Outdoor Ecuador Grow, 100% Organic

[tronchobuds]

Guano-molass tea fert., 1.5lb+ plant, unknown

Here's some pics from my almost completed first grow. Any one got any ideas about the strain? I think it's basically bag seeds, something of Ecuador or Colombia origin. I got them from a friend.

This was outdoor, grown in 12/12 all natural Ecuadorian (low elevation) sunlight. I used a chicken shit compost mix for soil and fertilized with a guano/molasses tea. I found the guano, it's a type of cave bat I think, it was from bats that were living in the trunk of a tree. I didn't have the most consistent watering schedule so I think some of the yellowing of leaves was due to that. Plants took 5+ months to harvest, some of them are still growing.

The buds continue to show new growth, little bud towers growing up out of the mass of old bud. Anyone seen this before? Check out the pics of the heady nug.

I assume it's a Sativa heavy variety. Very nice 'head' high with just enough body high mixed in, but nothing like 'couchlock', good daytime high.


Plant setup. 4 months in.


Shot of one of the two biggest plants. This yielded over a pound dry.


Up close of the bud, after 4 months, one more to go! Any ideas about a strain? or the genetics?


After 5 months. This plant is still flowering, going to give it another few weeks and see how long I can get it to go for... New fresh bud growth continues...


Ready for harvest at 5 months. The top cola got dried out because that support stick was rubbing against the trunk of the plant at the top - happened after not visiting my plants for 5 days. 1 lb. 9 oz. yielded, dry.


Drying.... This is all from one plant.


One of the headier nugs. This weighed an ounce dry. I'm not a stickler for trimming by any means. The way the buds grew, it is almost impossible to trim anyways. Almost all the larger leaves have dried up and been pulled out by this point.


Up close of the heady nug hanging upside down. You can see the 'towers' of bud that started growing out of the cola.


Trichome shot, so-so quality. I put my digital camera up to the eye piece of a 40x loupe. A few visibly amber trichomes.

What do you all think?

Anyone else growing outdoor in Ecuador? Or near the Equator? What strains do you like?

[Green Goblin]

what do i think,
i think this is BOMB,
they grow like CHRISTMAS trees in ecuador !

[Cozmo]

Wow man very nice
+rep

[AceOfSpades]

Reminds me of christmas. Nice buds man

[Droopy Dog]

YOWZA !!!!!!

Unless there is some reason for you to think otherwise, they look like pure sativa, or a sativa variety, especially near the equator.

What beautiful buds!

DD

[Hierba]

Very cool strain my friend.Do you still have seeds of it?

[Firestone]

Back in the 70's there was a type of weed that came from the Esmeraldas region of the Ecuador/Colombia Pacific coast called "Esmeraldas Grass" The buds were multi-colored like that,but of course the weed was seeded so it's tough to say yes or no on it being that old Esmeraldas Grass landrace strain? I haven't seen it since '78 or so,but there's a strong resemblance between the way that dried cola is colored and the way that old stuff looked.

That's a typical Colombian type sativa in shape,size,and yield. I miss 'em.


Should be a strong trippy kind of high with some body stone to it. Those sativas were a joy to smoke when you could get them fresh.

[TheCriMsonK20]

those plants budded like crazy! every branch was packed with buds, very nice grow dude. Have you smoked any of it yet?

[tronchobuds]

Thanks for the comments.
Nothing like the Equatorial sun to grow in. Every time it comes out really strong and just beats down, I think about how happy my plants must be.
I've been smoking it for about almost 2 months now. I snipped a branch a while back to take a taste. I've also got some jars going with bud that has been curing for about 2 weeks. Very nice high that has only gotten better and better the longer I've let the plants go.
I'm still learning about curing properly. But it tastes and smokes just fine, definitely no complaints, especially compared to the normal 'chola' that everyone gets down here. It's got a nice citrus smell to it.
I still have some seeds left from when I originally planted the batch. I also collected about 15 seeds so far from the two biggest plants. There was a male plant (same strain) several hundred yards away on the same property, looks like a tiny bit of pollen made it's way over.

[Firestone]

Ask around for Punta Rosa. It's the old "Red Bud" from Colombia and it's also been called Panama Red. It still floats around the region but it cost a lil' more than local stuff.

The stuff has been around for decades and can go 15 feet before it buds. We used to let it get fertilized slightly so it would reach maturity in a 6 month growing season. If you let it go seedless it was 7-8 month grow,we didn't have a frost free growing season long enough to pull it off. With your location that's not a problem. You could really hone a fine old landrace strain into something extra-special.

It's a mighty weed with a great taste,and THC to burn Plenty of today's designer weeds have it in their family tree. Best tasting marijuana I've ever smoked on regular basis.

[newsisnoise]

sweet plants man. +rep

[MrCloner420]

NICE JOB........................ Great looking bud for sure :)
MrCloner420

[spike69]

very nice trees lol