Rain, Rain
Today is the second day in a row we have had rain. The plants are too wet to harvest for buds. They mildew before they dry. The remainder of the Provence will be harvested for oil. We will still have 600-800 pounds of buds. It looks like tomorrow will be a better day. We are trying to get a larger crew. The Grosso is ready. We have a relatively small window. Daily it is 10-3pm (plants cut mid-day produce about 30% more oil); and I would imagine 4-5 days at the most to harvest the Grosso at its peak. Oil will remain on the plant; it will just not be as much.
The bees are getting more aggressive. As there are fewer remaining plants ,the 100,000 or so bees concentrate in greater numbers on those plants. Everybody is getting stung. We are employing all sorts of home remedies…how about 9volt batteries!…to little avail, pain and swelling continues ever so mildly. We may have to move harvest up an hour to get through this window. This year we have Italian bees. They generally start about 10am. Last year we had German bees. They started about an hour earlier.
