Just Another Crappy Day in Paradise Maui Grow Log

[oldhaole]

Aloha from Hawaii,

As Febuary draws to a close we here in the islands have short window of time to work. A seed put in the ground here in December will get 3 ft high and yield an oz or so. A seed put in the ground in January will have some that sky and some that do indeed go off and provide us over summer.

If you would like to take a ride stick around.

Exhibit A In the beginning

[stra8outtaWeed]

that looks like a good place to hang with your plants and burn some good buds!:jointsmile:

[oldhaole]

The lanai of my house is my sanctuary. My roses grow there,same with easter lillies. Deck also had a sweet lime tree and strawberries and tomatos and cucumber. All are giving fruit right now.


Countless joints have been burned there as the sunsets unfolded. Whan my wife snores me out of bed I have slept out there many nights, and watched the stars fall. Deck faces toward Maui's central Valley and at night a sea of lights greets me.


If I am lucky enough I want to die on that deck. I have often said the only way they will get me out of this house is feet first.


The starts in the pics are a cross of a white widow male crossed with Strawberry guava, Maui bloodweed and White widow females. This cross gave me a very potent short season this year. Added bonus is only 3% turn out to be fags.


The State of Hawaii in their infinite wisdom gave both my wife and I our blue cards. We are caregivers to two other MMJ patients. That is 28 legal plants. And this years goal is to get at least a couple of them to 15 feet tall. We have done this before but I never had a chance to document a full year. So we will be giving it a shot this year. Stick around this just may work out.

[irydyum]

Added bonus is only 3% turn out to be fags.

I died when I read this. Thank you so much for my laugh this morning.

I'm so on board for this ride, best of luck to you and your girls this season. I so envy the outdoors...

[stra8outtaWeed]

The lanai of my house is my sanctuary. My roses grow there,same with easter lillies. Deck also had a sweet lime tree and strawberries and tomatos and cucumber. All are giving fruit right now.


Countless joints have been burned there as the sunsets unfolded. Whan my wife snores me out of bed I have slept out there many nights, and watched the stars fall. Deck faces toward Maui's central Valley and at night a sea of lights greets me.


If I am lucky enough I want to die on that deck. I have often said the only way they will get me out of this house is feet first.


The starts in the pics are a cross of a white widow male crossed with Strawberry guava, Maui bloodweed and White widow females. This cross gave me a very potent short season this year. Added bonus is only 3% turn out to be fags.


The State of Hawaii in their infinite wisdom gave both my wife and I our blue cards. We are caregivers to two other MMJ patients. That is 28 legal plants. And this years goal is to get at least a couple of them to 15 feet tall. We have done this before but I never had a chance to document a full year. So we will be giving it a shot this year. Stick around this just may work out.

sounds like you are on the road up to Haleakala....i palyed in a golf tournament at Wailea ....beautiful island!

love to see the show :thumbsup:

[oldhaole]

Aloha,

I am Upcountry. Upcountry streches from Kula 200 to Ulupalukua. It is an area about 10 miles long and 4 miles wide. I'm in there somewhere.

As for golf I grew up in Wailea. I lived on the 4th hole on Wailea Blue Course many many moons ago. I used to rule that course. Now I just suck at golf.:mad:

[oldhaole]

The mess on the deck has been cleaned up and removed. Starts are just beginning to get their 5th set of leaves and are a bit under a foot tall. A few are showing sex at 5 weeks. Males are pulled and the best females are put in 2 gallon pots for later planting in my garden.


The other two trays were given away and all now are in new homes. They are scattered from Hana to Hoonokawai. A small sample is shown in the second pic. If all goes to plan some of these will be done in late April and the few will go long and by done by October. The later ones should be in the 10-15 ft range. The April harvest plants will be harvested with anything exceptional dug up and brought inside and put under 24 hour light to regrow.


I am now in the process of killing and burning two feet of Kikui grass in my new planting area. It is on my property and in a small gulch with no way to see it, unless you walk right onto the site. I have 7 of 28 holes dug and full of aged Sunshine/manure/bonemeal mix. I can legaly have 12 trees as tall as I can get them. The other 16 I will start in a couple of months and with lights keep them immature.


The madness part of my year is done. I can now move at a slower pace

[stra8outtaWeed]

Aloha,

I am Upcountry. Upcountry streches from Kula 200 to Ulupalukua. It is an area about 10 miles long and 4 miles wide. I'm in there somewhere.

As for golf I grew up in Wailea. I lived on the 4th hole on Wailea Blue Course many many moons ago. I used to rule that course. Now I just suck at golf.:mad:

me too...because of injury...i was a 6 capper...hole #5 uphill after a par 3..don't remember the color but tossed one in the cup from about 120yds on the fly...swish! was playing in a golf tournament at Wailea and ended up winning:jointsmile: had a great time on the island but i would have had a better time finding your lanai and hanging having a few burn sessions!:smokin:

[oldhaole]

Aloha,


It was a beautiful Sunday. I was finding homes for my kids. Two weeks ago I found a nice place to work. On the way in I found this;


Not bad huh? Too bad, so sad, They aren't mine. In the last two weeks an amature dropped these right on my trail. They are clones and will be ready in about 5 weeks. Mine are long season and will be ready in October.


So in the intrest of keeping mine, mine, I dug up all my happy kids and placed them a half mile away. Hauled them off on my back. Not around, through, the field. Beat the crap out of them and me.:mad:


If I were an asshole I would take them for making me work extra. Another way of keeping the rif-raf out. However the first rule of doing this is don't take what ain't yours. Karma is a bitch and I don't need her pissed at me.


If these are yours they are still there. Don't worry I have no interest in your shit. Thanks for making a rough day that much rougher. Oh and find a better way of marking your grows. A saw three more of your markers on the way down the road. If I was a real asshole I would have just moved your markers.:D

Amature Hour.

[stra8outtaWeed]

i bet if you left a note with them you would see them disappear...that would be cool way to get themm out of there and leaving yours alone! so hoping miss karma takes care of you!:jointsmile:

[oldhaole]

Aloha,

This person is not far from harvest. All are clones. If I left a note they will be laughing at me, since the next time they visit, they will harvest. When I find stuff that is not mine I do not want to leave a note. I try my best not to leave footprints. A note would tell them I am also in the field and may encourage them to search. If they search long enough they may find other peoples stuff.

The first thing I do when I go into a field is make sure I'm alone. If I find an occupied area I go elsewhere. It is not uncommon in the fields to find someone else's plants. Happens to me about one time in ten. In this case they were put out after I put mine in. Nothing I could do, except get mine out of Dodge. I was just lucky that my plants were small enough to be transplanted.

All in all it was my own fault. This field was a bit close to civilization. I chose poorly. :(

[oldhaole]

Aloha,

The powers that be flew the first Green Harvest today. I saw five choppers total. The DEA was up along with three county opperated ones and bringing up the rear was a Coast Guard search and rescue helicoptor.

All my season's work is now up in the air.

On the bad side they were just planted and they are visible from the air.

On the good side the wind is cranking with a sideways rain. Gusts up to 40 MPH. Half the island has been under a blanket of rain. If this weather holds tomorrow I have a chance.

Only one way to find out and that will happen in 6 weeks. If they are gone nothing I can do about it. Just one of the problems of the job.

[raizla]

It really seems ridiculous that they would go after a fairly small grow like yours. If are up there looking for whole fields run by smugglers with guns n such, maybe I could understand...

[oldhaole]

In all honesty I think this was to just show the flag. The choppers flew a grid search and I did not see them send anyone down. So they got nothing from this area. They also stayed above 500 ft. It used to be that they would rattle roofs and stampede cattle. Choppers have clipped power lines here and crashed more than once before.

In a small gulch I have took out a large swath of grass and have all my holes dug and filled with my dirt/compost mix. I also have holes dug in all over this property. Nothing is in yet, but they sure were intrested in what I have been up to. I am legal, and they do have my address so maybe they just dropped by to take a look. I would think from the air my property looks like a kid's face with a real bad case on acne.

Green Harvest is Maui's way of keeping the patches small and well hidden. If you get greedy they see and take your stuff. Keep it small and you get a chance. If you have just a few illegal plants they rappell down and take them, but no charges are filed. If they see a lot they take pictures then come back with a search warrant and make an example out of you.

With Obama's new budget, and considering the state is a billion dollars in the hole, I expected a light Green Harvest to be light to non exsistant this year. Looks like I was wrong. But time will tell.

Usually, when I hear the green harvest choppers, I freak. What follows could best be described as a Chineese fire drill. I can tell what type and what they are doing just by the sound. This time I freaked, then realized I am now legal. What a feeling! Happiness! So I wandered out to my deck to take pictures of them looking at me. It will take some time to get used to this legal concept.

[oldhaole]

Aloha.

My first seven went in yesterday. I cleared down two feet of kikui grass to reach the dirt. Patch is @8 ft wide and 60 ft long. Plants are 6 to 10 feet apart. Holes are two feet deep and two feet wide. It is in an old watercourse that through the ages built up some deep soil. These are my first legal plants and are planted in the ground. Two are budded and should be ready in mid to late April. All have showed me that they are female and with the size of my area should get up to 15 ft tall. The plants are in the full sun all day.

Soil is a mixture of moatly FF ocean mixed with, topsoil from the hole, aged steer manure, bone and bloodmeal, and some old Sunshine mix #3 that produced last years potted plants. Also planted roses and sweet peppers just for grins and giggles. So patch #1 is off and running.

Patch #2 has had all seven of its holes dug and half are filled with my mix. There is only one place that sells FF Upcountry and they want $18 for a medium sized bag. This outside stuff at home is expensive. At least I don't have to spend large amounts of money on power and lights.

Patch #3 is going in the blackberries. I have already cleared a hole through the thorns and begun to clear the area for my kids. I'm already cut up but I can tell you this one will be a bitch. On the plus side if you do not know where the hole is to get into this patch you will be flailing around in some mean thorns.

Patch # 4 is the wife of my youth's This means they go where she wants them to go. My input is not needed, or wanted. She is now in the process of digging up MY ROSE BED. We have close to five acres and she has to pick the one area that I have had beautiful roses on for ten+ years. By the time she is done a whole bunch of my beautiful roses will be dead or near to it. So on top of everything else, I get to prepare a fifth area to try to save what she is gleefully ripping out.

Here are pics of the first patch;

1)Comming soon.
2)Top View. Empty.
3)Top View. Same Day. Occupied. 1st plant will be grown at sideways. 2nd and 3rd should be giants.
4)Girl 1. Done By April
5)Girl 2. White Widow/Bloodweed. Also Done By April.

[stra8outtaWeed]

very nice...looks great! you must be part backhoe doin all that diggin or at least damn sore! :thumbsup:

[oldhaole]

very nice...looks great! you must be part backhoe doin all that diggin or at least damn sore! :thumbsup:

The first seven were the easy ones. Through the ages that little gulch has built up dirt. Though the grass was tall and thick fire worked well to clean it out.

Now if you want a bitch of a hole check this out. I've been working at that stone for hours yet it will move a bit, but it looks like I get to take it in chunks.

[oldhaole]

Here is a pic I took this evening; Another crappy day draws to a close :)

[stra8outtaWeed]

right on..nice view...wish i was there enjoyin a hoot wichya! :jointsmile:

[oldhaole]

Hello again.

Stra8 if you ever get to my neck of the woods please let me know. I'd love to stone you out.

Easter is done and so am I. My 21 holes are dug and filled. Each has a plant and is off to the races. Even got that bitch of a rock out. That is a big hole.

First patch (gulch patch) has been in the longest and were planted with my oldest plants. They were planted on the cusp. Every year I plant on the cusp. The plants look like they will go long and all of a sudden they all go into bud. Instead of going long season it looks like they want to go off now. Flowers are quarter sized and getting fatter by the day. Every year this happens, I worry that the plants will elongate out of buds. But, so far, this has yet to happen.

