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Be advised. Apparently someone online is using my posted info to sell Colombian landrace beans that they claim came from 'someone that froze the seeds in 1978 after reading the book Marijuana Potency.' Which would be me. Be advised, I have not sold or traded out ANY of my original landrace...

I am at about 45 n here as well. No lake near here per se, save for the Pacific 'pond' west of me. This year has been terrible with rain all through summer. Much cooler than average summer. Not a great year for me to grow these late strains. Last year would have been way better with a warm dry...

These PR Colombians are from seeds I collected and froze in the 1970s from bag weed. They were tired when I froze them, and they required some coaxing with GA3 to get going. Colombians were not kind to their weed harvests. Typically they bricked the weed when green and let it ferment en route to...

The male held up production... he would not pop in the cool damp weather. He is a long way from his native homeland. Raining here again today.

Here is one of the Punto Rojo Colombians in early bloom. I forced them last month with light dep. I would have forced them even earlier if I knew the weather was going to go to shyte this early this summer. I am pollinating them now, earlier than I wanted to.

I liked growing in the open top shed in California. It worked well to hide the plants from thieves and the cops. I only had that option for one year though. The greenhouses are getting condensation in them already this year in Oregon. I have already had to carve out some rot in some colas. The...

No. It may be as simple as nicotine and THC overdosing. These vape pens may be toxic due to the concentrations involved. I have seen people pass out from vaping 80% THC oil. Its well known that THC at that high a dose will cause loss of blood tone. In other words, extreme low blood pressure...

Not seen here. Cannabis does not revert. It adapts rapidly to climate change though gene switching. Genetic mutations can take hundreds or even thousands of years to happen. Gene switching takes only a few generations. Humans also adapt with gene switching in as little as one generation. This is...

Well, yeast is not the death of Cannabis. Its the death of Marijuana. Or most Marijuana. Like it or not, altruism or not, some spiritualistic aspect of Cannabis growing or not. Humans are not altruistic. As in the case of most kids these days, they just want to vape. Tobacco or Cannabis...

Broad mites are easy to detect. They inject a mutagen when dining on your plants that will result in pin-wheeled leaves. Leaves that grow in a circle, rather than outward. Broads are tiny yes, hard to see even with a 30x. Way smaller than spider mites which are HUGE with a 30x. They are a menace...

The above CO2 results I posted are for spider mites. Specifically twp spotted spider mites, the most common of the evil spider mites. If you have those, they look like they oversprayed your leaves with white paint leaving white spots on them. They are large and easy to see with a loupe. They...

Interesting. I have never had a problem with hemp mites. Broad mites and spider mites here. No CO2 setup here though. I wonder if dry ice would work? I have a light dep room set up in a small 6 x 8 x 8 store room in back of my garage. I could flood that with CO2 using dry ice. At a dollar a...