Mother Nature and a $30 timer on my garden hose is all it takes. I harvest enough for my consumption throughout the year and give the rest away. I still have some jars from the last three years. I don’t think it ever goes bad.
The inner branches on this one seem to be dwarfed. The outer branches seem fine but the buds are small and not big cattails. Almost like the old Tia sticks we used to buy back in the day. We had some real cool weather early spring. It may have F’ed up some.
I’ve had damn Squash bugs lay eggs on some leaves and a few little caterpillars. Haven’t had much issues luckily. I think regular water is the key. It’s weird, I’ve tried several seed strains given to me but the environment seems to make them turn out the same.
I don’t know if it was beginners luck or what. All I did was rigged an irrigation out of some pvc and got a small Orbits timer. Set it on 30 minutes every thre days and them bumped it to two when it started getting into the night 90s and 100s.
We’re at 3900 and some feet. We do get snow but seldom a lot. Here is the 4 pounder. This was a few weeks before I began cutting and hanging. It was so big the Google Earth car came by and captured it on street view. Hahahaha! Glad it’s legal. Ok