Second seven is growing too. This patch is right under my lanai. I put the best ones there because my dogs and I can sleep out on the lanai with my shotgun. Rocksalt for rip offs.

Third seven are up in the roses. Through the years I built rock walls and terraces planted with roses. I lost intrest and let it overgrow. This year I oppened it up again. Now some pics;

[StickyBuds1987]

ah hey bro very nice outdoor grow im gonna have to do something simalar to this soon :thumbsup::jointsmile:

[oldhaole]

Happy taxday all. :mad:

Sticky, yes you should. This is my first year legal and it is so much fun.

It,s been 10 days since my last update. Everything is still getting fat. Since last report I have taken two girls. Girl 2 in above pics was ready and I took it yesterday. Another plant began to rot and was also taken before major damage was done. The only problem I encounter here is budrot and it is due to the very high humidity.

In two weeks or so everything that is budding will stop and start to elongate out of buds. That will be my cue to take everything smokable. That should last me and my patients enough smoke to last us until July. For July onward I have another trick up my sleve and will show you it as it goes. Who says you can't get a outdoor plant to bud in July?

Now the Pics;

1) Patch 1 uphill view
2) Patch 1 downhill view
3) Only double plant (2 plants 1 hole) I have. Part of Patch 2
4) More of Patch 2. The small plant in foreground is a replacement of the budrot plant.

Patch 3 is a whole different trip and I will cover them next post.

[oldhaole]

Below are some of my harvested or soon to be harvested plants. All are from Patch 1. Will get a digital camera soon for some close ups.

[oldhaole]

About eight weeks ago I began my return to the fields. Midway thru authorities flew the first Green Harvest of the year. All of my starts were in and there was nothing I could do but wait and see what happened. In the past couple of days we returned. The plants shown are from the starts seen in my first post in this thread.

All were given permenant homes in late Feb, early March. I have not seen them since then. Until yesterday.

All were where they belong. Unnatural Losses so far....zero. As usual, some were males. Most were removed before the fields. A few poped next to a girl and 20% is heavily seeded. I removed all males and fags so from this point all should be girls. Some went small and have been taken. Others, not quite ready, will be grabbed on my next adventure. And there are a few that are going long.

Now some bud porn from last trip.

[oldhaole]

Last post I was happy. Got all my work done. Males gone. Some seeded. Some elongating and going long. And some short fatties ready to take. But I will give them another two weeks and take them all. Life is good.

Two weeks. Two lousy f##cking weeks. Harvest time....

Monday morning phone goes off early....They are going to fly. Green Harvest #2... as Monday goes on I set up my telescope and start looking... Sure enough they are there. All over the fields. Choppers. All day Monday they were busy. I watched them remove a LOT of weed from the fields. This is not going to be a good day.

Tuesday afternoon...I'm in the bath... Hear the buzzing... great... There here.
House starts to shake , dogs start going nuts...Get out of the bath and out on the deck... 100 yds away is a white Hughes 500 with 4 cops slowly circling my property.

WTF :mad:

My #s are posted. I am legal. Chopper circled... twice... Slowly.... Letting everybody in this area KNOW what I am doing. Them banked off and were gone.

Lesson Learned... If it's ready TAKE IT.. you may not get a second chance

There is an off chance they missed some. Let you know in 2 weeks.

[TruePyroman]

that sucks ass man, I was watching COPS on TV and they were in Hawaii dropping cops by strings from helicopters and choppin the plants then picking them back up. I immediately thought of this thread. "This one appears to be maui wowie, definitely going to hurt this growers harvest." looked to be about an oz plant, they were in cornfields with driplines. I think the episode was from 2007...

keep your head up man.

[oldhaole]

that sucks ass man, I was watching COPS on TV and they were in Hawaii dropping cops by strings from helicopters and choppin the plants then picking them back up. I immediately thought of this thread. "This one appears to be maui wowie, definitely going to hurt this growers harvest." looked to be about an oz plant, they were in cornfields with driplines. I think the episode was from 2007...

keep your head up man.

Aloha,

I saw the show too. And I got quite the kick out of them dropping on the canefield patch. I remember thinking "moron put a golf course in. (too many holes).

I will find out next week if I got screwed or not. The fat lady has yet to sing. You never count on anything until it is in your hand. I expect the worst and can only be pleasantly surprised. Anything there is pure gravy.

[oldhaole]

Harvest time. Recap; wish to delete this post

[oldhaole]

Now to recap; these three were planted in early January. These are also the plants I expect will grow the largest. They were put in before my first post. When they first saw the sun the days were less than 12 hours long. They showed sex about a month after planting. As the days grew longer the plants continued to bud. We call this planting on the cusp and can be done here from Christmas to @ Jan 25th

Two weeks ago I noticed the bottom branches start to shoot up. The girls are now looking at almost 13 hours of sun each day. This week the flowers began to elongate. It is time to take the tops. I will do this in two stages. I will leave the middle of the plant for 10 more days to fatten up. When I am done each branch will turn into a complete plant grown on a single trunk. I will leave as many branches as possible.

Now meet the girls
1) girl 1 Bloodweed mom/WW dad
2) girl 2 Strawberry Guava/Thai mom/WW dad
3) girl 3 Maui HB mom/ WW dad

[oldhaole]

Aloha,

I saw the show too. And I got quite the kick out of them dropping on the canefield patch. I remember thinking "moron put a golf course in. (too many holes).

I will find out next week if I got screwed or not. The fat lady has yet to sing. You never count on anything until it is in your hand. I expect the worst and can only be pleasantly surprised. Anything there is pure gravy.



Aloha wonderful world,

The wife of my youth calls me "The Drama King". And if the shoe fits....


Yesterday was the day of "oh shit, I don't want to do this" Long story short, Green Harvest missed everything. They got nada. Went out and checked everything. Lost 2 of nine lines to rats. If you have a plant , even lightly seeded, it is a stick when they are done. If it is totaly unseeded they leave them alone.

Plants shown in these pics were the starts in he first post. There are 20 or so left behind that will go long and get big. The rest is "in the bag". Partner and I removed close to 5 lbs (wet) yesterday. All ready, all unseeded (thanks rats) My patients will be stoked, now I have enough to carry them through summer with no interuptions in supply.

The big ones left behind have been sexed, fertilized, And are off to the races. I do nothing now except wait. Will go back in August to fert again, I do have a lot of empty holes, so I may start a batch of clones going, to go in with me and refill the emptys. Cross that bridge later.

Plants shown were planted straight into ground, no soil was taken in. Each hole got a handfull of 14-14-14 time release, nothing else. Here are some pics of what I saw (I would have bet money they were gone).

Pic 1 Hello Baby!
Pic 2 Ohh.... little fatty. And friends.
Pic 3 Let these go long... See ya later.

[oldhaole]

I took the tops of the girls on the 5/7. Bottom branches are wanting to sky and my plants want to be rid of the mature middle branches. So today I will take the rest of the budded branches.

I do things this way for many reasons. The plants are females. I am not wasting my time, or one of my 7 legal plants, with a fag or male. No questions there. I get a small harvest in May. It is pretty dry here this time of year. I also get to taste what I will have come October. Also this method gives me a huge round bush, instead of a tall tree. And If I wish to this will be my chance to take clones, and not hurt the yield down the road. Those clones will have the time to get big too.

Here are the girls; Same three as shown in post above.

[oldhaole]

Summer is here. Maui is in a Stage 4 drought. Sunny days, weeks at a time. Plants love it. I have one re-grow left to harvest. We are getting more than 13 hours of daylight and she is still packing on weight.

Below are pics of the three I have been following. I took all I can off them, and they are off to the races. For the next 4 months they need to do is reach for the sky..

1) Regrow, three branches, Already 3+ ft tall
2) Junk Plant. Didn't meet standards and I pulled her. Replaced with another regrow.
3) Regrow, Now short 2 ft. But @ 5 ft around. Will be a big bush.
4) Last girl to go. Will take her today.

[LetsSeeYa]

Nice grow guy:thumbsup: I sure wish i had a chance to re veg from the start of outside. Mine came from indoor, but they have 5 months to grow and they had turned to veg, before they were put out. I am really curious about just what i can get from them. Not sure if you have seen them in the ''outdoor'', but if ya get a chance, stop by for your 2 cents. I would like your opinion:D

Great log, i was sucked in after first post:thumbsup:

:rasta:

[oldhaole]

Time for the two week update.

First off LSY. Hats off to you. Looked at your log. Though we have slightly different styles of cutback, your girls are looking great. And you do it from a chair. Awesome job. Keep ,em safe and you will have a season to remember.

Season is progressing well. In two weeks, the big regrow (Pic 1) has passed 5feet. I planted her at angle ,to see what would happen, and was rewarded with three branches (soon to be trees) as well as a couple of oz,s. I will do this again next year.

Next down is a regrow (pic 2) that is giving me problems. Instead of veging , she is budding. Frankly, I am wasting that hole. I most likely will replace her if she keeps budding. But I will get a harvest in June like I promised above. Only problem is that harvest is a quarter oz. :(

Next down is the bush. ( pic 3) What a monster. Three feet tall and seven foot wide. Just took a bunch of clones off of her and it doesn't show. She gave me almost a qt lb so far and if I can pull her off she will be a record breaker.

Next down (pic 4) is a seedling. She was brought to me from one of my patients and is doing well for a mainland plant. Classic bushy look to her, nice branch growth. She is a Skunk/Thai cross. Looks Indica all the way, and has pink hairs. Since she is not a regrow I have yet to try her.

Next plant is story time. Friend on Mainland sends you seeds.Ranting and raving about how good they are. Seeds sent are old. One greminates. You pray for a girl. Prayers are answered. Plant put in best hole. Plant turns out to be shit. That would be pic 5. F##k me running. Don't know what to do. It has many months of sun left to go. If i yank it have I screwed up? Will it get tall? Is it worth it? PPPFFFTTT. Strain called Nightshade. Anyone out there heard of this?


As I mentioned umteen times this is my first legal grow. Instead of showing just the best, I'm going to show the mistakes, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Come October, we will know just what happened. Maybe others will learn from my screwups. So here is 1 thru 5. I have put a yardstick in each pic for scale.

[oldhaole]

Finishing off the tour of my 1st group requires two more pics. Here are the last two in my first patch. Both are regrows. The last one had some stem rot early and kinda topped itself. Yardstick is shown to provide some idea of scale.

Yesterday I went in and took any flowers that were left behind. So now these are in full vege mode. Also installed a drip system so all I have to do now is open a valve to water.

I have yet to begin to fertilize anything. So far they have been doing everything on the goodies I put in my holes. This week I will be using time release 14-14-14 on everything. This will cover my fert needs for the next three months. In early August I will start with the bloom fertilizers. Until then, I will check them once a week for bugs and other stuff that I don't want to see.

[oldhaole]

Aloha All,

Life on the rock continues. Since the last post we have had 2 drizzles and no good rain. I fertilized with a cup of Osmocote 14-14-14 per plant on 6/17. Also hooked everything into my drip system. So now watering is easy now.


So far I have shown the gulch plants. Now comes the bottom plants. This shows the importance of genetics. One of my patients brought me some seed to plant for her. One of her strains is over 6 ft tall. The other is a foot tall and going off now. Both were planted on the same day. I tried to explain to her that the first generation of Calif seeds here will do strange things. She will find out what I mean come October.

Pic 1) shows the one of the Calif plant. The seed was labled HB. Looks like a sative to me. HB my ass. Big one has 6 feet on her. Small one on left is a re-grow.

