And another thing about good growers here they will sow the seed calculating a month to harvest. They sow seeds April may or June depending on how big they want it to grow and the harvest month here in India is normally nov Dec Jan and Feb if you plant early like Feb or March the harvest will come up early before nov. If they are lucky and plants takes time to mature till Jan or Feb those smokes will be a bomb and very high THC bcz of the cold and foggy season. The cold season starts from end of october and the Indian Ganja varieties loves cold weather the buds will absorb the fog in early mornings and when sun is shining bright they will help build up troches and becomes big nugs. In cold season it will be pretty too much hot on days and freaking too much cold in nights which help flowering plants gain good potency. Some plants grow from March to Jan or Feb they sell for highest rates bcz of high THC and huge tree size yields. Every grower target these months to harvest before or on Shiva ratri which is holy day for us and our gods favorite smoke we offer god shiva weed on shiva ratri day it's called nayvedyam they keep the weed near Shiva feet and do pooja and after the pooja is finished they give weed back only taking small amount for themselves. Locals believe that weed which is offered to Shiva will have great health benefits bcz of the Lord shivas blessing . Many growers grow from March but not every plants takes time to mature some mature on Aug sep or oct they are also good smokes with THC and good buds but the buds will be small in size and harvest size depends on grower the best smokes are produced when they are harvested around Dec to mid Feb they will have bigger buds and high THC and no watages at all they will not have single small leaf between the buds as the hybrids
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Mitchician
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Cool man that's interesting, your local strains must be very mold resistant to be flowering through the monsoon season. What part of India are you in?
Budzbuddha
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Look for MaHa grow soil - organic mix
Here are the ingredients present in the potting mix(All 100% Organic) : Coir Pith, Vermiculite, 100% Organic (NPK Fertilizer, Humic Acid, Organic matter, Fe,Mn,B,Zn, Glutamic Acid, Methionine, Alanine, Folic Acid, Aspartic acid, Threonine, Serine, Leuci ne, Lysine, Histidine, Arginine,Proline, Glycine, Valine, Isoleucine, many more & Additives.
Budzbuddha
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But be aware soil has slow release amendments.
South india and this is same procedure followed in entire south India. Then north India it's a whole new climate there with Himalayas and all peaks there the plants doesn't grow that big but the trichomes produced there is world famous you must have heard malana cream. There is a village in North Indian state named malana there you will not have much of sun light but it is covered entirely in fogg most of the time there even from a small plant you can have best cream or hash you will find small children selling them in streets. In North India it's mostly cold in whole year so they don't smoke green stuff they only smoke hash or cream bcz of cold weather they will just throw plants after extracting cream 2 to 3 times. North India is famous for bhaang and ganja bcz the population of Naga sadhus and aghoris is too much there they smoke cannabis and hash in the name of God openly in public places and cops won't even try to touch them bcz they are afraid that they would curse them for life, In India every cannabis plant grower expects to harvest the crop between Nov to Jan end or mid Feb. So they sow seeds hoping they would start to flower at least from Oct like me so that the buds absorb more fog in to them and making the buds tastfull like mango or apple as I have planted but my plants haven't started budding yet just showing preflowers if it did not mature within mid Feb then I will have to harvest it before they are ripe
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MahaGro® All Purpose Potting Mix®- with Cocopeat & Organic Fertilizer- 10kg https://www.amazon.in/dp/B00PN5LUX8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_b2uTDb4KDAX73
Is this the one you told
Slow release is good know for first month plants doesn't need any nutes and can grow undisturbed
Mitchician
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The height that you hang your light varies greatly, depending on how powerful it is. You need to find out what the manufacturer recommends.
Can you show us a picture of it or give us the model, or a link to a website for it?
Your seaweed extract looks like a good one, I'd go with the strength it says on the bottle.
