I’ve kinda been thinking that too. I sprayed the hermie plant with water first and then removed it but hadn’t sprayed the rest because I was gonna just chop them immediately and keep it moving. Decided to smoke about it and ended up just going to bed, figured I’d make a move today based on responses. I’m down to one male and five females now.
It was a very minimal amount of pollen and they were really small sacs so not much came out but the plants next to it have a few pistils on the lower branches that are showing brown, not on the ones that were opposite of it. I’ll take pics when lights come back on.
Maybe I’ll see it through, but this thread will then become a journal and not a signup open to members. I’m working on buying a house currently, so if it all pans out, I’d be willing to work them on my own because I’d have the space to test them separately and still work on other stuff.
Well kinda to @Upstate point, I’m also not tryna completely get rid of some genetics that aren’t really accessible to anyone and the dude who sold them (in a separate convo, not as a sales pitch) expressed concern over the laws being super harsh on home growers while colonizing weed companies are swooping in buying swathes of land and taking their genetics or ruining the purity by introducing hybrids locally. Just sucks that the dude wasn’t diligent about chopping the hermies when he was making these seeds. So, the preservationist in me wants to move forward but the no-tolerance contemporary grower in me says burn it all down and move on lol.
In that case I vote cut the boys off the offenders spray them down and roll on. What else can you do? You are right if its the thing keeping them from going extinct
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The goal is to preserve. Its not easy tracking down some landraces, and then actually receiving an order when dealing with 3rd world countries is another matter entirely. So, when its found and seeds are in hand, you have to try like Hell to make it work. I can’t remember how many landraces I found that were momentarily available, and then nothing. Gone. People disappear, War comes, Leaders change, customs officers are different. Lots of factors lead to difficulty or impossibility getting genetics. There’s too many landraces out there to stabilize for our small group to handle. But put the seeds we make into the right hands, and someone else might stabilize it. I think each of us will take a special liking to a particular landrace, or likely more than one, and work on doing just that. I know I will. But there’s too many to do them all.
16 months!
It was a plant in January and hope to harvest the following May situation. They could reach 16’ and had to be protected and supported to not get too beat up by the storms but no mold ever. Clear LSD type high. I didn’t get to see it run pure only crosses.
My old book said Nigerians can get massive, with massive fan leaves. If i had the climate to grow and harvest 16 month Sativas i know one thing for sure…
I would be in jail:rofl:
Exactly!
They were raided 5 times before I came on the scene. They always got hit on fridays so we had a Friday am drill to tether all the big dogs away from the house so they wouldn’t get shot as they came in. If you had something you wanted to keep you buried it in the woods away from everything.
Thats why the Long Flowers are in such peril. Many months of evading authorities to bring in a harvest.
Imagine, as a farmer, that you have planted your saved seed. You spend 6 months tending the plants, living off the money you made the previous year, and then, as your crop reaches maturity, your plants are taken. A years income gone. Hard to recover from that. I see the temptation to grow faster plants.
@District_Flora
how many plants do you have left? when i ran the one shashashamne it herrmed in the 4th week and the balls where everywhere so there was no cutting any of them off as they were inside the flower sites.
at first i thought it was me, a light leek or my timer wasnt working proper but hearing and seeing this makes me wonder on the genetics. really hard to say since these seeds arent just sold everywhere.
i am however running the shashamane x the diesel i did just to see how it turns out. so far so good, it just wen in flower a few days ago so ill see if doing a cross would help the strain.
but i am affraid now to even try running the shahashamane again, guess i dont want to be disappointed again. i do see me running them again or trying.
im hoping at least we have more info on this strain now and that they herm real easy
Some landraces are just fussy. Its not unusual for someone to run a bunch of landrace Colombian, or Thai, or any Tropical landrace and find only one or even no stable plants. In many instances we get to stand on the shoulders of others before us when we choose what landrace to grow. This time @District_Flora is providing those shoulders, as are many others that grow these type of ( raw) landraces. Any who grow offspring from this grow should feel fortunate such work is being done now. By f3 or f4 nearly all the hermies will be bred out. How sweet will that be?! Just need a little luck with this grow to get us there😁 fingers and toes crossed!
