Mazer
Well-Known Member
Dear Gentlefolks,
I have recently started to verse in organic grows. Hardcore style with no (or as little as possible) animal by-products added directly. I started reading Teaming with Microbes (amazing read). And it got me wondering. By trying to emulate Mother Nature's cohorts and using prevention technics such as neem oil, nettle brews and the like, hence by over protecting the plants, do we not depress their natural immune system? and by doing so producing weak plants?
This is a common problem in horticulture. For instance in the Rose cut-flower industry, all the efforts is directed to produce big, pungent, pretty flowers (rings a bell?). Well, the flowers are pretty allright. but tons of chemical pesticides, fertilisers, herbicides are poured over those plants. Therefore, the rose plants are extremely prone to viruses, diseases, rots, PM and so on.
Are we not doing the same? or is it already too late? do all the cannabis cultivars have extremly weak immune system compared to the landraces?
Sorry to be such a downer but if it is the case, I am gonna reduce my "help" to the Ladies and let them toughen up a bit.
Fun Fact: there is a farmer somewhere in Europe who had a very nasty piece of land. Rocky soil, no structure, no food, barely any rain. nothing in there. over the course of 20+ years, he relentlessly planted tomatoes, eggplants, watermelon, squash. He sold his production on farmers market and had great success as the veggies were supposedly amazing. Meanwhile, he selected the plants that addapted better and made new breeds every year. Eventually, he stopped selling the production and now only sells the seeds at sky high prices.
I think it is high time (pun intended) to focus a bit less on canabinoid content and more on tougher plants. a few percent less THC but stronger growers with less treatments needed would be very welcome.
That was my free gift to any C entrepreneur out there.
StrongPlantly yours,
M
I have recently started to verse in organic grows. Hardcore style with no (or as little as possible) animal by-products added directly. I started reading Teaming with Microbes (amazing read). And it got me wondering. By trying to emulate Mother Nature's cohorts and using prevention technics such as neem oil, nettle brews and the like, hence by over protecting the plants, do we not depress their natural immune system? and by doing so producing weak plants?
This is a common problem in horticulture. For instance in the Rose cut-flower industry, all the efforts is directed to produce big, pungent, pretty flowers (rings a bell?). Well, the flowers are pretty allright. but tons of chemical pesticides, fertilisers, herbicides are poured over those plants. Therefore, the rose plants are extremely prone to viruses, diseases, rots, PM and so on.
Are we not doing the same? or is it already too late? do all the cannabis cultivars have extremly weak immune system compared to the landraces?
Sorry to be such a downer but if it is the case, I am gonna reduce my "help" to the Ladies and let them toughen up a bit.
Fun Fact: there is a farmer somewhere in Europe who had a very nasty piece of land. Rocky soil, no structure, no food, barely any rain. nothing in there. over the course of 20+ years, he relentlessly planted tomatoes, eggplants, watermelon, squash. He sold his production on farmers market and had great success as the veggies were supposedly amazing. Meanwhile, he selected the plants that addapted better and made new breeds every year. Eventually, he stopped selling the production and now only sells the seeds at sky high prices.
I think it is high time (pun intended) to focus a bit less on canabinoid content and more on tougher plants. a few percent less THC but stronger growers with less treatments needed would be very welcome.
That was my free gift to any C entrepreneur out there.
StrongPlantly yours,
M