The right one gorilla grow auto was actually perked up from morning while I watered till now it was outside in sun now I got them inside due to rain now it's leaves showing signs of over watering and those are the LED they are not actually GROW LEDs they are decorative LEDs but the multi color one emits heat also. We can select single color light in them also like red for flowering the small light which you see is grow light which I ordered on Amazon bit it's not as powerful as they are
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Mitchician
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Yes I'd love to try the famous Malana Cream one day. Do you make any charas or hash in your area or do you just smoke the buds? When you say you smoke the males too, do you smoke them separate, or just mix them with the females? Do your male plants usually produce trichomes too? I've researched a little bit about landrace ganja varieties and really want to get some seeds from companies like Ace seeds, Cannabiogen, Seeds of Africa and The Real Seed Company, so I can make some of my own crosses, based on my local climate.
Actually your plants look fine, I don't think they're overfed or underfed, maybe just taking a while for the tap root to get going in that heavy soil, and maybe could do with a bit stronger light. I don't know how high to hang those lights but I'm guessing you could get them somewhere between 12 and 18 inches away from the plants. I've never used coloured LED though so somebody else could probably give better advice than me, I remember reading something like you're better off keeping those ones a bit further away so the different colour spectrums mix properly. If you can see the individual colours on the soil then they're probably too close.
Your LED's are okay for now but I'll tell you what I told someone else yesterday. Go to a youtube channel called growmau5 and find his DIY LED playlist, and watch that until you understand it, then if you want more go to ledgardener.com and find his DIY Guides section and go over that a few times. Then go to digikey.in and find all the stuff you need to make yourself a more powerful light that's efficient and powerful. They even give you free delivery when you spend over ₹7,000, which is about how much you'll need for a good first DIY light. You can make things with over 150 lm/w for very affordable prices, DIY is the best way to get the most efficient use of power for the least dollars (or rupees) spent. People on here will help you choose parts but you have to show that you have a basic understanding of what you're doing first.
Actually your plants look fine, I don't think they're overfed or underfed, maybe just taking a while for the tap root to get going in that heavy soil, and maybe could do with a bit stronger light. I don't know how high to hang those lights but I'm guessing you could get them somewhere between 12 and 18 inches away from the plants. I've never used coloured LED though so somebody else could probably give better advice than me, I remember reading something like you're better off keeping those ones a bit further away so the different colour spectrums mix properly. If you can see the individual colours on the soil then they're probably too close.
Your LED's are okay for now but I'll tell you what I told someone else yesterday. Go to a youtube channel called growmau5 and find his DIY LED playlist, and watch that until you understand it, then if you want more go to ledgardener.com and find his DIY Guides section and go over that a few times. Then go to digikey.in and find all the stuff you need to make yourself a more powerful light that's efficient and powerful. They even give you free delivery when you spend over ₹7,000, which is about how much you'll need for a good first DIY light. You can make things with over 150 lm/w for very affordable prices, DIY is the best way to get the most efficient use of power for the least dollars (or rupees) spent. People on here will help you choose parts but you have to show that you have a basic understanding of what you're doing first.
Thanx I will go through it and for landrace seeds we will smoke landrace stuff here always it is most common which they have collected seeds from wild grown plants from forest and they plant them on hill tops and forget they will count months and harvest and also they keep the seeds which are good for next year they will not visit once even for watering to maintain the wild grown weeds quality flavour and aroma they are very costly but we can score them whole year search for Mysore mango (Mango Kush) weed strain they are no 1 in our side which are grown wildly on many hills and forests. I would never give them auto fem or feminised hybrid seeds to any grower or peddler they would plant them with every other regular seeds with out knowledge of pollination and create some weird strains and most land race seeds will be gone. There are more than thousands of landrace species here in India. Don't forget Marijuana OR GANJA was originated from India . In ancient times we were the only ones know about the strain and it was grown only here in India wildly
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Mitchician
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That's good you're not spreading those genetics around your area. Thank you for being responsible.
I found some pictures of the Mysore Mango, it looks similar to these pictures of the Kerala variety don't you think? ( I see that Kerala is very close to Mysore)...
I found some pictures of the Mysore Mango, it looks similar to these pictures of the Kerala variety don't you think? ( I see that Kerala is very close to Mysore)...
