Well, now that we’ve got all that behind us, (and thank you for voting), we can finish this blog properly. The final harvest tally was 13.27 pounds, which is our second largest yield. We averaged slightly over one pound a plant. The last three plants we harvested, the...
2020 Isolation Grow Blog
2020 Isolation Grow: Survive & Vote
This has been a challenging summer for me physically. I had hernia surgery just before the pandemic hit, and about six weeks prior to cracking open seeds, so my recovery from that coincided with the grow. Physical rehabilitation is usually better when it’s not butting...
2020 Isolation Grow: Ghost Town
There ought to be a single guitar playing behind this with lots of reverb, plucking dreamy notes that hang in the air like memories.
2020 Isolation Grow: Family Tradition
Our final plants are still drying. We trimmed Bubba God and RK 16 over the weekend. I’ll detail the end of harvest in the next two blogs. We’re taking a timeout today for Jack-O-Lanterns. Yes, we carved these pumpkins. To be fair, I cleaned many of them, and then...
2020 Isolation Grow: Last Plants Come Down
October 21 HARVEST ALERT Been waiting all summer to bring down the big plants, and that began yesterday, with RK 18, Rainbow Kush in bed 18.I am particularly fond of the way Bee arranges the flowers, and how they come down off the tomato cage rack. What you don’t see...
2020 Isolation Grow: And Then, There Were Two
Seven plants are now drying in our cottage. On Karen’s birthday, we took down White Widow and Bubba God.
2020 Isolation Grow: The Limp Leaf
October 13 Bee’s Covid test was negative, and they will arrive today, ready to work sans mask. I’m bringing in ACDC 22 for trimming, while waiting to see which plant might need taking down today. My guess is RG 5, but we have to wait until sunlight hits the beds to be...
2020 Isolation Grow: Crunch
October 9 HARVEST ALERT ACDC 17 is coming down. This is the third plant to be brought down with no mold found upon the initial inspection. She appears to be another very clean plant. October 10 This morning was possibly the final Regalia spray of the season. Humidity...
2020 Isolation Grow: Readiness & Rain
October 6 This is the week I study weather forecasts multiple times a day. Weather changes fast. That’s why long range predictions are often inaccurate. Anything predicted beyond about twelve hours is guesswork. For example, when I first read of long range rain, it...
2020 Isolation Grow: Twist
October 3 This older four point buck watched me go from the house to the beds, inspect every plant, followed my every step, all the way back into the house to grab Karen to come take the photograph. He stared at us the entire time. We got the shots and got outta...
2020 Isolation Grow: October
A couple of these bottlebrush flowers were cut into the last compost tea of the grow. October 1 So we begin the climactic month of October. In terms of cannabis harvest, October is the peak month. A sustained period of work is looming. The way things are tentatively...
2020 Isolation Grow: The Final Trains
First light hits the tops of RK 18 at 8:14 a.m. September 26 This weekend, while we wait for Sour Tsunami to finish drying for trimming, we will begin providing support for flowers growing too large for the stalks they occupy. First case in point: ACDC 22 Her flowers...
2020 Isolation Grow: Questions & Flowers
September 22 I haven’t had much of an online presence for years. I left facebook over five years ago, will never return, and I don’t pay an abundance of attention to the latest anything. I rarely check my website. I recently stopped following the news until after the...
2020 Isolation Grow: Don’t Mind If I Do
This orb spider is big, bad and beautiful. Multiple kills are in its nest, waiting to be eaten. September 19 After six consecutive mornings of Regalia sprays before dawn, today I slept in until 7:00. I needed the extra sleep, so I plan on spraying this evening around...
2020 Isolation Grow: Harvest Begins
This crab spider (on ACDC 7) appears thrilled to be here for our first Harvest Day of 2020! September 13 I won’t lie. This morning feels a bit like a holiday or birthday morning. I’ve been up since 5:30, already showered and into the overalls. My toes are wiggly....
