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  • Feminized are in the ground

    The supplemental outdoor lights are being unboxed and tested. At the same time, several new timers are plugged and charging, having already set the timers to go on at 5:00 am and off at 9:00 am every day for the next three months. From April 19 to July 21, these…

  • The First Week

    After two days, only eight out of 57 seeds have not opened. Some appear to have started opening before I left the room two days ago. Damn males, I thought to myself. The majority of the nine uncracked are six AK47, which are about six years old. I knew they…

  • The 2025 Grow Begins

    In eight days, I will start feminized seeds directly into five of my beds, while at the same time, starting seeds in my cottage to fill the other beds. I have several regular seed cultivars to start and I’m also starting backups for each and every feminized seed that I…

  • Buying Seeds

    I’ve been inundated with seed offers via email recently. It certainly seems that all my efforts to “unsubscribe” have been ignored. But it serves as a good reminder that if you are considering growing from seeds and haven’t purchased any for this year, it’s time. Of all the questions I’ve…

  • Winter

    It’s early in January, 2025. Happy New Year to everyone. The day after Christmas, to ward off my empty nest blues, I planted approximately 1,500 fava bean seeds, after removing the plastic covers from our beds. Solarization is complete, having received both heat and ice, these beds are ready for…

  • Making FECO

    I am not an expert in extractions. The deal I made with my wife, after she became ill, was that I would learn to grow to the best of my ability, and she would learn to process the plant into some congestible form other than smoke. I am learning to…

  • The Freedom of Growing at Home

    While I’m working on the next new blog, this is a reprint of an old favorite. More than once, I have been contacted by people while they visited a dispensary, wanting to buy products and requesting my advice. I have often been asked what commercial cannabis products I purchase, or…

  • Test Results–2024

    As promised, the test results are in. Every year since I’ve been doing this, I await these results with restless anticipation. There’s always good news, bad news and surprising news. This year is no exception. Overall, the tests show that this was the most powerful grow I’ve had to date…

  • All the plants are inside

    As a cannabis grower, there are few feelings more satisfying than when all the plants I just spent six months growing are dried and in the house. They’ve been trimmed and now fill 52 half-gallon mason jars. We’ve had much bigger harvests than this, but this year the only cultivar…

  • Trimming is life

    Over the last nine years, I’ve spent a solid portion of each October in my favorite chair, trimming cannabis. Just like many of you who also grow at home. Trimming is the finale to every grow. For outdoor growers, it is the coda to six months of work. The process…