Thai Sativa Organic grow

Top_Banana No additional nutrients up to this point other than seaweed and Potassium humate just really nice home made soil thanks to my ducks and chickens..

Top_Banana Learned from the first Thai seed I planted they get extremely tall so I made sure I kept this one as short as possible. FIM'd around week 4 or 5 and then topped another 3 times to keep an even canopy. She now has 20+ tops 😊 Grow medium is homemade using compost from ducks & chickens which I supplemented with rock phosphate, crab meal, bone meal and dolomite lime. I have also used rice husks instead of perlite due to availablity to keep the soil aerated. Feeding schedule has been mostly seaweed and molasses in every watering so far.

Top_Banana Lots and lots of rain this week so its just shot skywards..

Top_Banana Lots of growth again, she isnt far behind the big one.. I have squeezed all the tops this week (those that I could actually squeeze, the stems are super strong!) hopefully this will reduce the stretch, make them stronger. Just trying things to see what works and what doesn't. Need to stake around the plant to provide support at some point. Update: Noticed white pistils on a few branches... so we begin flowering with this one 😊. Same strain and same environment as my first grow but 7 weeks faster to begin flowering.. so for sure she is light and not age dependent to some degree.

Top_Banana Rain and more rain most of the week has stretched her alot. Plant is healthy, I managed to sneak in feed between rain storms.

Top_Banana Last week of main stretch 🙏 hopefully....

Top_Banana The sun finally came out after 4 weeks of wet humid weather. She is 5 weeks into flower now with some nice little buds beginning to form. She has dropped lots of yellow leaves this week, no issues but I upper the nitrogen a wee bit just to make sure By adding in some diluted urine (had no other Nitrogen rich fertilizer available and I want to keep it Organic...😆) Tried this strain many times but only as brick weed... So what I really hope to create is nice sticky buds that have been dried and cured properly and then see what the difference is in taste/smell.

Top_Banana Week 6 of flower. Buds are filling out more now. Still occasional rainy days but weather is improving.

Top_Banana Weather is up and down still. 20c this morning with 95% humidity but these landrace Sativas are tough so no concern. I almost dont bother with her anymore, just water, inspect the plant daily for 10 mins and that's it. No need for the the hours and hours I spent brushing off spider mites earlier in the grow I now have predatory mites and insects like Praying Mantis doing the work for me 😊.. I love nature 😊 I've upped the bloom nutes this week, from what I've read they dont need much nutrients so I dont want to over do it at this point and it negatively effect my yield. She has been healthy from day one the only hiccup I've had was feeding her too much fulvic acid which I think wacked out the PH until I flushed real quick and managed to save her. Happy to have grown this 100% organic and not suffered difficency yet to date. Week 7 into flower and the buds are still relatively small so no idea how long this will take to mature?! Hopefully not 20 weeks as some can take !

Top_Banana She is beginning to swell nicely now for a sativa... lots of white pistils and tricomes are starting to come out. Still no smell but she looks great.

Top_Banana Another week has past and some type of insect is now chewing on the buds 🤔 but, apart from the that buds are fattening up nicely.. looking forward to this one..

Top_Banana Week 11 of flower... Forgive me lord for I have sinned - I removed a branch to test smoke😋😉🙄 Something is chewing ghe buds from the bottom up so I doubt there will be any left come actual harvest time.. 🤷‍♂️

Top_Banana Lots of sun and cooler windy weather☀️☀️☀️

Top_Banana Week 27 from seed and a lovely cool 18c this morning... Apart from the bud hungry bugs eating the plant, she does have some amazing bud development. Never seen a pure sativa close up before and always thought the buds would be thinner, although quite airy they are fat buds nonetheless. No signs of seeds either which I am surprised about with it being landrace late in flower.. She is quite sticky and the smell is beginning to come through the buds more. The smell reminds me of citrusy freshness, fruity/sweet. The test smoke I've had is really enjoyable and pleasant. The high is very clear with a fruity taste on your throat. I would say the high makes me more active in and around the garden as apposed to hybrid or indica flower. I cannot wait to smell and taste it when it ripens. If the bugs back off I will let it go 2-3 more weeks possibly but they're munching fast. Only 10 main tops left on the plant.. Spotted 2 types of praying mantis on the plant so hopefully less bugs now... we well see. Next season I will grow again but underneath an anti-bug net.. she had so much potential to be absolutely huge but bugs have not stopped attacking for 7 months! Still a nice plant but it can do much better here.

Top_Banana 7 months after planting her from seed the day is finally here. A little earlier than I would of liked due to insects (crickets/grasshoppers eating buds) but she's thereabouts finished. Probably lost 1/3 of buds from the chewing insects but still a big yield and my drying room is full 😊 She survived two rainy season's and some serious wind from a tropical depression back in September. I have kept this grow completely organic so no pesticide or chemical fertilizers used. Apart from heavily amending the soil at the start I mostly fed her crabmeal once a month and seaweed and molasses in most waterings. A few of those waterings were diluted with my urine 😆👌 NPK right!? Why not.. then at the end I added a cultured pro biotic yogurt to the soil 2 days before I harvested. (Tip from a fellow grower @med_in_tropic - thanks bro) Not sure if it made any difference as I cannot compare with another plant but, the plant starting smelling like lemon furniture polish.. like a lemon scent with a fuel undertone. Almost menthol like 🤷‍♂️.. smells amazing. Me and my wife drank tea from the trimming and the citrusy flavour came though into the tea which was nice. Weather wise the temperature is down now to around 16c at night with RH around 50% so the buds should dry much slower than the last harvest so I should get a better flavour profile. Smoke report to follow after she has been in a jar for a week or so.. I did try a bud sample a few weeks back and the taste then was already pleasant so for sure this will be fire... 🔥 Thanks for all the kind comments, this was my first ever grow start to finish. Already looking forward to next season 😁