Gone with the Grosso
Six days straight and about 300 hours of labor and we have harvested 10,000 Grosso plants. Right now it looks like 200+ lbs. of oil (100 quarts). I am not sure what my specific expectation was for the grosso by itself; but with half the plants it produced the same amount of oil as the Angustifolia. And it should. I think we will come close to our goal of 600 lbs. Dale ran the still all week end. We had a loose electrical connection at the junction box that threw everyone for a loop. Luckily Doug Nixon, our boilermaker, was in the area and was able to trace the source of the problem. We have been blessed with competent tradesmen.
We have about 2000 Twickel plants as the last of the Lavandin to harvest. I am guessing they will be ready on Saturday. We will spend the next couple of weeks strpping the dried lavender bunches for buds and counting the days until our second harvest of the Angustifolia.
