I'm a bit north of you but I've seen it happen. Seems to occur with Indicas although some northern Mexican Sativas will start flowering when daylight goes under about 14-15 hours. G-13 is a strain known for early flowering outdoors hereabouts. 15 hours of light is about right to kick it into flowering. Any of it in the family tree? Heck,I'd work on breeding with it. Florida needs a strain that will come in before hurricane season cranks up full bore in September.

Cannabis is widely grown and has been smoked by the Afro-Indian/Indian communities along the coast for centuries,from Panama to the southeastern Yucatan. Honduras and Nicaragua are a little dicey now (Hell, Honduras is ALWAYS dicey.) but Panama,Costa Rica,Belize and the southern Mexican Riviera are generally safe. There's a lot of local weed to be explored in those countries, some of it shit,some of it shinola, but always interesting.

Sounds good. All I'm looking for is a continual harvest system that can give me a couple of ounces of bud a month for my own use. The 12/12 method always intrigued me but I could never get straight answers on the potency issue. You guys have been a big help,thanks!

I don't mind the book, your post told me exactly what I wanted to know. Sound like it would be perfect for a cabinet SOG and a cheap way for people to grow their own personal meds. The guy who first told me about it used it for growing sativas indoors. However,there was bit of a language barrier and I never got an answer to many of my questions,especially ones on potency. Highly potent S.E. Asian Sativas indoors, without having to worry about frost,cops and thieves you have to deal with outdoors. Hmmmmm............. Where's my toolbox?

I've never tried but I see people discussing it frequently on other boards. It seems to me you'd end up with a immature plant with reduced potency offsetting the proposed benefits of the method,quick turn around and most of the growth going to the main cola,which is a large percentage of your yeild. Has anyone here tried it and are my concerns about this method valid?

That was one method people used to create "Gold" weed back in the 70's. You'd split the stem about two weeks before harvest,insert a small stick in the split, and wait for the magic to happen. I really never thought it did much for the potency, but it changed the taste and the look of the final product. People wouldn't pay much more than 25 bucks an ounce for homegrown in those days if it was any shade of green,no matter how good it was. Growers would make it turn gold,stick some made up name on it and it would sell for 150 bucks an oz. " It's Kona Gold,dude!"

I've got a buddy who uses the Hempy's but his ratios are more like 2 parts perlite to 1 part vermiculite. He uses two liter plastic bottles as his containers,SOG style, and an off the shelf fertilizer called Osmocote Plus that you mix with the perlite/vermiculite mix in a one time application when setting the buckets up. He calls it "Sit and forget growing." He gets some monster colas from his two liter bottles. There was an online group called the "Hempy Collective" but I don't know if it's still around? Hempy himself used to post there. It's worth a web search if you're interested in these things.

They'll probably think it's a dead skunk or a fox marking it's territory. I wouldn't worry until the plants get tall enough to see by someone whose walking nearby who might start looking for the source of the smell. Grandpa and his brothers used to produce something back in the woods that you could smell for hundreds of yards around when it was working. The ol' man knew how to avoid the law and nosy neighbors when making his corn based concoctions.

Maybe it's because you don't understand how things work in this part of the country,OM. I grew up in the Tug Valley that seperates WV and Kentucky. That region was settled by Europeans in the late 1700's and their decendants are the majority of the population. Most of these families are either interrelated or have interacted with each for over 200 years. Weed growing there has history going back to the early/mid 60's. Other than coal,it's been the driver of the local economies of most of the small lightly populated counties of the region since the 70's. Now add in the factor that the county sheriffs, judges, and prosecuting attorney are locals, and more importantly, elected. If you prosecute a local in county court for growing weed to pay the bills, you're going to piss off most of his family and friends. A couple of hundred votes can turn an election in a small sparsely populated county. It's generally not worth the political risk to bust locals, especially ones that have large extended families. Therefore LEO tends to ignore or chop most of the small patches it finds and investigate the larger ones. If the grower is a local, it's generally going to get chopped without charges ever being filed. If you're an outsider, or worse, a Yankee who came into the area to grow a crop and you're caught, it's off to jail with you. That my friend, is why Southern growers tend to stay put. Plus, the weed grown here packs a wallop that those West Coast guys can only dream of.

