Okay, it is the middle of July. All of my plants have shown me their sex, and the males have been cut down and thrown into the compost pile. Some stubborn plants did not want to disclose their sex to me.  Some plants had me fooled again this year…But through the process of ‘shedding’, and the days are getting shorter…they have all now expressed what they are. Some very hybred plants don’t seem to know what they are either.

Clearly, the days are getting shorter. All my girls are beginning to show pistils. However, I want them to stay in the vegetative state, don’t want to encourage flowering, yet. We use the N-P-K fertilizer ratio to push the plants in the direction we want them to go. So, I use a diluted, high nitrogen, low phosphorus ratio fertilizer. Sometime in August, I’ll hit them with low N, high P, medium K ratio bloom booster type fertilizer. Like I’ve already said, the girls are growing in good soil…you probably don’t need any fertilizer at all. They can soak up any sugars you feed them (again, be moderate), but I mostly use N-P-K fertilizer to steer them in the direction I want them to go. I don’t want the girls to stop growing and go into a flowering stage yet.

We have been getting our usual July monsoons again, so I really haven’t had to hand water very much at all over the past 3 or 4 days. With the plants being so wet, I have to move them further apart to allow air to get in between them. I’ll be looking for any possible molds as soon as the weather clears. I don’t want the girls to be all jammed up, crowded together…and they are getting bushy and filling out. Later, in August they’ll bloom, the entire plant will expand and bush out. It is very noticable.

I have finally this year constructed a trellis or rib-cage over the plants. I can tie their arms up and out and when the hail come, I’ll be able to throw tarps over the top of this 2×4 structure.

We only have between 80 and 95 more days before harvest. The last 20 or 25 of these days will be a “no-fertilize, just flush” period.

Right now we want the girls to grow their roots completely through-out the containers. We mostly want more growth of above ground structure, as this is where our yield increases.
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I’m hoping for a long drawn-out summer and fall. Some of my sativa dominant girls could go into late October, weather permitting. Often however, I have been forced to pull a harvest in late September. You’ll have to watch your TV weather girl and use your own experience as a guide.

Now is a good time to collect up some glass jars, big ones with screw-on lids. You’ll also need brown paper lunch bags. The drive-thru hamburger joints use white paper bags and these work fine for drying your buds, too.

You should be clipping off the big outter leaves as they crap out. Also, clean out the interior of your plants a little bit so that sunlight and air can get in there.

Good seed genetics. Big containers with good soil. Lots of direct sunlight. Adequate water. Keep the thieves out of your gardens, Go easy on the fertilizers, organic or chemical.

Hey, tell me what you-all think. How is your garden growing so far. What kind of problems are you running in to. I would be happy to address the things that are troubling you and your girls.