It is mid August and its 3 waterings every day, over at my buddies house where we are growing. Seems as though I live there. One half to 2/3 of a gallon each time I water them. My buddies all have grows of 12 plants and many of them have 5 or 6 of those plants in serious flowering stage.
I’m spending a lot of time and effort on those plants in particular. I’ve been using a pair of short scissors to cut off all the yellow or fading leaves. Am getting rid of all the Big Shade Leaves. From this point onward we do want air and lots of sunlight getting into the center of the pot-bushes. The air will lessen the chances of mold growing and the sunlight will help all the little buds to develop and ripen. Also am top- filling those plant containers with a loose mulch/soil. We don’t want to have those top-most lateral roots exposed to the air or they’ll dry out.
By next week-end, I won’t be putting ANY fertilizer on the flowering girls. I’m trying to look into the future as to the weather we will be having in early September. It may be time for me to “pull a harvest” on those several Early Girls while letting the other plants grow and ripen on into late October perhaps. I am watching closely as they “plump and swell” and mature. Don’t jump the gun and begin to harvest too soon. The plants that are not quite as far along will get one more dose of fertilizer and then probably no more.
I’ve been using Miracle Grow 15 – 30 – 15 Bloom Booster but will stop doing that at least 3 weeks prior to the expected harvest. That is easier said than done.
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Some plants just flower up early…probably because those strains were bred (over these last 15 plus years) to have certain characteristics. Early flowering and early maturity being one. So, some of my buddies plants will likely be good and ready to harvest starting in 3 or 4 weeks. While the other plants will be ready to harvest over the next 9 or ten weeks. I have to make an educated guess as to when those “others” will be ready to harvest, too. I want to do a fresh-water-flush on each plant for at least 20 days prior to harvest.
Each plant that you take down in harvest will decrease your exposure to scrutiny. Every plant that you get bagged-n-tagged is one less pot plant that you’ll have to worry about. One less plant sitting in the Colorado sunlight in your back yard. Especially from mid October on, all the cover crops will be dieing back, not offering up much camouflage.
As I don’t put many freshly manicured buds into each paper bag and I label each… I can tell on what dates I did the clip-manicure-bag and tag process. I can tell you that last year my buddies “Denver Delight” was harvested over an 8 day period between Oct. 5th and October 12th. I’ve seen years when we had good weather into the first of November. I’ve seen years when the weather turned fowl in late September. So, where does this leave us? I don’t think that we are on the Home Stretch just yet. We have to be ready for any kind of bad weather. September is not usually a gentle month.
When you water each plant, look closely at the interior of that plant. Pull out any dead brown or yellowing leaves that would make for a good bug habitat. Start examining each plant for leaves you can clip off. If those leaves are tattered, worn-out or starting to yellow, then clip ‘em off. Do you see any lateral roots on top of the soil? Then put some mulch or loose soil on top around the stem. Are your plants getting enough water? Are they looking wilted early in the morning? Get up earlier and go out and water them up. I can usually keep pot plants hydrated and growing nicely with 3 waterings each day.
Farming is a full time job, even on a small scale. As these girls grow larger and grow a lot of flowers on its’ branches, it takes a lot of energy to keep these machines healthy. But this is now what we have been waiting for. They are now growing the pollen-attractant that we’ll be smoking in 3 or4 months.