Tirah Valley, Pakistan Landrace grow

Thanks brother. I’ll make sure I get something to smoke from it. The stem rub is fierce. Really strong smell. Here’s a few pics for you. They must be ready to flower any day now…nodes are getting tight.



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That looks great. Nice canopy. Bud development looks the same as mine at week 3. Flowering time was 9 or 10 weeks, but one of mine may have gone longer indoors. I can’t remember now. Yours will go quicker outdoors and will handle frost well, I’m sure. It’ll finish.

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I mean, look at that beast, leaflets morphology and branching potential is outstanding!

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Thank You I thought i screwed up the seeds and got them mixed up LOL
The male had a totally different leaf structure than the female , LARGE Fan leaves and super healthy . Now I wish I had a place I could have collected pollen. She is filling out nicely.

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Next summer it’s fully legal to home grow here, and I was looking to grow some trees😁. These certainly have potential. Massive potential. They get maybe 3 hours sunshine right now. I can only imagine what they’d do in full sun and with more soil too.
I’m sad I can’t finish these here. What a yield I’m missing out on.

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Man that is a shame they wont finish out
are you getting any PWM with all the Humidity?

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Too bad you can’t put up some kind of temporary greenhouse around them for the next month or so. I guess there’s probably not enough sunlight anyway to finish off properly.

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No PM on anything. I try to pick stuff that I think will be immune. 90% humidity today.
@Chara They are in a good early season spot, But in a terrible location for the end of season. If they get hit with a frost, the frost will be on them for many hours. Sun doesn’t even hit them until lunch time, and they are located in a frost pocket, The lowest, coldest, darkest portion of my property. :sleepy:
I’m thinking mid November finish for these. It will take a miracle to finish them. You never know though… I might get a wild hair up my ass and go dig them up. I am a gemini so I constantly fight with myself🤣

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Did the Gov ever say for sure Home growers will be allowed to do it there, I have been hearing they are still deciding on the rules to grow.
Anytime rules come into play most will grow underground again.

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Can you tell me what your have grown so far that is resistant to high Humidity?
I wont hold you to anything, just courious as to what WPM never grew on in NYS Humidity? I use to live in the area and never had any luck myself.

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Yeah. 3 flowering and 3 plants in veg per person in each household, maximum two people/ house.
I have trouble counting though😁 and my memory sucks…was it 12 plants per person or 6? 12 it is!

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Will they let you grow additional plants for Patients ?

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You have to pick sativa dominant strains…or pure Sativas.
I grew only my own stuff from nineteen ninety one until 2019. The local stuff I started growing back in nineteen ninety one is mold proof, mildew proof. It won’t get a speck. no matter the weather.
Since then I’ve grown all sorts of sativas. Kullu, Malawi Gold from RSC, and Moroccan all got PM From a plant I had indoors in dim lighting. I threw the plant out to kill it and it ended up rooting itself into the ground in the middle of the woods. It was absolutely covered in powdery mildew, And it was only fifty feet from my other plants. Funny thing is, Once this plant rooted itself into the ground, the powdery mildew disappeared on all new growth. There is something about the connection with microbes in the earth that prevents mildew. The plants are much stronger and thus resistant to it.

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I honestly don’t care what they allow😁 I grow what I need. Fuck em.
I have a bad back and fatigue problems from a former pill addiction. I work full time as a carpenter and weed is the only way I can keep at it. Any kind of polyhybrid stuff just puts me to sleep. I can’t work with it. It takes a lot of landrace plants to find some keepers that do the trick. I do what I have to, to make sure I find them.
The State will never understand.
There should be a breeders license available.

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Now I have to ask, do you know why Sats are more mold resistant than Indies?

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Fluffier buds, more open structure…but mainly they evolved in a humid environment in almost 100% of cases. Some areas harvest during a dry season, but the plants are always growing at least partially in a humid season.

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Plus I heard a little birdie say the tropicals have a gene that is resistant to mold?

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When I grew Tirah outdoors two years ago I ended up taking 5 of the 8 girls down just before a strong tropical storm hit during the last week of October. Those 5 were the furthest along in flower and were just about done.

Of the 3 I left to fight the storm, one got blown over by the storm. She would have been OK but for the fact the main bamboo pole I had her tied to twisted and caused the main stalk of the plant to twist and split as well. She was close to harvest anyway and I ended up putting about a half pound from her into jars (and another pound or so hung up in the garage rafters to dry for hash).

Another one came down a week into November as it was pretty close to the finish and a frost down to 27 degrees was predicted. The last one was way late to flower so I left her up until November 18th. She made it through two hard frosts. So depending where you are - I’m at about 41.75 N on the Southeast Massachusetts coast - you may have a couple of months left for them to finish.

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We had our first frost this morning. End of season here is mid October . By then we have had snow most years, and there is nothing green left alive. Next year I will test them more with the weather. This year I want to smoke them finished, so won’t take a chance. Definitely tough plants. That’s good to know they naturally finish when I thought they would.
I’m at about the same latitude as you, but I’m up at 2,000 feet in the Catskills. Much cooler here than by the coast or in main river valleys.

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12 it is! Yeah too bad didn’t have another month or more

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