B2020B1, of the same variety as B2020B, and hence the similarity in nomenclature, sprouted at the end of December 2020. It sprouted in a grow bag with nutrients and soil of a different composition than the parent plant. The amount of soil was of a higher percentage. Additional nutrients such as coco peat were added to the grow mix. It quickly shot up to about 3 feet in the space of two months. The leaves sprouted mainly from the stem, starting in a 3 leaf formation, and then subsequently becoming 5-leaved and then 7-leaved. The leaves and stem appeared much bigger and healthier than the parent plant, possibly due to the additional nutrients supplied.
Leaf compost was added to it after two months and daily watering was done, sometimes twice a day to handle the summer heat. In the third week of April, the plant stood at 3 feet. The primary leaves that sprouted initially have remained on the plant for nearly four months and only now started to dry up. Tertiary stalks sprouted from the lower parts of the plant, quite evenly and densely, giving the plant a candle stand appearance which seems to be characteristic of it.
From the new stalks, foliage of only 3-leaved pattern now cover the plant. The leaves that have sprouted since I moved the plant to the terrace and added the leaf compost resemble more the leaves of the earlier B2020B. They are slimmer with less finely defined groves on them. The plant started flowering in the middle of the 3rd month with tiny green flowers resembling teak flowers but of a light green color. The plant has been flowering for a month now, shedding these tiny flowers daily, around 15-20 each day. This suffices for my daily smoking needs giving a mild pleasant buzz that lasts for an hour or two. The flowers have a beautiful fragrance, mild but very pleasant. As I write this, the flowering phase appears to be ending. There are fewer flowers each day with the flowers turning more white than pale green.
Attempts to grow new plants from the seed bank have failed so far. I have been diligently planting 20-30 seeds every fortnight from almost the beginning of the year. A single plant sprouted in the end of Jan and about eight seeds sprouted in the first week of March. However, due to the heat or insufficient watering all 9 seedlings lasted no more than 4-5 days. I attribute the general lack of seed sprouting during this period to the weather as well as the possibility that the seeds I am currently planting are very old and have lost their potency. Some of the seeds in my seed bank are possibly ten years old and were stored away from sunlight resulting in their becoming unusable now.
Log date 19 April 2021
At the end of the year, B2020B1 had attained a height of about 5 feet. It flowered more or less constantly through the year, given the steady rainfall that happened in 2021. The flowers continued to be the hemp flowers, though the plant showed occasional signs of starting to yield the familiar cluster of cannabis flowers. The cluster formation of flowers, however, did not fully take off. I attribute this partly to the plant variety, partly to periods of insufficient watering and periods of excess rainfall.
The plant finally dried up at the end of December, mainly due to my absence for a couple of weeks. My thinking is that without these interruptions, the plant may have still been healthy in 2021, giving new insight to my ideas about the typical lifespan of the cannabis plant.Of the numerous seeds I planted in 2021, amounting to more than 200, as per my estimate, about a dozen sprouted, but only one survived. The surviving plant I labeled B2021A. The plant, however, went through a number of phases of under watering, resulting in a plant that currently stands just a foot tall, with sparse foliage, almost like a bonzai plant. It has shown little signs of growth in the last 3-4 months and appears to be frozen in its growth cycle.
The seeds I planted in Kerala on a couple of occasions in the year also failed to take off, owing to the low potency of the seeds due to age, and also owing to the possible bad timing of the sowing at times of low rainfall.
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