Northern Ontario Time to Start Cutting?

Well, like the title says, this is my second outdoor grow in Northen Ontario. A couple colas on one of my plants seems ready. Looks like pretty much all milky with some amber trichs.

We had an unexpected frost about four weeks ago. It killed my cucumber, squash, and tomato plants. The weed survived pretty easily though.

The others are still budding strong but I had to put up tents over them since it has been raining hard the last two days and still is for the next couple days. I already had to cut some bud rot out of a few and throw it away.

On top of that a bad windstorm went through last Friday and almost destroyed an entire plant. Taped it up, but the top two colas died.

Not close yet buddy sorry, 2-3+ more weeks i think from that pic, i have 1 strain thats maybe 1 week or 1.5 weeks away, but we got a shit load of rain coming this week.. Makes me wonder, such a hard decision. I'd rather harvest now without mold than find mold on my plant in a week and harvest with that shit...

Growing24/7 said:

Not close yet buddy sorry, 2-3+ more weeks i think from that pic, i have 1 strain thats maybe 1 week or 1.5 weeks away, but we got a shit load of rain coming this week.. Makes me wonder, such a hard decision. I'd rather harvest now without mold than find mold on my plant in a week and harvest with that shit...

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Seems like you are in the same dilemma as me. It's still raining here, then sun and cloud tomorrow, with rain Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Temperatures are somewhat alright. Lows of *8C and highs of *15C. I guess I will keep them covered up and check for any rot.

cowtown said:

Seems like you are in the same dilemma as me. It's still raining here, then sun and cloud tomorrow, with rain Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Temperatures are somewhat alright. Lows of *8C and highs of *15C. I guess I will keep them covered up and check for any rot.

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If you have them covered make sure there is lots of wind around! If not, get a fan on them asap!

Growing24/7 said:

If you have them covered make sure there is lots of wind around! If not, get a fan on them asap!

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Just the tents pictured above. It keeps all the rain off now and I shaked all the water off them after covering them. They get a natural breeze or heavy wind lately with fall approaching.

cowtown said:

Just the tents pictured above. It keeps all the rain off now and I shaked all the water off them after covering them. They get a natural breeze or heavy wind lately with fall approaching.

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Check them in the morning, they might be a little wet with the morning dew. If you can get up early and dry them off or have a fan om all the time your chances at mold go way down. I'm not a morning person sadly but have checked my plants in the morning to find lots of dew on them surprisingly, doesnt need to rain the day before. Its also fall now so i imagine mornings are even wetter than the summer, my buddy would use a leaf blower every morning, never used a cover for his giant plants. He doesn't get mold, but it is a lot of work.

That's some great advice i don't use because i sleep in a lot lolll

Hit them with a leaf blower every day several times. It's a fucking toss up though. I got like 3lbs of nice buds I could squish right now for some nice rosin even if they aren't totally done.

Edit: pays to read the whole thread @Growing24/7 got my points. Set up an electric leaf blower @ a safe distance locked in a vice though for constant wind, lol, that way no mold or pm...

No airflow problems and the tents keep all the dew off. It has just been raining so much this month I had to tent them and I thought one was getting close to harvest. The tent only shows half our yard, so we get lots of air. Here is the other half of the yard, this plant is the one under the tent on the right from the original post only shot from the other side .