[FrozenFire]

Let's kick this thing off! I figured we should use this thread to kick back, blow smoke and bullshit about all things related to cannabis and this great state. We got a whole subforum to ourselves and it's way too quiet on here! Let's change that.

Any fellow Alaskans on here that enjoy growing and smoking the finest quality cannabis? Got a cut in your garden you wanna brag about and share pictures of? Need help troubleshooting a troubled grow? Anyone wanna chime in on the great debate of dirt vs hydro? Pull up a chair next to the fire and smoke one if ya got one! If ya want chime in with what neck of the woods ya are from!

I'm a hobby grower on the Kenai peninsula with an indoor tent with plants growing in water. Current crop going into bloom is a batch of Brothers Grimm c99. What have y'all got that's your current or favorite to grow?

[FrozenFire]

So has anyone besides myself had their personal grows tested by the labs yet? I just got back another batch of test results and my c99 #3 was the winner of this round! She came in at a respectable 19.38% thc.

[moose eater]

Done a bit of halibut and dip-net fishing down in your 'hood, though more in the Copper River Basin and Prince William Sound out of Valdez.

Been tempted to get a sample or three to the lab, but there's a thousand other life-needs knocking on the door at the moment.... One day, maybe.

In a lottery-winning scenario, I'd love to find out that not only does one of my plants have a stellar THC level, but a respectable CBD profile, too.

I'd seen a sample at a retail shop in the Interior. The plant was listed as 'Aloha.' Sold at Pakalolo Supply Co.

Though I don't typically shop for retail weed, the numbers attracted my attention; I think she was between 7% and 8% on THC, and if I recall correctly, she was about 11%+ on CBD.

Nothing overwhelming in either regard, but the potential for some sort of matching, though with higher numbers on each side, was a distracting thought for a bit.

[troutman]

Kenai, Alaska.

Man, I wish I could go fishing at the Kenai river.

Do you also grow outdoors that far north?

[moose eater]

Originally Posted by troutman

Kenai, Alaska.

Man, I wish I could go fishing at the Kenai river.

Do you also grow outdoors that far north?

Not sure he's in Kenai, as opposed to the 'Kenai Peninsula,' but the city of Kenai is just over 500 miles south of me, and some folks grow outdoors up here where I am, so I suspect there's folks down that way doing so as well.

It's a more temperate/moderate climate on the Coast than in the Interior.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by moose eater

Not sure he's in Kenai, as opposed to the 'Kenai Peninsula,' but the city of Kenai is just over 500 miles south of me, and some folks grow outdoors up here where I am, so I suspect there's folks down that way doing so as well.

It's a more temperate/moderate climate on the Coast than in the Interior.

Are you like in the Brooks Range?

Move South before the polar bears get you.

[FrozenFire]

Ha ha yea I just moved from Kenai to Nikiski. I'm an indoor grower as this allows me to grow year round. I normally spend a large chunk of my summer on the banks of the Kenai killing reds! Halibut fishing out of homer is a a lot of fun as well. I also go hunting whenever I can find time. Duck, spruce hen, and Kodiak black tail are in my freezer at the moment. I'm hoping I get to start moose hunting next year as I finally decided it tastes good as well.

One of my plans for later this year is growing some cbd crew white widow and getting testing done to select a 50/50 thc/cbd cut. The new house came with a small green house that I'll try doing some outdoor aeroponics in. Half of it will be fruits and veggies and the other half will be some indica dominant varieties. I've got some purple kush seeds that should do quite nicely in the greenhouse. Anyhow welcome to the bonfire!

[moose eater]

Originally Posted by troutman

Are you like in the Brooks Range?

Move South before the polar bears get you.

Nope.

Road-miles from Fairbanks to Soldotna are just over 500. Kenai's a bit more as they're off the Sterling Hwy a few miles.

Nikiski is a bit further off the road than Kenai.

I'm south of Fairbanks toward the village of Nenana. Many use the term 'south' here to reference the Richardson and Alaska Hwys; neither of them departs Alaska to the south, but folks often think that because the roads -take- them to the Lower 48, they're 'south.' Both of those roads, in their out-set, depart Interior Alaska running east by southeast.

