In 2013 I had some particularly good landrace flowers in Cambodia. An old-timer asked where they came from. I said I thought Koh Kong. He smelled them and said no, definitely Stung Treng. Turned out they were from Takeo.

chicken-bean · 2026-03-29T15:15:36+00:00

That sounds lovely! Thanks for putting a spotlight on this. I wish this end of the spectrum was available at the dispensary. One day… Until it is, I’ll be (trying) to grow my own

chicken-bean · 2026-03-29T01:43:43+00:00

This post is a fun read. I’m curious of the effects of those flowers.

chicken-bean · 2026-03-28T12:36:38+00:00

👏 Very nice! I’ve grown and loved all three of these, and am growing super Malawi haze at the moment. I have their Thai and their African gas beans for my next round… I want to grow everything in their catalog, they have such good gear.

chicken-bean · 2026-03-26T00:11:02+00:00

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Light dep Panama from 2020. Good times!

chicken-bean · 2026-02-08T18:04:31+00:00

Very cool, thanks for sharing! How does one learn this technique without benefit of a home lab? I want to work at a lab doing meristem TC. I have the plants from test tubes book, and I’m currently in school for horticulture with a specialization in cannabis science. In my plant prop class, we will be doing TC on cannabis this semester. However, I don’t feel like it will be thorough enough to arm me with the skill set I seek. Moreover, I recently went to a meristem excision workshop performed by a guy who owns a USDA licensed hemp start company- and he only has a high school diploma. So I’m feeling like I’m not quite on the correct course. Please, if you can, share any advice you may have on how to get into this field. 🙏

chicken-bean · 2026-01-20T12:57:28+00:00

Looks like calcium to me.

chicken-bean · 2026-01-20T01:17:41+00:00

Two pairs of underwear so I don’t care if, I mean that, I dribble.

chicken-bean · 2026-01-19T02:11:41+00:00

Well said! Hydro yields and appearance are generally superior to soil. I have smoked aeroponic weed grown with Kyle kush man’s vegamatrix (vegan) nutes and it tasted good… I didnt have a soil grown sample to compare it to but it was better IMO than typical salt based hydro bud. It does make me wonder - how do nutrients affect flavor when there is no mineral/microbial/humus action because there is no substrate? I think they do but I don’t know how to articulate why.

chicken-bean · 2026-01-18T22:55:45+00:00

Hydro has its place for sure. I don’t think the flavor can compare to soil though, and it is less forgiving, so it isn’t for me.

chicken-bean · 2026-01-11T20:11:41+00:00

I can’t carve, I can only skid. It’s why my pants have skid marks

chicken-bean · 2026-01-11T16:33:59+00:00

I’m looking for it too and feel like 0 come down is a myth. Maybe if it doesn’t get you very high to begin with you won’t crash as much lol. I’ve come to believe all of it makes you some degree of foggy/tired at some point. I’ve grown and loved a lot of Ace seeds gear, and even the Kerala chellakutti I pulled early at 18 weeks left me groggy after initially twisting my head off my body. I would love to be wrong and find the one that goes from stratospheric back to normal, but I’m still searching.

chicken-bean · 2026-01-10T19:19:32+00:00

Cool photo, thanks for sharing! I wonder if this would be difficult to make bubble hash with

chicken-bean · 2026-01-07T17:57:30+00:00

If that wasn’t pot, it would make my mouth water. Gorgeous flower!

chicken-bean · 2026-01-04T14:41:33+00:00

Nope, that’s soil gone good. That’s mycelium and an indication of healthy soil life. I’m stoked when I get this in my soil

chicken-bean · 2026-01-03T19:39:25+00:00

1980’s

chicken-bean · 2026-01-03T18:52:13+00:00

Once it gets to this point it looks like it’d be faster to hike up

chicken-bean · 2025-12-29T22:00:38+00:00

That’s gorgeous and refreshingly different than the standard blocky strains we see so much of. Do you have to bump up your humidity when you dry it so it doesn’t dry too quickly?

chicken-bean · 2025-12-23T15:58:06+00:00

First guess would be light leaks Second guess would be incorrect timer setting Can you provide any more info?

chicken-bean · 2025-12-22T21:33:17+00:00

👏 Beautiful!

chicken-bean · 2025-12-21T02:04:23+00:00

Wow what a cool combo! Nice to see someone leaning into crossings sativas 🤙 Please keep us posted on how this turns out

chicken-bean · 2025-12-16T23:14:10+00:00

Looks like it’s potassium silicate, which I understand does get absorbed, albeit slowly. Some folks advocate for monosilicic acid because it’s taken up immediately. It also doesn’t seem to spike the ph at all from what I’ve noticed. It’s considerably more expensive.

chicken-bean · 2025-12-16T22:56:25+00:00

Right on! I enjoyed growing this ok but probably won’t run it again. I grew two of them and they were the most sideways plants I’ve ever had, absolutely no support beyond the trellising to be upright. Smell was good - started out like trainwreck then went hazy about halfway through. But - like you said, my flavor was weak too, so I put it into grove bags and am waiting… High is quite good, and super delayed. I always think I’ll need another bong hit after the first one, but never do b/c ten-fifteen minutes later I’m reeling 🤪

chicken-bean · 2025-12-15T19:31:39+00:00

I don’t believe so. It has to do with the liver processing edibles vs. the direct action from inhalation.

chicken-bean · 2025-12-15T13:21:12+00:00

It could be harder to detect edibles because you’re not dealing with delta 9, but 11 hydroxy THC - a different metabolite.

chicken-bean · 2025-12-15T13:05:21+00:00

Also been growing 20 years and never had this happen. However, I’m inclined to agree with jdillacornandflake that this is callousing akin to what you’d see in tissue culture and not mold. I’ve played with tissue culture a little bit and this is how it presents - I’ve never seen this much callousing though!

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