Farm Report: Hemp Flowering Finale
A brief peek at the 2025 organic hemp crop at Bald Mountain Botanicals in Maine, where the hemp flowering is well ahead of schedule.
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Hemp Harvest 2024
The big moment has arrived: the first hemp flowers are reaching the peak of ripeness and it’s time to begin the harvest. We’re about 2 weeks early this year, which is great as the weather can turn treacherous in October. Been quite a stretch of fair, dry weather since Labor Day, which helps ripen the…
First Flowers – Midsummer Hemp Report
It’s the last week of July and I’m just starting to see a few of the hemp plants beginning to flower–days are getting noticeably shorter now, about 14 1/2 hours today, enough to get the hemp started on the big transition from vegetative growth to flowering. A key milestone in the hemp growing season for…
Hemp Harvest 2023
Harvest time is when all the hard work through the growing season comes to fruition. After dodging Hurricane Lee early in September, the hemp plants soldiered on through the rest of September and ripened quickly. Hemp harvest 2023 began in late September and continued through the first weeks of October. This year was unusually warm…
Flowering Hemp
Without a doubt the most exciting part of growing hemp is the flowering phase, which begins in mid-late summer as the days begin to shorten. This is when the plants focus all their energy on developing flowers. In the wild these flowers would get pollinated by male hemp plants and create seeds for a new…
