2. GENETICS AND THE PLANT

The plant should fit your needs; the right plant for the given circumstances and desires. Think of the type of high you want, aroma, climate, THC percentage, outdoors – indoors, resistance to deceases and plagues, length lifecycle, yield per square meter, clone-ability, and so on.

Personally I think it is preferable, if possible, to find an Indica/Sativa hybrid (mix of two different plants), that has the best high as well as good characteristics for indoor growth. Indica plants have a heavy, stony high that is tiresome, while Sativa’s are hard to grow indoors due to high light requirements and late flowering traits. So, a hybrid should be chosen that has the energetic, cerebral high of the sativa and the early maturation tendencies of the Indica plant.

The Indica is easy recognized by its extremely broad leaves that are very much rounded. While the Sativa on the other hand, has very narrow, finger-like leaves. A hybrid will of course have qualities of both plants and because of this, the leaves will be thinner than from an Indica, but much broader than from a Sativa. For the trained eye, it is possible to recognize the “degree of Indica” in a hybrid by the shape of its leaves.