Jeffrey Hickey Writes Blogs

Category: Education

  • 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…

  • Knocking on Harvest Door

    Rosé still has three weeks to go, but she’s showing off, anyway. A week ago, we removed a small amount of mold from a few nugs, and I put the nugs into the cottage to dry.  One of the nugs is Purple Punch, which I suspected is not a Purple…

  • Constant Evaluation

    For months in my beds, vegetables and cannabis grow in similar, vegetative ways. It’s the vegetables that flower first and begin producing. We’ve been eating fresh food for a couple of months now. We’re still eating from the garden, but the harvest is slowing down. As food production declines, cannabis…

  • Late Summer Rain

    Every autumn, while flowers develop, I study the long-range forecasts. I’ve previously mentioned how I specifically watch for changes in humidity. If it is consistently high, I spray for powdery mildew and inspect for moth worm damage. If the humidity is variable and drops down below 50% during the day,…

  • 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…