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This is a pure sativa which is surprisingly fast flowering as it has adapted to the harsh mountain climate.
It isn’t hard to see why, with its powerful minty/fruity aromas along with its joyful high, Rasol produces one of the very best charas of the whole Himalayas. The Rasol landrace encompasses many different genotypes. Since it is a hash plant, some specimens produce high levels of THC whereas others are CBD dominant. Likewise, the plants express a wide array of terpene profiles. Therefore, it is a great strain for pheno-hunters.
It is one of the fastest-flowering Indian sativa landraces. In Rasol, the villagers harvest the plants from the end of September up until the beginning of November. Thanks to its cold-resistance and fluffy buds, the Rasol cultivar can perform well outdoors in northern climates. It is not very susceptible to botrytis and other fungal diseases. Many specimens have red stems even when the temperatures aren’t cold, a common trait throughout the Himalayas.
Our friend at Coco Genes collected the seeds from the 2018 harvest directly at source. The Khalifa team then performed a controlled open pollination (indoors) in order to increase the sexual stability. Thanks to the remoteness of the area, the Rasoli landrace is still purer than many other cultivars from the Parvati Valley. By the same token, Rasol is also much less touristy than neighboring Malana where the local landrace already shows obvious signs of hybrid contamination. That being said, it is paramount to preserve the genetics before the same thing happens in Rasol.
Popped 29/04/21
It's growing weird and twisted 🤔
Since it is a healthy colour and my watering practices are ok, I figured it was either the light or nutrition.
I moved it out from the tent in case the LED was too intense, and I have put it under 105w CFL to see if any improvement.
If it's a nutrition issue there's not a lot I can do about it, I'm using the lightest soil you can get pretty much.🤷♂️🏻
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A poor, suffering Rasol village Landrace that I planted lazily in reused soil from my last grow (banana glue - grower's choice).
I think the banana glue was carrying some kind of viroid. It's passed to the Rasol through the roots that were left in the soil. ☣️
I'm going to let this plant grow to see what happens but I'm not planning to use it for breeding anymore, nor do I expect any good flower from it 👎🏼
Photo 4
Replacement Rasol landrace from the same pack, this time in clean fresh soil 🌱
This one looks much better, confirming my suspicions that the problem with the last one was environmental (disease) and not genetic 🌱
I'm not quite sure what I'm gonna do with this yet, flip to flower whilst it's still small OR veg it to a size where it can survive outdoors by itself 🤷♂️🏻
The main issue is space if I'm going to flower it indoors.. they can get very big and the tent it's in now is only 120cm tall...
She will have the tent to herself soon.
I'm going to up-pot her, top her and probably scrog her to control the stretch.
Stay tuned for a decent update next week - it's been a slow start on this one but I'm getting there!
Day 21 for this plant. It says week 6 because I fucked up the first plant and had to replace it 🙈
I topped her and I'm gonna repot her before the end of the week 🌱
She will have an 11 litre pot and a 40x40x120 tent to herself ⛺
I will use the scrog method to try and control the stretch.
Update - repotted on day 22. I will allow a few days to recover before switching to 12/12 for flowering 🌼
She's away on her pre- flower stretch!
No sign of sex yet so fingers crossed it's a girl 🙈
I've built a kind of makeshift trellis and used some LST clips because she's trying to grow outwards rather than upwards which is kind of a problem in a 40x40cm tent ⛺