Jeffrey Hickey Writes Blogs

Category: cannabis

  • Attention Grabbers

    We’re in a harvest month. By the end of this month, more than one plant will be brought down. There are a few plants capturing most of my attention. The trichome show has well and truly begun. Some cultivars have less than four weeks remaining to harvest while others are…

  • Mold

    If you grow outdoors on the northwest coast, or if you grow someplace else with high, variable humidity, you likely have experienced botrytis, AKA mold. While my cannabis is still growing vegetatively, I like to amuse myself into believing that this is the year we’re going to avoid mold. The…

  • Garden Bounty

    When the temperature is 70 degrees (21.1 C), the humidity is 80% and it’s high noon, I can almost smell the pathogens out there. Look at the moisture on this leaf. This is three hours after a foliar spray. It is hand-to-hand combat out there at the moment and I’m…

  • Flowering Garden

    First, we are finally negative. Fifteen days of Covid was not fun, but we’re better. Thank you to those who brought us needed supplies, or ready-to-eat food. A huge thank you to Mr. T for the taco truck run.  We have faced a long reminder as to the difficulties of…

  • A Mycelium Network

    Cherry Punch 15 stands above all others in the beds this year. It’s Tuesday, August 5, and as I write this, I’m still testing positive for Covid, as is my wife, and we still don’t feel well. We both had a full Covid rebound Saturday night into Sunday morning. I…

  • Vita Interupta

    On Saturday, July 19, while playing music with friends, my beloved wife, Karen, had a heart attack. It wasn’t the usual heart attack. It was Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, also known as the “broken heart disease.” It is not caused by congestion in her chest – she has none – but by…

  • Lights Out

    The final day for supplemental lighting in my beds was July 21. From this point forward, the plants will get light entirely from the sun, which has begun a full sprint toward the south. It is only a matter of days before certain beds dip below twelve hours of growing…

  • Terpenes

    One day several years ago, Bee and I were pruning a Harlequin plant together. While we pruned, Bee said, “I’m getting hungry for pesto.” At that moment, I suddenly agreed, “That sounds great.” It was around noonish, so we were probably a little hungry, but that isn’t why we both…

  • Treasure Hunt

    It’s about 45 minutes before dawn. I stretch, and dress warmly, because it’s 44 degrees (6.6 C) outside and I am about to go hunting for compost tea ingredients. From ten years of doing this, I know where to go on my property, in my neighborhood, and deep in the…

  • July–Plant Updates

    July is the transitional month. Plants should be vegetatively growing at their full potential. Some plants will grow over an inch a day. But July is also the month where plants begin to transition to flowers. July is the month where my grow is at its most automated. Every day…