“As long as the roots are well maintained, and water is frequent, they’ll do well. “Even 100 years ago (India and Pakistan) were hitting high temperatures compared to what we experienced up here,” Miller-Haywood said. Those intense temperatures were detrimental to crops like cherries, raspberries and blueberries, but the roots of cannabis trace back to regions in India and Pakistan, where the climate is historically much warmer than southern B.C. Many temperature records were broken in 2021, including 49.6 Celsius in Lytton, B.C. “But down south you’re going to end up with fatter buds because with an earlier and longer growing season, you’re absorbing more sun rays throughout the summer,” she said.Įarly in the summer of 2021, extreme heat waves took a toll on many other crops over the summer, but those temperatures only helped pot plants get higher.
“A farmer in Osoyoos could grow one strain that’s not ready until mid-October, whereas someone in Vernon could grow another that’s all ready to harvest by mid-September,” said Jaimie Miller-Haywood, author of the blog Growing Home Okanagan in Vernon. But harvest time is different – as the best time to strip the buds off the plant will vary by strain. The optimum time for local growers to plant marijuana outdoors depends on which part of the valley they live in - like any crop, the growing season begins down south in Osoyoos and works its way north. With the end of the third legal growing season in Canada, it’s high time for cannabis farmers of the Okanagan to harvest their crops.
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