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🐇 Strain Reviews, Rabbits in the Grow, and Electroculture, with Chitown Canna Chica | Otter.ai

🐇 Strain Reviews, Rabbits in the Grow, and Electroculture, with Chitown Canna Chica

Jordan River51min

Jordan River

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Greetings cultivators worldwide. Jordan River here back with more grow cast from Hawaii all the way to chi town. Today, we have friend of the show back on the line from Chicago. Shy Town, Kana Chica is back. She is a lovely, talented cultivator, and she is here to talk to us today about the many strains that she's been hunting through. You can follow Shy Town Kana Chica on Instagram. She's got an awesome page. Occasionally, I like to sit down with growers who are a little bit more of a home grower, get a little bit of a home grower perspective. Get some strain reviews, some gardening tips from good friend of the show, Shy Town Kana Chica. I know you'll love today's episode, but before we get into it, quick shout out to AC infinity. That's right, they make the best grow gear on the market. AC infinity.com, code grow cast one five saves you 10% that is the maximum discount we've had the code forever. We've been partners with AC infinity for years. And why? It's because they make the best tents you can get your hands on. They make the best inline fans, the best oscillating fans. They make really, really great quality accessories like scissors, pots, Ratchet hangers and things like that. And now they also have lights. They've got the ion board and now the ion frame bar style, really, really great stuff at AC infinity. Get the whole grow kit you've been after. You know, you can get a three by three kit, a five by five kit, you know you want another one. Just go ahead and pop over there. Use code growcast One five, always at checkout for the max discount. And thank you for supporting us and AC infinity. We love them so much. They make our favorite grow gear out there. I'm looking at two AC infinity tents in my bio dome, and you won't regret grabbing one. Use code growcast One five at AC infinity.com. Thank you Daisy infinity, okay, let's get into it with our friend chi town. Kanachika. Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners, you are now listening to grow cast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you again for tuning in today before we get started. I always urge you to share this show, share this episode. Make sure you're following us on Spotify or iTunes, whatever you like, and continue our mission of overgrow. See all the action at growcast podcast.com/action there. You'll find the seeds and the membership and all the good stuff. Follow along, folks. We got some classes coming up. You know that we got some big events coming. So I appreciate each and every one of you listeners. Today, we have a return guest. After some time, I'm very excited to speak to this wonderful Midwest grower, a good friend of mine, and always meeting up at mitsuwa to talk growing and swap genetics. We have none other than Shy Town kanachika back on the show. What's up? Kanachika? How are you doing? What's going on? Jordan, how are you I'm so good. Thank you for coming back on the show, absolutely. Yeah, we got to go back to Mitsuha. Got to go back to Mitsuha. That's the spot. You know, you get really baked, and then you get yourself some udon or some ramen, good times. And you were so generous when we did meet up. You You have a huge seed stash and genetic library, that's pretty impressive. I'm seed and weed rich. You truly are, yeah, and you were very generous with the flower. Always impressive, of course, at Shy Town Kana Chica on Instagram is the big page where you can see all the pretty flowers. And if you've been this listener to this show for a while, then you've heard Shy Town Kana Chica probably a couple years ago at this point. What's been going on since last we spoke? You just continuing to grow fire, winning a bunch of competitions, doing

Speaker 1

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your thing. That's about, right? Yeah, you know, Same shit, different day, but still growing since 2020 and continuously learning with this crazy plant that literally should grow like a weed, but, you know, you just got to try to coax all that good stuff out of it.

Jordan River

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You've been, listen, you've been doing a good job. I know that you're, you're humble grower. You know you say you represent new growers and average growers and things of this nature, but for just been, just being growing for three years, that's pretty incredible to to come out with the consistent quality that you do. So congratulations on that. I know you give credit to the plant and the genetics and and all that. But we're going to go over a whole garden overview today. We're going to talk about strain reviews, because you blow through so many strains, you just pop more and more seeds, which I love. That's all I do. We're going to talk about your secret sauce you posted recently your kind of stacked nutrient recipe, if you will. So we're going to go over that and also touch base on some other things. For those who have not heard you on the program before, like your interesting veg cycle this time of year. But before all that, listen, you've won some competitions. Let's talk about this. Since last we spoke, you've taken some accolades. Can you share that with us? Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1

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So feeling a little bit more confident in, you know, getting things down a little bit more and tweaking things. So I've been entering a lot more grow offs, grow competitions. And recently there was one called the goat cup, and we had to get some goat genetics, which is a breeder out of Illinois. And, you know, I've attended your guys classes before, and we talk about, you know, terroir and all that good stuff. So. I do believe now there's a lot to be said with a breeder that breeds in Illinois and makes selections for Illinois and based on Illinois growing an environment and popped a bunch of seeds from goat one, goats choice, and then fourth place overall. And it was literally one point that separated, you know, second, third, fourth. So it was really a close race. Wow. So won that, and really weird, like goblet trophy. So it's kind of cool. Won a soul when a soul fire grow off Solo cup. Second place with a beautiful strawberry pink Terp Bahama berry strain, which just is amazing. I mean, that's just an amazing plant all around and then one heavily connected seed bank grow off, one a couple others too. Jeez, what the heck? Just, yeah, just been it keeps things interesting. You know what I mean? Otherwise you get not bored, because the plant always keeps you interested, but it keeps you motivated. Just push harder and harder to do better and better. I think that's why I like grow offs. Oh, dang. I love that. I mean, three or four right now. So I just popped a bunch of seeds, and I gotta pop a bunch more soul fires on September 1. So there's a bunch of grow offs going

Jordan River

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right now. Okay, so let's start here. Why not take cuts? I You pop more seeds than I don't want to say anyone I know but, but usually people are hunting, and they keep around to cut. You just got to pop them all. Is that what you're telling

Speaker 1

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me? That's exactly what I'm telling you. I know. I post some pictures of some of these cuts, and there's completely fire. And my family, my friends, are like, Oh my God, that one was a killer. And like, I'm like, I know. I wish I would have kept it. Here's the thing. Some people gamble. Some people play lottery scratchers. Some people have seed addictions. And the way, the way I look at growing popping seeds, really, I this is the way I look at it is number one, I've gotten some really fire clones from some really, pretty famous people in the Grow community, and they're out of California, and they're out of, you know, the West Coast. And it could be me, but honestly, I bring some of these cuts into my garden, and they're frosty, but they're like larfier area. They're not big and fat. And there's, again, that whole terroir, that whole environment that I think has a lot to play with it. So even if I do take a cut, sometimes it might only last for like, a couple rounds. So I feel like seed popping is like lottery scratchers. You know, one out of one out of 20 is going to be a banger. I mean, lately I've been like five out of five, like winning the the jackpot. But I think that's what keeps you on your toes and growing. It's like you can get really lazy and consistent, like, well, I know exactly how to feed this plant exactly every time, whereas, if you grow a different seed every time, it really helps you learn, and that is better. That

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