Costa Rican Outdoor/Greenhouse Grower

Hello,
First off, thanks for stop'n in and checking out the thread, for those who know me from Overgrow, a strong hug and very glad to keep in touch after so long and the tragic loss of Overgrow. Blessed indeed my friends and hope we can keep in touch for much longer.

Those who don't I'm a Costa Rican living just under the 10* N paralel, and live in a tropical paradice with all sorts of micro climates but 2 basic seasons dry and wet. I'm about 2000mt + sea level and live in a more tropical humid area. I get 12hrs light and night all yr, there is about a 30min change or so but thats it...and temps are prety much the same also, some times temps may very about 20* from night to day, and can bring out some nice colors.

Not only do I love and enjoy to grow my herb, but also collect orquids and other flowers so you may see alot of various pics or of some high lights of some of the places I visit with my family, on my bike or with my dogs. Ofcourse your all more then welcome to share your own pics any time, also if you may have any questions feel free to ask, I'll see about answer'n as best I can.

My strong is Tropical Sativas, more so Colombian strians, but have enjoy'd many others from around the world thanks to so many kind Herbsman that have been so kind to bless me with such genetics, my enviroment favors them and it's easy to make them feel at home, letting them truely express themselfs.

Indicas here have some trouble in wet season, as they are mold pron. I've found insects also tend to like the shade they provide under their leafs, and to eat them too as they are alot more meaty then any sativa by far. Sativas don't shade them selfs much, and leafs are so skinny there realy isn't much room to hide under yet alone material to eat...also they don't realy smell compared to Indicas so might not be so palable too. Indicas due to the short light period from day one....will go into flower very fast. Normaly they wont get more then 2feet tall showing sex very early, just a few weeks normaly. Have little to no branching, just a main fat cola. They are done from start to finish from seed in less then 3 months 4 tops. Clones don't work...they flower jeje need lights too get them to veg longer or keep clones and mothers.

Sativas, they will sex at about 2 to 3 feet tall, normaly about a month, month and half tops. They show sex and will continue to grow...an indica could look like the sadest and smallest branch of a Sativa...jej I can smoke an indica in a day or two...jeje if I can stay awake. Sativas will produce a great deal, and its a much more vibrant alive energized and even inspiring jeje but can easly sit and trip out on things too as you laugh your self stupid, hearts can speed up, faces can go pale jejeje but all in all your up lifted and enjoy'n every moment. Sativa clones are easy to take and will grow, and then flower, some can grow to be just as larg as the mother, but best taken then place in contianers to finisher sooner while you wiat for the mother ;).(this depending on when taken off the mother of course. If mother is mature the clone will mature soon too..if mother is in veg, the clone will veg.) Sativas will grow, from single to 3 digit leafs to 5 digits to 7 digits, Might show sex around here, then to 9 sometimes even 11 digits as they grow, go into oposite phylo, then you will sea leafs revert. Back to 9digits, to 7 to 5, 3 then 1 as they flower.

Not like an Indica that will flower while still growing in pairs and with 5digits even, aslo an Indica will show crystals very soon, as too where some Sativas may not show any untill in good flower, finaly producing a smell too. Sativas may look to be kinda runny at first along their long arms and legs, but as they grow and flower they start to fill in realy nice often covering all the stems looking like a long cat tail. If you let them they may grow over a greenhouse...or a yard ! I'd have to plant a hundred + indicas to make the production of a single good Sativa.

I love both as each has thier purpose time and place, but Hybrids are the coolest as they realy let you play around. To make these crosses with landraces to creat new things while also preserve'n the landraces truely makes things a whole lot more interesting !

I hope you all enjoy the posts and pics to come, my best wishes to you and yours, and as always Jah guide and protect.

Cool & Calm
Chaman

Hey dude! Welcome!

Super interesting info... I'd be great to see a couple of your outdoor Costa Rican pictures!

Pura Vida!

-turtle420 :cool:
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Pura vida !,
Has to be the most said two words here, and well meant. As to be here...is Pure life, your living indeed when surounded by mother nature, and the pace of life lets you stop and smell the flowers sorta say.

I'll be posting some pics...jeje soon as I can figure this all out. third post....not used to things here yet.

Cool & Calm
Chaman

Top 3 pics are some Colombian Red X Golds
Bottom 2 pics are Colombian Red pures, while in veg and then a cured bud.

Here are a few more pics of my Colombians before I move on to others, such wonderfull plants...can't give enough thanks and praises to the most high for such Herb.

Give a little love and time, and they reward us with the spice of life !

Cool & Calm
Chaman

top 3 pics are Colombian Gold, Colombian Red, Colombian Creepie.
Bottom 2 pics are Colombian Red X Gold Colas

Nice job friend...welcome.Look forward to seeing your future grows.I personaly enjoy a good variety of sativa and indica but hybrids are my favorite.I have a pure Thai sativa that grows to 15-20 feet.You'd love it.Let me know if you would like to grow a couple gaint thai sativa.Purple buds.harvest after about 12-14 weeks in flower.Herby skunk flavor outdoors.Very visual herb and body numbing sativa.:thumbsup:

Dubi, and a very kind herbman indeed shared with me some Congo X Nigierian, Destroyer and a few other crosses...I grew the Congo x Nigerian and Destroyers first, I was lucky to get a female CxN and 2 female Destoryers, One went hermie late in flower and fertilized many plants including the CxN.

The out come wasn't planed...was more of a mistake in not cutting the destroyer on time. Well a tragic death of my Parrot, who was named Dubi also well while I barried him I rolled a nice fatty of the Congo X Nigerian bud, and must have droped a seed.

Month or so maybe 2 later no one had re entered the area and grass had grown tall and other plants bushed out covering the view to where Dui was baried till one day I made a chicken coop, and saw this beautyfull young Sativa !! ejeje man it was so wild to see a plant out of no where like that. First thing I told my wife is I had nothing to do with it ! jejeje as it was growing tall into plain view by the time she saw it.

This plant...jeje well lets let the pics speak ;)
Chaman

I found the plant a little passed my waist but in this first pic is when my wife saw her for first time...

She eventualy grew passed my neighbors roof top at the peak of thier house ! jeje then the wieght made her lean forward and over, when I went to the seatle Hempfest, i had to tie her down more too...her branches where as long as I am tall (6.2 feet/1.92mts) and buds wider or thicker then my size 11.5 shoe my legs and arms looked like stick figures next to her.

She had Power, taste, yield ! a long wait but well worth it ! and grew in extreme vigor...almost before my eyes, can only imaigen if I had prepared the soil better, or maybe ed her something...instead I did nothing...indeed nothing at all !!! even sat and watched her under the pooring rain. You never seen it rain till you live in a tropical country I promise buckets of water fall..it's like a blanked, not letting you see even more then a few feet into the thickness of it...load roaring sound and rivers apear out of no where...yard seems like a floaded swamp sometimes...I got plenty of trees and thank goodness my home was built over where a river used to pass so can't go to deep before you brake a shovel on rocks and boalders ! so this helps in getting the water sucked down after a while, but knee high rubber boots are your best friend in wet season indeed, and a pancho. Sun comes out too...can even get sun burnt on cloudy days, but it rains all the time !

The last pic...well see I got a larg dry box in my greenhouse, it was full !! and only wit htops, then I had too cut the mid section which you see hang'n here but the last part of the harvest didn't come fore about another 2 weeks before any of this was dry to take it's place. This plant yielded a great deal !