Pic 2) Three in a row. Foreground is a re-grow. Back of her is another. Small girl going off is a Skunk Thai cross from Calif. She is lost. She was planted the same time as the big one in pic 1

Pic 3) This re-grow is pushing 5 ft. She was the last one I harvested the top from. She is in earlier pics under 4) last girl to go.

Pic 4) Cali girl. Had to pull her over. If she gets more than 5 ft she can be seen from neighbors pasture. So I will run her along the ground and keep her down.

Pic 5 is a shot of the biggest re-grow on the bottom. Seen in pic 2 foreground. She already has 5 ft and reaching.

[LetsSeeYa]

So its like catching that movie you have never seen and my dish goes out? Whats up bro, i really need to know what they look like, or are you not going back for cant remember when you had said. Few months anyway. I d like to see how you build your cage as i think its going to be my best shot at keeping the Edna and NL from harm.

Its funny because i was thinking of some way i could show the size of my re vegged plants. So i grabbed a yard stick, come to this thread and ya got one in front of your plants. Hell if you could have said yard stick, i would have said steel wool, lol.

Il keep coming back, but if ya post let me know man:jointsmile:oh and yeah your plants look very nice. Very healthy:thumbsup:


See ya:rasta:

[oldhaole]

You want to see the gulch plants. My pleasure :D


Plants shown are from 6/7 post.


Pic 1) Now is a tad under 7 ft. This will be my best shot to get to 15 ft. One problem. Pic 2) is the stem. If your stem looks like this watch out. I will stake it up and wrap a bungie cord around the stems about a foot up. Then I will gently seperate the branches. That way the middle gets good sun.


Pic 3) is the wide girl. Going for a SOG. Pic 4) is the side view. That little orange thing is the yardstick.

Pic 5) is the bottom of the gulch re-grow. I think this will be the biggest yielder of the seven. Time will tell.


I said cage when I should have said frame. I will build a square bamboo frame around each regrow. When the branches get heavy I tie each branch to the frame so it does not peel off when the buds get heavy. A few of those strings will a small live wire that lead to an alarm in my house. Cut the wire, you cut the circuit. Then you get to meet my dogs. All 10 of them. :(

[brodoggy]

Wonderful pics, love the "gulch gang"......new here to this forum, been catchin up on all the posts. You have done an outstanding job with your children and posts keeping us on the edge of our seats with the GH whirlies.

Used to grow back in the late 70's (yeah old guys rule :hippy:" using a small greenhouse. Local authorities stopped by one time while I was at my day job and took everything and left their biz card, I didn't call....;)

Hope to retire soon to your beautiful BI, keep up the good fight and keep on postin

[oldhaole]

Wonderful pics, love the "gulch gang"......new here to this forum, been catchin up on all the posts. You have done an outstanding job with your children and posts keeping us on the edge of our seats with the GH whirlies.

Used to grow back in the late 70's (yeah old guys rule :hippy:" using a small greenhouse. Local authorities stopped by one time while I was at my day job and took everything and left their biz card, I didn't call....;)

Hope to retire soon to your beautiful BI, keep up the good fight and keep on postin



Aloha Brodoggie,


That, my friend, is a common story around here. Many moons ago my sister and BIL lived down in Kihei. He asked me to provide the starts and grow the plants in their back yard. The yard was tiny but it could not be seen from the road. Neighbors all around, but BIL was an animal, so nobody sane would take the plants.

Pulled a nice harvest the first year. I took half as agreed. They were some of the tastiest beasts I have ever grown. Kihei gets @330 days of sun and less than 8 inches of rain a year. One of the best places to grow on this island. Re planted, got the next batch going,then was told I was no longer needed. About three weeks before harvest the choppers flew.

Took everything from them. Left a MPD vice squad card stuck in the door. Card said "We took your plants. Any questions? Feel free to call us at and Vice's # was there. Needless to say they never called. BIL was pissed off. Got even madder when I told him that I knew when they were going to fly and "forgot" to tell him.

Months pass, BIL starts new crop. Green harvest took off and his house was first on the list to take a look at. Once they find weed they will come back each season and see if new ones are planted. He got another Vice MPD card. He gave up after that.

Good Luck on the Big Island. It is a growers paradise there. You will have a blast. MMJ licences are easy to get and keep. If you have 24(?) plants on private property they leave you alone. Just don't do anything stupid (like plant on Federal Land) and you will be fine.

[LetsSeeYa]

Wow i really get ya after seeing your stalk holding up a monster:cool:. I luv your plants, but also checking out the back ground. Just looks like they are right out in the open. Also the terrain looks very cool with lows and high ground. Iv never traveled so seeing what it looks like there is something im just interested in.

My daughter wants the computer, but i have so much more to say. Il be dropping in sometime here in the next couple days, to pick your brain. Thanks for the update btw:thumbsup:

:rasta:

[canniwhatsis]

I simply love checking in on this thread! :D I've been following it for the last several months, Well done!



Thanks Oldhaole! :thumbsup: :jointsmile:

[oldhaole]

Thanks for stopping by canawhatsis. It is good to know this log is entertaining. As I said earlier we will take this to the end, Be it bitter or sweet.

Yesterday I began to tie them down. Started on the largest plant in the gulch. First I braced the stem. Used 1/4in rope and wrapped it around the stem tight so splitting is not going to happen. Then I pulled the tops over on the opposite way of the brace. This oppened the middle up to the sun and should increase my yield.

Pic 1. Taken after the tiedown. Plants will grow into any space with sun so I do not expect to see the big hollow center for long.

Pic 2 is my stem and bracing. Looks Mickey Mouse but it will work.

[maui454]

Looks good bro. I just recently moved from Maui to Oregon I am glad to see Maui getting some love.

[LetsSeeYa]

Thanks for stopping by canawhatsis. It is good to know this log is entertaining. As I said earlier we will take this to the end, Be it bitter or sweet.

Yesterday I began to tie them down. Started on the largest plant in the gulch. First I braced the stem. Used 1/4in rope and wrapped it around the stem tight so splitting is not going to happen. Then I pulled the tops over on the opposite way of the brace. This oppened the middle up to the sun and should increase my yield.

Pic 1. Taken after the tiedown. Plants will grow into any space with sun so I do not expect to see the big hollow center for long.

Pic 2 is my stem and bracing. Looks Mickey Mouse but it will work.

Well looking at the stems of mine, the NL is just one stalk, but pretty sturdy looking. But if it get to your guess of size im in trouble. And the Edna il need help with, but want to put the 5 gal plant in the ground, cuz when i see that droop it most often is time.

You had said some thing about the rats there, well steel wool will stop them. I was goggling and if you put in steel wool an rats it will tell you they will not touch it. Also found out a rats teeth can grow 3' per year. And mice have the same genetic thing going on an thats why they chew, to get their teeth down. Just a thought if ya wanted seeds man, goggle it, its interesting anyway. And thanks for all the help guy il be back for sure, i just luv the pics.

Keep er green man:weedpoke:


:rasta:

[oldhaole]

Looks good bro. I just recently moved from Maui to Oregon I am glad to see Maui getting some love.

Maui to Oregon? How's that working out for you? Wife of my youth has been on me for years to move to Colorado. Needless to say, not going to happen. :wtf:

LSY... How you be? Hawaii has rats. Big time. At my house, the dogs take care of most of them. Unless the area is in extreme drought they will not bother a large unseeded plant. Now and then I must replace a drip line because rats have chewed their way in looking for water. I have used your idea on my coffee trees though. And it works.:thumbsup:

In my harem there is a regrow that decided I did not cut enough off of her on my last harvest in May. Of the five branches I left behind, two of them decided to bud. I was losing yield because this plant was budding and veging at the same time. Pic 1 is the plant and pic 2 is my fix :D

Pic 3, 4, and 5 are the from gulch girls. pic 3 is from my tie her down post. Pic 5 just got tied down yesterday. Pic 4 I have to do something with, but I have no idea what to do with her. I would like to get her up off the ground and put some distance between branches, but I have yet to think of a way to do that short of pruning branches out of her. Anyone need 200 clones?

The dry season is here. That's ironic because last year we had no rainy season. I am giving my larger plants six gallons of water every other day. Any rain we get on this side of the island from now to November will be from a tropical storm /depresssion or (sarcasam alert) if we are real lucky a full blown hurricane.

Next post I will take you up the hill and show you my embarrassments.

[honeygurl]

Ha, here on da Big Island (aka Pig Island), our problem is pigs. I'll trade pigs for rats anytime. Too bad you on Maui--I'd take you up on those clones.

[oldhaole]

Ha, here on da Big Island (aka Pig Island), our problem is pigs. I'll trade pigs for rats anytime. Too bad you on Maui--I'd take you up on those clones.

No deal... I will keep the rats. You get the pigs.

We have pigs too. And deer. With the drought going on (and getting worse) the animals are comming into populated areas looking for food and water. I know what that is like though. Rats take little bites. Pigs just plow.

If you're up in the hills, there's nothing you can do. On your property a couple of dogs will keep them away.

How are things on the Beeg eyeLand? Have the people on catchment started to haul water yet? Or is it like here, where the windward side still gets rain and the leeward side bakes?

[LetsSeeYa]

Maui to Oregon? How's that working out for you? Wife of my youth has been on me for years to move to Colorado. Needless to say, not going to happen. :wtf:

LSY... How you be? Hawaii has rats. Big time. At my house, the dogs take care of most of them. Unless the area is in extreme drought they will not bother a large unseeded plant. Now and then I must replace a drip line because rats have chewed their way in looking for water. I have used your idea on my coffee trees though. And it works.:thumbsup:

Hey man glad the steel wool helped you. Damn id luv to see a coffee tree. One thing about the steel wool is the rust after a month or so it starts and after this heat goes il change it. Was wondering if the rust would hurt my plants, but other then giving some iron maybe, i couldn't find anything.


In my harem there is a regrow that decided I did not cut enough off of her on my last harvest in May. Of the five branches I left behind, two of them decided to bud. I was losing yield because this plant was budding and veging at the same time. Pic 1 is the plant and pic 2 is my fix :D

Well it looks like you fixed your issue.


Pic 3, 4, and 5 are the from gulch girls. pic 3 is from my tie her down post. Pic 5 just got tied down yesterday. Pic 4 I have to do something with, but I have no idea what to do with her. I would like to get her up off the ground and put some distance between branches, but I have yet to think of a way to do that short of pruning branches out of her. Anyone need 200 clones?

Could you get something under it at least. Something like a trellis of some sorts to keep it off the ground, which might spread it out when its up an open. Just a thought, im sure you thought of too.


The dry season is here. That's ironic because last year we had no rainy season. I am giving my larger plants six gallons of water every other day. Any rain we get on this side of the island from now to November will be from a tropical storm /depresssion or (sarcasam alert) if we are real lucky a full blown hurricane.

Next post I will take you up the hill and show you my embarrassments.

Wow thats a lot of water every other day. Its 90 here and to be hotter in the next couple days. With my disability i dont sweat, so the heat is bad for me as thats your bodies way of cooling that i dont have. In fact im too hot to write more, but il be back man, i luv this grow:thumbsup:




:rasta:

[honeygurl]

How are things on the Beeg eyeLand? Have the people on catchment started to haul water yet? Or is it like here, where the windward side still gets rain and the leeward side bakes?

Drought was really bad a few months back - starting to get some rain FINALLY, but we need more. Yeah, catchment folks have been hurting....

Don't want to endanger da dogs, these pigs are mean and full of diseases. Dis is how it going on for the pigs dat root up my plants:

pigs :gunfighter2:

[oldhaole]

Pic 1 is one of my coffee plants. Pic 2 is a pic of a coffee flower. Coffee needs a good rain in order to produce flowers. In a normal year the entire top of the plant should be a mass of flowers. Since we have had no rain this year I have no flowers. So it looks like I'm looking at half my usual crop.

