Landrace Wonderland...

@ORGANOMAN, Dude, pure outdoors, summer or winter. IDGAF. Zero "supplements" that I don't fix, mix or make myself. 1000+ plants in the past two years or so. I've had some absolutely insane plants (like almost 3m in a 20l pot, things in a ~75l pot with almost 2m roots). I'm guessing, but are you in Aus (you don't have to answer)? Yeah, I think autos are degenerate too (and mostly, inbreeding as well). I reckon they simply have shittier oil, sugar, terp profiles. Commercial products, not as complex. Like some guys gave me some "hardcore" indoor auto shit and it was like...well, it looks nice but it's really average. I actually sometimes look for plants that grow super slow, like I had some 10 month plants "recently" that I grew through winter into the autumn the next year.. I get really good naturalized seeds here...but some of these African strains, like the shit in Central or South America, Tropics in SE Asia can be VERY finnicky (as they're used to nice conditions). Cheers dude, good shit.

@HighAltitudeOrganics, nah, I'm "Southern Hemisphere". I too am scared that new home cultivators get put off enjoying themselves when starting with low yield/unstable autos. Autos really should be left for the experts running hydro and mega light installations to grow "product". Different ethos, different aim. I am into breeding my own acclimatised strains that almost "grow themselves" with very little input and no pest/disease issues, using only sunlight and a refined mix of soil of my own design, based on compost/manure etc (29 ingredients!) and a holistic "total soil health community of goodies" for my babies. It's just for me, so yields don't really figure, but healthy quality does. I envy your situation, here we have to keep everything in the shadows and to be able to grow and breed plants in an open atmosphere would be wonderful. It seems being addicted to opiates is OK, but growing a plant is a no-no. Strange really.

@ORGANOMAN, thanks! Very much appreciate the detailed suggestions. I will research. Gives me something else to do other than answer grow questions all day while I sit in quarantine 😏 Yup - you nailed it. I’m a passionate NO on autos (no control, no stability) NO on fem seeds (instability - they aren’t really female plants anyways). I have nothing against a land race afghani that wants to immediately flower. It’s just the mass marketing of autos. I think it’s a bad thing for new growers cause they run into issues, blame themselves, get frustrated, give up, never grow again. Opposite of what I want to see. Those seed banks hate me, I’m fine with it. I don’t think you’re in the US but if you are, there is an excellent breeder out of California - Jason at Equilibrium zhenetics (@EQgenetics), and he crosses his heirloom Malawi with lots of well paired strains. Very stable, 20 years stable, and excellent resistance to mold. It;s what I’m running now - the African Orange... Agent O. (Orange Velvet x Jack the Ripper) ♀️ x Heirloom Malawi ♂️ Believe it or not it finishes in 9-10 weeks under 11/13 photo period. Lots of Malawi influence, still. Drives me nuts seeing how dirty a lot of news growers space is as I look through journals. Great, you reached harvest...enjoy your hairy dusty buds. Not medicine at that point. Not healthy to consume anything covered in synthetic carpet fiber, dog hair, etc. My biggest goal isn’t;t to promote organic at the moment, it’s to help people harvest clean, consumable bud. Clean bud is the goal as you know. That said, Organics all the way! Cheers

@sativaman,thanks! Luis, the boss at Ace Seeds used many of my pictures (about 40 from six of his strains that I grew) that I sent him, as an addition to his website. I had no idea they were going to be used, I just wanted to provide some feedback to a friend about how his seeds performed on the other side of the world from Spain, where Ace are located. To be honest, I was both humbled and delighted to see my picture posted on his website and the fact he thought they were good enough examples of his strains to be used as advertising for his business. It seemed to be a haze/NL#5 pheno, with very little Malawi expression, High was outstanding, and a real treat for Sativa lovers like me. I did use some bio vega by bio canna during veg and some flora nova bloom one part by GHE during flowering, and small amounts of other nutrients that are mainly organic based, but mostly they thrived on a blend of manures and compost that I made for top dressing the plants. Thanks again for taking an interest in my diary.