@Bongda, nice to meet you my friend.
Cambodia…I’d like to hear how you got there, usually not the destination but the journey
Your plants look great. I wish you the best refining what you’re looking for. It’s a shared idea to incorporate MNS for strong genes.
Is it normal for the plants to flower as small/young as they are in the pics I’m seein? I’d think they’d veg/grow longer in flower to get big in your area.
So happy to learn about your plants/plans.
Cheers
Hey shrimp! Good vibes, thanks for checking in.
So, cambo. Yeh, a gem of a place and somewhat maligned. I travelled a lot in india for years on an off. Up to parvati, down to kerala.
Then a few yrs back i decided to have a look round SE asia. A month in thailand, cambodia, vietnam, laos etc. Is what i thought.
6 months later i was still in cambodia. Found a good spot. Enjoyed the smokes. Let time Slip away a bit...eventually i left. a few years passed. I travelled some more. Around the end of 2019 i decided enough was enough with my seasonal work. I didnt want to do it again 'next summer'. Back to india? And why? Actually i had no idea. Just wanted to 'figure out a different approach' not just grind out the same thing over and over. So i get back up to the mountains, split up with the gf. Rent a moto, drive up up and get some charas. Then hold tight through the winter, ganga side. Bom bhole.
Come new yr 2020 i decided its time to go elsewhere and i book a taxi with a friend to head on South. That same evening i receive a msg from a couple old friends i met previously in cambodia. They insisted that i come to visit. No matter the cost. So my plans switched on a dime. I thought i was going to rajasthan, why not visit Cambodia 'for a month'? Then back to india. Finish the visa. Up to nepal and enjoy. Simple enough....
I arrived here early 2020. Very quickly all borders began to shut, lost money on flights. I just got into the lockdown vibe for a bit. Avoided people. Then once again the loops lost track of the weeks and months. Nothing 'blew over' had to get hustling a bit to survive. And now its pushing 2 yrs. Ive settled here, its become normal life, in a dream like sense. I love this place and the people. Understated. Humble. Genuinely kind without agenda. The more i look, the more this decrepit place appears To contain the fullness of life. They didnt lose it...
Within the expats here there are more weirdos per capita than ive come across anywhere. Which i love also. Fuck ups, con men, exiles, drunks, pervert, old boatmen, smugglers. all sorts. even some good people! A different type of character than u meet in india certainly.
Thats as condensed as i can make it. The last 6 months ive left the chaos of town to live in the countryside, the archetypal exit. Its peaceful and ive got a bit of space.
To answer ur plant questions. I dont know what's normal here. Its close to 12/12 always. The first round of seeds began flowering very quickly in July. As for the height, i put that down to the heavy clay soil. Too difficult For the roots to penetrate. Ive just been learning proper compost science through a learned local friend. I have to up the game on that front, since we dont have access to premium products here.
Its been humbling to realise, that i might 'know' how to make compost, but actually i havent got a clue and ive gotta learn. Experiential wisdom differs greatly from the pure information of knowledge.
So... yep. I think that covers it without Giving the game away. Hope that answers ur questions.