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🪷Baba’s 2024 Garden🪷
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Baba Karuna
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Thank you my friend
Every year I choose what line I want to use for pollen and then I grow out a bunch of seeds and choose multiple males from that line and match them to multiple choice females of the same line. I collect pollen by hand for storage (to use in later projects) and let the males pollinate before culling them. Depending on the year, I have various gardens going to allow for the production of multiple lines without cross pollinating. I do have other females in the garden from different cultivars that will also receive the pollen but I only allow males from one line at a time. I am blessed to live in a location where growing year round is possible. This allows me to breed to my hearts content
The Peruvian I collected personally deep in the jungles of the Ucayali region of Peru
🪷Om Śivkarmāstu🪷
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Baba Karuna
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Very happy that you got yourself some Sinai. There are some truly amazing gems to found within that gene pool. I have been blessed to find the peachy, rose water perfume expressions that I have come to love so dearly but others have found cat urine expressions that they claim are spectacular
Last I heard the seed stock they have is still from the original release so I am excited for you to discover something unique and special 🪷Om Dhana Dhānyasamrddhirastu🪷
Baba Karuna
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Had to harvest my Jack Herer x Sinai x Waziristani today because some unseasonably early rain come through a few days ago and two top colitas started to get a little bit of mold 
. Even though I primarily grow heirlooms/landraces (my true passion) my wife enjoys some of the old 80s/90s classics like the Jack so this one was for her. Came out super nice very pungent poopy diaper, hashish, a touch of fruity sweetness and very floral. Only lost around 1/4 oz to the mold I’m guessing. I have it drying on the rack and plan to con it tomorrow or the next day depending on how quickly it dries 
I pray all my friends on here are enjoying the harvest season mold free
🪷Om Arișțanirasanamastu🪷
. Even though I primarily grow heirlooms/landraces (my true passion) my wife enjoys some of the old 80s/90s classics like the Jack so this one was for her. Came out super nice very pungent poopy diaper, hashish, a touch of fruity sweetness and very floral. Only lost around 1/4 oz to the mold I’m guessing. I have it drying on the rack and plan to con it tomorrow or the next day depending on how quickly it dries I pray all my friends on here are enjoying the harvest season mold free
🪷Om Arișțanirasanamastu🪷
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Baba Karuna
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Ethiopian 
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Himalayan and Afghani based genetics 
These are some of the stickiest plants I have encountered
even lightly caressing them leaves my fingers coated in resin super sticky and delicious scents of citrus, grapes, sugar, and cream 
🪷Ete Gandhapuşpe Om Namo Nārāyaņāya Namah🪷
These are some of the stickiest plants I have encountered
even lightly caressing them leaves my fingers coated in resin super sticky and delicious scents of citrus, grapes, sugar, and cream 🪷Ete Gandhapuşpe Om Namo Nārāyaņāya Namah🪷
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Baba Karuna
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Banana Petal Cob Update:
Opened the bag today and the cobs were still moist and smelled sweet with a very subtle hint of banana essence on top of the herbs grape, incense, and lightly pine.
It has been almost 4 months since I placed the cobs into a cool and dark environment to age. They are now taken out to dry completely before resealing and leaving to dry cure for another 6-9 months. The cob can used for eating or smoking once it is dry. However, allowing time for the herb to mature and develop incredibly complex effects of true depth requires patience. If you can leave it for 6-9 months you will have truly spectacular herb.
🪷Om Śāntirastu🪷
Opened the bag today and the cobs were still moist and smelled sweet with a very subtle hint of banana essence on top of the herbs grape, incense, and lightly pine.
It has been almost 4 months since I placed the cobs into a cool and dark environment to age. They are now taken out to dry completely before resealing and leaving to dry cure for another 6-9 months. The cob can used for eating or smoking once it is dry. However, allowing time for the herb to mature and develop incredibly complex effects of true depth requires patience. If you can leave it for 6-9 months you will have truly spectacular herb.
🪷Om Śāntirastu🪷
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Nice grow.Banana Petal Cob Update:
Opened the bag today and the cobs were still moist and smelled sweet with a very subtle hint of banana essence on top of the herbs grape, incense, and lightly pine.
It has been almost 4 months since I placed the cobs into a cool and dark environment to age. They are now taken out to dry completely before resealing and leaving to dry cure for another 6-9 months. The cob can used for eating or smoking once it is dry. However, allowing time for the herb to mature and develop incredibly complex effects of true depth requires patience. If you can leave it for 6-9 months you will have truly spectacular herb.
🪷Om Śāntirastu🪷
Do you prefer to smoke the cobs? or eat them? Also, do you smoke straight flower?… what about hash? Peace …
Baba Karuna
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Thank you my friendNice grow.
