Re: Conradino23's Another Outdoor Grow With High Brix Soil - Air-Pots & SoCal Seed St
Oh man, do not run out of weed in Canada like they have in Nevada! Amusing though, in Oregon the medical weed growers easily supplied the demand for weed here when rec weed became legal and there was never a shortage. Any and all medical stores could sell medical or rec for 18 months to overlap the time it took to ramp up the rec weed industry in state (issue licenses, set up lab testing, etc.). I was told by the largest weed store owner in Portland (at that time) that he could obtain "as much weed as he could sell" from medical growers in Oregon at that time. He was right.
Currently selling seeds is legal in Canada. In at least 4 stores in my city I can openly buy quite a selection of seeds: Green Crack, Durban Poison, Blueberry, White Widow, Jack Herer, Northern Lights, Train Wreck, Amnesia Haze, etc.
But I can't buy any Oaxaca, Morelos, Guerrero, El Altiplano or Sinaloa. My best bet is Canabiogen: Jarilla de Sinaloa.
Interesting. We have the same Dutch and California seed strains here for sale, for insane prices. Like $100 for 10, or $10 each. Which is exactly what I paid for my first lid of Oaxacan bag weed ($10) in 1972 I think it was, which had maybe 100 viable land race seeds in it for FREE.
I have read and heard that there have also been pot busts in BC of people selling seeds and weed. Canada seems as confused as the states on this; federal vs provincial control, laws and police. News is so unreliable these days, fake news and all, it is hard to say what is really happening anywhere w/o the grossly exaggerated political overtones of the media and press.
As for buying Sinaloa seeds... that is a crap shoot at best. They could be anything. Sinaloa was a rather late comer to the weed growing boom in Mexico and a result of cartel weed growing in Northern Mexico. Mexico is more of less divided culturally between north and south. At least that is how the street gangs work here and how Mexicans are divided up here in prison. In the 60s/70s/early 80s the weed grown was predominantly in the southwest of Mexico, and most of it (that I saw anyway) came from the three states of Oaxaca, Michoacan, and Guerrero. After the evil Emperor Nixon paraquat spraying of large fields in those areas in the later part of the 1970s, pot became smaller scale and moved mainly inland to Morelos and the 'highlands' of Oaxaca, Jalisco, Michoacan, and Guerrero. I never saw any Acapulco Gold from the coast of Guerrero after about 1978 when strains like Morelos sinsemilia became far more common (and good!). The Mexicans had to adapt to dealing with Paraquat and the competition of early grown California sinsemilia. Much later the cartels started planting weed in Sinaloa on a grand scale, and that (as I have heard) was not landrace, but Dutch and other strains with everything and anything genetic in them, like auto flowering and feminized. Now that said, there were landraces in states like Sinaloa and Zacatecas from long before the weed craze started in the 1960s. During the Mexican Revolution of 1910 in the Pancho Villa days, weed was legal and grown all over northern Mexico and the US southwest. But many SW states and Mexico banned weed early on (California in 1913, Utah in 1914, Texas in 1919, Nevada in 1923 and Mexico in 1925). The land races from those times are rare as rare can be, if they still exist at all. The only remnants that I have from Northern Mexico are my Big Sur Holy seeds, which were derived from land race Zacatecas Purple.
As for the demand for my land race seeds? There does not seem to be one, other than by a limited number of global growers. Personally I believe that Marijuana has a far greater potential for medical applications than for recreational use. But so far rec use is dominating and replacing medical weed here in the western US. Sadly. The potential for terpenoids and cannabinoids is endless. The human endocrine systems is based on analogs of Cannabis derived molecules (parallel evolution of plants and animals, a fascinating subject), and we even named our endocrine system hormones after Cannabis! But no no no no no no... the DEA has deemed that Marijuana has no medical use what so ever and has it classified as a Schedule 1 narcotic. Talk about the most stupid and evil human things to have done. All from the political motivation of a mad man and his war on Hippies and Blacks in the 1960/70s to get elected and reelected.
Why change Dicks in the middle of a screw, vote for Nixon in '72.
Great looking plants conrad, looks like you'll be having a bountiful harvest of hopefully pest free organic sun grown cannabis