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19 degrees N. Tropics
TRSC Chitrali, Pakistan Chitral Valley
P2 second generation
20 individuals
Idea: Robert Clark, DJ short, and Sam Skunkman and many others have discussed landrace varaities acclimizing to their new home beyond the second and third generation are no longer the same, and generaly in a negative context. Majority of this time it was in reference to cultivating and acclimating tropical cultivators at mid latitudes.
Hypothesis: Acclimate a WLD "indica" to the tropics beyond the P2 and P3 generation with selection to the end goal of unique dankness. This is a mirror theory of the above paragraph.
First generation Chitrali were planted June 1st 2016. All were Open pollinated. All went straight to flower and ended up like disappointing little 20cm lollipops. As what happens when growing anything of non equatorial origins in a tropical photoperiod. The deep well of genetics Chitrali possessed, was my last hope. But this cultivator too, failed me, I then swore off growing any WLD varieties and had to retire to my sexy equatorial thin leaf cultivators.
I recalled speaking to an old hippie years before. He told me back in the 70s their crops would adapt to the tropics after a couple of seasons. I thought to myself, what the hell. Maybe epigenetics exist? And not some binary code of genes.Maybe they can learn to adapt to a foreign land? Maybe the progeny is part of this new foreign land? How much adaptive plasticity does cannabis posses? And in particular these Chitrali P2 OP seeds.
June 1st 2017, I went ahead last minute and threw some Chitrali P2 OP seeds in some dirt. I would Carry on with this experiment. To my delight the majority did not turn into auto flowering 20cm plants. But they vegged with the tropical photoperiod and finished 1.5 to 2 meter plants.
25% auto flowered and were culled
25% harvested early September
25% harvested mid September
25% harvested early October
All females were pollinated on selected branches by 3 Chitrali p2 males.
Everything is in jars curing. Will smoke test individuals from the mid Sept to early Oct. for selection on the P3 generation.
19 degrees N. Tropics
TRSC Chitrali, Pakistan Chitral Valley
P2 second generation
20 individuals
Idea: Robert Clark, DJ short, and Sam Skunkman and many others have discussed landrace varaities acclimizing to their new home beyond the second and third generation are no longer the same, and generaly in a negative context. Majority of this time it was in reference to cultivating and acclimating tropical cultivators at mid latitudes.
Hypothesis: Acclimate a WLD "indica" to the tropics beyond the P2 and P3 generation with selection to the end goal of unique dankness. This is a mirror theory of the above paragraph.
First generation Chitrali were planted June 1st 2016. All were Open pollinated. All went straight to flower and ended up like disappointing little 20cm lollipops. As what happens when growing anything of non equatorial origins in a tropical photoperiod. The deep well of genetics Chitrali possessed, was my last hope. But this cultivator too, failed me, I then swore off growing any WLD varieties and had to retire to my sexy equatorial thin leaf cultivators.
I recalled speaking to an old hippie years before. He told me back in the 70s their crops would adapt to the tropics after a couple of seasons. I thought to myself, what the hell. Maybe epigenetics exist? And not some binary code of genes.Maybe they can learn to adapt to a foreign land? Maybe the progeny is part of this new foreign land? How much adaptive plasticity does cannabis posses? And in particular these Chitrali P2 OP seeds.
June 1st 2017, I went ahead last minute and threw some Chitrali P2 OP seeds in some dirt. I would Carry on with this experiment. To my delight the majority did not turn into auto flowering 20cm plants. But they vegged with the tropical photoperiod and finished 1.5 to 2 meter plants.
25% auto flowered and were culled
25% harvested early September
25% harvested mid September
25% harvested early October
All females were pollinated on selected branches by 3 Chitrali p2 males.
Everything is in jars curing. Will smoke test individuals from the mid Sept to early Oct. for selection on the P3 generation.
