I planted some seeds around mid July, they quickly started flowering at about 2 feet tall after one month. 3/6 were nice looking males that went into the trash. The other 3 pumped flowers out like no tomorrow. With less than 60 days of flowering (outdoors), I was starting to wonder if they could have been autoflowers.
Anyhow, being by the ocean I constantly deal with high humidity and warm temperatures. Just the coldness creating the dew point in the early morning is enough to cause budrot, which in turn causes me to lose nice parts of very dank colas. The national weather service issued a warning talking about an unseasonable cold front which has already affected the whole coast of california I'm sure. It went from 100 degrees high to a 70 degree high. Thundershowers are expected as well. Having an epicly cold rainstorm come through 1 day before I was going to harvest obviously is NOT ideal.
So I have had to be lucky that my squeeze harvest came this far along, and the buds smell amazing. Although most likely not much amber trichome production. Us outdoor growers are at the mercy of mother nature, which can be a down-side. However, it has been a great first season of growing, learning, and having fun. Other than dealing with European-high flyers (corn borers) - a type of caterpillar that is MUCH more atrocious than just a regular caterpillar. They eat your weed and poop everywhere, Inducing Rot. Norcal doesn't seem to have this problem but socal sure does.
Luckily the buds are pretty dense, they aren't aerated and fluffy. So I think it was a good idea to harvest just a few days early, instead of taking a chance on more budrot, and ultimately a total wipeout of the plant. It would only take a short amount of rain to ruin it, especially with the minimal damage from the dew point.
Anyhow, being by the ocean I constantly deal with high humidity and warm temperatures. Just the coldness creating the dew point in the early morning is enough to cause budrot, which in turn causes me to lose nice parts of very dank colas. The national weather service issued a warning talking about an unseasonable cold front which has already affected the whole coast of california I'm sure. It went from 100 degrees high to a 70 degree high. Thundershowers are expected as well. Having an epicly cold rainstorm come through 1 day before I was going to harvest obviously is NOT ideal.
So I have had to be lucky that my squeeze harvest came this far along, and the buds smell amazing. Although most likely not much amber trichome production. Us outdoor growers are at the mercy of mother nature, which can be a down-side. However, it has been a great first season of growing, learning, and having fun. Other than dealing with European-high flyers (corn borers) - a type of caterpillar that is MUCH more atrocious than just a regular caterpillar. They eat your weed and poop everywhere, Inducing Rot. Norcal doesn't seem to have this problem but socal sure does.
Luckily the buds are pretty dense, they aren't aerated and fluffy. So I think it was a good idea to harvest just a few days early, instead of taking a chance on more budrot, and ultimately a total wipeout of the plant. It would only take a short amount of rain to ruin it, especially with the minimal damage from the dew point.
