Wow right back at you AK! I'm honored you'd go to the effort to read all the way through! I know what that takes.
Now, I'm not really a sativa expert that's for sure -I've yet to grow my Mama Thai through an entire flowering without having problems. But I'm working on it, and I appreciate the kind words.
I've come to the conclusion that the sativa high is the only one for me. I also like the idea of landrace strains. Maybe it's something about the history behind them. Not that the newfangled strains don't have history. Maybe I'd be more interested if I just knew what that history was and also knew all the drama behind how they were concocted/developed/stolen from other breeders, etc.
I'm quite averse to the indica high and I wonder if I will ever smoke Indica strains again. I do grow for some patients though, and they like it. It puts me at a disadvantage and causes me real problems that I don't smoke the indica stuff and can't test it out myself. Maybe you're in a similar situation?
I keep trying new strains only to get the thumbs down at the end of half a year of growing them
By which time I'm quite invested in the strain with plants in flowering, veg, and clones, which I have to get rid of. To make matters worse my patients are certified crazy and don't make very good testers even for themselves, strangely enough. It's an ongoing gong show with them. Kind of amusing most of the time.
Even the Blueberry is now getting the thumbs down and is about to be phased out, even though it seems like a wonderful plant to me. All they want is the Pineapple Chunk it seems. That's taking me 100 days to finish and I wouldn't mind having something a little faster, and something that's not such a pain to trim. I'm not greedy or impatient, but it would be nice to have a faster turnaround. It would make the learning process a lot speedier. And it's just harder to keep a plant in good health for 100 days than it is for 60.
Oh well I think I'll keep throwing new strains at them anyway, because I like trying new ones. The bottom line seems to be that they like it Strong! So if anyone knows of a shitkickingly strong strain that finishes fairly quickly, I'm all ears.
For myself if I try indica again it will be to maybe try and find a good strain for pain relief and to help me sleep at night.
I'm hoping this Malawi will turn out as strong as it's supposed to. It'll be very fun and interesting to test it out on the victims, I mean uhhh... patients.