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I have 1 Salvisa and 2 Salvisa offspring from the resistant plant from last year. The 2 offspring are doing great! The Salvisa is doing pretty good. Looking at my pollen supply and trying to figure out what to cross to my resistant strains and look at next year. But at least I have a direction. Its tough to admit I can't grow whatever I want outdoors in the environment I live in!
maybe send that pollen right into superwreck or another, older trainwreck..... there's something tw's dna....and it aint the golf swing!
 

mandocat

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maybe send that pollen right into superwreck or another, older trainwreck..... there's something tw's dna....and it aint the golf swing!
I have plenty of genetics to work with that I have seen firsthand exhibit resistance. I don't trust most strains to be what they are labeled these days, unless they are from a handful of breeders and I get them directly from those people. It's not like fruits and vegetables, which have been selected and stabilized rigorously for the last 100 years or so. I'll be looking at a bunch of The Work crosses, (which is what Salvisa is), for next summer's grow. Those are bred outdoors in Michigan.
 

p59teitel

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Hope everyone has been enjoying the very dry weather the past few weeks. The Chitrali female finally has shown some vulnerability to Septoria, so I’ve been whittling away some of the colas that were affected in the hopes that I can get another week out of those, and a couple more weeks out of the ones that aren’t as affected -

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p59teitel

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The two Karakoram females are also doing pretty well and should finish in 3 or 4 weeks, I’m seeing a bit of leaf spotting on those but most of it seems to be connected with natural aging as they get into flower. One observation I did make was that when one of their branches partially broke away during one of the storms last month and ended up lying on the ground in an inch of pooled rainwater, it became riddled with Septoria quite quickly. I also haven’t burned any brush on the garden for a couple of years, so I’m wondering if there’s a connection between not cauterizing the grow area and the increased Septoria I have been seeing over the past two years. Another observation that seems to indicate it’s in the soil is that the spotting spreads from the bottom of the plants towards the top. I plan on clearing a bunch of brush to add to what I already have stockpiled this fall and it should be ready to burn once burning season starts mid January.

Anyway, these plants have been fairly easy growers, the big one topped out just shy of 12 feet. I have a ton of bagseed on both of them because out of eight plants only two were female, and I left the males in the garden longer than I should have (most of what I grow goes into hash so I’m not that concerned about seeds). Smells are a scrumptious gassy citrus -

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p59teitel

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Finally here are this year’s slowpokes, two Tashqurghan, Afghanistan females that are just now showing buttons. The lanky one has been quite impacted with the leaf spot, but the very green rounded plant has really been the best performer in my garden against that particular plague. These assholes are definitely going to keep me going until Halloween and probably later -
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