Bunkerlinge Baglung Nepalese 2016 batch

Bunkerlinge Hello dear community, I’d like to share my work with the Baglung Nepalese. When Bald Monkey first reproduced this strain from Blue Hemp, I bought 5 packs from him privately with the intention of reproducing it exclusively outdoors from then on. I germinated all the seeds and made my first open pollination with the best plants. That was back in 2016. Since then, I’ve been working generation by generation with the new seed stock to perfectly adapt the genetics to my climate at 48.5° N. The 2024 seeds are now already five generations ahead of the original 2016 seeds. They’ve become noticeably faster and more resilient: even fully seeded at the end of flowering, they endured two weeks of constant rain with temperatures around 5 °C. Some plants remained completely free of mold, while others were just starting to show it. The line is super-vigorous and colorful, but has lost some terpene diversity due to one-sided selection. Now the old 2016 seeds come into play — I had produced over 5,000 of them at the time. They were kept frozen for most of the time, but after a bust five years ago (where I luckily managed to hide my seeds outside from the freezer while five narcotics officers were busy with my plants and equipment – R.I.P.), they had to spend two years unchilled in a basement room. This unfortunately reduced their germination rate quite a lot. That’s why I decided to do a bigger “deep search” in the old 2016 batch to establish new breeding lines and also to mix them with the current line. My 2024 keeper mother is currently growing together with the new plants outdoors and will be fully pollinated. Method: I pre-soaked 400–500 seeds in a hydrogen peroxide solution and spread them in a 60 × 40 cm container filled with perlite. After germination, I picked the most vigorous seedlings and planted them into trays filled with a coco/perlite mix. About 200 plants were grown under artificial light until they were around 15 cm tall. Then came the “stem rub” test: each plant was gently rubbed on the stem and smelled — done in two separate rounds, each with two different noses. Since I know the line very well, I knew exactly which aromas I didn’t want — namely anything herbal, sharp, or peppery. That’s the dominant smell of the 2024 line, and my breeding goal is to reduce or eliminate this trait. To my great surprise, I found some incredibly beautiful aromas: fruity, berry, peach, bubblegum, and the finest hash notes. In total, 28 plants with exceptional scents were selected and planted in a nice outdoor location. More to come in the next posts. I hope you enjoy following along — and if you have any questions, feel free to ask! 😀