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Harvest in the Rif this week.
Friends sent the farm this evening. Plants finishing on the mountain the way it has for thousands of years. These hills are all hash hybrids but not all cannabis varieties produce in Morocco π²π¦
Letβs dig into the science on Rif resin morphology, dry-sift behavior, and the terpene chemistry that separates sandy heads from oily ones.
Traditional Ketama / Beldia work is dry-sift on sun-dried, low-humidity material, beaten over cloth in the ~150β200 Β΅m range, then refined. The plant that wins is not the one with the greasiest live resin. It is the one whose glands:
β’ stay brittle after a Rif dry-down
β’ abscise at the headβstalk junction instead of smearing
β’ pass as discrete sand rather than a film
β’ still press into a slab because enough binder remains after the lightest volatiles flash off.
Clarke measured this decades ago: even clean Moroccan powder is dry and sugar-like, not smear-sticky like Afghan or fresh high-myrcene indoor resin. The climate strips the lightest binding terpenoids. What is left has to be mechanically separable first.
Moroccan field data on six Rif cultivars (Beldiya vs Mexicana, Khardala, Avocat, Critical Plus, Industriel) is blunt: Critical Plus can put six times more resin on the scale than Beldiya, and hybrids win density. Beldiya wins for drought resistance, and stability across years.
Hybrids need irrigation the mountain does not reliably give. That is the trade you are breeding against.
What hash varieties you think will do well in Morocco? π²π¦
#Rif #Beldia
Started training the photos today.
Fan leafs on the ice cream cake are getting huge. Its been fimmd, bent down and super cropped 2 lower branches.
Same with the cheese aswell.
Dantes inferno #8 has emerged, cant wait to get that in a big fabric pot. So far going good. π«‘
@sofimood809 Ive got her on 18-6... I've figured out the issue (I think anyway π) I uts due to my pot size I rushed getting it planted as was to eager I thought I could transplant it but forgot and just got to late mid was focused on other things π lesson learnt though
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@skunkcityseeds Aghhh ill remember to use a much bigger pot next auto I try π. Only really do an auto to get some smoke off whilst waotong for the photos to flower π helps the time go faster ππ.. going to have a look at some of them fastbud autos you mentioned earlier π«‘π«‘π«‘
@skunkcityseeds You think id get away with doing a transplant to a bigger fabric pot? Or do you think she will get mega stressed? Shes still in pre flower
@skunkcityseeds Well last plant I grew my auto was ready one week into the flip π so quiet a while bro πππ. Ive got all the time in the world so doesnt bother me π. My last auto was actually decent tbf. Think my issuse is small pot tbh mate
@skunkcityseeds My bad bro i explained that wrong (super highπ). What my stupid ass was trying to say was I grow an auto plant whilst im vegging my photos cause I use trellis net takes me a while training and by the time theyre ready to flip my auto is ready for harvest.