elchupacabra
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i mean sativas are brilliant but autoflowering may be the only way to grow indicas in our climate outdoors...
living in india, that doesn't affect you. you can discard the normal grow patterns for ganj that you see online and grow anytime in the year you don't have rain. we don't get frosts, and we don't get less than 11 hours of sunlight ever in bangalore, that number will be slightly higher where you are i'm guessing, probably by a matter of minutes. you can plant your seeds whenever the rains stop and expect a harvest, or you can also plant the seeds a good one or two months before the rains come and they will be able to handle it. strains with fatter leaves from further up north are not used to growing in heavy rains (by further north i mean places like northeast india and punjab and above, and it's not uncommon for those seeds to make their way down here) and hence are not able to handle them. seeds will rarely germinate in heavy rains, even if they do, seedlings will rarely survive it. you have to plant either one or two months before the rains (preferable) or one or two weeks after the rain stops (only reason it's less preferable is that you have to water the plants yourself, rains with a well irrigated pot and good loose soil mix solve that issue, and there's no water like rainwater for the plants in my experience, only thing that comes close is mineral water).Mid May till right now, it has been raining almost all day/night long. Unlike Bangalore, or Hyderabad(where i was prior to bangalore) the no-rain time is not really no rain at all. I mean, the rain is like heavy drops shot from the sky(thats the real heavy rain I'm talking about) crumbles disposable glasses where I had kept the seeds to sprout on the terrace top. The no-rain time is actually 'drizzle'. So, you can take it like 24/7 rain from May end till August end.
My 'stock' got over, and the buddies with whom munnar/idukki trip used to be done stopped as they felt smoking is making them lazy and depressed I don't plan going there all alone anyways, hence the grow thoughts.
This happened during this current on-going monsoon season, so outdoor grow isn't really something I can approach now. Maybe by the end of August, when the rains have ceased, I could go with the outdoor grow alongside my tomatoes, brinjals/eggplants, and several other veggie grows I'm having
Could you describe how the seeds where packed when you got them? The website says there won't be anything on it apart from 'gift' and the brand name. But, if you press it from out, can you feel those tiny seeds? Living with family, so no guarantee that it would be me who would receive it. Traditional old house, so no letterbox concept. The postman rings the doorbell, and whoever comes out gets the post unless its a registered post on my name.
15K on ebay is not something I would do. I earn in dollars and the conversion rate currently is over 50. But while in India, think like an indian
I have three fertilizers available.
1) 19-19-19 ( general purpose )
2) 28 - 10 - 15 ( orchid grow )
3) 10 - 16 - 28 ( orchid flowering )
The 2 and 3 are approx., I forgot the right ratio The 19-19-19 blue powder being 100% water soluble is what I use while I mist the veggie plants, and they all grow quite quick with healthy bright green leaves. Hope the same effect would be shown on the cannabis plants too. Your plants have pointed and long leaves, but maybe because of mine being from munnar/idukki, they look totally diff They were broader leaves and not that long.
sodium vapour = pressurized sodium. there are two types of sodium vapour lamps, low pressure sodium (used in street lamps, very efficient) and high pressure sodium (hps). lps has a very narrow color spectrum compared to hps, but a better CRI. no point really in using lps indoors...@elchupacabra
Thanks a lot for all the explanations, and the strain suggestions along with the seedbanks you liked and would recommend
I have decided to play with the seeds I have saved(Complan/Horlicks Jar full of them) indirectly. Indirectly as in I did not want my maid lady to sweep them and drop it at the usual place where it could have grown in the rainy season. I'm messy in a way, and grapes, lemons, and such grows once in a while at that 'garbage drop spot'
Playing and trial & error with quality seeds bought online is not to be attempted, so would keep a close monitor at your topic, along with other outdoor or CFL based grows here.
No HPS/MH grows ever going to happen as that kinda hike in electricity would definitely be questioned by my family.
Hydroponics is something I wanted to try just out of curiosity and right from schooldays, I used to do those DIY thingies like door-bell, emergency lamp, music amplifier, and such.
My streets here have an orange light used as street lights, and asking the Electricity Board people, found out they are Sodium Vapour lamps. Ever heard about its usage in indoor grows, or seedling go-mature-enough stage?
