Beautiful once again, my friend! ☺️. I am so inspired by your eloquence around possibility! You throw a few of my assumptions to the wind with every post. Like, I had NO clue at all that cannabis could become frost tolerant. Holy Amazing! The adaptability and resilience of nature really helps me to see that even the weather mod/geoengineering that has been SO driving me nuts for years is, while crucial, not the full show, not by a long shot. I don’t know how much negative effect we have on the environment, and it’s not that my position has changed fundamentally, but we do need to be inspired by nature’s resilience and possibility over the realization of its unnecessary destruction and man-made manipulation based on greed, ignorance, tyranny and hubris.
The spring has been very nice here, not a tornado, flood or hail event yet! Yes, they still spray our beautiful days away, but it’s looking good around here, and I see from your photos, there’s plenty of lovely life there too. Thanks for the gorgeous update on your world through your lens!
I appreciate the kind words and I am heartened to know that what I share inspires you to feel hopeful and see regenerative possibilities (despite the weather warfare and other plutocratic attacks on the biosphere and humanity).
Glad to hear you have not had any crazy weather yet this year. Here has been pretty mellow as well. My wild apple trees are about to open up their first leaves and set blossoms, the service berry buds are about to open up and the kale and walking onions are really taking off.
Yes I was somewhat surprised regarding Cannabis's adaptability in that regard since most commercial and homegrowers baby their plants and treat them like fragile exotic species.
What I found in my research (which I engaged in before starting my breeding project) is that some varieties of Cannabis are actually quite resilient in the cold, but like so many other crops in modern mass production and seed selling operations, people have been mostly focusing on fragile warmer climate varieties to maximize indoor growing and THC production, but at the cost of outdoor growing potential. Thus, when I started growing out plants to mix genetics (naturally via allowing males and females to grow together) I sourced out some landrace Cannabis seeds from the Hindu Kush Mountains so that I could introduce resilient ancient mountain based genetics (and combine that with the modern varieties that have been bred for favorable terpenes, plant size and cannabinoid content). The results have been very favorable and encouraging so far. I will be engaging in similar efforts with my ancient Wild Chili peppers to breed more resilient pepper plants.
Beautiful once again, my friend! ☺️. I am so inspired by your eloquence around possibility! You throw a few of my assumptions to the wind with every post. Like, I had NO clue at all that cannabis could become frost tolerant. Holy Amazing! The adaptability and resilience of nature really helps me to see that even the weather mod/geoengineering that has been SO driving me nuts for years is, while crucial, not the full show, not by a long shot. I don’t know how much negative effect we have on the environment, and it’s not that my position has changed fundamentally, but we do need to be inspired by nature’s resilience and possibility over the realization of its unnecessary destruction and man-made manipulation based on greed, ignorance, tyranny and hubris.
The spring has been very nice here, not a tornado, flood or hail event yet! Yes, they still spray our beautiful days away, but it’s looking good around here, and I see from your photos, there’s plenty of lovely life there too. Thanks for the gorgeous update on your world through your lens!
Thanks Mishelle! :)
I appreciate the kind words and I am heartened to know that what I share inspires you to feel hopeful and see regenerative possibilities (despite the weather warfare and other plutocratic attacks on the biosphere and humanity).
Glad to hear you have not had any crazy weather yet this year. Here has been pretty mellow as well. My wild apple trees are about to open up their first leaves and set blossoms, the service berry buds are about to open up and the kale and walking onions are really taking off.
Yes I was somewhat surprised regarding Cannabis's adaptability in that regard since most commercial and homegrowers baby their plants and treat them like fragile exotic species.
What I found in my research (which I engaged in before starting my breeding project) is that some varieties of Cannabis are actually quite resilient in the cold, but like so many other crops in modern mass production and seed selling operations, people have been mostly focusing on fragile warmer climate varieties to maximize indoor growing and THC production, but at the cost of outdoor growing potential. Thus, when I started growing out plants to mix genetics (naturally via allowing males and females to grow together) I sourced out some landrace Cannabis seeds from the Hindu Kush Mountains so that I could introduce resilient ancient mountain based genetics (and combine that with the modern varieties that have been bred for favorable terpenes, plant size and cannabinoid content). The results have been very favorable and encouraging so far. I will be engaging in similar efforts with my ancient Wild Chili peppers to breed more resilient pepper plants.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment my friend.