Jeffrey Hickey Writes Blogs

Category: cannabis

  • My First Dry Grow

    At long last, my dry grow begins. I’ve been hinting at this for years, both in blogs and with students. I have long opined that I could grow a crop without weekly watering, only giving a quart plus of compost tea every seven days for most of the grow. I…

  • 77 Days of Veg Growth & 44 Years of Love

    Plant transportation.  May 5–The supplemental outdoor lights were hung and installed. I checked to see if each was working, left them turned on, hung them on the fence and plugged them into the timers, which I had already set and checked as working.  They will be on from 5:00 am…

  • Almost Ready for planting

    I’m pleased with my new cottage lights. I don’t need anything too fancy. I got the HLG Rspec 200, two of them. I just needed something to get plants started and growing. The first thing I noticed is how little heat comes off these lights. The AC isn’t going to…

  • the 2026 grow begins

    The fava plants, the morning I cut them down. I start seeds on April 1. This year’s crop is the most significant since I began growing. This year is the first year that I’m going to dry grow my entire crop. At some point early in the vegetative cycle, I…

  • Questions from subscribers #2

    This is the second of these, where I respond to reader questions from over winter. #1)  I’m going to grow outdoors for the first time this year. Should I grow clones or seeds? I want to try seeds, but clones seem to be easy to find in my area and…

  • I’ve Had Enough

    When I began the Isolation Grow blog in 2020, I was trying to do something helpful and free for people after the pandemic hit. We were all stuck inside, we were all isolated and frustrated, and my hope was to give folks something positive to do while we hid from…

  • 2025 Test Results

    Cherry Punch 15 There’s a lot to digest in my 2025 test scores, and I’m not going to bury the lede. I was most curious about Cherry Punch grown in bed 15. This was my “dry farmed” plant. I stopped giving her water on May 25. She went four full…

  • Endings Are Beginnings

    It was exactly a six month grow. It started April 10, and the last three plants were harvested on October 10, five days prior to my goal of having everything harvested by October 15. The decision to take them down was mine. I took one look at them, another at…

  • Dawn to dusk

    Whenever I have been faced with an overwhelmingly difficult task, like when my wife suddenly became seriously ill, I have developed strategies for coping. In fact, one of my ways to figure out a course of action for a difficult problem is to imagine the worst case scenario, and come…

  • Purple Weekend

    First harvest morning, me and Bee, Fruitcakes coming down. This has been the summer of purple in my growing beds. I have never had a grow with so many purple flowers. I’ve had lots of purple leaves over the years, but this season, I finally had three plants that grew…