I prefer eating them, I only need to chew 0.25-0.5g to have a long lasting, high vibe experience
I have enjoyed smoking as well but lately it feels better to not inhale anything. My wife enjoys using them in the volcano 
I do not smoke non fermented flower. Growing up in the East with traditional hashish I became spoiled by the smoothness of smoking traditional style cures. I experience regular dried flowers as being too harsh in comparison and the effects less complex and enjoyable. I really enjoy hash but have been focused on fermenting herb. So it has been a while since I made hash but when I did I always used multiple plants to replicate the technique used by the farmers who crafted the blessed hash of my youth. The mixed cannabinoid profiles created that complex, mellow and powerful effect that I loved back home. Also, the varying cannabinoid ratios within each area of the hash made it easier to prevent tolerance build up
🪷Om Śivamastu🪷
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Baba Karuna
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I have received various questions about the Peruvian and have decided that the following information as to how I acquired this variety may be beneficial to interested individuals
Years ago I traveled to the Peruvian Amazon to study the shamanic practices of the Shipibo living along the Ucayali River. Staying in a small village I wasn’t sure if I would find any herb as I had heard locals were not into discussing the subject for fear of the law. Seeing foreigners was a rare occurance in this area and thus made it difficult for me to find out if there was bud nearby.
Many months later I ran into two Canadians while visiting Pucallpa, the nearest city to my village residence and struck up a conversation, we headed over to a local café and over the course of our meal I learned that both of them had gotten tattooed that week by a local artist in the city who used organic imported ink and charged much less that Canadian and USA based artists. I got his instagram from them feeling that this would be the guy to ask for herb. I contacted him, made an appointment, and once in his studio I proceeded to ask about finding herb. He told me his friend would help me on the condition that I never tell anyone that I knew him or had scored in the area. He said locals are always looking to rat people out so he was very hush hush. I agreed and arranged through WhatsApp to meet him later that week.
I drove out to a new part of the Ucayali River to take a swim after meeting the herbsman. He showed up on his ubiquitous motorcycle with a young woman behind him. He approached me smiling, carrying a small box of plants (not cannabis), we stepped aside and he told me his girlfriend like lots of locals think herb is evil and so he needed me to pretend to buy a plant and he would throw it in a plastic shopping bag that already conatined my buds. Once the deal was done and I got back home, I proceeded to open and inspect the flowers.
They were pressed and obviously handled roughly but they were full of seeds and appeared to be very sativa. One joint and I was swept away into a blissful, happy, electrifying, psychedelic and deeply meditative experience. I had been on various plant dietas (shamanic diet) and hadn’t eaten meat, oil, chilis, salt or garlic let alone had any cannabis in months and so I was quite senstive to the effects, which were so strong it was overwhelming. A week later he contacted me again and said he had new stuff, even more electric than before. I had him stop by my place and we smoked and talked for a while. He explained the herb had been grown in the jungle using nothing but the red jungle dirt and rainwater. “No fertilizer, no sprays” he said. I was able to purchase from him multiple times during the course of my stay and I learned that the local growers had aquired this variety many decades prior and had been growing only this type. I never got to see the farm because everything is so under the radar but I knew if I brought seeds to the USA and started growing and breeding them, I would be happily surprised by their quality.
Shortly after this, I met a local herbswoman who arranged a dieta for me with an Italian man living deep in the jungle. He showed me a jar of hash oil that he had cooked by soaking local jungle herb (similar if not the same as what I sourced) in local cane alcohol. He gifted me the jar and I experimented with coating joints of my herb with the oil and experienced a racy, highyl motivated and focused, entheogenic, high vibration effect. The oil smelled spicy, a trait shared with the buds which had a black pepper, earthy scent.
After arriving back the States, I began to grow out the seeds I collected. Always keeping a high male to female ratio, I explored the genetics while maintaining open pollination. Growing outdoors in Southern California has been wonderful, the plants grow with very little care, even planted in poor sandy or clay soils they thrive. With low fertilizer and water requirements it is a very hardy variety and yields large floral clusters along leggy branches. They can get quite tall and I usually train mine to stay smaller but given the leg room this one can stretch up to 5x its vegging height. I have grown one plant in an 100 gallon fabric bed filled with only composted manure and local clay soil. That plant ended up being 7 ft tall and 7 ft wide after being trained. Another plant grown in ground untrained grew to be around 11ft tall. Being an Equitorial type they usually take a long time to flower 15+ weeks, but the quality of the effect is top notch. I have been working on selecting the faster flowering plants and have seen expressions that can finish a few weeks sooner. Blissful, soaring, energetic, happy, upbeat, high vibration, with a deep meditative reverence for nature. This is one of the best sativas I have encountered in terms of entheogenic qualities, it is one of the strongest I have grown. The psychedelic component of the herb is reminiscent of ayahuasca , and carries a pronounced jungle vibe. Resin is incredibly sticky and the smells I have discovered so far are: fresh plastic, tropical fruits and berries, black pepper, chocolate, and tobacco. I have been selecting expressions that flower faster as to avoid potential winter storms, and have found plants that can finish a few weeks sooner.
