Johnny McChroni
Active Member
First off, two things: One, sorry I'm so long-winded. Can't help it. I've always been this way. But I want people answering this to have a really good idea of what my situation is so they can make the best-informed recommendations possible. Secondly, an incidental question because this is pissing me off: how the hell to you produce enters in forum entries? I like writing in paragraph form, and having to run everything in a fucking chunk is really irritating me. Now on to the post. I know similar topics have been done a hundred times, but I'm hoping a few experienced growers will take the time to offer me some information on strains. Before I ask, I'll give you some information, so you have an idea of the conditions I'm working with, so you can make better recommendations. I grow outdoors, commercially, on the line between a 5b horticultural zone, and a 6a in eastern Canada at 45° north latitude. "First full moon in June" is the old adage for planting, and though I don't use it as a law, I do use it as a rule of thumb. I'll plant as early as a week before the of May, but unless I'm crazy busy, I like to have everything outside by the end of the first week of June. But the earlier, the better, obviously. September it starts to cool off, and with fairly frequent rainy days, the humidity stays higher, and considering I grow in a swamp, this is especially true, so mold definitely can be an issue. I can grow into October, because we usually don't see frost in September, and sometimes into the second week of October, but it's been known to happen. Still, full-grown plants should be able to take a few lighter frosts, anyway, but truthfully, because of the mold issue, I'd much rather have everything out of the ground by the second week of September. Because I'm growing commercially, I don't want to have plants that are finicky, or that I'm going to have to fuck with a bunch. I want to check once a week kinda thing, fertilize a few times, pick off dead leaves, maybe do some topping, if it's something the plant takes to, and other than that, basically let them do their thing, so a fertilizer sensitive plant is something I am not interested in. I'm not heavy handed with it, but I like to keep them fed. I use either half, or full 110L bails of VPW30 (professional soil mix, with everything in it, if that tells you nothing), and either make patches of two plants, by dumping the soil out into a levelled pile, or grow right in the half or whole bail. I mix in most of, or a full feed bag of composted cow manure with per full bail of soil, also mix in a good dose of blood meal and bone meal (separately; not in combined form, because the total NPK content is higher when you buy them separately), and upon transplanting, sprinkle both over top the soil, as well as fertilizing with water soluble triple 20 the same way. I will do this again (the triple 20, I mean) at least twice during the growing season - heavier later than on transplanting, obviously. I may get a bag of 10:52:10 for the last fertilization next year, instead of using the triple 20 straight through, depending. Many of my transplants will be clones, rooted, then vegged for 2 weeks before planting, but some of them will be 4-5+ foot mothers, which I obviously expect to do far more than the clones will. I've tried a few different strains, and know of others that acquaintances have used with success, and I have standbys from seeds found in bought weed, and some crosses of these, but I'm looking for some new blood. Considering my conditions, methods, and aims, what I'm looking for are strains that you've either personally grown, or had whole-season observation of someone else growing. Not to be rude, but I am not interested in general statements like 'try this breeder,' or 'I've heard this strain is good,' or 'this strain has a longstanding reputation.' No offence to anyone, but that information is all very easily discoverable all over every forum on the internet, and I'm tired of sifting through that shit. What I'm looking for is firsthand knowledge, and though I don't mind hearing about experience with strains we've all heard about, what I'm most hoping for are unknown gems. I want to know specific breeder and specific seedbank information. There are strains all over the place that have multiple versions of them floating around, and I don't want to end up picking up some variation of something you've grown from a different source, only to find out the hard way it ain't the same thing. I am used to pulling a pound or more a plant off the mothers that go out, and expect this. I'm used to seeing 300g or more come off a clone, and I expect this, as well. I don't want a mother that isn't going to produce anything less than 300g, and I don't want a clone that'll produce anything less than 200g - and if you've got strains that will top my expectations, I wanna hear about them, and feel free to offer specifics about your experiences...it all gives me a more detailed perception, and I like that. I've seen plants, under the right conditions, in an ideal season, grow 14' tall and produce 2lb per plant, and I know it's possible. If you know of strains like that that will perform where I'm located, and not have to be harvested the middle of fucking October, I wanna hear about them. If they are plants that will be done the first or second week of September, all the better; I wanna know that, too. And obviously, I want quality. I'm not one of those idiots who has no problem gramming out half-assed smoke to no-nothings on the street downtown. I'm almost 40, and I've been smoking dope since I was 15. I'm no kid, and when I started out, I was hanging out with old-schoolers that were my age now, so I know what real good dope is. I've been growing outdoors and indoors for quite awhile, and I don't consort with kiddies, so what I'm looking for is quality weed, not just average street dope. M39 quality is far less than acceptable to me. Considering I'm looking for a big producer, I don't expect something that's going to lay out a long-time chronic smoker, but I want something that people are gonna want to come back for, as opposed to seeking shit elsewhere, ya know what I mean? A happy customer is good business. There. Sorry again for the long post, but if you made it this far and have some quality information for me, please hit me up. And again, to the people who don't have truly good information to offer, while I'm sure your information would be useful to someone, please don't clutter up this thread with stuff I'm not going to be able to make use of. I'm intelligent, mature, experienced, and knowledgeable. What I'm looking for is information from people who have checks in all those boxes as well. Thanks in advance to anyone who has something to offer.
