1st I want to thank everyone who has helped me here in the last 9 weeks. That said I want to apologies as well in advance...LOL... I'm a Scorpio, so I dive in head 1st in everything I'm passionate about and my new Passion , Medical Mota and specifically CBD strains. So if I ramble on and on and on and on and on... again, I'm sorry
I also want to thank SweetSue specifically.... She has inspired me, with her epic threads, to just, well, Be Me
A quick tidbit on me. I recently got my Medical Marijuana Card. I used to smoke a lot as a youngster as well as dabble at growing. That said after 20yrs of "I'll Lose My Job If I Smoke" I had anxiety and paranoia smoking in the last few years after I stopped working. I am not a social smoker, all my smoking is at home, camping or backpacking. I mainly started again to assist in my Pain, Motivation, as well as slowing down my Beer drinking, I don't usually drink when I smoke.
I started with some Sativa Strains for Motivation, most have a lower THC and some have a 5% or so CBD. I found some gave me an intense anxiety, which I understand now is normal for some sativa. Funny thing I found out the Higher THC Indica really didn't give me the anxiety as I had assumed the THC would do. I haven't tried combining the Sativa with Indica for a nice combo of the two, well besides some Hybrids I have tried, I'll be working on that soon.
As I started researching CBD vs THC strains I really learned a lot. I have chronic back pain and sleep issues, as well as motivational issues. I started trying some strains at the local dispensaries. Here are a few key strains I tried and how I felt about them
Kilimanjaro ---Sativa, Very Motivational High but also High Anxiety/Paranoia. Liked it but anxious high
Arianna--- Local CBD Strain. 6.3% THC, 6.8%CBD , originally my top contender. No Anxiety and motivational as well.
Platinum Purple Kush--- Tried this after I started my Purple Kush. That's when I found I like the Indica's Buzz and pain relief
Strawberry Cough.. Really Liked this.. Sativa.. Not as much anxiety, good energy, very tasty
Also Tried, Tangie, Purple Monkey Butt, Citrus Sapp, Bubble Gum, Girls Scout Cookies, Animal Cookies.. and Im sure 4 or 5 others...
Then I discovered
ACDC... I started looking at CBD vs THC and what it does as well as Dominant strains. Unfortunately I found ACDC after I had already placed my 2nd Seed Order which was all Auto's and heavy on CBD strains, I'll talk about those later. I saw that ACDC was a 20/1 CBD/THC strain. It averages from 16-20% CBD and .42-1.2% THC....
So I got my 1st try of it Locally.. Absolutely LOVED it!!! Yes it is a Sativa Dom strain, but it's the higher THC in Sativa strains ive tried , I assume, that gives me anxiety/paranoia. Now they do say the top Side Effect is Anxiety, but I haven't experienced that at all. As I say that, well, I found a 2nd dispensary with it, well there are 5 actually, so I decided to try theirs as well. Ya... didn't like it as much. I got pretty high, not really anxious, but I was high and the original ACDC I barly got a buzz, which is what I liked. Ill still experiment with the 2nd strain more for sure.
This brings us to Today... well Kinda....
I started with 2 Tents. One 4x4x6'6" and one closet 2x4x5'6". Plan was Big tent for Flower.. small tent for Veg... Kinda worked that way. Today I have 3 Purple Kush and 3 CBDutch Treat in 2nd week of Flower in Big Tent. In the small tent I have all Auto's. I have 2 Dark Devils, a White Widow (thinking she is NOT an Auto), a Girls scout cookie, a CBD Tangilo Rapido, CBD Pakistan Ryder and a CBD Siberian Haze.
That's currently 4 CBD strains growing as I type this, but that will change soon...lol
Lets Talk about the CBD strains I have growing Now, cuz I know yer chomping at the bit ta find out about em all
CBDutch Treat, it's an Auto, Sativa Dom, 8%/4% CBD/THC. Nice to see a few of us growing this now, cant wait to see what we all think about it
Tangilo Rapido, Sativa Dom, they say High THC at 12-15% and a High CBD but no %
Pakistan Ryder , Indica, Excited for this one, 20% THC, and High CBD but no %
Siberian Haze, 50% Sativa, 40% Indica and 10% Ruderalis, says High THC/CBD but no %
Now as of 4 days ago..I received my 3rd seed order, All CBD strains besides all the free seeds..LOL. I have 2 of the High CBD Strains that I started to germinate yesterday, and went into Dirt today
Candida, Indica Dom/Sativa CBD level of 11%-20% and THC never above 1%. This is a cross of ACDC and Harlequin
Green Doc, Sativa Dom CBD 16.9% to 10.2%, while its THC count ranged from 12% to 3.7%. This is a cross of Candida and a Haze strain
In the wings we also have
Nightingale but just no room for her, Yet, she is very Similar to Candida, Indica Dom with very similar 20/1 CBD/THC ratio
Now for some Pics
My Dutch Treats, in 2nd week of flower and getting WAY TOO TALL...lol
with the Purple Kush, PK is on the right....
All these CBD strains are Auto's and on day 31 Today
This is the TR, was the 1st to start to show Pistils and has the Biggest Top so far
The TR Top
The SH, with the White Widow that hasnt show Pistils yet... think she will go in Flower tent soon
And the little PR, she was such a little Thing.. then just ROCKETED up...
Hoping to learn more about making Oils and topicals as well as Cooking Oils and Butters cooking is a big ZEN thing for me just like Backpacking, something about a campfire that just lets you release all yer stress and pains.
Im also wanting to learn when to harvest to increase the CBD in the plant
Hope I didn't put you all to sleep or bore the poop outa ya
Thanks for reading
Stav