I think it's a safe bet to find seed for Afghan Kush or Northern Lights #5, and then grow it out and look for a pheno that's high in terpinolene and other pine terpenes. This will give you your kush THC high, and the terpinolene and other pine terpenes is my theory for bud rot resistance.
Muy bien.
Ok, the NL CBD sativa leaner successfully completed flowering indoors under LED with no mold.
I had no mold on anything this time, which was great!
(I'm just guessing that whatever cultivar they use to make autos is not mold resistant, and that's why the auto's got mold before. It os good to go photo!!)
The only thing I did this time was to use regular seeds (mostly, although the Afghan Mass XXL autos were still stunner) and put myco and tricho into the supersoil, and keep fans on it.
Humidity hovered between 70-90%, usually around 75-85%.
No mold, and no leaf spots


I have two of the NL CBD sativa-leaner clones in the greenhouse, (if the contractor does not kill them, haha).
We will see how they do flowering inside of a plastic greenhouse when "winter comes" (cooler but drier?? The weather is VERY DIFFERENT here!!)
Actually I may be moving again, to a quieter place. There is a space for a second greenhouse and my farm manager is encouraging me to put a second greenhouse in, which we can do because it is two properties.
My farm manager has insomnia, and I have been giving him the vape tailings to make tea, which he says help him to "sleep like a baby", so we could call the 20 plants on the farm his, and then I could do another 20 plants at the river house. (He is a super good employee, so he's totally worth it.)
(After this next grow they can use the full greenhouse space on the farm for tree tomatoes or whatever they are doing, and then I will have the plants next to me again, but 40 plants will not be a problem because it is two properties, and two people who use the product.)
Probably it will take a few months to get everything set up, but hopefully I can build a properly sealed greenhouse with mesh, and then take NL CBD clones from the property before it is time to pull the lights.
(I am just realizing I can probably also put up a separate clone tent, and a small tent for males!
Woo hoo!! 
It will be great to get back to growing! (I miss it a lot.)


I have always wanted to grow them outside in ground in soil. I think it will be easier just to let everything grow up (or maybe make a bush), rather than having to cut and trim and form, and water every day, etc.
I think it will be a lot easier just to snip the tip and let it grow into a bush.
Then my farm manager can have all he wants.
(And I dig growing it, so it works out.)
Then you need a CBD type 3 that's also high in terpinolene and other pine terpenes, for the same reason... bud rot resistance. For CBD type 3, I recommend something from GTR Seeds. Most of those are sativa dominant.
OK, that sounds good. I will have to look and see which of their seeds have the most terpinolene, pine terpenes, ocimene, myrcene, etc. (This helped me a ton. Thanks for sticking with me till I got it.)
Which are the ones that give the lemon

or pineapple

taste?
Then you can combine your THC kush buds with CBD buds in the grinder at whatever ratio works best for you.
As for natural resistance to insects, that's not something I've looked into much. For this, I'd point you in the direction of general plant health—the healthier the plant, the more resistant to pests.
Yes, I agree with that in general but I think there's more to it than that. I will try to take more pictures next week but the mail that went to start flowering in the greenhouse was perfectly green, and growing in the same soil as all the rest, but it was all chewed up with bugs. and I did not see any lunch marks on the other plants. The soil was exactly uniform in all of the different planting holes, and some were chewed, others were not chewed.
I hope to take some better photos the next time we go (which I hope will be next week).
So this is a new concept for me, but a very healthy plant—in veg and in flower—will maximize the natural resistance to fungus/mold and pests. A good measure of overall plant health is brix (pronounced "bricks"), which is a measurement of sugar content commonly used in beer and wine making. For cannabis, we can measure the brix of the juice from a leaf. The instrument for this is called a refractometer, and you can get a decent China one for $15 on the Zon. I actually just got one of these, but haven't used it yet. It's said that a brix level of 9 would be pretty good. At 12 and above, it's said that pests and disease will not be a problem.
Yes I agree completely that proper diet is essential to good health. I was raised eating garbage for food and I was always sick (and this is on top of my other health problems, like autism, etc.).
When I started eating good, my health began to get much better, and through diet and a complete change of lifestyle and the blessed herb and a lot of spiritual practice, my health is way better than before, but I still have susceptibilities.
A Chinese doctor explained it to me one time. He said that you know how some people are great athletes, others are good thinkers, and they have other traits and characteristics that run in families (like autism, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc.), The same is true for the organs. Some people have a strong liver or a weak liver. Some people have strong lungs, or weak lungs. So the genetics definitely play a part, independent of the nutrition and lifestyle factors.
Bummer deal but I have plenty of susceptibilities, which is why I have to take such care with what I consume.
I get sick way less often now (and it is pretty much a rare event), because I try to feed my body the best inputs (so I can pay the grocer, rather than the doctor). And it makes a huge difference, but I still have to guard against the susceptibilities.
I am sure you can take plants with strong natural resistance and starve them, and feed them all the wrong stuff, and they will get weak and susceptible (just like if you fed a world class athlete a bad diet, and he did not feel well, and got sick).
Several factors in the grow contribute to high brix, and I'm starting to learn about this. One big factor is light, so if outdoor plants aren't getting great amounts of sunlight, then this is pretty much a show stopper for high brix. On a very practical level, pot size is a big factor, because if the pot isn't big enough for a living organic soil grow, then there will be problems with the pot getting root bound. (Less of a problem with fabric pots.) In general, you want plenty of nutes and the plant needs to be able to absorb them well. For high brix, you want great growing conditions and all the right nutes. I'm just starting to peer down into the high brix rabbit hole!
I think I know what you are saying, and I think I agree completely. I think indoors under LED in SIP containers is fairly unnatural. I think it works so well because it avoids all of the other pests, and all of the other stressors on the plant. It provides a fairly stable environment that gives the plant everything it needs.
In contrast, I am looking to growing outdoors under the sun (with night interruption lighting), and in ground.
The process was kind of a mess but I think we ended up with the best scenario for my needs on the farm, digging holes and then planting in ground. I need to check out the soil at the river house to see what I am dealing with, but I think I will probably try to dig 15-20 gallon holes in the ground and then just swap out that soil and recondition it after each grow.
(I got some Colombian black soil to mix in with the super soil to put some actual dirt back in the mix! Ha ha

