The Annual Polling of the Patients.
The Annual Polling of the Patients.
Typical....Just typical.
A go to the hastle of upgrading my strains. I give my patients a sample of everything, and let them pick what they want me to grow.
So what do they want? What new tasty thing do they want to smoke next year? They all want a copy of last year. OK...We can do that.
I expect this year to be a wet one. The Thai strains handle the water better than anything I crossed, and they yield big, so I can understand their choises. I will probably do the same thing.
I just wonder why I bothered to make these crosses. It looks like all the crosses are cane bound. Also my partner is busting a large wave of pre 1990 strains too. Last year he had a small branch fag, and he wound up with his entire legal crop seeded. So this year he has a burr under his sadle. He's going crazy, and is dragging me along for the ride.
Grey...everyone I know is having problems with the mold this year. Places that never had a problem before...mold. Even inside too huh? And of course we have more rain comming. This is 2006 all over again.
Things are starting to get busy here. The next three months will be madness. Between turning the house over from short to long season, and the side projects my partner wants to do, I have around 20 new crosses to test out too. Things are going to get crazy fast.
I covered the how earlier. Might as well do where now.
I bought my house in the early 90's. My neighbors are all cool. One below me is Legal. The rest grow to feed their heads. I own five acres, and around me on three sides is pasture and cattle. My first job was to surround my land with bougenvellia. If you want to use a plant nobody will get through, try Natal Plum. Then I started trees to block sight lines.
I live on a 10,000 year old lava flow. The soil is rich and volcanic. Some of the best in the world. There's just not a lot of it. I have a small gulch that has deep soil, and can't be seen from outside my property. This is my gold mine. Last year I had seven holes. This year I added three more.
My bottom rose garden has another seven. It also sits under my deck, so those plants would be very hard to rip, and get away with.
I'm still looking for a place for the last four holes. Before I pick a place I need to know it gets the best sun, and can't be seen from anywhere off my land. I also like to put them as close to cover as I can. That's important. If your plants can be seen from off your property....you're asking for trouble.
Anyway I've had twenty years to make this place exactly like I want it. I've been ripped sucessfully off once. They came at night, in a rainstorm. Two weeks later they came back....but no rain. The dogs caught them that time.
When you plant in cover like I do every year I find a lot of roots, heading towards my holes, So today I was digging them up. I don't want my plants to have to share.
Also before you put a hole in, I watch the sun track. If I can get them more sun by cutting back my cover I do. you also have to look ahead, to find the track in the middle of summer. Nothing worse than putting a plant in and the sun track moves it into shade. Always try to look ahead. You would think just picking a spot is easy, but there is always a better spot you discover later you missed.
I promised a couple of pic of Jack earlier. Pics 1-5 are them
Pic 6 is part of the gulch
Pic 7 is part of the bottom holes. See the cover in back...dig up those roots.
Pic 8 is a taste of product. About an oz...by eye...my scale is broken.
The Annual Polling of the Patients.
Typical....Just typical.
A go to the hastle of upgrading my strains. I give my patients a sample of everything, and let them pick what they want me to grow.
So what do they want? What new tasty thing do they want to smoke next year? They all want a copy of last year. OK...We can do that.
I expect this year to be a wet one. The Thai strains handle the water better than anything I crossed, and they yield big, so I can understand their choises. I will probably do the same thing.
I just wonder why I bothered to make these crosses. It looks like all the crosses are cane bound. Also my partner is busting a large wave of pre 1990 strains too. Last year he had a small branch fag, and he wound up with his entire legal crop seeded. So this year he has a burr under his sadle. He's going crazy, and is dragging me along for the ride.
Grey...everyone I know is having problems with the mold this year. Places that never had a problem before...mold. Even inside too huh? And of course we have more rain comming. This is 2006 all over again.
Things are starting to get busy here. The next three months will be madness. Between turning the house over from short to long season, and the side projects my partner wants to do, I have around 20 new crosses to test out too. Things are going to get crazy fast.
I covered the how earlier. Might as well do where now.
I bought my house in the early 90's. My neighbors are all cool. One below me is Legal. The rest grow to feed their heads. I own five acres, and around me on three sides is pasture and cattle. My first job was to surround my land with bougenvellia. If you want to use a plant nobody will get through, try Natal Plum. Then I started trees to block sight lines.
I live on a 10,000 year old lava flow. The soil is rich and volcanic. Some of the best in the world. There's just not a lot of it. I have a small gulch that has deep soil, and can't be seen from outside my property. This is my gold mine. Last year I had seven holes. This year I added three more.
My bottom rose garden has another seven. It also sits under my deck, so those plants would be very hard to rip, and get away with.
I'm still looking for a place for the last four holes. Before I pick a place I need to know it gets the best sun, and can't be seen from anywhere off my land. I also like to put them as close to cover as I can. That's important. If your plants can be seen from off your property....you're asking for trouble.
Anyway I've had twenty years to make this place exactly like I want it. I've been ripped sucessfully off once. They came at night, in a rainstorm. Two weeks later they came back....but no rain. The dogs caught them that time.
When you plant in cover like I do every year I find a lot of roots, heading towards my holes, So today I was digging them up. I don't want my plants to have to share.
Also before you put a hole in, I watch the sun track. If I can get them more sun by cutting back my cover I do. you also have to look ahead, to find the track in the middle of summer. Nothing worse than putting a plant in and the sun track moves it into shade. Always try to look ahead. You would think just picking a spot is easy, but there is always a better spot you discover later you missed.
I promised a couple of pic of Jack earlier. Pics 1-5 are them
Pic 6 is part of the gulch
Pic 7 is part of the bottom holes. See the cover in back...dig up those roots.
Pic 8 is a taste of product. About an oz...by eye...my scale is broken.
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