here's the advice ive been given so far..........
My experience with true western hemisphere sativa landraces is that tend to grow really tall, they bloom late to really really late, and they tend to have long skinny colas. My Colombians and North Mexican strains started to bloom for me in late October outdoors in central California and southern Oregon. They would have finished in late December or even January, as they have a long bloom time. My 'early' south Mexican sativas tend to start blooming here in Oregon (near the 45th parallel) around September 10, and finish at the end of October. You can fool them into blooming earlier, but they will still tend to be tall, straggly, and have long thin colas and take longer to finish.
True landraces are also hit and miss for taste and character. I have a Oaxaca strain that is so minty that I cannot smoke it. I thought it was picking up the mint flavor from the other plants in the greenhouse, but that was not the case. Oaxacan strains are commonly minty in flavor. If you want true dialed in flavor and growing traits, I would suggest one of the early heirloom strains. True Mexican landrace strains were mostly made extinct after the paraquat spraying by our illustrious and evil President Nixon of the past. They have since also been tainted with crosses with autoflowering
ruderalis strains, and more compact indicas. I have heard that the same thing has happened in Colombia, though I would bet that there are true landraces still to be gotten in the rural Colombia regions. But as I said above, they bloom so very very late.
So ive been anxious to get my mangobiche and punta rojo off the ground because well im anticipating 12-16 weeks, trying to be "open minded" now that i have my hands FULL! Good thing i asked because rootbounding plants intentionally is a diff tactic than normal for me but makes sense!
I was actually thinking or two diff scenarios.
1. where i use 2-3 600 kooltubes so i can get the canopy well close to the bulbs proper, then use 6400-10,000 t-5 as supplimentals on the sides so the lower mid range canopy dosnt languish behind the tops.
Do these varietals require a diff soil mix than say a reg
hybrid grow would?
