Category: cannabis
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Everything Must Go
First and foremost, I just mailed in my ballot. Proud to have voted. It has become Autumn here, all-of-a-sudden style, with hints and hues toward winter. There’s been a sudden, general reduction in certain insects, while experiencing frantic behavior from others, because they know the cold is coming and the…
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Harvest Begins
One more overhead of the beds in full sun before the plants start coming down. Sometimes, you get lucky with the weather, and that appears to be happening here. A few days ago, we had a stretch of high humidity 24 hours a day, with predictable results in the garden.…
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Washing Cannabis
I know that some of you are looking at the above flower, and you’re thinking there is no way you would dunk that beautiful flower into water, or hydrogen peroxide or lemon juice, or anything, other than your bong. The weather gods are giving us a tremendous break this week,…
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Tapering off
Purple Hindu Kush–40 days. I am getting to the “last time” point in the summer. It will shortly be the last time for compost teas and foliar sprays. The last time my cannabis or hemp plants received pure water was around the first of August. My tomato plants haven’t been…
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