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Tropical
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Here is a thought I've had, especially now that a few hurricanes have cleared out the tree canopy in my backyard, giving me some sunlight, but at the same time also took away my privacy. I might grow a strain called Ducksfoot. You can find photos if you do a search. It doesn't look at all like Cannabis in veg. The leaves are shaped like the foot of a duck instead of the seven skinny fingers. You can grow it in the open and not worry about it.
Now, the problem comes in bloom. It will grow big colas and stink like mj. So, my thought is to just cut them down when they start to bloom. It wont be smokeable, but it will be fine for Cannabutter. I've made Cannabutter many times from leaves taken during veg. I can make the Cannabutter as potent as I want by using a high leaf to butter ratio. I've made Cannabutter so strong that 2 grams leaves me flat on my ass.
If I can let the plants flower for even a few weeks, then I might run the harvest through bubble bags to get something smokeable. I hear that the hash from fan leaves wont be full melt, but it will be at least as good as smoking a bud.
Anyway, that's something for people to consider if you have lots of sunshine without enough privacy, especially if you like to get stoned on cookies and brownies. In my case, I almost never smoke. I get stoned every day on cookies. It's great. If you haven't tried it, then you should.
Now, the problem comes in bloom. It will grow big colas and stink like mj. So, my thought is to just cut them down when they start to bloom. It wont be smokeable, but it will be fine for Cannabutter. I've made Cannabutter many times from leaves taken during veg. I can make the Cannabutter as potent as I want by using a high leaf to butter ratio. I've made Cannabutter so strong that 2 grams leaves me flat on my ass.
If I can let the plants flower for even a few weeks, then I might run the harvest through bubble bags to get something smokeable. I hear that the hash from fan leaves wont be full melt, but it will be at least as good as smoking a bud.
Anyway, that's something for people to consider if you have lots of sunshine without enough privacy, especially if you like to get stoned on cookies and brownies. In my case, I almost never smoke. I get stoned every day on cookies. It's great. If you haven't tried it, then you should.
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Burnatree said:
Anything you put outside after the first of May should be sativa. The rain and humidity in late June will likely turn your indicas moldy.
The land race sativas from Mexico, Columbia, Jamaica, etc. have great genetics for outdoor cultivation in warm climates. They can produce great buds when grown in warm climates. The problem is they are usually bagged while still damp and get old, stale, and moldy by the time consumers in the U.S.A. get them. That's why the smoke sucks and the seeds are hard to sprout. I pulled a bunch of seeds out of my friends' pot when we went on vacation in Jamaica and grew some killer pot from it here at home. I had at least 70% germination and I had plenty of seeds. If a cruise to Jamaica is out of the question for you, then you can either try LOTS of bag seed hoping a few crack, or you can buy a cheap sativa on-line.
By the way, do you happen to know anybody who lives in a warm third-world country who could send you some seeds? That would be cheap.
The problem is that most of the cheap seeds sold on-line are from Amsterdam and are mixed with a lot of indica because they can't grow sativas very well up there.
If you really have to go cheap, I would try a few packs of a Haze or Thai knock-off. If you like some indica in your smoke too, take the edge off, then HazexNL should be good for the price and not too stinky. I've never grown them, but they are pretty common and you should be able to find a lot of grow reports on them.
If you can keep a mom indoors and want to be able to have a harvest every couple weeks all summer, then spend a few extra bucks on Early Durban from The Flying Dutchmen. A lot of sativas wont start to bloom until August or later, but Early Durban should start to flower as soon as you put it outside any time of year in Florida.
One more thing about bag seed. Even though the seeds I got from Jamaica were easy to grow, they didn't like to clone. That makes sense. In the third world they don't use electricity, don't keep moms, and hence they grow from seed instead of growing sin semilla. So, they never clone, have no idea which plants are easy to clone, don't care, and never select plants based on ease of cloning.
Tropical said:
Thanks alot tropical this makes life so much easier, espically the direction i need to go...i had a couple of successful sprouts pop out and go to seedling but carelessnes killed all three, i dont think they were getting enough light, wind damage seemed to be the problem the little seedling always seemed top heavy and the stems never seemed quite strong enough to hold the top of the plant up so i think im going to grow and veg indoors and move outdoors once they are out of the danger zone,
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Burnatree said:
Keep in mind that sun light is very bright. It's best to prepare your little clones by transitioning them to that intensity gradually. It would be ideal if you have at least a 250watt MH or HPS lamp inside and gradually move the plants closer to the bulb. If you have to grow under less intense light, say fluoros, then you need to start them under partial shade and gradually move them to less shade over a week or so.
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Got at least 3 weeks left, maybe 4, I'll check the trichomes.
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