Given that the region in which the seeds were collected is so heavily involved with tobacco and cacao production and ayahuasca shamanism, it is amazing to witness these flavors and qualities being so pronounced in the herb. Fermenting or “cobbing” this variety has only deepened the quality of the effect and removed any anxiety caused by the racy heart pounding qualities.
So far there has been no sign of hermaphrodites in the females, but I have encountered some males that produce pollen sacs and a few calyxes. These males are always covered in resin and when smoked or vaporized, provide a more mellow version of the female expressions.
For my breeding projects this a truly vaulable vartiety and it reminds me of Colombian Gold, and Old Hazes. to share many characteristics with legends such as Colombian Gold or Punto Rojo. One of my favorite expressions so far has been a long flowering mother with a powerful blueberry and strawberry vanilla scent. Pollinated by a choice Egyptian Sinai, her offspring carried on the blueberry scent but with a much shorter flowering period, on par with the longer flowering expressions of the Sinai variety. I feel there is so much unexplored potential within the Peruvain line and I am having tons of fun growing and learning about them. This is a very special type. I am currently working on making hybrids using female Peruvians and male pollen from varieties such as Kerala South India and Himalayan charas plants
🪷Om Mani Padme Hum🪷
and have decided that the following information as to how I acquired this variety may be beneficial to interested individuals Years ago I traveled to the Peruvian Amazon to study the shamanic practices of the Shipibo living along the Ucayali River. Staying in a small village I wasn’t sure if I would find any herb as I had heard locals were not into discussing the subject for fear of the law. Seeing foreigners was a rare occurance in this area and thus made it difficult for me to find out if there was bud nearby.
Many months later I ran into two Canadians while visiting Pucallpa, the nearest city to my village residence and struck up a conversation, we headed over to a local café and over the course of our meal I learned that both of them had gotten tattooed that week by a local artist in the city who used organic imported ink and charged much less that Canadian and USA based artists. I got his instagram from them feeling that this would be the guy to ask for herb. I contacted him, made an appointment, and once in his studio I proceeded to ask about finding herb. He told me his friend would help me on the condition that I never tell anyone that I knew him or had scored in the area. He said locals are always looking to rat people out so he was very hush hush. I agreed and arranged through WhatsApp to meet him later that week.
I drove out to a new part of the Ucayali River to take a swim after meeting the herbsman. He showed up on his ubiquitous motorcycle with a young woman behind him. He approached me smiling, carrying a small box of plants (not cannabis), we stepped aside and he told me his girlfriend like lots of locals think herb is evil and so he needed me to pretend to buy a plant and he would throw it in a plastic shopping bag that already conatined my buds. Once the deal was done and I got back home, I proceeded to open and inspect the flowers.
They were pressed and obviously handled roughly but they were full of seeds and appeared to be very sativa. One joint and I was swept away into a blissful, happy, electrifying, psychedelic and deeply meditative experience. I had been on various plant dietas (shamanic diet) and hadn’t eaten meat, oil, chilis, salt or garlic let alone had any cannabis in months and so I was quite senstive to the effects, which were so strong it was overwhelming. A week later he contacted me again and said he had new stuff, even more electric than before. I had him stop by my place and we smoked and talked for a while. He explained the herb had been grown in the jungle using nothing but the red jungle dirt and rainwater. “No fertilizer, no sprays” he said. I was able to purchase from him multiple times during the course of my stay and I learned that the local growers had aquired this variety many decades prior and had been growing only this type. I never got to see the farm because everything is so under the radar but I knew if I brought seeds to the USA and started growing and breeding them, I would be happily surprised by their quality.
Shortly after this, I met a local herbswoman who arranged a dieta for me with an Italian man living deep in the jungle. He showed me a jar of hash oil that he had cooked by soaking local jungle herb (similar if not the same as what I sourced) in local cane alcohol. He gifted me the jar and I experimented with coating joints of my herb with the oil and experienced a racy, highyl motivated and focused, entheogenic, high vibration effect. The oil smelled spicy, a trait shared with the buds which had a black pepper, earthy scent.