2020 Isolation Grow: Harvest Eve
You know it has entered harvest time when the front side of the leaf is green and the backside is purple. This orb spider points toward one of the first signs of autumn in the beds. First, just a few words of thanks to the excellent zoom session yesterday with...
2020 Isolation Grow: Three Taps
Bee and Azure left yesterday, and as a parent, I am not always a fan of empty nest reminders. They had been inside with us for most of two weeks, without masks, just like the old days. It was family. Toward the end of their stay, they were exposed to others, and had...
2020 Isolation Grow: Back to Work
Dawn rising, this is a view of some of the southern hill treeline that shades my crop in afternoons and evenings. September 5 All evacuees in our area have been allowed to come home. Our entire region of the world breathes a sigh of relief, and offers our sincere...
2020 Isolation Grow: Intimate Gardening
This is ACDC 22 catching an evening ray of light through the trees. September 1 First of September means it’s a BT day. Approximately ten young worm nests were found yesterday, so the white moths have been active during the fire. As every plant is flowering, worm...
2020 Isolation Grow: September Needs Help
The kit is a constant around here now. Such a fine fellow. It watches while I prune. As you read this blog, we are two weeks or less from harvesting our first plant, Shiatsu Kush. It will be good to have an early harvest plant to shake the dust off our trimming chops....
2020 Isolation Grow: Making Medicine
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to the brave people fighting the fire so close to us. It’s August 24, 2020 and just after 6:00 this evening, an immediate evacuation was ordered for some roads a few miles south of us that are up the hillside and closest to...
2020 Isolation Grow: Work Until the Siren Blows
Today, we work in the garden. While we work, we watch the wind. While we watch, we listen for the phone, or the Hi/Low siren that will tell us it’s time to leave. I don’t think we’ll have to leave, but that’s no more than a guess based on the weather I expect over the...
2020 Isolation Grow: Fire Season
That smoke over the hillside is the Woodside fire. Passed the four month birthday for the plants a couple of days ago. That means we are ⅔ through the entire process. The home stretch beckons. At 11:00 last night, we got a message of a fire evacuation going on in our...
2020 Isolation Grow: Dominoes
Here you can see a friendly bumblebee making its way around the new lavender that has grown since Karen harvested a bunch several weeks ago. August 14 We are having our first 100 degree day (37.7C), with only 17% humidity. Weather like this is good for two things: 1)...
2020 Isolation Grow: Counting in the Dark
This is Shiatsu Kush, on around day 21 of flowering in this video, and we hope this is a preview of coming attractions. We want to get footage soon of bees interacting with cannabis flowers. Karen said this one was getting into the flowers, but before she started...
2020 Isolation Grow: The Poetry of Motion
This is RK 18, with a cabbage moth flying by for inspection. This plant is still in veg growing mode, though it won’t be for much longer. She is at the other end of the beds from where we take the photo at the conclusion of each blog, so she’s not as obvious to the...
2020 Isolation Grow: Trouble in 22
First things first. Several weeks ago, our child, Brenden, informed us they are gender neutral, and would prefer being called Bee, but is also ok with us calling them boo, because that’s what we’ve always called our second born (by 10 minutes) child. I had not...
2020 Isolation Grow: Appreciation
Our grow supervisor this year is a kit. This fine fellow sat and watched us while we pruned. We should have cropped the bucket out. August 1 As we roll along into the back end of this grow, I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge my appreciation for others who help...
2020 Isolation Grow: 50/50
This morning was the first 4.5 gallon spray. That’s full capacity for my foliar sprayer. From here until we start cutting down plants, every foliar spray will be a full tank plus however much more I’ll need to finish. Last year,...
2020 Isolation Grow: 143 Days & Counting
May 27 July 27 Two months ago today, I put plants in the beds. When you’re out there every day, you definitely notice the growth. There are little benchmarks you follow. How quickly do the tops grow from one rung on the cage to the next? How much do they grow in 24...