People often lose perspective re. the size of Alaska; 2.5 X's the size of Texas.

Los Anchorage to Soldotna = ~150 miles. Los Anchorage to Homer = ~225 miles. Fairbanks to Los Anchorage = ~360 miles.

When I drive to Homer, it's just under 600 miles.

Los Anchorage to Glennallen = ~187 miles, Anc to Valdez = ~305 miles. Fairbanks to Glennallen = ~240 miles. Fairbanks to Valdez = ~355 miles.

And if you check a map, the distance from Fairbanks to the North Slope is similar to the distance to Anchorage; a bit further to the Slope from Fbks than Fbks to Anc..

Then there's accessing the northern tip of S.E. Alaska. ~650-675 miles from Fairbanks to Haines, Alaska, and one of the two most northern stops for the Alaska Marine Hwy Ferry System..

No polar bears until you get up on the Haul Rd. to Prudhoe Bay, where, with climate change, there's been at least a couple spotted inland, even on the highway. Unusual, but it's happened.

[moose eater]

Originally Posted by FrozenFire

Ha ha yea I just moved from Kenai to Nikiski. I'm an indoor grower as this allows me to grow year round. I normally spend a large chunk of my summer on the banks of the Kenai killing reds! Halibut fishing out of homer is a a lot of fun as well. I also go hunting whenever I can find time. Duck, spruce hen, and Kodiak black tail are in my freezer at the moment. I'm hoping I get to start moose hunting next year as I finally decided it tastes good as well.

One of my plans for later this year is growing some cbd crew white widow and getting testing done to select a 50/50 thc/cbd cut. The new house came with a small green house that I'll try doing some outdoor aeroponics in. Half of it will be fruits and veggies and the other half will be some indica dominant varieties. I've got some purple kush seeds that should do quite nicely in the greenhouse. Anyhow welcome to the bonfire!

Used to occasionally fish 'but off of the trench about 5-7 miles off-shore from Ninilchik, but unless you go out around the horn past Seldovia, toward Mt. St. Augustine, to where there's still some less-molested deeper holes and drop-offs with decent fish left in them, the Cook Inlet side of the Peninsula sports a lot of chickens these days. Even PWS is heading in that direction, thus the newer regs re. charters and size restrictions.

Previously fished Wessel's Reef out in the Gulf a bit, beyond the mouth of Prince William Sound and Hinchinbrook Island, but haven't been out that way in several years now.

Our dip-netting is mostly limited to Chitina these days. Though this last season was shit for returns.

I haven't looked for Sitka blacktail deer since the winter of '78/'79 on Kodiak Island (haven't been back to The Rock since January of 1979), though when it's offered I never turn it down. Fine eating. Better flavor than moose, in my opinion, but too little return for the effort, which is why they used to permit 3-5 of the little buggers.

Moose is akin to wholesale shopping. One animal, 450-500 lbs. of clean meat in wrappers. Good by me. Not as tasty as Dall sheep or blacktail, but plenty of meat for the winter. This is one of three winters in the last 20 that we didn't put a moose in the freezer. Still have plenty of moose Italian sausage and moose chorizo, as well as some other odds and ends, and 40-lbs. (+/-) of good clean scraps for sausage-making, and the 20-lbs. of 60:40 pork trim for that process, but haven't gotten it (or a hundred other chores) done yet this Fall... Lost the weather that would've helped hold set temps for that in the smokers.

Probably going to try and head up the Taylor Hwy this next month with my youngest son, preferably during a low pressure weather system and accompanying warm front, to take part in the 40-mile registration hunt for caribou. Recent report from ADF&G in the paper has the herd at currently over 71,000 animals; an improvement from the 51,000 they'd been at. The herd there is reportedly doing -great-, though this last Fall, they were predominantly clustered in the two zones between the Steese and Taylor Hwys, out toward Anuktuvik Pass, etc.