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What are you actually putting in the ground this year?
Curious what people are running outdoor this season. Not the hype, not what the catalog says. What you actually planted and why you picked it for your specific situation.
Running a Malawi cross myself for the third year. Long season, finicky, but the structure handles heat in a way most modern stuff just doesn't. Some years that matters more than yield.
Always interested in whether people are chasing something new or sticking with what they know works. Both are valid. Just want to hear real reasoning, not "the breeder said it was fire."
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Experienced4d ago
Third year on the Malawi cross is impressive, that thing demands patience and most people bail after one run.
I went a different direction this year. Pulled back on the sativa-heavy stuff and put three phenos of a Chemdog descendant in the ground specifically because i wanted to chase that classic rubber and fuel profile before it gets completely bred out of everything. So much of what you see outdoor now is optimized for bag appeal and mold resistance and the terp profile just gets... rounded off. Nothing sharp left.
Two of the three phenos smell like gasoline and old tires already. Third one is sweeter, more like overripe fruit on top of the gas, which is honestly the keeper if it finishes before the rain hits.
The tradeoff is they're not the most vigorous outdoors. I've seen people say Chem lines struggle without shelter and i partly agree, mine are in a spot with afternoon wind protection and that helps. But i wouldn't run them in a fully exposed situation.
Not chasing anything new this year really. More of a refinement thing, same genetics i ran indoors, want to see what the terroir does to the terpene expression. Sun-grown changes the profile more than people give it credit for.
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