Sativas are actually easier to grow

Voyager420

Voyager420

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Ive been growing off and on since the early 2000s. Some strains that I have grown: sweet tooth, bog bubble, bubba kush, afghani, haze19xskunk, sour d, tangie, sour joker, cindy 99, chernobyl, stardawg to name a few. Now its common for people to say sativas are more difficult to grow but that has not been my experience. Sativas seem more energetic in growth and grow like a vine. in ScrOG even a lanky sativa will barely stretch through the screen if it has a 2+ square foot canopy and will end up looking bonsai-like. It's easy to control any sativa's height with scrog. Sure sativas can take an extra month of flowering but they will also yield better, be less sensitive to nutes, and be less prone to bud rot. So despite the common myth that sativas are more difficult to grow i think its indicas that are more difficult to grow.
 
JohnDee

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Voyager420 said:
Ive been growing off and on since the early 2000s. Some strains that I have grown: sweet tooth, bog bubble, bubba kush, afghani, haze19xskunk, sour d, tangie, sour joker, cindy 99, chernobyl, stardawg to name a few. Now its common for people to say sativas are more difficult to grow but that has not been my experience. Sativas seem more energetic in growth and grow like a vine. in ScrOG even a lanky sativa will barely stretch through the screen if it has a 2+ square foot canopy and will end up looking bonsai-like. It's easy to control any sativa's height with scrog. Sure sativas can take an extra month of flowering but they will also yield better, be less sensitive to nutes, and be less prone to bud rot. So despite the common myth that sativas are more difficult to grow i think its indicas that are more difficult to grow.
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Obviously you've never grown a landrace sativa...plus you stole my avatar...find a different one...
 
Voyager420

Voyager420

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JohnDee said:
Obviously you've never grown a landrace sativa...plus you stole my avatar...find a different one...
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Landraces are no match from the human hand stretching them horizontally under a screen. And it would yield even more with a longer flowering. Sativas are ez pz.
 
Dr. Who

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Voyager420 said:
Landraces are no match from the human hand stretching them horizontally under a screen. And it would yield even more with a longer flowering. Sativas are ez pz.
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Yeah, this just shows how small the block is you've gone around....

I got a Vietnamese Black and a cpl of highland Thai's you should attempt to run.....Not to mention the difference in Lowland vs. highland Thai's.
The patience alone it takes these babies... The fussy nutrient needs and how they change...

Change your avatar too!
 
Voyager420

Voyager420

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Dr. Who said:
Yeah, this just shows how small the block is you've gone around....

I got a Vietnamese Black and a cpl of highland Thai's you should attempt to run.....Not to mention the difference in Lowland vs. highland Thai's.
The patience alone it takes these babies... The fussy nutrient needs and how they change...

Change your avatar too!
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Its not like you cant stretch out landraces under a screen.

But its kind of amazing how little the plants stretch vertically under a screen. A little more stretch might even be better. Sativas are easier, they just take longer.

I changed my avatar! lol
 
xtsho

xtsho

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I just spent 20 weeks flowering a 100% sativa. Just keeping it healthy for that long was a challenge. Most of the 8 - 10 week hybrids "insert strain" are easier to grow than a long flowering sativa. There is a reason that few people grow pure sativa's. They don't want to spend the time and they can be extremely finicky. The fact that you say they are less sensitive to nutes shows you've never grown a true sativa.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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JohnDee said:
Agree ^^ I grew a GoldenTiger Thai pheno last winter that just wouldn't stop growing. After two haircuts...it still finished at 6'. But worth it with an amazing sat high. 8-)
JD
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African sativa meets Thailand sativa.

I have a pack of the ACE Golden Tiger. I need to get it into the rotation and make more seeds for the vault. Everytime I make a plan as to what I'm going to grow I change my mind. Too many choices and not enough time or space.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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I almost had to snap this sativa in half to get it to fit in to my tent. Damn thing just kept growing so I don't know what you mean they don't stretch. They stretch like crazy. Sativa's can grow 20+ ft tall. I chopped at 20 weeks because I couldn't keep it healthy any longer. Damn plant could have gone another 3 -4 weeks longer or more than it did. I don't know exactly what week this photo was taken, somewhere around week 15 I think and not even close to done. I ended up with a paltry 5 zips after months of growing but it's some really great smoke and I'm glad I took the time to grow it. It's bulky but not dense. I'll grow other long flowering sativa's again in the future. You can't get this type of cannabis unless you grow it yourself. The journey is half the fun.

 
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