chillardbee
Well-Known Member
Well, it’s been a while. I see some blogs from members I haven’t seen in a good long time and stepping back into the group feels like coming home. Knucklehead, deluxe stogie, China voodoo.., good to see you’re still at it.
As you may or may not know, we moved in fall of 2020 to our new location at 93 mile onto 93 mile loop road here in BC. Where we were once at sea level, we’re now close to 4,000 feet higher and slightly further north. What does this mean for our grow? Well, the nice thing is we can start early under lights and most of the leaf harvesting can be done before the first frosts. Our last frost is usually around end of May and first frost around the first of September. We also get about 3 1/2’ or more of snow which isn’t completely gone until sometime in May.
Challenging to be sure. I did try a grow in the summer of 2021 but a wildfire moving our way kind of interrupted the watering of the seedlings and they succumbed to the killer sun heat.
Currently, I’m doing a test for germination since the the great seed grow out of 2016 was a while ago. Obviously quite a few of the seeds were still viable 2 years ago but I think it’s high time for another seed grow out particularly of the more important seeds to me.
In going through the seed collection, it’s like going through memory lane. The prilep from rainmax, red Russian from mad house, bursa from markw, pa-swarr from deluxe stogie, Greenwood from Lakota, k326 from knucklehead…etc. Too many to list.
Anyway, I reckon I’m going to grow this year and it’s good to be back.
As you may or may not know, we moved in fall of 2020 to our new location at 93 mile onto 93 mile loop road here in BC. Where we were once at sea level, we’re now close to 4,000 feet higher and slightly further north. What does this mean for our grow? Well, the nice thing is we can start early under lights and most of the leaf harvesting can be done before the first frosts. Our last frost is usually around end of May and first frost around the first of September. We also get about 3 1/2’ or more of snow which isn’t completely gone until sometime in May.
Challenging to be sure. I did try a grow in the summer of 2021 but a wildfire moving our way kind of interrupted the watering of the seedlings and they succumbed to the killer sun heat.
Currently, I’m doing a test for germination since the the great seed grow out of 2016 was a while ago. Obviously quite a few of the seeds were still viable 2 years ago but I think it’s high time for another seed grow out particularly of the more important seeds to me.
In going through the seed collection, it’s like going through memory lane. The prilep from rainmax, red Russian from mad house, bursa from markw, pa-swarr from deluxe stogie, Greenwood from Lakota, k326 from knucklehead…etc. Too many to list.
Anyway, I reckon I’m going to grow this year and it’s good to be back.
