Real Seed Co: Rasoli Charas Landrace

MrCrispy Two of the Rasoli have made it to vegetation and are looking good. Moved to 1" rockwool from paper towel for 3-4days well warmed, until roots show at cube edges when I moved to 4-6" pots of soil substrate, and back onto the heat mat/tent They are getting 90-120min of real sunshine each day going forward for this week.

MrCrispy Week 3 included careful monitoring of sprouts in 6" pots, watching for roots to stick out from the bottom. Both the Rasoli plants rooted out well, and were repotted.

MrCrispy The two Rasoli that sprouted are well on their way. Transplanted from 6" pots to 2.5qt pots Mar30, after verifying roots visible on all sides of when removed from pot.

MrCrispy Rasoli #2 was unmistakably male when performing bug check this morning with a magnifying glass. WOW. No other plants of 25+ are showing sex characteristics. I moved it to my isolation tent with stunted seeds on a 24hr light cycle this week. I will probably snip off the flowers, push it back to veg and breed with it. I would like to make lots more Rasoli seeds by inbreeding anyway; and the plan is to keep any males until I am sitting on a pile of seeds like with my first grow out of the ACE Double Thai. Preserve the genetics THEN fiddle with phenotyping, cross breeding, and smoke quality.

MrCrispy 14Apr: (day 38) - Rasoli landrace male looks not much like the female at this point. The male is now isolated with two other boys, largely outside and I will transplant this boy later this week, I wasnt sure I was going to keep it but it shows lots of purple and dont want to pass up a chance to inbreed this oddball. The female looks a bit lanky but has fully expressed female. I FIM'ed the boy a few days ago to keep it small and manageable.

MrCrispy 21Apr: Happy 420. The Rasoli landrace effort consists of two plants, one very male, one very female - both very lanky. The male lives outside full time since last update and I didnt transplant it to try and grow it out, I just left it in the rain and wind. It showed a fully opened flower today; and I snipped off all of the formed flowers along with it. Plenty to gather when the weather is better. The female is in a 5gal pot now and got really lanky this week, but still showing pistil expression. For whatever reason, this plant is waterlogged and was droopy yesterday and today. I had one last year get 'stuck' in waterlogged roots too long and it was a mess. I learned to not only cut back on watering as a response, but to judge the next watering by weight. The next few watering cycles, I will put the lightest 5gal plant on the scale, and compare to the Rasoli female, with the goal to dry her out. Her leaves will also lift to tell us she feels better.

MrCrispy Honestly the Rasoli has been a bit of a disappointment, but perhaps its just going through a phase. VERY leggy, and rather unresponsive to nutes. At this point, I am favoring the Nanda Devi, and Uttarakhand over the Rasoli and Manipuri. If it doesnt flesh out a bit, I may get more aggressive with some FIM techniques, and see how it responds. This is the tallest of the landraces I am trying, but less than half the vigor of the others.