Is the plant fading at all? How do the trichs look? The trichs (not on the leaves) should go from clear to cloudy. If the soil is still feeding it (especially N) it will continue to grow.
Just stop fertilizing. I would only do flushing with hydroponics if I had been going heavy on the feed. I always back off N right before flower, and taper it down to just P. The last couple weeks I give just plain pH’d water. I live in a legal state so I can experiment a bit after my jars are full. The 3 plants I have hanging now went to almost 90 days. It’s really strain dependent.
A person I worked with years ago visited Bhutan, and showed us photos of weed growing everywhere, it's literally a weed. They must have started smoking it at some point because a quick look says they illegalised it as a drug in 1999. They generally use it to feed pigs.
If I were to guess, probably because they’d be left to their own devices rather than carefully managed for higher THC content and flavour profile.
Could be good ol’ fashioned landrace Hindu Kush, though (which would still be mids, but I’d smoke it) - why do you think that’s what the strain’s called?
Edit: The Hindu Kush is not part of the Himalayas. This comment will remain as is, as a reminder to read stuff carefully.
I love pointing this out to folks who think produce is 100% natural and that GMOs are the devil. Like bruh do you think strawberries evolved to be giant sweet and awesome tasting on their own?
Wild strawberries are tiny and sour because it doesn’t make any sense for a wild plant to put so much energy into growing ginormous berries.
Just cuz we don’t know what genes were selected for by breeding the plants with giant fruit together to make plants any less modified by us. They would never survive without us, we’ve modified them too much.
That said, the shit where they’re inserting whole sequences of dna from other plants and animals is a bit sketchy.
I mean, it’s not like people are just tossing in sequences of DNA willy nilly and selling it at Walmart, tho. I see nothing inherently wrong with crispr GMO crops, so long as we know how the transplanted DNA affects the plant in detail.
None of those lineages look like stabilized genetics, so expect every seed to produce a rather different plant. That’s not to say they won’t be good, but if you find one you really like, clone it because chances of another seed in the pack producing the same thing is very low.
The only seeds that will breed true to type are stabilized inbred lines or the F1 hybrids of stabilized inbred lines. These are extremely rare in the consumer marketplace still, but should become more common soon since the serious breeders have been working hard on just that.
Thanks for your reply! Would you be able to recommend any breeders doing just that with stabilized genetics? All my mothers have been intensely pheno hunted and I just don’t have the space (or plant count)to try to branch out for more keepers.
Mail order is an option but the legality is tricky, so use appropriate caution. Phylos Bio is a much-hated but serious breeder. The prices are insane $155 USD for 25 seeds. But given the amount of work it takes to come even close to inbreeding parent lines and evaluating hybrids, I don’t think that’s too far off a fair price.
Many of the cheaper options don’t really use the complex vocabulary of plant breeding correctly on their sites, so Im not convinced they have all done the work.
There are some companies in europe that claim to have stabilized some landraces. For a home grower, getting two of those and going to the trouble to do a reciprocal feminized cross, well you’d be popping new treats every crop for years to come.
I got some freebee ethos seeds that did well. It was blueberry & had decent yield with good flavor. Probably worth a run if you have the seeds anyways.
No first hand, but I recall reddit being gassed up about ethos at one point. The ones that are one strain x another strain are going to be a crapshoot since the genetics in those crosses are untested. Unlike most “pure” branded strains that have been more or less stabilized to produce consistently good, or good enough, phenotypes.
I was a bit worried about that…especially with the ethos being a ‘pre-release’. Might just have to rip one per grow this year and see whats what. Thanks for your input!!
Just keep an eye on them, unstable genetics can herm easier, so what you’re used to doing to other plants could set them off for no “apparent” reason. Shitty genetics are shitty, sure they can be a one in a million diamond, if you don’t looks at it wrong once.
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