Outdoor Sativa Cultivation At 39N Inland, At 2950 Feet, 900 Metres, Altitude

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

Kind regards.

I will try to keep track of my crops here. In between updates of my cultivation this 2022, I might show summaries of other years' cultivations.
I grow outdoors, no greenhouse, at about 39° N and about 2950 feet (900 metres) altitude.
I try to grow as "organic" as possible. As fertiliser, I collect horse, sheep or goat manure from the field, and sometimes bat guano collected by a friend from rocky caves or caves. Also ashes from the burning of pruning trees (fruit trees, olive trees, holm oaks, cork oaks, palm trees).
Sometimes a cannabis-oriented fertiliser company will give me a sample of their products to try out.
As for pests, I only use neem, diatomaceous earth and BT.

My favourite strains, both to consume and to grow, tend to be hybrids between landraces and long flowering sativas, usually from seed banks mainly oriented towards these strains.

Once introduced, I will try in my next post to upload pictures...

 

[JoetheChro]

Welcome mate, whereabouts in the world are you?

 

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

Welcome mate, whereabouts in the world are you?

Thanx for your wellcome.

...From a place whose name I don't want to remember...for the moment.
When I am able to upload photos, I will share the landscapes that surround me.

 

[JoetheChro]

No worries brosef

 

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

No worries brosef

If I would like to add, as a sativa lover in general, that apart from my "grow diary", I wouldn't mind (I would even be honoured), that all of you who like sativas like me, feel free to post here whatever you want on the subject, including your own crops.

For me, among the sativas I have been able to grow by myself so far, the ones I liked the most were Destroyer (Meao Thai x Michoacan Verde Limón/Colombian Punto Rojo; CannaBioGen), King Congo (Congo Point Noire x South African Ciskei Highlands; Tropical Seeds Company), Green Haze 19 A5 (Green OldTimers Haze x A5Hace, A. C.E.), and from Flo (Purple Thai/Oaxacan Gold/Afghan; DjShort) only the elusive green-flowering pheno (Oaxacan?)...

 

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

Let's go...
This year I germinated 4 seeds inside my house, in the light of the windows.

15-MAY-2022:

This year the summer has come early, and by that date it was 104°/ 40°C maximum in the shade in my area.

Flash Back #2 (Flo x White Widow; Sweet Seeds):

King Congo (Congo Point Noire x South African Ciskei Highlands; Tropical Seed Company):

19-MAY-2022

Zamaldélica fem (Zamal x Golden Tiger, being Golden Tiger: Thai x Malawi; Asociación de Cultivadores Españoles).
Rather than cracking open the outer shell, bursting it open:

The last one will born on 24-June: MadMac's (O.Haze x Ultra Early Love Potion/Silver Bubble) (MadMac/Proseeds)...

 

[JoetheChro]

Nice mate I’m in for the ride

 

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

Nice mate I’m in for the ride

Thank you, Sir! May the Prophet reward your company in this humble thread of mine, with 72 Haze females (and one male, in case you need to make seeds).
If you're up for it, take your Panama hat or your Cordovan hat, or your Sahrawi Elzam turban, or your baseball cap, and don't forget your water bottle, because here in summer the sun bites like a hound... The horse and the ganja, I'll leave them to you...

 

[veinz]

 

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

20-May-2022:

Today, a daytime high of 40°C (104°F) is expected in the shade, and a nighttime low of 20°C (68°F). Ambient humidity between 15 and 30%.
When the seedlings are big enough, I always transplant them outdoors in the soil outside an old puppy kennel, which has been converted into a small humble vegetable garden. It will be about 23 feet/7 metres long by 8 feet/2'5 metres wide.
It is only covered with bird netting. I call it, "The Dogs' House":

The "air wiew" photo (which I don't know if you can see) is from first days of September 2016, I think I remember; there are from near to far, a Psilocibo's Malawi-Bangui (Psilocibo "playing" with A.C.E.'s genetics), a Dandy Dance (Tropical Seeds Company) which is the only more indica than sativa, a Destroyer (CannaBioGen), and a Strawberry Cought (Dutch Passion):

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[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

22-May-2022 :

Flash Back #2 (Flo * White Widow; Sweet Seeds; born on 15-May; right), King Congo (Congo Point Noire * South African Ciskei; Tropical Seeds Company; born on 15-May; left) and Zamaldelica fem (Zamal * Golden Tiger; A.C.E.; born on 19-May; center), adapting to the rigors of my sun :

Flash Back :

King Congo :

Zamaldélica fem. :

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[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

3-June-2022 :

Flash Back #2 (Flo * White Widow; born on 15-May); her first day inna "The Dogs' House":

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[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

3-June-2022 :

King Congo (Congo Point Noire * South African Ciskei; T.S.Co.; born 15-May), on her first morning on mother ground inna "The Dogs' House":

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[CaptainLucky]

Kind regards.

I will try to keep track of my crops here. In between updates of my cultivation this 2022, I might show summaries of other years' cultivations.
I grow outdoors, no greenhouse, at about 39° N and about 2950 feet (900 metres) altitude.
I try to grow as "organic" as possible. As fertiliser, I collect horse, sheep or goat manure from the field, and sometimes bat guano collected by a friend from rocky caves or caves. Also ashes from the burning of pruning trees (fruit trees, olive trees, holm oaks, cork oaks, palm trees).
Sometimes a cannabis-oriented fertiliser company will give me a sample of their products to try out.
As for pests, I only use neem, diatomaceous earth and BT.

My favourite strains, both to consume and to grow, tend to be hybrids between landraces and long flowering sativas, usually from seed banks mainly oriented towards these strains.