Kerala - The Real Seed Company - Cannabis Landrace Seeds
Authentic Kerala cannabis landrace strain seeds sourced direct from the equatorial ganja highlands of Idukki, South India by The Real Seed Company
therealseedcompany.com
Yes Kerala is our neighbor state and no that's not original idukki gold no one has original seeds or photos except Keralan naxalites, some old generation idukki grower families they all are very stealthy and can't find them easily. Most idukki gold land race has gone extinct due to police raids, local govt pressure and haivy rains some crossbred breeds are there which are good but not so much compared to original strain I smoked original strain 10 years ago couldn't fine one like that till now. But Kerala local folks tell the original breeds still exists and they are exported abroad stealthily and they are protected by naxalitesThat's good you're not spreading those genetics around your area. Thank you for being responsible.
I found some pictures of the Mysore Mango, it looks similar to these pictures of the Kerala variety don't you think? ( I see that Kerala is very close to Mysore)...
Kerala - The Real Seed Company - Cannabis Landrace Seeds
Authentic Kerala cannabis landrace strain seeds sourced direct from the equatorial ganja highlands of Idukki, South India by The Real Seed Companytherealseedcompany.com
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Mitchician
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Yeah I already watched that whole series a few years ago, and will probably watch it again at some point in the future. Those videos are what got me interested in cannabis ethnobotany.
In the grow fields which they show full of marijuana plants most are landrace breeds which are bred For many generations but they only focus on north India South India is a whole new different world with many atmospheric changes which changes the plants genetics and their taste. Usually we get hundreds of landrace seeds when we score cannabis bcz here every grower and peddlers grow only landraces and sell them bcz they don't have the knowledge to cross breed them if they get hands on any hybrids or fem seeds then most south Indian landrace breeds will go extinct.
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The bigger plants which I am growing is also land race seeds but I planted them too late bcz of work pressure if I planted them 4 to 5 months early they would have been a bomb smokes the small plants also produce bigger buds but there will not be much quantity I grew them just to check if they flower when we plant late in mid season. Bcz I planted late I put maximum fertilizers for them to veg fast which made them to lockout nutrients. Actually when I grow on correct time and month I will use little quantities of organic fertilizer just three times till harvest bcz it doesn't require that much bcz of their landrace genetics. If my plants doesn't start budding within next month's end I would have to harvest un matured small buds in Jan end or mid feb after that summer will start. You have any Idea what to do if that happens??? I am blanck
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Mitchician
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Your hybrids are 'autoflower' type plants so they don't flower to the seasons, they flower after a set time from when you plant it, usually about 1 month, and they will always flower after that time, no matter what time of the year you plant them.
Your landrace plants will probably flower when the days are shorter than 12 hours, so if they don't finish by the time your days start getting longer, you will have to get onto making that light and then make a lightproof enclosure so you can finish them under LED indoors. That way you could let them go as long as you want and let them really finish. That's only if you leave them in the pots and they can still fit in your house by then.
Your landrace plants will probably flower when the days are shorter than 12 hours, so if they don't finish by the time your days start getting longer, you will have to get onto making that light and then make a lightproof enclosure so you can finish them under LED indoors. That way you could let them go as long as you want and let them really finish. That's only if you leave them in the pots and they can still fit in your house by then.
Yeah I planted them when the days are shorter in July end after 25th. Days become shorter less than 12hrs from June here and days become longer after Feb so it should finish by then. I cannot take these plants inside bcz there are no light proof rooms. If it did not finish by Feb then from March summer starts it will revert back to veg stage and i would have to veg them slowly till next year Aug for it to flower again I cannot wait for that I will use these half grown stuff for bhang if it did not finish and I will start again from March with good and fresh seeds. And bcz these are landrace strains their flower period is to long compared to others if it did not mature fully but produced buds it's enough for me it would become some 7 to 8 less potent joints but the aroma and taste will be good let's see what will happen
Mitchician
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Sounds good, could you share your bhang recipe? I'd love to try make some and offer some to the guys down the road who sell me things like milk, bread, veges, spices and curry, do you think they would accept it? I don't know if I should. Maybe it would be inappropriate. Is it ok to consume bhang at any time or is it only meant for special occasions?