Another light that made my eyes squint is something used at temples here, and they are called Mercury Vapor lamps, which are white light emissions.
If I'm successful in getting my seeds germinate, teenage them indoors, and then take them out till they show gender, I would like to order online. If I can reach till that level with my trashy seed, then I believe I would be confident to try with real quality seeds that come in just a small number(5 seeds pack, 10 seeds pack).
we can grow landraces indigenous to this area. other varieties start flowering when abnormally small and left outdoors to grow, they result in tiny ones, especially indica dominant plants. even strongly sativa dominant hybrids will not spend very long in vegetative growth. most indicas are triggered by as little as 14/10 or even 15/9. south india's longest day is about 13 hours - more than enough to induce flowering in most plants - and this is in june.by the time we slowly inch to 12/12 in july/august, almost EVERY variety available online would be at least 2-3 weeks into flowering, regardless of when they were planted. things change very little by dec 21 when we're at maybe 11/13, give or take a few minutes, and growth in plants happily continues outdoors. but for any strain that is not a 100% landrace sativa, i think india's photoperiod does not encourage much vegetative growth. and the sativas that do grow here take a fucklong time to flower...i'll let you know how long when i can, mine are just starting to begin pistil production...and slow as hell...but i'm sure the smoke will be nice and racyso correct me if im wrong, but cant u grow outdoors all year round seems how ur on the 12 latitude? does india even have such thing as a winter?
buddy you have no idea the kind of protection and power i have over here...contacts is everything in india, and i have the right ones...nobody can touch me here...in this country things work very differently...Is its over looked and all crap there you need to start a army imo and you would be rich. Just once people see what you have it will be like having gold or diamonds there...everyone will want in, rich and poor so I hope you have protection...could make some serious dough...
first of allMy climate --> http://www.prokerala.com/kerala/climate.htm
I will do the mineral water method with my next batch of seeds, as the current one's soaking already got over yesterday, and they are all currently in the glasses with coco-peat
How long should we wait before confirming the seed is not going to sprout? What was the longest number of days with your bagseed experiment? The branded ones, I've heard germinates quite quick.
I'm someone interested in the art of bonsai, and due to that, have researched quite a lot about plants, shrubs, and trees. I came to a realization that most of the botanical names that has got the 'indica' word in it, would be native to India or surrounding areas. Can this mean sativas aren't native indian plants? The sativas here are 'brought' by tourists, or the farmers themselves?
I read that indicas create a lazy sleepy feel, while sativas create cerebral buzz. Till now, all the high I've got with the munnar cannabis are something like:-
1) Circular movement inside my head.
2) This circle is parallel to a line drawn from forehead to nose to mouth to chin to neck to back of the head, and this continues to make 'circular'.
3) Only 5+ secret agents at a time could make me feel sleepy. If its just one or two joints, then the feeling is always to do some 'task'. Maybe complete one of my running freelance projects Maybe go take shower. Anything that could be called as a 'task'.
4) The circle could either be forward, or backward. It could start as forward, and then become backward, and vice versa.
What could it be? Indica or Sativa high?
family caught me as well, i moved out and i'm doing better than i was there. lol and hash is different from weed, the high...in myWell, its not because of kanjus-ity
My family once caught my smoking habit around 5-6 years back. When I'd visited hometown(kerala) and returned back to bangalore, I'd forgotten to throw away the sticks and seeds. So, they know from my weed days(according to them it ended with that catching), how a cannabis leaf looks like, as that teenage age made me keep the weed-leaf pic/symbol on my t-shirts, pendent, and so on.
I can't have a lot of glasses kept on my windowsill pop out a seedling that has weed-leaf. They will surely suspect it.
So, current setup is random 6 glasses for weed seed, and the remainder glasses are veggies like tomato, eggplant/brinjal and chillies.
I smoke cigarettes. 4-5 packs a day. And the joint I smoke is real light as I cant be real high and blown-out if I've to work
So, the trick is 20-25% weed mixed with 75-80% tobacco. Must be why I can smoke 5 joints at a time(though this is rare).
When I'd visited a place called Solang Valley(i think that was the name), I got a hash stick from my cab driver.
That must be the indica you're speaking about. That had a totally different high, and being slim, I felt I was real heavy.