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I'vs been growing for 20+ yrs but haven't kept up to speed with the changes in the field.
I check out this site and see all sorts of development in every area of cultivation.
I feel like Rip van Winkle .

Anyway, I grow outdoors in raised beds with plastic hoods when I need them, so I have a relativly long season for mid Michigan.

I plan to clone inside, trigger flowering and move outside for a spring/early summer harvest. Lots of smallish-'one bud' clones.

I will also be doing a traditional outdoor grow timed to flower in the fall. Fewer plants trained along the ground for lateral growth.




What I would like get your opinions on is what strains you are growing and enjoying, and why.

Do you train, grow from clones........?

I have a strain that is short, strong and flowers Sept 1st.
I would to cross it with some hot new seeds from the 21st century and develop a strain. Love genetics, used to irradiate fruit flys and cross the mutations in high school

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Strains--
It really depends on what kind of pot you seek. The soaring 'head' high, late blooming (but oft paranoid producing) sativas, the couch-lock stone of a pure indica (like Afgani) or something inbetween.
For me, the best all-around strain is Northern Lights.

I have a number of friends who also grow, and we're always trying out new strains. Every holiday season we try each others products. We talk about vigor, size, ease of growing, maturing time, etc.

We decide which strains we'd like to do outside the next spring.
Around 01/01, I geminate seeds, take clones when they're big enough, sex the clones, toss the males and start kicking out clones, once as many as 120 at a time (lots of friends).

Personally, I like to raise some clones under 24/0 light and some under 15/9. When they're 8"--12" high, I put them outside. Often the ones raised under 24/0 go into flowering right away, reacting to the cut in light, and planted approx. 05/01 yield nice fresh buds for Independence Day. The others finish in Oct.

Peace out