Pic 3 is the stem of my problem plant. The lower branches have rooted. The rest of the stem is a mess. I have no idea what to do with this one. There is no way to lift it up and put something under it with the rooted branches. I will have to get in there and prune back some of the smaller branches.

Earlier I promised pics of my embarrassments. Let's head up the hill and I will show you a couple I am not so proud of. Pic 4 is a regrow that wants to keep budding. But it is the wrong time of the year for her to go off. So I get half brachs and she just keeps on growing. I will be curious to see what side wins.

Pic 5 is also a WW regrow. She has some PM on her and needs constant spraying. Also need to get in there and trim off more buds. There are two of the shittier girls. There's a few more and I will show them in my next post.

Honeygirl, I have a mob of dogs. Most have been rescued from a life of hunting pigs. Frankly pig dogs are treated like shit here. I pity the pig (both two and four legged variety) that gets caught out in the open in my yard. When my kids get ripe I tie one up out in the gulch. Thieves have made a grab for them more than once in the past. Only thing they got was stiches.

[oldhaole]

Aloha All.;

Last night started off quiet enough. Was closing down he house to go to sleep. My heeler let out her "somethings up bark" and goes tearing out the front door. Following her are 9 other dogs, slipping and sliding as they take the turns on the tile floor. Ever see a bunch of dogs lose traction on a tile floor? Funny as hell. They make it out the door and run down to the bottom of my property. All barking and growling. I follow and find nothing. So I go to sleep.

Two AM. Repeat of first episode. Haul my half asleep ass down there...nothing.

Five AM Repeat again. F##k that. I'm in bed and staying there. Let the mob handle it.

At dawn I am down there lookind for trails in the grass. Instead I find Shit. Deer pellets to be exact. The F##cking deer were trying to EAT my plants.
I've lived here twenty some years and only saw in that time, one deer. Now I have a herd at my fence eyeing my garden. Yesterday as I was comming home I saw turkeys from the side of the road, drinking out of a water trough. Today deer.

Deer here are considered exotic and we have an open season year round. I put some snares where they are comming over the fence so I may yet have some free food down the road. I don't like to use snares, but if I take a shot, there are houses downrange, and I dont want to put a round into somebodys house. Not a good way to make friends.

Back to the embarrassments. See? Put them at the bottom of a post that nobody will read? Too smart huh? All of these are on the top and all are being grown at the request of my wifes' patient. All are budding early, and In my eyes are a waste of space. I have told her this many times, but she knows everything, so it turns into lesson time.

Last post had the top two, now next row down we have Pics 1,2,3.

Pic 4 is from the same batch of seeds but looks a bit better. All are a Skunk/Thai cross from northern CA.

Pic 5 is the big one in the gulch. LSY gets off on it. :D

And that boys and girls is everything except Wife of my youths seven. And if I take pics of those I will be, and I quote, "Eating my balls for breakfast".

[maui454]

Maui to Oregon it is going well I have smoked some good collie grown upcountry. Aloha


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http://www.cannabis.com/viewPhoto.php?photo_id=8172&title=oregon&ref=Maui454

[LetsSeeYa]

Geez guy ya crack me up, ya know how to tell a story. Bitter sweet tho as it makes me think of my dog. Im pretty sure you knew he died. He would hop up an down when it was feeding time, which he knew the time at 10am an 5;30pm was feeding time. Now he was 80lbs, so to see it an hear it as he needed a nail trim, clicked on the hard wood floor, all feet at the same time. Just never saw a dog hop like that and with this floor of mine, i sure could understand your description as iv seen my Brody try and get a foot hold, funny. Yeah i still miss him maybe more then i should, but he was some dog.

Sorry i got off topic there. Plants look great an yeah i do luv that plant. That thing is huge an so healthy:thumbsup:. Well im all messed up now, but il always be back man.


:rasta:

[honeygurl]

Good luck catchn' da deer with snares!

[oldhaole]

Geez guy ya crack me up, ya know how to tell a story. Bitter sweet tho as it makes me think of my dog. Im pretty sure you knew he died. He would hop up an down when it was feeding time, which he knew the time at 10am an 5;30pm was feeding time. Now he was 80lbs, so to see it an hear it as he needed a nail trim, clicked on the hard wood floor, all feet at the same time. Just never saw a dog hop like that and with this floor of mine, i sure could understand your description as iv seen my Brody try and get a foot hold, funny. Yeah i still miss him maybe more then i should, but he was some dog.


:rasta:


You can't miss Brody too much. When he died so did a small piece of you. When you are ready, you can get another dog. Not another Brody, but each one is irreplacable. So I hear you. Sorry to take you back into the memory hole.

The deer situation has resolved into a standoff. No more nocturnal visits. They are still out there. Just waiting for me to let my guard down. I can see their shit on the other side of the fence.

Snares work, yesterday caught one of my dogs. Not one of my better ideas. Dog was not badly hurt but wife of my youth chewed me a new one. Who am I kidding? Real Bad Idea.

STFU and show us the green already... ok...hold your water.

Below are the bottom girls. They were last seen in my June 19th post. They are in as close to the same order as the June 19th post. The only difference is Pic 5 is a close up of the Cali skunk that is/has gone off early.

Pic 1 is a regrow left and a cali girl that shot up and is now slowing down and going off.

Pic 2 is a monster regrow and a waste of a hole cali girl skunk/thai cross Lesson learned. use proven genetics. Plant mainland strains in short season. Give it a couple of generations to adjust to local climate. See what you get. See what problems come along with each new strain.

Pic 3 is the same strain as the gulch monster (tall one). This plants top was taken May 24th, and can be seen in that post under last to go. Seen again in June 19ths post.

Pic 4 is a cali girl that is turning into a nice bush. Have her close to the ground because if she gets tall she can be seen.

Pic 5 is a close up of my waste of space.

[oldhaole]

Pic 1 is on the bottom. It is another regrow. WW/WW cross. I need to get on it with a pair of clippers and remove some scragly bottom buds.

Pic 2 is one of my Bug eating friends. Was wandering through the garden this evening and saw a branch jump. Moved aside the branch and... Hello Jackson!

[ForgetClassC]

Pic 1 is on the bottom. It is another regrow. WW/WW cross. I need to get on it with a pair of clippers and remove some scragly bottom buds.

Pic 2 is one of my Bug eating friends. Was wandering through the garden this evening and saw a branch jump. Moved aside the branch and... Hello Jackson!

What?!?!?! That's a trip man, that would be so straight to have wild chameleons watching my shit.

-C

[oldhaole]

That Jackson is a juvinile and just putting on his green coat. The biggest one on my property is about a 8 inches long with tail. They have a prehensile tongue that is twice as long as their body. When a bug sets down around him, he very slowly moves his head, and quickly shoots out his tongue and a sticky spot on its tip sticks to the bug. He will suck it back in and have lunch. He can hit a bug from a foot or more away. You have to see it to believe it.

Females are the same size and color, but have no horns, and give birth to small live young. The babies are camo and will go down to the base of the plant and hide after birth. (Mom and Dad will eat them if the find them.)

The babies are the ones that eat the majority of the bugs. Whiteflys don't stand a chance. Some years I have a lot, some years, none. this year...plenty. :D

This year is our second year of drought. I have the only green watered area within a mile or so. Every critter and its mother in this area is comming here looking for water.

[ForgetClassC]

Haha, thats awesome, animals are the shit, and making an area that supports them, just brings that much more appreciation from it. I myself have a Skunk Gecko that is about 3 yrs old and around 9" long. It would be awesome if I could put him on my plants sometime, but I feel he would dipset. Man, having those chameleons is saving you a pretty penny too, they are around $250 each if you want them as a pet. Gro on.

-C

[jimmy345]

Thats is like watching the best nature programe right around your grow, your plants are lovely looking i wish i could do i nice outdoor grow like that! Could i ask what would be your daily temps where you are? :jointsmile:

[oldhaole]

Thats is like watching the best nature programe right around your grow, your plants are lovely looking i wish i could do i nice outdoor grow like that! Could i ask what would be your daily temps where you are? :jointsmile:

I live between 3000 and 4000 ft up on the west side of a 10,000 ft dorment volcano. Each night cool air flows down the mountain. When the sun rose this AM we were at 59 outside. Right now at 930 AM it is 65 in the shade. Each day the land below us heats up and warm air rises causing a cloud cover every afternoon. So our high today will be @75. If we have no cloud cover (very rare) it will get to 80.

Take off 10 degrees and you have our normal winter temps. Add 10 degrees and you have temps at sea level.

Glad to answer your question, and have a great day.

[jimmy345]

Sounds pretty amazing alright, thanks for the answer would have to go few thousand miles to get condtions like that. enjoy the day :jointsmile:

[oldhaole]

Life on the rock continues. If anyone is following this missguided madness of a season, you will have heard me whine, bitch, moan, and grumble about the three wastes of space.

Recap, a person I am caregiver to brought her own seeds fom the mainland. Asked me to give them a shot. I said fine. Well three of them went off early, and never bothered to go into vege mode. Two were nice plants. stinky, sticky, and too damn small. The third just sucked eggs all around. Needless to say these three were crimping his/her potential harvest. The whole idea of this grow is to supply four patients with smoke for the entire year. Not three of us doing great and one bumming joints off of us for half a year.


When we started this trip, I had everybody give me veto power over this grow. Even the wife of my youth gave it up. Then took it back, but that was to be expected and I know better than to kick that hive...

Today I noticed a spot of rot in one of the little wastes of space. And that was all it took. They are out of here. F##k 'em. Call them up and come get them. Move over, I gotta salvage your harvest. (God, I sound like Al Haig... I'm in charge here!) (and if you have to ask, you are not old enough)

Here we are, mid July, and I have two holes EMPTY. I need two clones and I need them yesterday. I also need to put a couple of feet on them before they go inground. Friend I gave clones to gave two back. He was also kind enough to put them in bigger pots with fresh dirt. Now the two clones are in my light room getting light this PM. This morning I will put them in sunlight. 24 hours of light should get them up faster than 13.

In three weeks I will put them in my empty holes. These two need to catch up fast. Ideally I would like to get them to 8 ft but I will sett....correction...He/she will settle for 6 ft. And be damn f##king happy about it.

And with these last two I can relax. I have my garden just the way I want it. For now....

Pic 1 are the replacements.
Pic 2 is a pretty tree... I got nothing more.

[ForgetClassC]

That looks like a nice joint smoking spot.

-C

[oldhaole]

That beautiful tree is, unfortunatly, in the main courtyard of the Hotel Hana Maui. :(

You'd get 1 hit and..... SECURITY! Four large local Hawaiian males (know to us haoles as mokes) would be there to haul you down to the police station (one cell... no waiting) about 3 blocks away.

Besides this is Maui... we get plenty pretty trees to go smoke under.

[oldhaole]

Yesterdays post ended with this quote "And with these last two I can relax. I have my garden just the way I want it...for now.

That lasted for 4 whole hours. This AM I did my usual walk around. Always save the best for last. I have two project plants. Big one and wide one. Big one I wanted to bend stems so I tied the stem up and did my thing.

Wide one is another story. It is 5 ft tall and 8 ft by 8 ft across. I knew this one would give me problems because the stem is a mess. This AM I was greeted by a quarter of the plant on the ground. Last night the stem split. Dropped two large branches on the ground and they were starting to wilt.

Frame time. Now. Crank on the water. Now. I built a quick bamboo frame around wide one and tied up the broken branches. Repaired the split, by both lifting from the bottom and top of the branches at the same time. Weight is now hanging from frame. Then I tied a quarter inch drip line around the split and supported both branches from the bottom also.

