thanks to you! it was really and adventure growin these hazes you know charlie. And i did because i read a post from you at cc where you said they were worth growing at least one time in the life, so a friend who was gonna buy seeds asked me what i'd buy, and i said OT Haze from ACE. He bought it and splitted the pack with me.
I sprouted them normally in october, and they grew a pale green thin pure sativa wich reminded me of the Paraguay '89 i had grown before.
Then i had reserved the best spots in my garden for them, but they wouldn't show sex, so i had to transplant them unsexed. Then they showed some calyxes, but with no pistils. It wasn't until late april, when most of the other strains were already harvested, that the Old Timer's Hazes showed the first pistils (at 7 month age!), and then started slowly flowering on, for about four months. Until that i was really worried because the crop seemd too small, the jars were half empty because i let the main spots to three pure sativas that were only begining to show pistils! So i was a little scared about my stock of flowers for the year, but patiently the hazes started to show me why i had chosen to grow them, and four months after that normal harverst point they gave me some of the most amazing flowers i've grown.
So it's been quite an adventure with them, fun, instructive, and wich turned out great because the jars were finally filled and now after another four months of curing, they're awesome smoke!! My friends love the haze high, and so do i.
It takes a lot of patience to grow this pure sativas but they have something special to them...
saludos y gracias nuevamente
thanks dubi!! so funny you mentioned that, right now im smoking a joint of the OTH #3 mixed up with some 'cera paraguaya' wich is charas brought from paraguay, off the cultivator's hands. It's quite nice quality, and pretty cheap.
after this sativa experiences there's no going back to 'dutch'..altough i never grew dutch strains besides Ak47, and hasn't been a keeper.
i'm sure there are still good paraguayan bricks, if you have the right contact as you say... but i'm not sure if pure old school paraguayan genes can still be found in seeds coming in those bricks. i'll have to plant a few and see what happens.
i've grown paraguay '89 from friend atreyu, and also grew a paraguayan 2002, wich still was pure but a bit different from the '89 i think.
Then i didn't grew paraguayan anymore but saw many people's grows from modern bricks (2004 and on) and there were definetly indica genes in most of them, because the paraguay '89 and the paraguay '02 took three months of flowering, and none of the newer does beyond two and half ; though i've seen some awesome plants from new paraguayan brick seed... i have some paraguay 2002 seeds left but they didnt germ, also have some '05, and '08 to try...
maybe next year i'll make a spot for them.
saludos!
thanks moonchild!
you should buy othaze if you have the money and the patience to experience it. specially if you grow outdoors and/or plan to make your own seeds. it would be a time-trip experience like the ace catalogue says. you don't see this kind of weed anymore these days...
saludos!