Thanks to the Obama administration …the Federal Government will not sue the states of Washington and Colorado the close down the Federally illegal Medical marijuana industry…dispensaries and grow operations. In the tug of war between the individual states and the Federal Government…at this time the peoples of these two states WIN. So for at least 3 more years we will be able to legally grow, buy from a dispensary and smoke marijuana in our state. It’s still not totally legal to do these things out in the open…and what has been called legalization, I call decriminalization. Still, we are moving in the correct direction. Again, thanks to the Obama administration.
You don’t have to act like Cheech and Chong when you get high. Let’s not give the conservatives any ammunition or reason to try to undo the progress that we have made.
*Sexual Angst*
Okay, maybe now I’ve got your attention. All plants want to reproduce; that is genetically built in. Pot plants go whacky when you take the males out of this equation. All of my girls are cranky from not being pollinated. Over the next four to seven weeks the girls will be forming large dense, sticky flower buds. If there is any male pot pollen in the air, these buds will grab that dust out of the air and will produce seeds. We only want this to happen in a controlled manner, if at all. When the girls do not get pollinated, they go into overdrive producing more and more THC trichomes. Angst everywhere…thieves everywhere, too.
Scientists the world over are studying these trichomes, the THC complex, to find out what is going on. When they do figure it out, the corporations will buy a patent to synthesize the various compounds (THC, CBD, GBN, CBC, CBNA, etc) to make pills to sell to you. You don’t need to fall for this chicanery…just grow your own marijuana medicine. No one can take your knowledge and experience away from you. You’ll know how to grow sensi-erb all on your own, be more self-sufficient.
By now, 1st of September, you should be fertilizing your girls, every 6 or 7 days with a bloom booster fertilizer…low nitrogen, high phosphate, moderate potassium. You should be cutting down the amount of water you put into each container. You should be cutting off all of the yellowed leaves…in fact, start cutting off all of the big outer leaves.
There were some hot, windy days in August when I felt I had to pour 3 gallons of water into each plants’ container. I am trying this year to use less water…less than in years past. I used to put 3 1/2 gallons of water onto each plant, per day. This year I’ve cut it down to 3 gallons, maybe even a little less. Now as we enter September, I am watering each plant about 2 1/2 gallons per day. Usually 1 or 1 1/2 gallons in the morning and another gallon or gallon and a 1/4 in the late afternoon. These big plants need to stay hydrated, as there is a lot of vegetative structure. September is often warm and windy. I’m watching the T.V. weather for any hints of heavy rains, heavy winds or any hail in my neighborhood.
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Next…you’ll only be fertilizing them 2 or 3 more times before your girls will go into a water only-flush regiment. We do want to get out all of the salts that we fertilized with…out of the plant before we harvest and smoke it. Sure, sure, I eat tomatoes that were heavily fertilized and not even flushed. Nothing wrong with me except that I have 3 ears now. With our pot, we really do want it to be medical grade. The last two or 3 weeks before harvest, only water them with clean, pure water, no fertilizer. If you believe that where you are growing your erb, you may only have 3 more weeks until harvest…then you will only fertilize once more. I’m betting that the weather will allow us to keep on growing well into October. I’ve been way-wrong in the past so it is a gamble. The longer the growing season is, the more mature our sativa dominant plants will be. Let your tap water sit for 25 or 30 hours in order to allow the chlorine to evaporate out. I use gallon milk and orange juice jugs so that I can measure out the amount of water I ladle out to the girls.
The biggest difference (to me as a farmer) between indica and sativa is in how long it takes for the different plants to fully mature. All of them are in a flowering mode and all of our girls are slowing down in terms of their daily growth. The sativa dominant girls can go well into November to fully mature. Unfortunately, the weather won’t allow us outdoor growers to do so. Your indica dominant girls will be ready by 3rd week of September on into mid October. Your Sativa dominant plants probably will take a little longer. Many years at harvest time, I wished I had ten more days or two more weeks before I had to cut ’em down. But by late September, you’ll be losing all of your cover crops that helped to hide your plants all summer long. And we often have a deep freeze that’ll kill your plants. But like I said, I am hoping this year for a long drawn out warm Fall, with only a light frost one or two nights and then a long “Indian Summer”.
Folks, you are in the home stretch…have patience and let them grow and grow. You can do this. Now is not yet the time to give in and pull an early harvest. Grit your teeth…watch for thieves. Your plants are doing what you want them to do…growing THC sugars. Let them grow, plump and swell. Watch for thieves.
P.S. Always watch for thieves as they don’t always strike at night.