By 10:00 AM I was done. Nothing to do but see what happens next. Nature cooperated by giving me a cloudy day. At 5:00 PM I went out and she LIVES. Wilt is gone. Tied up other branches that may split off later.

Plant is still a mess. If I can keep her alive she will yield big. But I honestly think she will be nothing but trouble.

Pic 1 is her before I took the top and left the bottom to regrow.
Pic 2 is her before split. Pic took 7/2/10
Pic 3 is what greeted me this morning. Started frame.
Pic 4 is the stem split.
Pic 5 is after repair. Pray for me.

[deserthealer]

prayers

[oldhaole]

Wide one is still wide. Yesterday we had some sun and those two split off branches are doing fine. This AM they had little drops of water on the leaf tips, so the broken branches are transpiring.

Asked my neighbor to turn on one of his water troughs in his pasture way above my yard and he did. The deer are now up there. So they are not hanging around my fenceline anymore.

These next two posts are all the gulch girls. It has been two weeks since I posted pics of the whole gulch girl line. Things are getting big out there. And they have a lot more to go.

Pic 1 is the big girl. I have her tied and braced. Yardstick is hanging from a branch. Main branch is 9 ft tall. Second branch is 7+

Pic 2 is a replacement clone. It sits in big ones shaddow and is just starting to jump.

Pic 3&4 are the wide one. Now repaired.

Pic 5 is a Cali girl. A skunk /thai mix. The hairs on this girl are pink. Looks like I must break my rule about not cutting leaves here. She has a lot of leaves.

[oldhaole]

Continue from last post;

Pic 1 is close up of pink pistils of #4

Pic 2 is another clone. Nothing to write home about. But, I ain't hiding anything in this log.

Pic 3 is another regrow. Will turn into a round bush.

Pic 4 another regrow. Yardstick is hanging in this one also. She has been tied down too.

[LetsSeeYa]

Wow my man every time i come here there is another plant thats changed or the tree, that thing is amassing. I have done Bonsai for close to 15 years and it looks like a picture of a tree in one of my books, just wonderful man.

The coffee tree is way cool too, talk about your home brew cup of Joe. What kind of average do ya get from it? Hell i got a good deal for 5 bucks the other day so to grow it would be great.

I see your stem issue. Nothing comes to mind but duct tape around them at least if they do crack, they will be protected. Mine are way different, well a cant really see the Edna stem, but i can see the plant now from my mail box which isn't a good thing. But the others have bark on them and the cross is huge, id say 5-7'' around. When i feed them i just pour everything down the middle of the plant so not sure i didn't build them up with it.

When you talked about a cage, i was thinking it would be up close and touching the branches as for them to lean on, but im not sure what ya got there. I gotta do something with the Edna, but just not sure yet. Its about 5-6' now with about 3 1/2 months to go. But i will do two harvest maybe if it gets too big. But my NL has caught up and is taller then all of them now, just not as bushy. But i just luv the stuff, its great for pain and doesnt knock ya out, but if your ready to sleep it helps, funny but my favorite.

Thanks guy, i lost the Internet for a bit, but im back now. I saw a chopper go right over my grow the other day so i guess iv been a bit freaked to go out there. Now there is an airport a mile down the road and i see planes all the time as the turn around my house to get ready to land, but never saw a chopper. It did the normal turn around and land thing, but if they did see it, wouldn't ya think they would have been at the door by now? I really dont think they would wait till the yield is bigger, then nail me, do you? Just a bit freaked right now.

Thanks my man, ya put a helluva show on and always know i can get a chuckle in here, your descriptive writing makes for one of the best logs iv read, not to mention the girly pics too:D


:rasta:

[oldhaole]

Thanks for the reply and questions. Glad to know I can still tell a decent story.

First off, the coffee. Yield depends on age and size of plant. It takes 5-7 years just to bear fruit. The tree in the pic is close to 10 years old. It will give me @ 10 lbs of fruit or about 3 lbs of roasted beans a year. Each cherry must be picked by hand when ripe. If you drink coffee, get in touch with me and I will send you a 1/2 lb. You tell me what you think. I don't sell it, but those on my xmas list know what they are going to get.

My bamboo frame will now support the plant, And your idea about duct tape is sound. Most regrows have some place secure to tie a brace around. Two branches to brace against each other. With the wide one I have nothing. It is a house of cards. I have seen, and could wrap hogwire around it, but that will push it together and with our humidity, mold will eat me long before she is ready. So I will play it day by day and I'm sure I will be bitching about for the next few months. I still have a few tricks up my sleve. If I can get it to harvest it will yield lbs. BIG IF. Besides a bit of drama keeps the grow log fresh :wtf:

Now this concerns me. When you are growing big ones outside, sight lines are very important. I would worry about the sightline from your mailbox. The mailbox is on a public road right? If a cop sees your plant in "plain view" he will come back with a search warant. Don't worry about the airport. Worry about anything that can be seen from public property. Check your sightlines and fix anything ASAP.

Now about the airport. A landing plane is traveling fast and the pilot (and 90% of the passengers) are looking at the runway. The pilot has a prelanding checklist he is going through and he is not looking down at the funny trees in your backyard. He is moving too fast for his eye to register single plants on the ground anyway. If the chopper was in the landing pattern, same thing. No worry.


Do they fly Green Harvest there?

[truepunk87]

damn old, you got some pretty lil monsters:thumbsup: just thought id check out your grow, and now im jealous.:D cant grow like like up here, live in a big city and would definetly get caught by old Rosco. nice job on your repair too. gotta give you some rep cuz those things are just beautiful. o, and id love to try some of that coffee u grow:) take it easy old

[oldhaole]

Hate to sound cocky (yea right). Most of the girls have yet to begin to flower. All I have now is potential. Big leafy trees. Give this log two more months and then things start to get fun.

If you ever get to this rock, drop me a line. Be happy to let you try the coffee and other agricultural products :D

Later

[ForgetClassC]

Why not turn that big ole girl you have that's almost in two pieces, and make her into a string puppet. Just tie everything up to like surrounding bushes and trees and shit. That girl is huge, she needs some support, go to the store and see if they got a sports bra, lol.

-C

[oldhaole]

Why not turn that big ole girl you have that's almost in two pieces, and make her into a string puppet. Just tie everything up to like surrounding bushes and trees and shit. That girl is huge, she needs some support, go to the store and see if they got a sports bra, lol.

-C

Went yesterday looking for a bra for her and they were all too small. Said I had to go get a custom job done for her and sagging was still possible. :( Was going to cost big bucks too. :D So I passed.

What you don't see is all the fishing line tied, frame to branch. She is a string puppet right now. Where the line comes in contact with branch I ran the line through 1/4 in drip line so it will not mess up (bite into)the branches. So she should split no more. Until Oct-Nov when she is fully loaded down with buds that is. I gotta go buy a couple hundred feet of speaker wire. Then you would be able to see all the support I am giving her. Right now wide one is tied up in 8 different places.

As we get close to winter the sun tracks more south. The gulch is lined up so it gets full sun in winter but only 3/4 sun in summer. So the gulch girls will get more sun and bud later than the other girls. I guess that they still have two more months of vegetative growth left to go before even thinking of budding. Big one still has an outside chance to get to 15 ft. She is 9ft now.

This is my first year of legal. In 20+ years I only grew one plant inground here. Had to transplant it next to the house so I could cover it when green harvest flew. Got just afternoon sun. And it was just like the wide one. A first class bitch. Couple of weeks before harvest we has a hard rain. Almost every branch was on the dirt afterward. We had 40 or so branches tied to the frame by harvest. The plant yielded 2lbs3oz not including the 100 or so clones we took off of her. Add those in, and partner and I got 5+ lbs dry.

This is my first year of legal. I want to take this past "nice plants", beyond "wow" and the "OMG" area. I want to get into the "you gotta be kidding me" zone. Jaw tracks in the dirt is what I am aiming for.

Will it work? Who the hell knows? Stick around and see what happens. I was a legal virgin. To this point it has been easy. It just gets harder from here. By the time we are done I will be sleeping in the gulch with all of my dogs.

[CovertCarpenter]

...but hey, that's just one of the perks you git for living in one of the closest approximations of Paradise that this planet has to offer :D

I'm trying some balcony growing this summer/fall, but there is like NO way I could get 'em over 7-8 feet tall, as anything higher won't fit on the balcony, or my livingroom, if I need to bring 'em inside.

Sigh... I'm sooooo envious. Keep up the great work, oldhaole! And you might try adding some trip lines in the area attached to little bells or other noisemakers, to assist you and the canines standing guard over your lovely hareem!

Ain't growing legal wonderful?

[oldhaole]

I can't disagree with your first statement. It is very easy to grow potent weed here. It does take a small bit of local knowlege to do it consistantly. But ,put bluntly, a monkey could do it.

Now compare that with the idea of growing an outdoor plant inside. Then taking that idea further and growing great weed indoors. Figuring what strain goes how long, lights, ferts, timing, and the perprtual grow. That is so much harder than what I do. I go thru the indoor growlogs and some of the stuff and strains are pure genious. Here are people that take it seriously, and are willing to share what they have found out thru experience. Wish the internet existed back when I first started to grow.

So I give you guys credit. You work far harder than me, far smarter than me, Spend way more than me, Nature stacks the deck against you, yet you manage to beat it and produce very impressive smoke. So don't pat me on the back. Pat yourselves (though if you do it too much your arm will get stuck back there).

As for security and such,

Hawaii has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. Just posessing an illegal handgun is an automatic five years. So going that direction is too nuts for me.

I rely on my dogs, and if they can get past the mob they can have it. If the mob catches them,.... well don't expect me to come running while they scream. All my dogs are former pig dogs. That means some grab and some track. All I have to do is get to the fence and throw the dogs over it. So even if you get off my property, the chase is still on. :(

[LetsSeeYa]

Well its like 5;30 am their now but i have you as a friend now so you can see my contact info. Could ya send an email so i could have your info, to send ya an email. Mu email and everything in my profile is only seen by my ''friends'', just thought it might be a bit more secure.

I will get on line around 11;00 12;00 morning your time and write ya, if you could send one to me first. Its the same as the yahoo messenger s/n.

Thanks guy, its sorta important:(


:rasta:

[oldhaole]

Another day.... another problem...

And this one's a doosey.

Day started off nice enough. Sunny and warm until noon. Nothing new there. Clouds formed... Rain? No can't be...Haven't seen rain here since Christ walked the earth. Look down the hill and watched the veil as it marched up toward us.

Yep, that's rain! ALLFUCKING right.

The plants is this log are all rain virgins. And today looks like that will change.
It took a while but a light rain began. Just what the doctor ordered. The clouds came down and we were in the fog. Pushed my big old chair out on the deck and just smiled.

The old Hawaiians had over 100 words for rain. Each one describes a different kind of rain. Ran the gauntlet, from fog and mist, to light, then hard,then pounding rain. And this afternoon I saw them all.

Two hours later god kicked up the dial, no problem, then again, then again, then again....well you get the idea. By 4 pm it sounded like a John Bonham solo on my roof.... Ohhh shit. An inch an hour for the last 2 hours. This, boys and girls is not good.

As usual the sunset ended the deluge. Even saw another beautiful sunset.

Plants are thrashed. From my quick walk thru I count 4 in the dirt. Big one came through ok. Wide one, not so much.

My rain virgins just got gang raped. They pulled the train, first time.

Now comes the fun part. Another clusterfuck of a day. I will be up early before the sun. I need 4 frames, a mile of fishing line, lots of 1/4 inch drip line and and no sun tomorrow. Took some quick pics.

Pic 1 is the plant seen in my what a difference a day makes post. Ain't that the truth :(
Pic 2 is looking up the hill before the flood. They came thru ok.
Pic 3 is a cali girl after the rain. Here comes the mold! Took a lot of leaves off her yesterday. Fat lot of good it will do me.

