New Grower from Upper Midwest (U.S.)

Smugzs · Sep 21, 2025

Good evening everyone. I'm a long time smoker, first time grower. I'm from the upper Midwest states in the US. Short hot growing season here, so trying my hand at a few different varieties. This year, grew 1 plant, Acapulco Gold outdoors. I'm hoping to start cutting and drying soon, any advice would be awesome, adding a few pics taken today!

cpurola · Sep 21, 2025

Good job! Is it an Auto?

Smugzs · Sep 21, 2025

cpurola said:
Good job! Is it an Auto?

Thank you! No, it's feminized (from Seed Supreme), I started it outdoors the last week of May. It started flowering stage immediately when the days started getting shorter. It got quite cold here last week, dropped to 45 degrees at night and that's when the purple hue started appearing

cpurola · Sep 21, 2025

Smugzs said:
Thank you! No, it's feminized (from Seed Supreme), I started it outdoors the last week of May. It started flowering stage immediately when the days started getting shorter. It got quite cold here last week, dropped to 45 degrees at night and that's when the purple hue started appearing

Looks amazing for midwest. Mine are about 2 weeks behind you.
Southeast Mich.

Smugzs · Sep 21, 2025

cpurola said:
Looks amazing for midwest. Mine are about 2 weeks behind you.
Southeast Mich.

Thank you! I followed all the guides on feeding, watering etc.. We had a unusually warm and sunny summer here (Minnesota), so it's probably a bit of luck

Oldchucky · Sep 21, 2025

Smugzs said:
Good evening everyone. I'm a long time smoker, first time grower. I'm from the upper Midwest states in the US. Short hot growing season here, so trying my hand at a few different varieties. This year, grew 1 plant, Acapulco Gold outdoors. I'm hoping to start cutting and drying soon, any advice would be awesome, adding a few pics taken today!

The Jade nectar guy says that when the bract at the stalk turn brown like in your fourth picture that mold isn’t far behind! Don’t know if he knows what he’s talking about! Keep your eyes peeled! Just two cents!

Smugzs · Sep 21, 2025

Oldchucky said:
The Jade nectar guy says that when the bract at the stalk turn brown like in your fourth picture that mold isn’t far behind! Don’t know if he knows what he’s talking about! Keep your eyes peeled! Just two cents!

Thank you for the heads up! I'll keep my eyes peeled!

cpurola · Sep 22, 2025

Oldchucky said:
The Jade nectar guy says that when the bract at the stalk turn brown like in your fourth picture that mold isn’t far behind! Don’t know if he knows what he’s talking about! Keep your eyes peeled! Just two cents!

Interesting. I wondered the same thing. I do recall someone asking if they should remove those, thinking it would postpone the inevitable.
My Autos looked like that when I harvested them, so I'm planning to bubble wash them just in case the mold had already started. I leave them as long as possible for the amber trics.

SeedSupreme · Sep 30, 2025

Smugzs said:
Good evening everyone. I'm a long time smoker, first time grower. I'm from the upper Midwest states in the US. Short hot growing season here, so trying my hand at a few different varieties. This year, grew 1 plant, Acapulco Gold outdoors. I'm hoping to start cutting and drying soon, any advice would be awesome, adding a few pics taken today!

Love this @Smugzs!!! You've done an awesome job with the Acapulco Gold. She looks damn healthy.

Any updates? Thanks for the support from SeedSupreme

Ripple48 · Oct 7, 2025

Smugzs said:
Good evening everyone. I'm a long time smoker, first time grower. I'm from the upper Midwest states in the US. Short hot growing season here, so trying my hand at a few different varieties. This year, grew 1 plant, Acapulco Gold outdoors. I'm hoping to start cutting and drying soon, any advice would be awesome, adding a few pics taken today!

Hey midwest smugzs, I am a neighbor grower from IL. Im feeling the heat and humidity today.

RoadKillSkunkHunt · Oct 7, 2025

Smugzs said:
Good evening everyone. I'm a long time smoker, first time grower. I'm from the upper Midwest states in the US. Short hot growing season here, so trying my hand at a few different varieties. This year, grew 1 plant, Acapulco Gold outdoors. I'm hoping to start cutting and drying soon, any advice would be awesome, adding a few pics taken today!

You've done a great job with the cultivation so give yourself a pat on the back! However, without trichome pictures its hard to know if its finished. If you're able to, please post some magnified trichome photos. We need both the trichome photos and the bud pictures to be able to full answer your question regarding is it done? It's close, but let's hold off on harvesting until you know for sure ...

Good work!

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