After arriving back the States, I began to grow out the seeds I collected. Always keeping a high male to female ratio, I explored the genetics while maintaining open pollination. Growing outdoors in Southern California has been wonderful, the plants grow with very little care, even planted in poor sandy or clay soils they thrive. With low fertilizer and water requirements it is a very hardy variety and yields large floral clusters along leggy branches. They can get quite tall and I usually train mine to stay smaller but given the leg room this one can stretch up to 5x its vegging height. I have grown one plant in an 100 gallon fabric bed filled with only composted manure and local clay soil. That plant ended up being 7 ft tall and 7 ft wide after being trained. Another plant grown in ground untrained grew to be around 11ft tall. Being an Equitorial type they usually take a long time to flower 15+ weeks, but the quality of the effect is top notch. I have been working on selecting the faster flowering plants and have seen expressions that can finish a few weeks sooner. Blissful, soaring, energetic, happy, upbeat, high vibration, with a deep meditative reverence for nature. This is one of the best sativas I have encountered in terms of entheogenic qualities, it is one of the strongest I have grown. The psychedelic component of the herb is reminiscent of ayahuasca , and carries a pronounced jungle vibe. Resin is incredibly sticky and the smells I have discovered so far are: fresh plastic, tropical fruits and berries, black pepper, chocolate, and tobacco. I have been selecting expressions that flower faster as to avoid potential winter storms, and have found plants that can finish a few weeks sooner.
Given that the region in which the seeds were collected is so heavily involved with tobacco and cacao production and ayahuasca shamanism, it is amazing to witness these flavors and qualities being so pronounced in the herb. Fermenting or “cobbing” this variety has only deepened the quality of the effect and removed any anxiety caused by the racy heart pounding qualities.
So far there has been no sign of hermaphrodites in the females, but I have encountered some males that produce pollen sacs and a few calyxes. These males are always covered in resin and when smoked or vaporized, provide a more mellow version of the female expressions.
For my breeding projects this a truly vaulable vartiety and it reminds me of Colombian Gold, and Old Hazes. to share many characteristics with legends such as Colombian Gold or Punto Rojo. One of my favorite expressions so far has been a long flowering mother with a powerful blueberry and strawberry vanilla scent. Pollinated by a choice Egyptian Sinai, her offspring carried on the blueberry scent but with a much shorter flowering period, on par with the longer flowering expressions of the Sinai variety. I feel there is so much unexplored potential within the Peruvain line and I am having tons of fun growing and learning about them. This is a very special type. I am currently working on making hybrids using female Peruvians and male pollen from varieties such as Kerala South India and Himalayan charas plants
🪷Om Mani Padme Hum🪷
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Baba Karuna
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As the nights grow colder the colors are coming out 
This is one of the Nigerian x Senegal that has started to accumulate some purple and red coloration. The scent is sweet, pungent, and astringent
this one will come down in the next few days. The general odor of this variety is astringent like fresh plastic, some sweetness, and variations of tropical fruits. Sometimes they can smell meaty and savory I have been busy the past week harvesting this population. Very pleased with how they came out this year. The Senegalese tends to yield higher than the Nigerian but the Nigerian has amazing fruity plastic smells that have paired nicely with the large bud structure of the Senegal. The cross also tends flower a bit faster than the pure Nigerian.
🪷Om Anantāya Namah🪷
This is one of the Nigerian x Senegal that has started to accumulate some purple and red coloration. The scent is sweet, pungent, and astringent
this one will come down in the next few days. The general odor of this variety is astringent like fresh plastic, some sweetness, and variations of tropical fruits. Sometimes they can smell meaty and savory I have been busy the past week harvesting this population. Very pleased with how they came out this year. The Senegalese tends to yield higher than the Nigerian but the Nigerian has amazing fruity plastic smells that have paired nicely with the large bud structure of the Senegal. The cross also tends flower a bit faster than the pure Nigerian. 🪷Om Anantāya Namah🪷
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Beautiful grow diary baba. Excellent photos and write-ups, I really enjoyed reading it all. You've convinced me to finally try fermenting cannabis. Unfortunately, I turned all of my excess stuff into hash about a week ago, so it'll be a while before I have some proper sativa product to work with.
I often grow a bit of tobacco as well, and when I saw yours, I wondered about the possibility of fermenting cannabis inside of a tobacco leaf. Have you ever considered that? I don't know anything about fermenting cannabis, so I don't know if that's even a reasonable idea, but it seems like a interesting.
I often grow a bit of tobacco as well, and when I saw yours, I wondered about the possibility of fermenting cannabis inside of a tobacco leaf. Have you ever considered that? I don't know anything about fermenting cannabis, so I don't know if that's even a reasonable idea, but it seems like a interesting.
