We reached out to Northern California cultivators as they prepped for one of their busiest months of the year in October and the massive 2025 fall harvest.
As October begins, farmers are already deep in the home stretch. They’ve been checking resin quality, monitoring the weather, watching for pests, and hoping none of those factors ruin a season’s worth of effort. According to many, California’s cooler-than-average summer has proven great for preserving terpenes.
This has certainly been the case in Monterey County, where the production greenhouses of Kalya Extracts call home. While the weather there is generally less scorching than in the hills of the Emerald Triangle, it comes with its own set of challenges due to the persistent marine layer at sea level.
“With those higher heats, it does stress the plant and you’re able to get some good trichrome growth and good resin production. But what you gain in resin production, sometimes you lose in the small, nuanced flavors,” Kalya Extracts co-founder Marc Hammond told High Times. “You might not ever see it in dry flower. But when it comes to hash, it can mean a lot.”
Hammond explained that preparing for a harvest meant for hash is different from preparing flower for jars.
“Because all the lift and all the labor comes all at once, instead of having a drawn-out period where you’re harvesting, you’re hanging and you’re curing,” Hammond said. “This can go on for weeks to a little over a month. We’re prepping to take everything down, freeze it and get ready all at once.”
That means time is of the essence for Hammond as he and his team work to get volatile terpene profiles on ice before they degrade. He called the operation a “tight window” to …
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Author: Jimi Devine / High Times
