Grow Blog
The guides tell you how to do a thing. This is the other half: what is worth doing this month, what went wrong in a real run, and what changed.
- The Great Lakes freeze two weeks earlyMinnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan frost in the first half of October, well before most harvest advice expects. What that does to a season, and how to plan the next one.
- A cold garage dries on a different curveEvery drying guide assumes a 68F room. A 50F garage in October takes much longer, hides moisture in the stems, and is where a lot of fall harvests quietly go wrong.
- Northern California only has one dateThe whole outdoor season here comes down to when the first real October rain arrives. It moves by weeks every year, and watching for it is the entire job.
- The mid Atlantic gets three extra weeksVirginia, Maryland and the Carolinas hold off frost into late October. That extra time is real, and most growers waste it by harvesting on somebody else's calendar.
- When the freeze date decides your harvestIn October the forecast outranks the trichomes. How to read a first freeze date, pick the day, and get outdoor plants down without losing the crop.