We’re having a LOT of spring snow. Much needed water, but ouch the shoveling! Still piling up. This is the patio where I like to sit, in other seasons. #cowx pic.twitter.com/11vfrJm1u0 — jnfr (@jnfr) March 14, 2021
Continue reading →I prefer to grow marijuana in soil, and that’s what I will write about here and in my book. The segment I’m writing now is on tools, and the first tools to consider are the pots you grow your plants in. After the jump is a first draft of information about choosing types and sizes of pots to grow marijuana indoors. Like everything I write, this information is geared to new gardeners in Colorado, where home growing is now legal in certain amounts and in certain situations. This information does not apply in any state other than my own.
Continue reading →The buds are growing, with lots of pistils but no trichomes showing yet. We’re probably six to eight weeks from having any mature bud from this grow. I grow using a technique called “low stress training”, which I want to talk about in some depth. I don’t have time this week, but I did want to leave you a picture at least. More soon.
Continue reading →As soon as Amendment 64 passed, I got some seeds from a friend (Aurora Indica, a Northern Lights x Afghani breed) and started a grow. For that first grow I began my babies as seed in soil, starting in cream cheese tubs. Cream cheese tubs are great for starting seeds, as long as you poke drainage holes in the bottom. They are waterproof and pretty much unbreakable. From the tubs, which are about three inches across, I repotted to four-inch plastic pots, then to six-inch, then to pots that were approximately 11 inches across. Finally I moved them to the … Continue reading →
Today the first legal retail sales of marijuana are taking place in Colorado. Watching the news reports on the Denver Post’s new Cannabist liveblog, it sounds like everything is smooth and peaceful. Demand is strong and there may be shortages at some stores, but I’m sure that will all work out over time. Here at our house, we’ve had legal weed for months, because I grow my own. In fact, my second crop is full of young buds now.
Continue reading →Harvested my first tomato yesterday. They are ripening very late this year, but I got them planted pretty late as well. The plant is “red pear piriform”, an Italian heirloom, that I grew from seed by Johnny’s Seed.
Continue reading →We’re actually having a thunderstorm tonight, and may have hail. But I’ve got tiny green beans and the zucchini are flowering. And the trumpetvine looks beautiful.
Continue reading →At least the grapevine is happy.
Continue reading →My head is still in the garden more than in politics.
Continue reading →I think about writing something occasionally, but it’s really all I can do to keep up with my garden this year. That’s Minuet, a dwarf Chinese cabbage, growing next to Toy Choy.
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