Once introduced, I will try in my next post to upload pictures...

Sounds great I’m looking forward to seeing pictures.

 

[Graytail]

If I would like to add, as a sativa lover in general, that apart from my "grow diary", I wouldn't mind (I would even be honoured), that all of you who like sativas like me, feel free to post here whatever you want on the subject, including your own crops.

For me, among the sativas I have been able to grow by myself so far, the ones I liked the most were Destroyer (Meao Thai x Michoacan Verde Limón/Colombian Punto Rojo; CannaBioGen), King Congo (Congo Point Noire x South African Ciskei Highlands; Tropical Seeds Company), Green Haze 19 A5 (Green OldTimers Haze x A5Hace, A. C.E.), and from Flo (Purple Thai/Oaxacan Gold/Afghan; DjShort) only the elusive green-flowering pheno (Oaxacan?)...

I'll take you up on that! I'm definitely a sativa lover. Actually, it's more like I don't like my weeds polluted with indicas, y'know? I want the buzz. I want to be able to hit it whenever I want without being worried about lethargy - getting stoned out.

I've grown dozens, including a lot of the Ace catalog, and Destroyer (Cannabiogen) is one of my favorites. The last one I grew favored the Thai side and it was spectacular. I grew a few different Zamaladelicas and liked them - fruitier than I thought they'd be. And I recently sampled a Lilly from Delicatessen - mostly Congo - and that was very nice - calmer than the other Africans I've had. I ran a Ciskei/Bushmans that was nice and trippy but not very potent. An Oldtimers cross that went forever and turned out pretty well, but it was a full-on Haze buzz - very disorienting - had to be careful smoking that one. Also ran a DrGrinspoon (Oregon Purple Thai x Panama Red). That one is well worth it if you haven't tried it.

I'm looking forward to following along.

 

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

I'll take you up on that! I'm definitely a sativa lover. Actually, it's more like I don't like my weeds polluted with indicas, y'know? I want the buzz. I want to be able to hit it whenever I want without being worried about lethargy - getting stoned out.

I've grown dozens, including a lot of the Ace catalog, and Destroyer (Cannabiogen) is one of my favorites. The last one I grew favored the Thai side and it was spectacular. I grew a few different Zamaladelicas and liked them - fruitier than I thought they'd be. And I recently sampled a Lilly from Delicatessen - mostly Congo - and that was very nice - calmer than the other Africans I've had. I ran a Ciskei/Bushmans that was nice and trippy but not very potent. An Oldtimers cross that went forever and turned out pretty well, but it was a full-on Haze buzz - very disorienting - had to be careful smoking that one. Also ran a DrGrinspoon (Oregon Purple Thai x Panama Red). That one is well worth it if you haven't tried it.

I'm looking forward to following along.

Thank you very much for sharing your sativero comments here.

No doubt, Destroyer was great, especially the "Meao Thai phenos" like the one you comment on: especially the one here called "crazy wheat pheno", where the flowers on the branches look like shiny green pearls along a string...
A pity that it is already almost impossible to get hold of seeds...
I, personally, will show in the future a couple of my own Destroyer crops during the past years; however, they were not the "Meao Thai phenos" you recall, but the "more commercial" "Michoacan Verde Limón phenos": much more productive and earlier, faster, much fruitier taste (pear compote), but much less potent psychoactivity (less introspective/lysergic, but more social and warm, perhaps):

Destroyer "feno Verde Limón-pear compote" [Meao Thai X (Michoacan Verde Limón/Colombian Punto Rojo)]; Cannabiogen; borned con 20-July-2018); between 20-October-2018 & 17-November-2018, her last day:

...but as Michael Ende wrote, "...but this is a different story, which deserves to be told on a different occasion..."

 

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

I return to the beginning of my current season 2022...

4-June-2022 :
Zamaldélica fem (Zamal x Golden Tiger; born 19-May; A.C.E.), in her first morning on mother earth inna "The Dogs' House":

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[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

12-June-2022 :

It has been raining Sun melted like molten lead from the sky since the middle of May... Since then, we have not dropped below daytime highs in the shade of 36°C (97°F), and exceeded 40°C in the shade (104°F) on several days.
For the next 7 days, are predicted, for the valleys in my area, up to 44°C (111.5°F) daytime highs in the shade and nights not to drop below 25°C (77°F)... And I don't want to leave a thermometer in full sun next to the plants, so as not to scare them with the measurements... I'm going to have to switch from plants and dogs to dromedaries, or dragons...

Flash Back #2 (Flo X White Widow; Sweet Seeds; born on 15-May):

King Congo (Congo Point Noire X South African Ciskei; Tropical Seeds Company; born on 15-May):

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[Graytail]

For those growers who are careful with their fresh seedlings, I show this evidence that they're ready for just about anything at that stage.

Cuttings are delicate. Seedlings are not. Nice looking one!

It has been raining Sun melted like molten lead from the sky since the middle of May... Since then, we have not dropped below daytime highs in the shade of 36°C (97°F), and exceeded 40°C in the shade (104°F) on several days.

 

[Cide Hamete Benengeli]

19-June-2022 :

Today we have a daytime high of 45°C-113°F in the shade (under the midday sun, don't even think about it...but according to the weather agencies, we have reached 54°C-130°F), with a minimum humidity of only 5%, and a maximum ultraviolet radiation index of 11.
It will be the hottest day of the whole summer.
Even the ants are only going for the shade, and with a Panama hat and a water bottle...
This is how the countryside is around "The Dogs' House":

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