Cannabis is legal in Oregon and this year once it was obvious that I was going to be stuck at home this year, I decided to grow 4 plants. The next door neighbor has a friend who is a commercial grower and was selling clones for half the price from most suppliers.
I wanted plants that produced a lot of resin and terpines and that turned purplish when they bloomed. Primarily I was hoping for interesting photo subjects. I got 4 different strains on May 1 and planned to grow them indoors under an LED grow light. Once the clones rooted in my 5 gallon pots they grew rapidly. In June I noticed a few aphids so I collected some lady bugs at a spot I knew and they made short work of the aphids.
At the end of July I noticed a fungus, powdery mildew, on a few leaves. This is caused by letting the humidity get too high. Anyway, I moved the plants outdoors to the garden and treated them for the mildew. They had really outgrown my indoor area so I left them outside.
In September they started blooming and were looking great and then we had a weather event, high winds from the east, coupled with terrible wildfires in the Cascades that brought heavy smoke and an ashfall that coated my plants overnight. The resin tricomes on the flowers are very sticky and a coating of fine ash was permanently stuck on. Mold and bacteria soon took over and I had to toss the plants.
I had taken a few cuttings before they bloomed and started 3 new plants under the light. They are growing well and I have taken step to correct the mistakes I made with the first crop. Keeping these plants at 18 hours of light per day will keep them in a vegetative state. Once they have gotten as large as my space will accommodate I can induce blooming by changing the light to 12 hours a day and also making it redder. I will take new cuttings just before I induce blooming for the next generation.
The wildfires totally destroyed several small towns just a few miles east of here. 2020 has been the worst year for humanity in my lifetime.
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