CBDMed
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Yes.There is the physical/structural dimension to avoiding bud rot too. Plants with narrow leaves and a more stretchy structure tend to be the evolutionary outcome of humid tropical cannabis.
Afghan Mass XXL has much airier, much looser buds.
I have mostly done indicas, for the CBD, and I like the CBD potency. But sativas are really good for me also.Plants with massive juicy buds/colas always have more tendency to various kinds of fungal attacks. Maui Waui is your classic Hawaiian strain (landrace more or less). Look to that form, or stretchy narrow-leaf phenos of whatever appeals to you, and those plants will do better at getting air moving inside the plant .
I have had OTHER people tell me I do better on Harlequin. (That is OTHER people's favorite strain for me.) All I can figure is that it is a high-CBD Sativa, so I hope to look for other high-CBD sativas.
RIght now I need to grow out the seeds I already have, but they have 2-3 breeding houses here, and you can select what you want by elevation (climate). When it comes time to buy seeds again I will look for CBD 1:1.
Do your own crosses with promising strains. Luther Burbank would plant out thousands of seedlings and select a few; this is essentially landrace evolution speeded up to a season or so. We can't plant thousands of seeds, but we can intellegently select the best of what we have.
It sounds like I am going to end up learning about breeding, whether I planned to or not
That is very encouraging. Thank you. Hopefully I can learn enough so I can purchase seeds that are more mold and bud rot resistant to start with.Try to get regular seeds of a good strain so you have a true male to work with and slowly breed for the traits you want. If you have a few good strains the genes are in there. We can breed to select and enhance what is best for a location. The best plant for you and your location probably does not yet exist.
I grew two plants outside, and both got bud rot.
I have had 3 or 4 plants get bud rot and gray mold even inside the grow room under fans. Right now I am just having fun growing everything, to see what I like best
And after this run of autos I want to maybe go back to photos, and put away some serious cob (assuming the CBD makes it, which I am pretty sure it should).
Haha, but I want to buy more CBD sativa seeds now!