1/8/23 update - RIP @oleskool830, a model OG citizen and really cool dude
I had to give up my carport because the wind known as a ‘Kona low’ took my silly popup canopy & threw it 10’. Surprisingly only broke one segment so it can be mended & re-used. The dogs liked having it.
The plastic & wood & screws plus plenty of extra was about 300$, as opposed to over a grand to set up a stout greenhouse… & I just need to finish this last run so I can take a break when the rainy season begins.
Right now I’m about to chop Sour Dubb x Snow Lotus BX from @GrowHard - smells of sour & bubblegum, small airy buds starting to foxtail at day 64. Mixed resistance to septoria amongst 3 plants.
Recently harvested @Scissor-Hanz’s Tangie x Orange Sunshine & it’s great A bit leafy but those are all resinous AF. Fair tradeoff. Another winner, sir.
The Ancestral Skunk just plain sucks. Like 1%THC & no smell. Good for cats.
Here we have Skunk Dawg & the Maui Jane stuff at day 22(1 plant at 28)…Royal Oil, Skunk Dawg BX 1 & 2(actually out-crosses)*, Grape Sherb fem*. The smells kinda suck IMO except for the Skunk Dawg itself. It’s truly Skunky with no chem, maybe some cheese or BO in the background, no chem, but plenty of skunk. I will be looking into some BX2 seeds from Matchmaker Genetics(nearby) since my STS project only produced nanners, no pollen.
The second pic shows what I have to do when it’s breezy; all that perlite is great for moving plants but the wind agrees and most of them have fallen over at least once…onto the buggy lawn. Hate that shit. Lava rock in the bottom solves it mostly, but ironic that I have no gravel pile ATM.’
As to what to grow & how to grow next year… shit, it’s been a battle adapting to the humidity & rain. The pest pressure has been lower than California was, at least for now, but the fungal issues are outta this world compared to Sacramento’s 9% RH days…
At first I thought some combination of terpenes/etc. was the key to resisting budrot, hit my head against the wall a bit, looked to what actually grows in this kind of climate, looked at landraces & yikes those are not the weed I been smokin’. It finally clicked after listening to the Indian Landrace Exchange’ interview with Heavy Dayze/Potcast & checking out all the great pics on his site(fullpowerselections dot com) … those folks primarily harvest the resin into hash & burn the bushes for mosquito control
So that’s depressing; I can’t handle & don’t desire hash throughout the day all day every day. But I DO need medicine that often & I like flower. The solution isn’t those wispy beans-on-a-kabob-skewer landraces, but somewhere in between… to dial back the weed clock to the late 80s to mid 90s & explore those strains. Stuff with grape size buds, plenty of spacing & not too dense, but not so airy & tiny as to be a hassle.
My seed collection is still pretty good. I will keep adding but my real desire is to grow the whole collection out. That’s way more braggable than having a bean horde, IMO.
I recently bumped into @dragonsflamegenetics here on OG(thanks again man) & he’s confirmed that growing here is a m’f’n PITA so I feel a little better about myself I had a feeling it’d be basically indoor-only & require a massive solar upgrade investment to grow like I did in the sun back home. And I hate indoor & growing indoors only when I have too. The struggle goes on.
2022 grown(all males were culled):
LRUV x Tangerine Dream rotted
Goji OG x Orange Sunshine(OSS) all male
Durban Thai High Flyer x C99 only one popped, died
Space-X rotted
JuMMP Cindy rotted
Jacked Up rotted
Miss Moneypenny F2 rotted
OSS F2 rotted
Pure Kush(Suge) X Uzbek. F2 all male
Good Medicine F2 fucking great, got the high-THC pheno, moderate fungal resistance, winner
Deep Chunk x Jungle Spice slugs!
Sweet Wonder F2 decent budrot resistance, great CBD & anti-anxiety effect, if you have some please PM me
Lemon Skunk x Snow Lotus BX winner of the year for me, amazing lemon mouth after, potent, must F2
Ancestral Skunk F2 autoflowered on 16 hrs of light, super weak, low smell.
Sour Dubb x Snow Lotus BX about to harvest
Marauder 4/4 males
Red Cherry Berry F2BX1 one plant, male
Hindu Kush X SFV OG and/or(?) GSC 1 male, 3 duds
Heirloom Maui Wowie ‘Cherry Bomb pheno’ great yielder, not great flavor(burnt rubber & cherry medicine), excellent relaxing effect, must have CBD, does herm a tiny bit, interested to try the crosses from @Sebring
Royal Oil('Alii) 808OG(Maui Skunkdog x Mandelbrot’s Oil Spill) x Royal Kush mid-flower
Skunkdawg BX1.1 (Skunkdog x SkunkdogOG(Maui Skunkdog x Rug Burn OG(ghost/tk))) mid-flower
Skunkdawg BX1.2 (Skunkdog x Skream(Maui Skunkdog x Cookies n Cream F2(gsc/starfighter))) mid-flower
Grape Sherb fem (Maui Skunkdog x Purple Kush x Sunset Sherbet) mid-flower
Smuggler’s Choice (Burmese sticks X Burmese IBL) first 4 popped but died
@Heliosphear - howzabout trying this in your next Dall-E trip:
“cannabis sequoia rainforest treehouse”
Aloha!