Winter Harvest

By Grammy Green

Sometime last year, maybe around August, Grammy moved her girls into a screened crop cage in order to avoid a caterpillar infestation.  At the time, our Acapulco Gold was over 6 feet tall, but the crop cage is only 6 feet tall. So we lopped off the top 6 inches, dipped the cutting into some Rootone rooting hormone, then stuck it in a pot of dirt in the backyard.  

Cloning was that easy.

Fast forward to now, mid-March 2022, and it's time to harvest the cloned Acapulco Gold.  It was a bizarre growing season for this plant, having been started in August and now ready for harvest in March.  It's a photoperiod sativa that had to grow during the shortest days of the year.   This being Mid-City San Diego, we don't get frosts or freezes during the winter, and the lowest the temperature got this winter was around 42 degrees.  Of course, we also had a few days in the high 80s just to keep things mixed up.

This little girl topped out at 3 feet 3 inches.  Combined with the 6 foot mother plant, that's over 9 feet of Acapulco Gold!