End of the Season

It is the end of the Season. This year here on the Colorado Front Range, you (I) could have grown out doors until November 3rd at least. Only having to cover your plants 3 or 4 or 5 times, you could have grown those sativa dominant plants into early November. I kept mine going until late in the 3rd week of October. Several times this season I did have to build a tent over the girls, to protect them from the weather. Also, this year I did not get the super high yields I had anticipated, however each one of all 11 plants is very potent. As they cure in glass jars they smell and taste better and better. Remember to go thru all your glass jars: open them up everyday so that they can breath…this lets the green agri- smell (chlorophyl) out of the jars.

As I have advised you to do, I put the fresh trimmed flower buds into paper lunch bags. I put them into the bags only one layer deep. That is so they will dry out. You don’t want to pile buds in there very deep because you don’t want this vegetative matter to compost, rot or mold. Leave those lunch bags full of drying buds under a table or just put them out of the way. I use paper bags because they are easy to procure and are cheap to purchase. Every time you go to a burger drive thru, save the paper bag. As your buds dry in a paper bag, it is dark inside and no dust or cat or dog hair gets in and no prying eyes can easily see what you’re doing. If you use drying racks, I recommend that you dry in the dark, slowly. I’ll put a paper label in those ‘dry bags’ with the date and strain name. After about 5 days of sitting and drying out, I’ll double them up (combine buds in the paper bags, they shrink up a bit so there is more room in the bags after 5 or 6 days of drying). I’ll be needing the space on the floor and will reuse the paper bags for the next batch to be harvested. Although the buds aren’t yet dry and solid, I’ll combine 2 or 3 bags contents into one lunch bag. This frees up more bags. After 3 or 4 more days, I’ll weigh the buds and put them into glass jars with labels. This “bagged and tagged” method has worked well for me although it is impractical if you have 30 or 40 plants. Lets say each plant yields, eventually, 12 ounces of dry buds. Forty plants, each yielding 3/4 lb of dry buds will come to thirty pounds of pot. That would take approximately 90 large glass jars. Some big indica plants can yield a lot more than 12 ounces, too.

I let my erb cure in glass jars for anywhere form 15 days to several months. Paper bags breath, glass jars do not. I open the jars every day at first, to check for dampness and smell. This process of “curing” is how your home grown erb reaches its full potential. Do not smoke around you pot as it dries and cures out. At each stage in this process, I’m looking for seeds. Any seeds that come rolling out of any bud, I’ll put it away for next year. There are no hemp fields in Denver, Colorado or in my neighborhood so I will keep these seeds and germinate them next February. Also, every season I hand pollinate selected plants so that I do get seeds for next season.
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Speaking of the next growing season…I’m going to complete the rib-cage of 4×4’s and 2×4’s that encloses my back yard. Many times this past season, I did have to “build a tent” to protect the girls. As I place the 4×4 poles in the ground every 8 or 9 feet, I’ve ended up with many “8 or 9 foot (by 8 1/2 foot tall) squares” under which to grow my plants. Among other things, I’ll be able to create, (using tarps) a light deprivation area where I can sex the young plants next May and June. This year I had 3 plants “go male” during the first two weeks of August. Well, thats a bummer. Some plants’ genetics are so screwed up that the plants that have been crossed, re-crossed, criss-crossed, back-crossed and double -crossed so many times that, although it might eventually be some superb erb, it won’t disclose its sex until very late in the year. Since I’m growing in buckets, we moved the males away from the female plants. I was going to harvest the male pollen from each male plant, but decided to just cut them down and throw them away. This is why growing from seeds can be so frustrating.

With the passage of the “AA” pot taxes, your dispensary prices WILL be going up, at least 25% to cover the taxes and another 25 or 35% to cover the increased retail demand come January-February. We who grow our own erb won’t really be affected by these large price increases.   When you Just-Do-This and grow your own medicine, we all will be way ahead.