Back to PA weed. In the 18th and 19th centuries,there was quite a hemp industry in the ridge and valley areas of southeastern/southcentral PA, central MD, the eastern panhandle of what's now WV. and adjacent parts of VA. I know that feral hemp/cannabis from that era still grows around a little town in WV named Romney. It's been known as "Romney Red" since the 60's. It's very weak,but you can get a mild buzz from a large joint. WV and Federal authorities have been trying to get rid of it for decades,but it still comes up every spring. I'm sure there are still pockets of the same type of feral hemp in adjacent parts of MD. and PA.

You forget that Amish kids get a two year period between the ages 16 and 18 to live in the outside world before making the choice to live in the the Amish lifestyle in adulthood. I suspect what they're growing isn't a landrace but seeds they've picked up in bags of weed that float around places like Lancaster. I've got more on weed in PA., but I've got to go to work.

Coyote piss will do it too. A lot of feed stores in areas overrun by by deer sell it these days. As coyotes and coydogs have spread from coast to coast in the States,they've become the major predator of deer, especially whitetails. Hogs? A machine gun might work temporarily. I regard myself lucky that I live in a region where the bear population is so high,they've run the hogs out of the area.

I always plant a couple of patches in June and early July. As flowering generally doesn't start here until the very end of July,the plants get time to veg a bit and sort out hormonally whether it wants to be a girl or a boy. As it's mid-June,go ahead and plant. Israel has a fairly mild fall and winter climate much like SoCal. You can probably go well into November before you harvest. That's 5 months,a full growing season for most strains of cannabis. If you get an opportunity to lay your hands on some of the native hash cultivars of Lebanon,that would be a natural for you. The same with the Bedouin weed from around the region.

Smell is mostly a problem on warm humid mornings when the wind comes up. Rippers here drive slowly on backroads on August and September mornings sniffing for the skunky cat-piss smell that says "Weed!". Then they park and follow their noses. SOP here is a minimum of a 1/4 mile from any kind of road or atv trail. As my Grandpa used to say about hunting, "Walk 20 minutes off the road and you'll have the woods to yourself." Most people are too lazy to walk much longer than that in the woods. Especially where I live,the terrain is rough in the valleys and near vertical in the hills. I'd worry more about that white canvas you've got around the bottom of the wire cage. It stands out like a sore thumb against that red clay and the surrounding vegetation. A country boy is going to spot that from a hundred yards away. Seeing that's what most rural deputies are............ well you get my drift. The LEO in my part of the South has been using hidden game cams at wide spots on country roads in known growing areas,where growers are likely to park,and at trailheads on public lands,the sneaky bassards. Vary the way you go into your patch, and watch it for awhile from a safe distance before approaching. Good luck.

Old time grower here, started in the late 60's as a boy, helping my older cousins by sitting watch on the fields and taking the harvest to the barn. (I didn't actually start smoking the stuff until '71.) I've had my hand in and out of it ever since. I've been an occassional reader of this forum and site but I finally decided to join so I can bs about landrace strains of weed,my favorite subject since the 70's. These days I grow to keep some old family genetics alive. Basically they're a mix of old landraces that my relatives brought back from serving in S.E. Asia in the 60's and early 70's crossed with the standard imported weeds in the US at that time (Mexican, Panamanian, Colombian.....). From what I understand the strain I'm growing started with Burmese genetics in 1964? I wish I had the version with the Korean cross from the early 70's,but it went out with it's developer,who died much too young. Other than the old Thai Stick and modern Northern Lights, the Korean cross would be the most potent strain of weed I've ever smoked. I've got a chance to go legal in Colorado. I'm going to check it out later this year. If the laws out there allow outdoor grows, I'm heading west. Anyhow, "Hey", as we say down here in the southern US of A.