[oldhaole]

At 9:30PM HST, wide one underwent traction and surgery. Injuries included 4 branches in the dirtitis and one major stem split. Dr oldhaole reports the patient responded well to treatment. The prognosis for her survival is good.

Dr oldhaole also reports big one came through the beating bent, but with no obvious injuries. Gulch girls are now all on the mend.

The day was not without losses though. One plant on the top is on the ground. Amputation and/or termination may be necessary. Another on the bottom will lose an arm. These were not featured much in this log. Accetable losses. Pics tomorow.

The weather droid now tells us it may rain tomorrow. Funny, the braintrust said nothing about todays pounding.

Tommorow Dr oldhaole and his nurse, wife of my youth, will be assisted by Dr portagee, as we attempt to prepare for the alledged upcoming rain.

The backgrounds and kids will now look different. Frames will be built. My girls will recover. The pasture will go green. The deer will return to the boonies. The coffee will flower. In short...life goes on.

[oldhaole]

Trying to get in touch via Yahoo... No joy...Hope you see this... mail is


Jay Jay OHNROSS Jay R at aoldotcom....Put the caps together drop small letters My e mail is all caps. drop me a line

[LetsSeeYa]

At 9:30PM HST, wide one underwent traction and surgery. Injuries included 4 branches in the dirtitis and one major stem split. Dr oldhaole reports the patient responded well to treatment. The prognosis for her survival is good.

Dr oldhaole also reports big one came through the beating bent, but with no obvious injuries. Gulch girls are now all on the mend.

The day was not without losses though. One plant on the top is on the ground. Amputation and/or termination may be necessary. Another on the bottom will lose an arm. These were not featured much in this log. Accetable losses. Pics tomorow.

The weather droid now tells us it may rain tomorrow. Funny, the braintrust said nothing about todays pounding.

Tommorow Dr oldhaole and his nurse, wife of my youth, will be assisted by Dr portagee, as we attempt to prepare for the alledged upcoming rain.

The backgrounds and kids will now look different. Frames will be built. My girls will recover. The pasture will go green. The deer will return to the boonies. The coffee will flower. In short...life goes on.

Sorry to hear about the wrecked plants :(. But my question was answered, it helps your coffee tree/bush? Looked like a tree, but not sure what ya called it.

Maybe it was getting to easy for ya and the Island thought it would toss ya a curve ball to mess with:wtf:. Il bet its been a long morning for ya!

I dont have AIM, so i cant IM you, i do have yahoo though. But if ya look at my contact info you will see my email there. I posted a pic, can ya see the 3 in there.

See Ya :rasta:

[LetsSeeYa]

Trying to get in touch via Yahoo... No joy...Hope you see this... mail is


Jay Jay OHNROSS Jay R at aoldotcom....Put the caps together drop small letters My e mail is all caps. drop me a line

You can get me on yahoo now, i just needed to open up the mail. And i tried to email you but not sure i got it right.



:rasta:

[Dutch Pimp]

I was in Hawaii...once...for about 45 minutes...just enough time for gas & cigarettes...then ...on to 'nam


It looked fucking great...:thumbsup:

[oldhaole]

Drop me an E mail.... not an IM...i type too fucking slow anyway for those...coffee is waiting...Later

I will give yahoo another shot. I will be comming to you as eatshitanddie

Dont ask

[LetsSeeYa]

Drop me an E mail.... not an IM...i type too fucking slow anyway for those...coffee is waiting...Later

I will give yahoo another shot. I will be comming to you as eatshitanddie

Dont ask

Well i just sent two emails trying to figure out your email. There is a . after com i am assume? Maybe check it out and see if i got ya, if not il try again. Thanks guy




:rasta:

[LetsSeeYa]

I was in Hawaii...once...for about 45 minutes...just enough time for gas & cigarettes...then ...on to 'nam


It looked fucking great...:thumbsup:

Man they coulda gave ya time for a beer and a lay Dutch, after all you were going to war, dang man:wtf:


Every time i come to this thread there is something interesting to look at or he's got something going on. Never boring in here for sure.:thumbsup:



:rasta:

[oldhaole]

I was in Hawaii...once...for about 45 minutes...just enough time for gas & cigarettes...then ...on to 'nam


It looked fucking great...:thumbsup:

Dude... That is so ..... I'm trying to come up with a word.... Fucked Up. :(
What can I say?...That's all I came up with... If the shoe fits.

Spent most of last night working and worrying. This AM was sunny and clear. Plants dried out and perked right up. These will be big problems when they are in bud. But for now all is fixed except one on the top garden. Framed up two more.

I'm tired so right to some pics.

Pic 1 Bottom garden
Pic 2 Last one harvested
Pic 3 Wide one
Pic 4 Big one

[LetsSeeYa]

You Doctored em up well it looks like bro. Do the frames act as the plants grow into them? Its just that i see the frame, but not a branch is touching them so im assuming its a ''they will'' as they grow frame. I wonder if i need to do this.

I went out and took a few pic's and posted them to my log. Maybe you can take a peek:cool:

Im all outta the funk, that was a crazy feeling bro, but thanks for the ear:thumbsup:



:rasta:

[oldhaole]

You Doctored em up well it looks like bro. Do the frames act as the plants grow into them? Its just that i see the frame, but not a branch is touching them so im assuming its a ''they will'' as they grow frame. I wonder if i need to do this.

I went out and took a few pic's and posted them to my log. Maybe you can take a peek:cool:

Im all outta the funk, that was a crazy feeling bro, but thanks for the ear:thumbsup:



:rasta:



I took a look at your girls and gotta say, they look great. I know the feeling you describe. You just want to scream. Half of you is; Oh fuck, I DID THIS! and the other half is OH FUCK! I did this. It is good to see your log updated.

You're intitled to the funk, it is natural place to go. Just don't stay there too long. If I helped... Cool:thumbsup: Anytime.

The hard rain freaked me out. Wide one is the size of a small car. All run out of one stem. If that rain can put unbudded branches on the ground, think of what it could do to a fully budded girl.

The frame is the easiest way I can think of to counteract gravity. What you can't see is the 50 lb test line that holds each branch up. With the frame I can tie up any branch directly against the natural pull of gravity. With 2 lines to a branch I can take the wind out of play. By the time I'm done I expect to have her tied to the frame in ...maybe 50 places.

Let's go hypothetical... pick a plant. You got a lb off of her. But for her to do that, the stem had to carry 4lbs of water, leaf, bud, and stem. Now add another 10lbs of water weight due to rain, and a few more from the downforce of the falling water. Then throw some wind in. All that equals buds in the mud. :(

Pic 1 tools for tieing up the plant. Where the fishing line comes into contact with the stem I sheath the fishing line in a 1/4in drip line so it doesn't bite into the stem. And thank you to whoever invented zip ties.

[LetsSeeYa]

Ok i get ya know, i didn't see the lines tied to the cage. My NL looks like each branch will be each a giant cola. There are so many bud sites up an down all the branches. I was going to post a couple close ups cuz if this dose happen im really going to need to rig something up that isn't very visible. I thought about putting a garden hose around the middle for support, but still not sure. I was thinking the green hose would blend in anyway. I am planning on posting them in the morning, its hotter then two snakes screwing in a wool sock her, so a hooter and blast the fan to cool off. When i get hot i dont sweat, so it gets my body temp way up. Sucks, cuz it makes ya feel like shit.

Thanks man, il see ya:rasta:

[ForgetClassC]

Man, alot has happened since I was last here. Sucks the rain came, hope u can keep them from molding. Atleast the wide one has a little less to keep up. I don't really remember everything I read so thats all I'm gonna say so yeah, happy growing.

-C

[oldhaole]

Busy week.

Monday it rained...Hard. Peeled some branches off the wide one and put some other branches on the ground. From Tuesday on, sunshine, like usual.

The girls bounced right back. Put together frames over 5 more regrows and fixed the wide girl....again. The rain motivated me to prepare for....more rain.
That never came. So back to the drought. If by some strange chance it pours again, the frames are built and ready to have branchs tied up to it.

Planted the substitutes. Got rid of the wastes of space. Substitute clones were taken from wide one.

Wensday was anti climatic. Green harvest flew. I saw just 2 choppers, one flew by the DEA and the other MPD. Flew all around the house but missed me totally.

Talk about class difference. The DEA chopper is a twin engine new Puma with a NOTAR tail. Whisper quiet. Guys spotting in back are sitting on plush seats. Nothing but the best for the Feds. :mad:

Contrast that to the MPD chopper. Older single engine Hughes 400, and the poor bastards are sitting on web fold out seats. Noisy as a freight train. Bummer for the Maui cops :D

Thursday at 1237 PM we had our second of two yearly Lahina Noons. This is when the sun is directly overhead. So a building casts no shadow Put simply, The sun can't get anymore direct than that. The word Lahina in Hawaiian means cruel sun.

Now some pics;

Pic 1) Cali girl, HB labeled, now a couple of week into flower. She has almost 8ft. on her. All the cali girls are starting to flower except one.

Pic 2) Bottom 3. notice the waste of space is gone and a clone is in that hole. Plant in foregroud is 7 ft tall. One in back has 5 ft. Both are framed up.

Pic 3) Bottom 2 gulch girl regrows. One just got a new frame last week. Regrow in front is 4 ft. Regrow in back is 7+

Pic 4) Wide one. After repair. Takes a lickin and keeps on tickin. She has just reached 6 ft tall. Eight by 10 ft around.

Pic 5) Big One. Now largest top is amost 10 ft tall. I will have to frame her out soon.

[deserthealer]

may you be richly rewarded for all your great work, haole! :S5:

[LetsSeeYa]

I knew you could fix them up, but im sure it took a lot of work. They look incredible man. Id be sleeping out there now, just for the company. Ya sure know how to do it on that big ass rock your living on.

I called on Friday about another Dog, but haven't heard anything yet. I will call back in the morning, i feel like i forgot my watch or something everyday. If they wont let me have one il go to the pound.


Looks great my friend, like always:thumbsup:


SeeYa:rasta:

[yoda808]

Those are some nice monsters you've got there. Looks like its going to be a good harvest.

[oldhaole]

A ro ha boys and girls,

Thank you Desert and Yoda. I too am looking foreward to the next few months. So far so good, but we are miles from the finish line. Stay tuned in and see what happens. One more month and the story will get good (I hope).

LSY...When I can smell them from the house I WILL be sleeping down there. Glad to hear you are about ready for another dog. I often curse (very often) my mob, but I feel naked without them following me around and causing trouble. When I go to the mainland, after a week or so I find myself looking for any random dog to scratch (sad huh?). You grow to expect them around and when they are not, you realize how much a part of your life they are.

For those of you following this seasons log, two of my holes were occupied by plants that did not live up to yield standards. These two did not grow big, they just budded. I call them my wastes of space, and it has been this seasons goal to get them out of my garden, and get something growing in their holes that might actualy give me a decent yield.

I had enough of them, and pulled them a week or so back (just before the one rain we had this year). One of them I seeded a bottom branch, so I broke out my trimming sciscors, and whacked that girl down.

Got 40 or so seeds (crossed with a same strain male) for short season. This strain does have potential, so I want to save it and mess with it in the future. Below is the life story of my smallest plant this year. Got about a ft and a half tall and yielded 52 gms dry.

Seeds from Cali and it is a skunk/thai cross. Buds were dense and heavy. I did have a bit of bud mold start on her, and that prompted me to take her. Perhaps I took her a bit early, but the buds just do not pack it on in summer here, like they do in fall.

