After many difficult months early in this growing season, these past 6 or 7 weeks have been perfect for growing flower buds. I hope you are only watering your girls with plain old water…no fertilizer. As you inspect your plants, look for flower buds that are colorful, that is, the pistils have all (or mostly) died and turned brown, orange, purple or whatever. These clumps of female sex organs are indicating that that flower bud is ready to be clipped off of that twig.

I’ll inspect all the twigs and branches for the over-all condition of the plants’ buds.  I’ve written about this in past articles as well as in my book, “Growing Marijuana Outdoors in Colorado”. You the farmer get to make this decision as to when to harvest each clump of flower buds. If you see any powdery mildew (P.M.) on your girls, cut it off and throw it all away.  Look carefully.  This year I’ve shit-canned two whole plants because of P.M. It was a difficult discussion with that grower, but you must not process any buds with P.M. on it. Also bad for your lungs is bud rot.  If  you see an area of brown (dead leaf or flower) in your buds, it’s probably bud rot. Cut it out and throw it away, not in the compost pile. Also, if your plants have aphids or spider mites,  you must recognize it right away. If you end up smoking insect poop it will make you very very sick.

Every day over these past 5 months, you should have been looking for insect infestations. If lady bugs cannot keep up with the eradication of these small bugs, then you’ll have to mix up a batch of sudsy water with chili pepper or with garlic or with ground-up pine bark. You’ll spray it onto the leaves and stems where the insects are. The soap suds will because the insects to shit their brains out and die. Then you’ll still have to take those leaves off from the plant. Keep your plants well maintained and clean. You do not want any one to smoke pot that has bug poop on it. Keep the dead (brown) and dieing (yellow) leaves cut off.

Often, it is the weather that determines when the plants get harvested.  We usually will have had a couple frosts by now, here on the Front Range of Colorado. But this year, 2015, has been a sunny delight. We have nothing but sunny and dry weather forecast for the next week and a half.

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For us small-time Home Stash growers, drying the trimmed buds in a brown paper grocery bag will work just fine. Just one layer of buds in each bag because we don’t want the buds to ferment or rot or compost. We want the buds to dry in the dark. After 5 or 6 days in  lunch bags, I’ll consolidate them into large grocery bags…4 or 5 or 6 lunch bags of buds into one grocery size paper bag. Then after 3 or 4 more days, if those buds are good and dry, I’ll put them into glass jars. For awhile, I’ll check the contents of each glass jar every day for moisture. The sticks and twigs hold moisture. If these go moldy, it’ll ruin all the pot in that jar. Get them dry; then they’ll cure up and taste good. Curing is a process of driving off the green taste.

Especially in years of good, sunny weather, I’ll only clip off those buds that are ready, leaving the inside or hidden buds to get direct Colorado sunlight. In another 4 or 5 days these buds will maybe be ready to harvest, too. When there is no hail, frosts or hard winds, we don’t have to take entire plants down. I can only trim and bag just so many buds in an evening anyway, so I might as well let the plants keep growing,  keep making THC sugars for the rest of the less mature buds.

This is the end of this growing season; it should be a happy time. We still must “get the hay into the barn” so to speak, and finish this process. Baseball on the radio. Broncos on TV, pot clippings on the table and in the jars. Life is good.