This season is loooong! This year, my plants were actually smaller. I did some new topping/lollypopping technique. I start end of May and because I can only do so much in a day, and only want to take top kolas then mid section then lowers, hoping to be done by end of November if not sooner. The rains are here and it's really challenging I have vendor tents over them and need to watch constantly.. They are all super close. One batch takes about 5 days to dry then I trim, put in jars then, take down next batch. Super intensive loving care. Best medicine for me my entire life. I don't take pharmaceuticals ever! I want it to be the highest quality I can grow. My next quest is learning more about the Korean farming techniques. This year I made a ton of my own fertilizers and ferments and there is tons to learn on this topic. I love that you talk to your plants, ever read any Michaelle Smallwright, one of my earlier hero's I studied! She wrote the book Behaving as if the God in all life matter.. that's her first book, autobiography. She is the one that communes with nature spirits etc. and grows like super size cabbages and such.. its a big famous world Garden out in West Virginia, on my bucket list to go visit called Pelleandrea I think.