Pic 1 & 2) plant taken was small one in foreground. Look closely, the regrow in back is about the size I wanted her to be. :(

Pic 3) closer up

Pic 4 & 5) is some of the finished product. For a July harvest, I give her an eight on a ten scale.

[LetsSeeYa]

A ro ha boys and girls,

Thank you Desert and Yoda. I too am looking foreward to the next few months. So far so good, but we are miles from the finish line. Stay tuned in and see what happens. One more month and the story will get good (I hope).

LSY...When I can smell them from the house I WILL be sleeping down there. Glad to hear you are about ready for another dog. I often curse (very often) my mob, but I feel naked without them following me around and causing trouble. When I go to the mainland, after a week or so I find myself looking for any random dog to scratch (sad huh?). You grow to expect them around and when they are not, you realize how much a part of your life they are.

For those of you following this seasons log, two of my holes were occupied by plants that did not live up to yield standards. These two did not grow big, they just budded. I call them my wastes of space, and it has been this seasons goal to get them out of my garden, and get something growing in their holes that might actualy give me a decent yield.

I had enough of them, and pulled them a week or so back (just before the one rain we had this year). One of them I seeded a bottom branch, so I broke out my trimming sciscors, and whacked that girl down.

Got 40 or so seeds (crossed with a same strain male) for short season. This strain does have potential, so I want to save it and mess with it in the future. Below is the life story of my smallest plant this year. Got about a ft and a half tall and yielded 52 gms dry.

Seeds from Cali and it is a skunk/thai cross. Buds were dense and heavy. I did have a bit of bud mold start on her, and that prompted me to take her. Perhaps I took her a bit early, but the buds just do not pack it on in summer here, like they do in fall.

Pic 1 & 2) plant taken was small one in foreground. Look closely, the regrow in back is about the size I wanted her to be. :(

Pic 3) closer up

Pic 4 & 5) is some of the finished product. For a July harvest, I give her an eight on a ten scale.

Sounds great bro, but aren't ya missing something, in less iv become visually impaired, lol.

Pics?

[oldhaole]

Forgot the pics.... Smoke another joint bonehead.... Who needs short term memory???... Memory is so overrated anyway.

[oldhaole]

Howzit world.

August first. One more month to gain some more height. Girls are doing well. Had a bit of White Powder Mold start in some of the thicker parts. Also found some catipillars starting to hatch, so last night I sprayed everything in an attempt to catch these problems early.

This begining of the month's post will show everything in the yard. I will start with the gulch girls. Then we head up the hill, then go down to the bottom garden. A few of the girls are just starting to flower, so my fertilizer schedule will have to change. The time release I have been using is just about used up, so now comes the bloom booster.

Pic 1) Big one.
Pic 2) Clone replacement taken from wide one.
Pic 3) Wide one.
Pic 4) Cali girl. Plant was too leafy so I cut about half of the leaves off.
Pic 5) Cali girl close up of bluish pink pistils. She is just begining to bud.

[ForgetClassC]

Very nice, the 4th picture is soo fat, that's ridiculous. Gonna be nice.

-C

[oldhaole]

Let me finish the gulch plants;

Pic 1) A replacement clone.
Pic 2) Smallest regrow I have.
Pic 3) Last plant in the gulch.
Pic 4) Gulch after clearing, but before plants were put in.
Pic 5) View looking up the gulch. Trees in a row.

[oldhaole]

The bottom garden used to be all kikui grass. When I moved into this house all this area was pasture. Since this land is on the side of a hill, I terraced the hillside and planted roses.

After a few years I gave up and let the area overgrow. Whe I got my blue card, I oppened it up again and put some girls there.

Pic 1) Cali girl. The only one I have that has not began budding. She needs to be kept low as not to be seen from neighbors pasture.
Pic 2) This was the last plant I took the top from. This is her while she had her top.
Pic 3) Same plant as seen in Pic 2. Top taken and now a few months into regrow.
Pic 4) Stem of regrow shown in pics 2 & 3
Pic 5) Another regrow.

[oldhaole]

Moving left we have some more.

Pic 5) is the cali HB plant. Mislabled seeds. Of 5 that grew 4 were males. This was the only female in the group. She is going off early. And she looks tasty.
Pic 1) is a shitty close up of the top.
Pic 2) is another regrow. She had a bit of White Powder Mold starting on her. I sprayed her yesterday.
Pic 3) another regrow. The last rain put her on the dirt. I fixed her as best I could.
Pic 4) is a replacement clone. The plant that was there was a Cali Skunk/Thai cross that only got to a foot and a half tall and went off. The smoke was quite good for summer weed. :D

[deserthealer]

Your girls are so beautiful. Kudos. :smokin:

[oldhaole]

Today was dog washing day. All ten are flea free and smelling good. :D


Last part of the tour heads uphill. Same plan as below. Terraces and roses. Let them overgrow, then cleaned them out earlier this year. Left lots of weeds behind to hide the girls.

Pic 1) Regrow, I put her right on the trail up the hill. Already harvested a couple of branches off her. Somehow a seed from a different bag got mixed up and she tastes like an old style Mango plant. We will see what she becomes with time
Pic 2) Another Cali girl. And this one has some size for a change. Almost has six ft on her. She is has potential.
Pic 3) Replacement clone. Had a Cali girl there, good weed, but no size. There is a giant hole under her, with lots of FF waiting for roots.
Pic 4 & 5) Not proud of this Cali girl. Caterpillars snuck into her and had dinner, then it rained on her, so it catterpillar damaged spots rotted also. The Cali girls have lots of leaves, so I trimmed off a bunch of them to get some air circulating but it didn't work. So I messed it up good. :(

[oldhaole]

Let's finish this puppy off.

Pic 1) Another Cali girl. She is running about 2 weeks behind her ugly neighbor. This one I caught before the worms hatched. She is still not fattening up though.
Pics 2 & 3) Top row regrow. If you look closely you can see that I overfertilized her and burnt the leaves.
Pic 4) Another replacement clone. The rain we had aways back put the regrow in the dirt. There was no way to fix her, then the stem split, leaving the top in the mud. Salvage was not possible, so I took her and put this clone in her place.
Pic 5) Is a tray of green coffee.

[canniwhatsis]

Pic 5) Is a tray of green coffee.

Mmmmmmm,.... Kona...... :hippy:




Thanks for the tour! :thumbsup: :rastasmoke:

[oldhaole]

Mmmmmmm,.... Kona...... :hippy:




Thanks for the tour! :thumbsup: :rastasmoke:


No slam intended to my friends on the Big Island. But that there be Maui homegrown....as good as anything grown on the BI.... both the coffee and pakalolo :wtf: (look, I gotta stand by my shit...I would expect no less from any of you) Bring on the flames. :(


And the tour is open weekdays, 9 to 5. Weekends, 9 to 1. Glad I could take you along. One day I hope to be able to give away free samples. :D

[Weezard]

No slam intended to my friends on the Big Island. But that there be Maui homegrown....as good as anything grown on the BI.... both the coffee and pakalolo :wtf: (look, I gotta stand by my shit...I would expect no less from any of you) Bring on the flames. :(


And the tour is open weekdays, 9 to 5. Weekends, 9 to 1. Glad I could take you along. One day I hope to be able to give away free samples. :D

No slam perceived.:cool:
Kona coffee is superb, but I'm also very fond of Columbian blends.


Next time you renew, bring some Maui coffee and we'll have a li'l "sip-off".
I'm bettin' that there's almost no difference, depending on elevation of course.
Mostly 'cause I can see Maui from here.
If there is a discernable difference, dat make me a happy 'zard.:thumbsup:
Den we blend, yah?!:cool:

Beeg kudos on da ladies, O. H..:greenthumb:
You got mad skills brah, I have much to learn from you!

Most people think it's easy to grow outdoors here.
I know betta'.
My outdoor attempts have all failed miserably.:(

And my indoor girls are all looking quite sad lately as well.
Slow, to no, transpiration, and generally unhealthy looking.

Guess I betta go talk to dem some more.
Dey normally tell ya where it hurts.
But, my girls no get specific, anymore, dey jus' yell "He'p us!"
<sigh>
So it goes.
Alo Ha,
Weeze

[ChawabaBuds]

I am moving to Hawaii with my boyfriend soon and we are looking to grow there ourselves. We are focusing on Maui at this time because we're hopeful that the more postings for jobs that are on Craigslist, the more jobs are available there.

What do you think of this? Do you think this is a bad idea?

[oldhaole]

Dude, I'm real sorry to hear about your kids.... Hope they get well soon. If there is anything I can do to help, drop me a line. Am happy to share if needed.

Love to get together for a sip off. With this years crop I think a blend would be best. This years cup is way strong. Almost too strong to stand alone. Must be the drought. Not much shade this year.

This year seems to be comming together nicely...so far. But we both know how fast that can change. Don't pat me on the back until the year is done. Way too much can still blow up yet. I have yet to see a perfect year.

Ask your girls to grow big. Hope they listen to you. Good Luck.

[oldhaole]

I am moving to Hawaii with my boyfriend soon and we are looking to grow there ourselves. We are focusing on Maui at this time because we're hopeful that the more postings for jobs that are on Craigslist, the more jobs are available there.

What do you think of this? Do you think this is a bad idea?


Maui is a beautiful tropical island. A green pearl in a sea of blue. That is the face we show he world. It is also a one season, slow, incestious, rock in the middle of nowhere.

Agriculture is almost dead, construction is dead, and we rely on tourists to keep the lights on. Many must work two jobs to make ends meet. Kinda hard to enjoy the island if all you do on your days off is sleep.

Our unemploymet rate is 8+%. It is an Island. Getting a decent job is often a question of who you know, not what you know. And can you live on an island in the first place? Some can, some can't. Some need the seasons, some don't.

If the economy recovers we should be fine. If it doesn't we are screwed.

If you have a six month financial cushion try it for a month. Look for a job, shop at the local markets, and live for a while as a resident. See if it works for you. Then decide if you want to give it a shot.

Some come here on vacation and never leave. Others come for a lifetime and leave after a few months. As a rule if you can last here for three years, you're home.

As for growing, the big money was made long ago. Sure, you can grow all you can smoke if you set yourself up right. But it is now mostly legal and the risk premium is gone.

Only you can answer the question of good or bad idea.

Whatever you decide, Good Luck.

[ChawabaBuds]

Well, I could MAYBE swing 6 or 7 months. Maybe. This depends on if I can find someone there who can tell me if there's a decent room for rent, or if I pick a place if it would be really stupid to rent in that area. I'm not sure how this works, the only time I've ever moved state I had an arrangement with a friend to rent the couch for $175 a month but now I have my boyfriend with me and need a whole room.

In any case, I wanted to share a little; I have 9 foot plants in California. I have a few pictures I'm putting up in a few minutes on my profile if possible. I used a special blend of fertalizers and the only small one is the one that should be small :-)

[Weezard]

Dude, I'm real sorry to hear about your kids.... Hope they get well soon. If there is anything I can do to help, drop me a line. Am happy to share if needed.

Mighty kind of ya brah, but I'm good!
Got enough meds from my beginner's luck to keep me goin' as I sort this out.
I use as much technology as I can to counter my naturally black thumb.
So I guess it's time to pry my wallet open and spring for a new PH meter.

Love to get together for a sip off. With this years crop I think a blend would be best. This years cup is way strong. Almost too strong to stand alone. Must be the drought. Not much shade this year.

No problem, just roast to first crack.
I find that a lighter roast preserves the flavor and character of of the Kona beans.
Try it, I'll bet a farthing that you'll like it.:)

This year seems to be comming together nicely...so far. But we both know how fast that can change. Don't pat me on the back until the year is done. Way too much can still blow up yet. I have yet to see a perfect year.

WORD!

Ask your girls to grow big. Hope they listen to you. Good Luck.

