Origin: Sourced from the Ugandan countryside
Looks like: A hardy bush sporting tufts of medium-green foliage throughout, not too lanky; mine barely managed to grow three feet high (indoors) at harvest, with some longer buds sticking up like cowlicks. It will get taller in a hot environment and in the ground.
Rubbing the stem smells like: Limey, sweet, fruity funk with a shocking odour that is both subtle and severe; when you enter the room where it’s growing, the musky fruity stench is inescapable. Its limbs, short and numerous, are fragrant in the extreme, a mix of sweet and scandalous odours that is distinct from anything I’ve encountered in my eight years of experience.
Flower smells like: Ripe, rotten, earthen sour grapes and sweet musk that’s addictive to whiff. Surprisingly broad and hardy flowers, withstanding nights in the low fifties (10° C) before harvest, which made the whole plant turn a beautiful purple.
Cured flower smells like: Peaches, grapes, tobacco, clay, and dog musk.
Feels like: A blastoff from Earth; when I was allowed to sit in peace, the high was really calming and blissful, but when I started exercising at the gym under its influence, it made me extremely motivated to act. A real heady upper effect that eases into a full-body feeling of relaxation in about six hours from its onset.
Tastes like: Bitter grape rind is the initial impression; a single toke leaves a sour, delicious flavour that sweetens into a Georgia peach on the tongue. A delight to smoke, if spicy and shockingly potent. Friends who prefer to mix their cannabis with tobacco tell me Uganda Mamba is fantastic for making tobacco blends for evening use.
Cultivating Uganda Mamba is a simple delight. The plant received my personal prayer as a shaman, and grew well with no special treatment. I’ve been growing for eight years for personal use, and in my efforts to scour the corners of the Earth for potency, Uganda Mamba has exceeded my expectations, proving to be versatile, hardy, and adaptive, as well as devastatingly strong. I can’t be sure of this plant’s origins but I can say without hesitation that the genetics proved interesting and worthwhile, if lighter in yield (indoors).
Whatever Uganda Mamba comes from, it’s a stout sativa with serious potential—a wildcard contender for unique flavour and effect. When TLT informed me last year that the original source of Uganda Mamba could no longer be contacted I took it upon myself to make a fresh batch. I monster-cropped a specimen of mine representing the hardest-hitting mother; it was the most resinous and the quickest to ripen to golden brown, finishing weeks ahead of its sisters. It needed only ten weeks to flower, and as an equatorial sativa, that’s something truly and unexpectedly exceptional.
The cold weather up here influenced this. I chose this exceptional plant for its attractive and suggestively naughty odour and its dozens of resinous, leafy, delicate buds, possessed of a treacherous stickiness. I had saved the pollen from three outstanding males from my first grow, which I poured into a fan aimed at it. I let the mother stay in an indoor space for weeks, absorbing blasts of pollen. Most plants will slow terpene and THC production when hit with pollen like this, but the Uganda Mamba never stopped packing on the frost, even while gestating uncounted young. Even now, I’m monster-cropping that same Uganda Mamba for a third time. I’ve given it a fresh bed, intending to reap its sinsemilla flowers once more.
I’ve experienced over a thousand separate strains of cannabis over the years and can say with confidence that the strength of Uganda Mamba’s sinsemilla medicine could shake even the most seasoned veterans of the plant. It paralyzes the body, stupefies the mind, and opens the creative centre in the heart.
Some notes on harvest and curing: Treat Uganda Mamba delicately for best preservation, and trim while fresh. Dry in a cool, lightly moist environment. Burp storage jars for six weeks, then bag it and forget about it for a month or two. When you discover it again, enjoy this rare treat moderately. Going overboard with a strain this potent can really take you on a debilitating trip, making you useless to the world for hours at a time. Excellent for medicinal use as an edible—very motivating and eerily clear-headed for how deeply satisfying and suggestive it feels. As I mentioned before, the high is long-lasting at any dose, turning into deep relaxation. In this stoned state, about eight hours from ingestion, you will seek sleep, and you will find it.
Some notes on optimal growth conditions: Uganda Mamba is relatively inexperienced in cold environments. I live in Minnesota, having transferred this cultivar outside for the maturation of its seeds. Because the season is short and cool up here, I induced its flowering indoors, as I mentioned before. A month later, I carried the mother outdoors, near the end of August, where I allowed her to finish naturally by late October. This was very interesting to observe. Real African cannabis is extremely hardy but doesn’t seem to handle cold nights well. I’ve grown many African varieties, including TLT’s Koster, which I can also happily recommend. Anyway, judging by the state of the black seeds the Uganda Mamba mother produced, it was able to finish development during the hot days, and I can imagine how hardy the seeds will prove to be for enterprising breeders and growers, having been exposed to this new low temperature. It’s clear to me that Uganda Mamba does best in the mid-80s Fahrenheit (25 – 30 Celsius), but it’ll handle anything you throw at it and keep oozing terpenes the whole time. If you want to grow it outdoors naturally, you’ll need a long, lazy summer and relatively tame autumn conditions. Spain would be an ideal place, or Louisiana, or practically any part of Africa south of the Sahara.
As a shaman, I can recommend this strain for dreaming. To dream on Uganda Mamba, eat the baked plant, as much as you desire. I blend a few buds in a smoothie or cook them into a soup. Once you ingest your medicine, sleep for four hours. Set a timer. Wake up completely and stay awake for an hour, enjoying the lasting high, but stay relaxed. After an hour, go back to sleep. Dream for four to six hours. The plant will massage and soothe your body as you embrace sweet visions.
This is a truly narcotic kind of high, deeply enjoyable, if crushing. I’ve gained some wisdom using the plant this way. This African beauty has earned four out of five stars, and I only deny the last star because I fear its strong, crippling effects are too much for my active lifestyle. The effect is genuinely described by the word “Mamba.” If you can keep moving under her sting, the venom will motivate you, but after so many hours, a pillow becomes irresistible.
For hardcore growers obsessed with getting the strongest possible body effect, this may be the holy grail you’ve been seeking, to be crossed with any number of downer indica lines! For everyone else, beware. I have no doubt these seeds will be gone in a flash, so take my advice and act quickly. This cooperative beauty, whose nine-to-twelve-week ripening is shockingly worthwhile despite lighter yields, will change the way you look at bushy sativas forever. And the odour is equally indescribable and unforgettable, not to mention almost sexual. This has been the best sativa I’ve ever grown for physical potency.
This concludes my unbiased, unscripted review of TLT’s Uganda Mamba, a super-strength strain whose name appropriately suggests the fate of its users. Those who take its venom will be gleefully locked to the couch in wonderment for hours. Therefore, it seems likely to me that this cultivar would be effective in pursuit of medicinal answers for PTSD and physical pain. Whatever your reason for growing, you deserve to know about the best genetics available for reaching your goals, and that’s why I decided to write this review for TLT, whose inventory is an ever-expanding collection of the world’s finest landrace experiences. Uganda Mamba may not be for everyone, but for those with the afternoons to kill, this variety is just what the witch doctor ordered.