ive had cm mold outside this spring ,its been a rainy one and a few have succomed, i know that in fall it will also,easily if its wet and cold....i think its the tightest growth pattern ive dealt with....very slight nodal length....big yielder just take it on time ...keep in mind that if a strain is drought resistant...it prob will mold in those wet climates.....indicas and mostly indicas come from hilly well drained ...dryish environs....
yaya!
you hit that nail right on the head india sherpa!All those ("indigenous---""Indica""---)types hail from over the hills!!!!
Spit at me if I'm wrong,but throughout the late sixties and onto the seventies northern growers' seed supply was pretty much limited to what they were smoking/what was being smuggled.Some were adventurous enough to wander on down to places like Mexico,Guatemala etc.etc.(for botanical exploit),but like I said,the cultivars grown throughout the fifties/sixties were mostly of southern descent(for us western folk).Also,there were many southeast Asian varieties at play,but cannabis folkore states that European cultivators were most masterful with these and had better access to seed from said sources.The Americas and the Asias(mid orient) are of course not one and the same...When the wanton folk/surfers/new age thinkers came home from their travels,they brought with them some "hash",...,many of them having seen "new" things,...,also they brought with them seed!
Now don't get me wrong;the european and american growers of the sixties didn't throw out their beloved south american and subtropical oriental cultivars due to new and more practical subspecies invading the then grow scene....no no no!Today,we still grow and smoke from sacred bloodlines!(both of "ancient" european and american "hippie era" cultivars!)
Many of these middle eastern/north oriental cultivars when in hybrid settings allowed for some stubborn plants to reach full fruition!Also, exciting hybrids kept pure within middle eastern varieties were loved and strained into what we smoke today! (for the sake and love of hash!)
From what came from those who traveled along the Khyber pass back then,...,we can now smoke and grow shit that's uber-potent up here!But at a price...these plants come from what would seem to a foreigner such as moi an unforgiving climate!
Betterhaff posted an interesting piece which pondered on the scarcity of male pollen donors in high altitude plant groups...an interesting read and a must for all lovers of the Kush! The influence on pure (sativa) genotypes when adapting,when becoming "indigenous" to a new climate is something that is both a revelation and an enigma...
thank you MNS for offering to the world the Critical Mass!