haven't checked up in here in a while. and wow! looks like I came at the right time too.
@ wally and pescador
Anyway yeah what you guys are both saying is right. They just aren't exclusively right.
Wally is right if you brought them an indian sativa (which is the original ancestor) or a dalat or something they will reveg during flower and screw everything up. so a shorter flowering sativa would be best. the question is whats sativa enough? alot of it is pretty indica'd up and true rastas out there especially at churches for meditation would probably love to have highland oaxaca gold or shorter flowering african sativas. And that is who I really meant is looking for sativas. I'm sure there are commercial growers that are growing more indica'd up strains then they'd like to be for the longer seasons and getting smaller plants with lower yields.
A big problem for them growing sativas is they don't reveg good plants. they still cut and burn and put little dense planted plots. And they pack it full of just what wally said. plants that will veg for a few weeks and flower for 75 days. quick money, which is what they're after.
So they shouldn't completely give up the short season strains. those guys are poor as hell and they need money. Aside from the cashcroppers that just need a quick dollar the island has two long season and one short. The only things that will really finish for the short season are 60 day or less indicas and that is an entire crop for those guys if you don't get it quick enough. It's the smallest crop of the year but it still feeds their family.
But I'm interested in jamaican indicas anyway. We have a complete lack of outdoor hot humid adapted indicas and its something we could use in the gulf coast. You could sell a ton of seeds if you had a indica that would finish in august and not mold and still produce good results in the heat. I got one early california strain that does it but thats it. So they have their own unique role and should be used.
But there are definitely alot of people in jamaica looking for sativas again. For every commercial grower there are 20 personal growers with it next to their vegetables.
You know they have the same commercial problems we have here. You ask people what is your favorite weeds. They say Haze, hawaiian, colombian. You ask them what they are selling they say afgani, g13, skunk. You know. you're gonna sell what is good money fast.
From what I gathered just shooting the shit with jamaicans over the years is they have three seasons. The best one starts last week of august and harvests by december. the winter crop is the tough one where they use indicas and its jan-feb. by mid march they start revegin. and the hot season is apr-aug when they grow sativas. but sativas really can't have a flower time much longer than about 110 +/- days.
@ wally and pescador
Anyway yeah what you guys are both saying is right. They just aren't exclusively right.
Wally is right if you brought them an indian sativa (which is the original ancestor) or a dalat or something they will reveg during flower and screw everything up. so a shorter flowering sativa would be best. the question is whats sativa enough? alot of it is pretty indica'd up and true rastas out there especially at churches for meditation would probably love to have highland oaxaca gold or shorter flowering african sativas. And that is who I really meant is looking for sativas. I'm sure there are commercial growers that are growing more indica'd up strains then they'd like to be for the longer seasons and getting smaller plants with lower yields.
A big problem for them growing sativas is they don't reveg good plants. they still cut and burn and put little dense planted plots. And they pack it full of just what wally said. plants that will veg for a few weeks and flower for 75 days. quick money, which is what they're after.
So they shouldn't completely give up the short season strains. those guys are poor as hell and they need money. Aside from the cashcroppers that just need a quick dollar the island has two long season and one short. The only things that will really finish for the short season are 60 day or less indicas and that is an entire crop for those guys if you don't get it quick enough. It's the smallest crop of the year but it still feeds their family.
But I'm interested in jamaican indicas anyway. We have a complete lack of outdoor hot humid adapted indicas and its something we could use in the gulf coast. You could sell a ton of seeds if you had a indica that would finish in august and not mold and still produce good results in the heat. I got one early california strain that does it but thats it. So they have their own unique role and should be used.
But there are definitely alot of people in jamaica looking for sativas again. For every commercial grower there are 20 personal growers with it next to their vegetables.
You know they have the same commercial problems we have here. You ask people what is your favorite weeds. They say Haze, hawaiian, colombian. You ask them what they are selling they say afgani, g13, skunk. You know. you're gonna sell what is good money fast.
From what I gathered just shooting the shit with jamaicans over the years is they have three seasons. The best one starts last week of august and harvests by december. the winter crop is the tough one where they use indicas and its jan-feb. by mid march they start revegin. and the hot season is apr-aug when they grow sativas. but sativas really can't have a flower time much longer than about 110 +/- days.
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