable females without losing diversity in the effects. And without limiting the strain to a specific phenotype.

Back in the old days every baggie was different and I want to keep that in this IBL if such diversity exists like it probably does.

Have you logged or posted any pictures of the landraces you're growing/have grown? I'd like to see them.

Nah I'm a lazy cunt. It's only in my grow journal. I was too lazy to start a separate one. My mate from colorado ss stirred me up about it lol. Too lazy to do an outdoor and indoor journal let alone a landrace journal. What's a bloke to do? I tell my wife love me for my faults. I'm not infallible hahaha.
I like your plans and will be watching for the hunt. Good stuff
Cheers

 

[Rasterman]

Nah I'm a lazy cunt. It's only in my grow journal. I was too lazy to start a separate one. My mate from colorado ss stirred me up about it lol. Too lazy to do an outdoor and indoor journal let alone a landrace journal. What's a bloke to do? I tell my wife love me for my faults. I'm not infallible hahaha.
I like your plans and will be watching for the hunt. Good stuff
Cheers

🤪 Haha no worries. I'm a lazy cunt too. I can't seem to get anything done, except taking really good care of cannabis plants. Anyway, thanks for watching!

 

[Rasterman]

Day 18 from seed and I topped for the first time yesterday. I won't be doing any removal of lowers or defoliation. Instead, I'm just trying to keep it short and will continue topping 3 or 4 times. Then I'll just let them run.

 

[Rasterman]

Day 22 and they're doing really well. Much more vigorous than the average hybrid. It looks like two phenos are being expressed - two are shorter than the others. Or there are 5 males and 2 females. Or...who knows?

Tomorrow I'm going to dump some composted chicken poop on them and watch them really take off.


The seedling in the center isn't part of this run. S/he just needed the space.

 

[Rasterman]

Day 24 and I just topped for the second time. I topped as soon as I could see two stems starting to grow and could get my scissors between them and the new stem. I think I fimmed one and one won't be toppable until tomorrow.

No pictures because they haven't changed much.

 

[Rasterman]

It seems like they're merging into one plant, and I think I can see evidence of sex on a couple but I'm not sure. As soon as I can top at least one more time the room goes on a 10/14 flowering schedule.

 

[Rasterman]

They've been stalled for a couple of days. I didn't realize they were bone dry, because they didn't wilt. Upon close inspection I can see the leaves look a little stressed, but it hasn't been obvious looking from the door.

Today I topdressed them with some homemade composted chicken poop from my homestead and gave them a really good watering. I could have taken clones today but after stressing them out I'll have to wait. I'll be taking clones because when I know which are females I'll be able to run them for flower and see if there's a standout in this "first" generation.

Namkading Observations
They don't wilt as obviously as other strains I've grown. Probably because they're not hybrids. (Duh).

They stop growing when they run out of water. That's probably normal for cannabis, but most strains let you know by wilting, so it's less noticeable. (I have noticed this with other strains as well, but it's usually pretty easy to tell when they're stressed from lack of water.)

I was looking at the lowers, and it looks like clones will not have alternating nodes. That would be cool.

Bottom branches push hard. Even though Namkading is supposed to be exceedingly vigorous and difficult to train, this morphology tells me different. The main cola can be pulled down in line with the lowers for a level canopy. I expect training to be easier than I expected.

I'm guessing this strain likes to have its feet wet and I'll test that by giving it more water than typical.

 

[Rasterman]

They look pretty good this afternoon, so I took a bunch of cuttings.

 

[Rasterman]

I did some stem rubs this morning and they all have this essence of mint. But pheno 3 is Wrigley's Spearmint gum and most pleasant.

 

[Rasterman]

All but one are growing quickly and have been topped twice. One has been topped only once. I considered culling it, but thought it might be a pheno representing improvement work done to the strain, so I'll leave it for now. (Center)

I'm going to flip as soon as I see sex.

 

[Rasterman]

It's been just over a month. I'm starting flip. I have them down to 14 hours/day as of today, and will be progressively reducing day length until I get down to 10 hours. So official flip should be this weekend.

They all look pretty much identical. One is tiny, one is large and the rest are close to the same size. I'd like to up-pot to two gallons but don't have any so they'll probably stay in these 2L pots for the duration.

 

[Rasterman]

I just dropped them to 12/12. Four more days to 10/14 schedule. This strain would be perfect for a SCROG. After topping, it wanted to grow out as much horizontally as vertically. I taped the branches close to the trunk because they're crowded into a small space. But today I added an extra light and spread them out some. In a five gallon pot, these ladies can take over the tent!

 

[Rasterman]

I couldn't bear to see them in those constricting little one liter pots. So I looked around and was able to find just enough pots in the neighborhood of two gallons and now they're right-sized.

 

[Rasterman]

Here are the cuttings I took. I'm trying something new this time. I'm keeping them on water with dried coconut milk added, and I change it every two days. They seem to like it. Their cuts are nicely scarred over and a couple of them are still growing.