. I am not sure how much dirt I need to use to recondition used super soil, but I guess we can figure that out.)
(There is typically a hard layer of clay at some level. I think the solution is to put gypsum at the bottom of the hole, because gypsum is supposed to break up clay. But we can figure that out also.)
To summarize, all of this goes into natural resistance to fungus/mold and pests for outdoor or greenhouse grows:
- look for strains/phenos:
- high terpinolene or ocimene, along with other pine terpenes
- high resin production
- lots of sunlight
- living organic soil
- big enough pots (e.g. 10 gal); fabric pots if available
- proper watering with pure water
- overall plant health using nutrients for high brix
EDIT: but wait, how much of a role does "indica vs sativa" play with the numb-stretchy-yoga thing?
Is that all phenos? Or does indica vs sativa play a role in that?
One last thing... regarding growing in 5gal SIP buckets... I have decided this is most appropriate for indoor grows under bright lights, using soilless or standard potting soil, and synthetic or synthetics-like nutes appropriate for hydro.
Concur.
I think SIP served me
very well indoors under LED. (They were fantastic! They took all of my watering woes away. And if indoors is your best option then I think they are stellar. My plants looked way better in SIP than before.)
But I have no time, and I think planting in the ground will be less work, not only because you do not have to shape the plant, but also because the soil handles moisture differently, so there is less watering to do. And so far I have not seen gophers or moles or rabbits (to eat the roots).
They use semi-conditioned creek water in the pipes here, so the water runs brown after a heavy rain


, but I don't think that's going to hurt the plants any. I think that's something I just have to filter out for my own personal use.

I do not know anything about synthetics or Hydro.
You can read more about my SIP conclusions
HERE.

I'm not sure why but I plan to keep my buckets. (And there's really no way to sell used equipment here, even if there was a market for it.)
I'm now in the process of returning to 10 gal nursery pots, and will also be trying out 10 gal fabric.
Sounds good!

I hope you will have the best of success.
Just to ask, did you ever try those air pots??
(I never tried them, I was curious what they are like [besides expensive!])
When I was looking at fabric pots I was thinking that either I could buy a used washing machine to wash them out (that I did not really care about the machine), or else I could take a four prong ice pic to make holes in the sides so that they would still breathe (without a serious washing).
I think maybe everyone's situation is different, but I think it's going to be a better deal for me to plant in ground in the greenhouse, just because there's less watering.
--Haha, and because with these people around here, if I were to grow in pots they might just sneak in in the middle of the night, and carry my pots away!!
I can put a security camera on the greenhouse, and I canget a dog or two (which I will want anyway), but if I plant in ground no one can sneak in and carry off my buckets!! Haha

(Of course they can just chop the stalks and drag off the trees, but that is where the dogs and the security cameras come in, hahaha

.)