Thanks for the kind words Ray. Pure Equatorial sativas, Central America, Thai, African, Mexican are indeed challenging to grow in most regions North of latitude 32. I live at 35° 16’ 58" N / 120° 39’ 31" W. In my region I have a self contained Solexx greenhouse that I can grow all year round in. SO I can pull off Sativas which can take over 20+ weeks to finish. Here is my first growing lesson: When the Humboldt region was kicking off in the in the sixties and early seventies a group of us, whose families owned property in the region tried to grow sativas. I was a wee one as were my SoCal buddies who journeyed off one Summer to try our hand at growing weed on Mom and Dad’s 100 acres in Salmon Creek, Humboldt. So, in hand we have a few thousands Mexican, Colombian Gold, and Oaxaca seeds. We thought we were going to be heroes when all arrived back home to SoCal with our bounty of weed. Not the case, we found out that by the time September came around there were no flowers to be seen on our giant sativas some were reaching 20ft! So we had to leave to go back to school and left our monster sativas to rot in the soil. We found out the hard way, when we arrived back to SoCal we conducted more research on the “why” our plants wouldn’t flower, remember now the oldest in our group was 16, I was 13 in 1968, so we had no fucking idea what we were doing!. As you know sativas will flower just need a lot of time and consistent sun and weather conditions to ripen. To make a very long story shorter, we acquired Afghani and paki seeds from a fellow we knew in the military. We took the time to cross our prized sativas with our newly acquired indica, which we had no idea if it would work! Just that our military buddy said the stuff was growing all over the place in Afghanistan and Pakistan and it was a short plant that was “strong as hell.” We go back up to Salmon Creek 2 years later armed with our hybrids and bada bing buds all over the place in late July and early august, the rest his history. We start sharing beans with the locals and “we think” that our bean may have been some of the first hybrids grown in the region. Phew…
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