Landrace: Sinai 'Rose'

@MrCrispy, that’s really good to know! And yeah I totally hear you about even a few hours of sunlight. I try in the summer!

@Growpotkin, I am lucky at this point to have a private and secure yard to grow in. However, even the years I grew in a rental apartment, I got a few hours of sun each day. We had a 4'x20' 2nd floor balcony, and even if just on weekends, I put those plants in whatever ray of sunlight I could find. Outdoors doesnt mean 'planted in the ground' which I find to be less than optimal until plants outgrow a 20gal trashcan, or you have a tractor to dig holes with. As a kid, we planted on year-round streambeds and ignored until they were 6ft tall. City life just makes that impossible now, so I do the extra labor it takes to carry potted plants in and out nearly every day until summer comes. IMHO, 100% indoors is fine for landraces IF you have at least a 5foot high grow tent, or better, use 8ft ceilings with no grow tent. Big plants need big roots, even when chopped down to grow as bushes. With a 20gal pot you lose 18" of height due to the pot, but little pots JUST WONT DO! Good luck, bro!

@MrCrispy, gotcha, thanks. I’ll be really interested to see how it goes! I wish I could grow outside but it’s not realistic for me. I’ll experiment with them in the tent for the full life cycle but am not expecting much.

@Psilocubensis, Thanks! Since they only spent one week in the 2.5qt pots, I wasnt expecting much visible side-rooting. Next transplant I will look for them pretty much stitched up with roots all around, but in wildly swinging weather I needed them in safer/larger containers as fast as they would support it. Have a look at the Nanda Devi and you can see I am also dealing with intentionally poor soil mixes for Himalayan native strains. I am intentionally *not* following general grow methods for my landrace adventures, though the Sinai isnt acting like a landrace.