Legal cannabis home-grow for Northeast Leaf
November 30, 2020

Growing consultant Mike reaches up to cannabis colas of a Platinum Punch plant in the backyard where an outdoor legal home grow is planted which also includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.

I spent an afternoon in western Massachusetts photographing a legal outdoor cannabis home grow operation in a residential backyard for Northeast Leaf, a new magazine covering the marijuana industry in New England and part of the Leaf Nation family of publications around the US. I don't know too much about cannabis culture, so it took extra effort keeping track of the names of all the strains being grown and parts of the plants being harvested.

A view of a bud on a Banana Split cannabis plant is seen in a backyard legal home grow which includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
Growing consultant Mike (right) and homeowner Mark stand near a backyard legal home grow which includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
Growing consultant Mike uses a jeweler's loupe to inspect the trichomes of a Runtz cannabis plant in the backyard where an outdoor legal home grow is planted which also includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
A Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints cannabis plant is seen next to a white picket fence in a backyard legal home grow which includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
Clippers rest on bins filled with a partial harvest of Strawberries and Cream (from foreground), Platinum Punch, and Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints cannabis plants from a legal cannabis home grow which includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
Growing consultant Mike holds up a bud from a Meatbreath cannabis plant, which he says smells like hotdogs, as he harvests a backyard legal home grow which includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
Homeowner Mark harvests a Meatbreath cannabis plant in his backyard where he has a legal cannabis home grow which includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
Sunlight illuminates the leaves of a Platinum Punch cannabis plant in a backyard legal home grow which includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
A security camera looks over a backyard legal home grow which includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
Growing consultant Mike harvests from the top of a Platinum Punch cannabis plant in a backyard legal home grow which includes cannabis strains Meatbreath, Hulk Angry, Banana Split, Platinum Punch Remix times Platinum Kush Mints, Platinum Punch, Strawberries and Cream, and Runtz, in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Wed., Oct. 14, 2020. The crop has sustained a drought this year in Massachusetts and recent storm bursts including 70 mph winds, and a couple of the plants have reached 12 feet tall. The plants will all be harvested in the next week before cold fall weather arrives or more drenching rainstorms hit the area.
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