Harvesting The Ganja Crop

When planting a ganja crop it is done with anticipation of the harvest, there are decisions to be made prior to harvesting. The first decision is whether to allow the males to pollinate the female.

The males will have approximately five green or yellow sepals, these will split open when it is time to fertilize the females. This will allow the females to bare seeds and if the decision is to have a crop without going to seed, then the males must be harvested before they pollinate the females. This is usually done when the males are younger than 12 weeks, at about 12 weeks they will pollinate the females.

The females are harvested about three or four weeks after the males and are a shorter plant with small pistillate flowers.

After the harvest the pot plants will then need to be dried either in a prepared drying room or drying box that will need to have both heat and ventilation. The heat will need to be concentrated like what can be achieved from an electric heater, regular household heat from the furnace will not be a high enough temperature to dry the leaves.

The ventilation is important also as there will be dampness that has to be let out of the drying room or box. If it is not ventilated it can cause mold on the leaves, which will ruin the harvest. Ventilation can be done on the drying box by cutting slits in the top of the box and in the drying room by placing a fan in the room along with the electric heater.