So the stone walls were of course made from fied stone, clearing the fields for crops, hay, and animals. Brutal work done with a pick, shovel, prybar, rope and a stout draft horse no doubt. Have done some re-purposing with some of these stone walls. Used for taller stone walls leading up to garage sized door for basement in a house being constructed in Shutesbury, real rural life. @Upstate also, lots of stone walls around here, tons of history.
Often, smaller seed are less domesticated. “More sativa” or what people think of when they picture a sativa. Looser buds and taller height. Oaxaca has bigger seed and small black seed. The black seed are usually the string of pearls type. I think these are from whats called a semi domesticated landrace line with a mix of feral and farmed plants. Maybe feral plants still pop out in the kashmir line too. Pretty common.
I can’t even imagine. Each spring a horse would pull a flat sled around the field and load it with stones that heaved out of the ground during winter and add those to the wall. Some walls go up some steep slopes.
Been there, done it. Tractor helps, but if you’re rough clearing land, you can’t get a tractor in there until you create an edge to work. Farm work creates some tough boys. As a kid I used to chuck bales up onto a trailer. Or stack. Both sucked sweaty balls.
Found an old receipt my grand dad used to pay like $1.50 a week, a man, during hay season.
Eff that. But that’s what you did to make money those days.
This is a skill that a small group still have here in the UK… Used to know an old fella that had been doing it… At least 50 years. He could look at a wall in our area and tell you who did it and when in Thier career… No joke.
He would say even after 50 years he was still learning… Was making wall until his late 80s… Taught half the South of the UK’s farmers how to look after Thier walls.
Rip bill… Your probably up there fixing the wall attached to the pearly gates…
For sure. The old ones you could crash a car into and it would be fine. The new ones just aren’t as tight (in the US that is. I’m sure where it’s still valued as a skill they do a better job). Here it went from utility to aesthetic over the last 100 years
I wish we still had a similar set up here. We have farmers markets but nothing like that beautiful picture. The food looks like…food. Go figure. Remember when our food looked like food?
It’s a beautiful landrace George. After growing it I can see the resemblance in so many different strains. I think this has been a go to landrace for phenohunters for a long time. Rather than finding a bunch of South Asian varieties to blend together, it’s quicker to go to the variety that IS a blend of all those others already. There is still “breeding” work that needs to be done to make a Western style ganja strain, but basically ,it is only selection work, growing out the result of actual breeding work and picking your favorite
Yes. Good density. About a 7 out of 10. Sorry for the poor pictures.
I found a black leaf. In the sun It is definitely black with a little purple. where all the leaf blades meet
Miss late to dinner. Harvest time Snuck up on me but here we are. The top 2/3 of the plant are ready.
This one flowers very fast. It got started later than the others and finished as quick or quicker.
I pulled a lot more seeds off of this one than what I had expected When it 1st got pollinated. I’m sure I pulled at least a couple hundred from her. Yield was likely effected. I’m going to try to reveg this one for outdoors and breeding work.
Miss Pistachio is super chunky. Vegged in a bigger container, she would make a cannon of a cola. I haven’t had a proper sample of her or miss big leaves, and both are getting close to the finish. Soon, I will. Perhaps one or both will be revegged.