@CruJones Thanks man, I will definitely give it a try again next year! Those Royal #7 and the SD (can’t remember if it was AJ, Albany, Weasel?) you shared were both killer joints, nice smoke and a great rounded effect, could definitely tell the Royal is more indica, and it felt so good like a wraparound blanket effect.
Been starting to get some folks I know around here interested in growing once they see how easy it is, and most folks have some sort of yard even for just a single plant. That friend you met who drove me down to get the cuts did pretty ok with the autos I gave him, maybe we just didn’t acclimate those cuts well IDK but next year I’m putting a weather sensor in his sunporch so I can see what the temperatures and humidity are like, I don’t think he watered them enough. The Valley is a great place to garden and farm for sure, but sometimes that full sun is too much in the spring, I know his porch is south-facing and unobstructed, also usually unventilated. Womp womp, I told him to put them in the ground at his dad’s
I gave a bunch of plants to a woman I was seeing in Holyoke for a while but we’re not talking now so I hope those are doing well, IDK! She’s probably crushing it in her big yard with the starts I gave her and we made up a big batch of Sunshine 4, Dr Earth Tomato and Veg, worm castings, and some Osmocote Plus to pot with, I should say hey and see how she and her plants are actually.
Got the two landraces going outdoors and that’s been a really great experiment in trying outdoor (never done it with cannabis, just veg and flowers). Planting two sister plants in different places and soils has been awesome to understand some of the differences in expression between full sun/in the ground w/ organic amendments versus partial sun/in a small pot with organics and salts both.
Here is that Malana Pasture that’s in the ground at my GFs house (vs Malana Garage in the pot stuffed in a 2ft alley between the picket fence and garage):
