[plant-daddy]

Species from Vietnam and South East Asia are inherently water tolerant or thirsty plants from what I know. My wife grew up there and if you’ve ever watched a vietnam war flick… it rains a lot. You’d be best off trying to find a landrace seed from that region though and breed the most tolerant together.

[guppygirl]

An interesting thought. I wonder how well these will do in Real Buckets. I collect landrace seeds and have several South East Asian strains.

[plant-daddy]

Good idea though, or just grow living soil…

[frogslayer]

Sounds like more work and more finesse needed with the nutrients to not induce burn. Probably way easier and faster just to teach someone how to water a plant. It’s not hard, it’s not rocket science lol.

[havaniceday]

I would nor recommend a southeast asian/tropical sativa, to a beginer. So if you are trying to help beginers, they have to understand that there are very few differences in soil/warter needs from one strain to the other, so it all starts with learning to give no more than it needs. The underground conditions needed are more similar from strain to strain as opposed to aerial conditions tolerated by various strains.(temperature, humidity, daylength). So the plants know whats best as they have been trying hard to grow as strong and fast as possible for millions of years, it is sad that humans trye so hard to change nature in stead of adapting to it.

[bepennjier]

…hm…it’s not the surplus of water but the lack of oxygen at the roots. as long as there is enough oxygen at the roots you can’t overwater. that’s why hydroponics work.

you can’t breed a strain that doesn’t need oxygen. usually plants (or animals) that need less oxygen have a slower metabolism and thus slower growth/less overall vigor. that doesn’t mean they have to stay small but it takes them longer to grow tall.

it’s an oversight by nature: plants release oxygen at the leafes but for their metabolism they have to take it up via the roots.

for the asian strains: it’s often said that rainforests don’t grow in the soil but on the soil. checks out with what I learned from growing weed.

that’s just my two cents. I can confidently say parts of the above is true but it doesn’t paint the whole picture and I’m no expert on that

on the other hand: just give it a try. you’ll have a lot of fun and who knows maybe you’ll get something really good out of it.

worst case: it doesn’t work as intended