Mahalo!
I'll get a new PH meter an' check 'em for acid-eats feet.:D

Weeze

[oldhaole]

Another week in the trashcan of history.

Friday we had a nice rain. A nice soft rain. The kind I want. A slow soaker. Proud to report the frames did their jobs and everything is up and happy. Saw a few places that needed touching up, but nothing hit the ground. :thumbsup:

Since the plants were going to get wet anyway, I filled the backpack sprayer up with the stuff I use to kill the worms and WPM and nuked the whole garden. Another case of good luck. I made it real strong, and the rain washed it off for me. :thumbsup:

And the cherry on the top? While I wasn't looking the three lower regrows are starting to bud. :thumbsup:

Shit... that's three thumbs up. Too easy. Here are some young bud pics from today.

[oldhaole]

that's it for now

[Gare0440]

man your plants are beauttifulll. i've been watching your whole grow and you get those nice and fat before they are outside. im tryin my first grow outside and its going well. wish i had that hawaii heat though :thumbsup: keep it up bro!:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[LetsSeeYa]

My friend i think i could hang with you all day chillin, drinking great home brew coffee and watching your babe's do there thing for many many days. Just reading your log i pick up a great personality in ya. Man thats something i could only think about, but still feels good. Your plants are something out of a High Times mag and to have a coffee tree. And il bet i could grow some killer bonsai too. But i would be one to miss the seasons as your description of living there was perfect. I guess i might get used to it as i cant even go out in winter here, but the humidity and i dont get along. Is it high there?

I cant believe you have those little stems keeping up that monster plant, that takes tons of knowledge to grow there, but you have made a great guide for someone who might try it.

Im in a rush, but have a lot more questions and comments so il be back later to blab. Thanks for the awesome show my friend, its amazing:thumbsup:


:rasta:

[oldhaole]

Aloha boys and girls.

Gare, Thanks for visiting. Looked at your indoor grow and said "wow". First time, under T 5s and you pulled a beaut out. That is hard to do. Congrats. Pat yourself on the back.

LSY.... You have some trees. Has it begun to sink in yet? Don't you just love when your expectations are blown out of the water? Your girls look great. I know NL is giving you hastles, but I think she will grow out of that.

Thanks for asking the question about the humidity here. It set me up for this post perfectly.

I found this boards because the one fly in the ointment about where I live is certain strains (mostly Indica) are prey to bud rot. This is my first post here;

http://boards.cannabis.com/plant-problems/181289-white-powder-mold-bud-rot.html#post2069820

And nothing has changed since then. My strains have been selected for their resistance to Bud rot and WPM. I let (even encouraged) one of my patients to obtain new seeds and strains from Cali. All indica, all problems, all the time.

I am now starting to find little rot spots in the cali girls. I can knock it back, and keep them at bay by cutting their water back and catching the rot early. That will work until the next rain.

[oldhaole]

Screwed that post up nicely... hit enter, and instead of trying to knock it out in 10 minutes... I just continued here...now where was I?.. oh yes... MOLD

Average daytime humidity here is 60%-70%. Night the temps fall below the dew point almost every night. Each morning the plant is soaking wet with dew.

Once the flowers get bigger than 2 inches around, in the indica strains, mold is right behind. Though it always wins in the end, you can fight a delaying war that usualy lets you get most of her fat and harvested. This is how I do it.

First I cut half of the leaves off, so air can circulate.

I cut off all water and wait until the leaves begin to droop before watering again. Every other day I go over the entire plant and using a q tip soaked in rubbing alchaol and hit any new mold I find. If the mold has gotten into the center of the bud, I cut it off.

Doing this should delay the mold until either the plant is ready, or it rains for a couple of days straight and the mold wins. The weather calls for a week of sunny days, and we are in the hottest part of the year, so the race is on.

I need 6-8 weeks to finish most of the cali girls. Here are some pics of them.

[Weezard]

Premature postulation?!
:jointsmile:


Now I got coffee all ovah da monitor.

But thanks brah.
Good way to start a day.:smokin:

Aloha nui
Keoni Bologna

[ForgetClassC]

Looking vury nice. Those girls are HUUUUUUUGE. Whats your avg. yield per plant like those? Sucks about the mold, have u tried just shaking her a bit? Lol, I mean I know its elementary and you probably already do it when you look over it, but its like shaking a tree branch and getting the person under it wet, just get the rest off. Either way, those babies are massive, and super healthy looking, awesome job.

-C

[sawleaf]

I love this thread. Keep up the good work. I can't wait to see the harvest! Aloha a nui loa!:thumbsup:

[oldhaole]

Weezerd... I often wonder if anybody actualy reads this.... guess that question was answered... Nothing gets past you. Sorry about the monitor...:(

ClassC...Right now I am far from harvest. And a wild ass guess may jinx me.

I can tell you about the one inground plant I grew up here. She was a carbon copy of the wide one. Just a ft or two smaller. Complete with ugly stem. She gave 2 lbs 3 ozs.

Past performance is no indication of future results. How many times have you heard that? Holds true for outdoor grows too. I have been here before and lost 90% of everything. Anything can happen. Two weeks of rain and it's game over. One year we were brushed by a tropical storm. This grow I can't just bring them inside :(

So ask me in three months. August and September are our hottest months. It is also peak hurricane season.

And each morning I shake the budded girls. It doesn't help much. Only the sun does the job. I would like to get the cali girls to maturity. Six weeks of sun...thats all I ask. Right now the odds are 60/40 in my favor.

Sawleaf...Thanks for dropping by. I too would like to see the harvest. Guess we just have to wait and see what happens. Mahalo Brah.

[Shovelhandle]

I been diggin this thread too. I thought that I did reply but I must have imagined it... :stoned:

Wonderful plants, man.

Shov

[oldhaole]

You have replied and I don't mean to imply anything different by my above post. Your memory is still there and working fine.

Every once and a while I try to hide something deep in a post, or in the fine print. Maybe a joke, or more likely a snide comment. The last one Weezard caught. That is what my comment was about.

Thanks to you and everybody on this board. Your question and comments show me which direction you want me to take this log. Without them, it would be even more dull and boring.

[Shovelhandle]

<g> well I forgot what I might have posted anyway. deja vu upside down.

:jointsmile: Shovl

[ChawabaBuds]

When is the worst time of year to move into Hawaii? When is your springtime? I figure if I hang in a month or two I could afford to move there for a while at the very least, but if that's going to be a really crappy time of year I can wait.

My cali girls are starting to bud! I'll post up when I get pics.

[oldhaole]

Another week older, another week spent.

To Chawaba
Worst time to move here? Aug-October. Too damn hot. Best time, November. One of the dead months. But it gives you time to find a place and a job before the winter rush. Our spring is your spring. We are in the Northern Hemisphere too. :)

If our weather has a repeat button I would glue it down. Give me the rest of the season like last week and I am home free. Eight days of solid sunny, hot weather. Next week? More of the same. :D

It has been a while since we took a look at the gulch girls. Some years everything goes to shit. Some years everyhing turns to gold. I am starting to have high hopes for this year.

Every night I leave the doors open for the mob. We have many flowers that bloom at night, and most of them have an easily identifiable smell. Pikake, Jasmine, Night blooming cirus, roses, tuberoses, I have them all. Last night wife of my youth said she smelled something new . A piney light aroma. Smelled like "buds", her exact words. :wtf:

And that was what is was. Marched her up the hill and asker her if that was what she smelled. Yes, one of the cali girls has gone to full reek. In the mold wars I have been handling her quite a bit. Up close this puppy stinks... in a good way. And our normal nightime downhill wind pushes it into the house.

This is not good. If the wife of my youth can identify the reek of weed, any idiot, up to no good, downwind can. Nearest downhill neighbor is half mile away. I may be over reacting, the plant we are smelling is 30 ft away from the door. But how far will the smell go when all of the girls are going off?

Add one click to my paranoia meter.

Where was I.... Pics taken today. Hang on. I am doing the whole damn garden :D

Pics 1,2,& 3 are the big girl
Pics 4 & 5 are the wide one just different angles

[oldhaole]

If the first 5 pics did not get your attention, you either;

1) Don't smoke

2) Are dead.

Maybe these will.

Pic 1 Clone
Pic 2 Cali girl. I stupidly put her behind the wide one. no sun until 9 AM
Pic 3 another replacement clone
Pic 4 smallest regrow. Buds just starting
Pic 5 BIG regrow. Back in this log I thought she would be my biggest yielder. I may be right. She has eaten the frame and no buds yet.

[oldhaole]

We move to the bottom.

Pics 1, 2,& 3 are my sativa regrows
Pics 4 & 5 is a Cali girl. Love the way she is dropping her leaves. An watering her once more today. and will probably take her in a week.

[Weezard]

"Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show that Never Ends "

Got so high, I got da "bends",
comin' down, comin' down.:)

Now, that's some bush of the first water!
an' she smells just like she oughter.
Stick yer nose up in da air brah,
suck it in, suck it in!:jointsmile:

Yer bringin' out da puppy in me.
Evah time I sees your trees.
Nex' time you fly beeg guy's land.
You could maybe bring some, please?:hippy:

Wishin you a month of sun.
Wee 'zard

[oldhaole]

Not even close

Pics 1,& 2 Budding sativa regrow
Pic 3 Another clone
Pic 4 Male Jackson
Pic 5 Female Jackson. Can you find her?

[oldhaole]

"Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show that Never Ends "

Got so high, I got da "bends",
comin' down, comin' down.:)

Now, that's some bush of the first water!
an' she smells just like she oughter.
Stick yer nose up in da air brah,
suck it in, suck it in!:jointsmile:

Yer bringin' out da puppy in me.
Evah time I sees your trees.
Nex' time you fly beeg guy's land.
You could maybe bring some, please?:hippy:

Wishin you a month of sun.
Wee 'zard

I am going to give it a shot; Please don't laugh.

Welcome back my friends
To the grow that never ends
We're so glad you could attend
Come inside, and get high.

There behind the glass
Sit's an old man smoking grass
He's offering you a hit
No question, just find a place to sit

Hurry up, The bong's about to start.
Guarenteed To stone your world appart
It's a giant hit
You're going to shit
Hold back the smoke
You're going to choke

SEE THE SHOW

Hell Weez... How do you do it? My head hurts....Need to smoke.
Offer stands.

Thanx much

OH

[Weezard]

I am going to give it a shot; Please don't laugh.

Welcome back my friends
To the grow that never ends
We're so glad you could attend
Come inside, and get high.

There behind the glass
Sit's an old man smoking grass
He's offering you a hit
No question, just find a place to sit

Hurry up, The bong's about to start.
Guarenteed To stone your world appart
It's a giant hit
You're going to shit
Hold back the smoke
You're going to choke

SEE THE SHOW

Hell Weez... How do you do it? My head hurts....Need to smoke.
Offer stands.

Thanx much

OH

De nada, braddah.:)

I be happy to pen doggerel songs all day long.
Your eyecandy is music my friend.:cool:

Aloha nui loa

Da wee, itty, 'zard

[canniwhatsis]

LoL! Thanks guy's,.... I love checking this thread. :thumbsup:


Yep, I can just see the Female, slightly above and left of center. It's her eye that stands out,... I can't see anything else! ;)

[bigsby]

It is really difficult to appreciate the scale of these beasts. Any chance you can add something or perhaps the back of someone in the picture?

Inspirational.

[ForgetClassC]

Pic 4 Male Jackson
Pic 5 Female Jackson. Can you find her?


That shits sooooo awesome.

-C

[oldhaole]

It is really difficult to appreciate the scale of these beasts. Any chance you can add something or perhaps the back of someone in the picture?

Inspirational.

Here you go bigsby. Had a devil of a time figuring out what to put next to her. So I used a 8 ft ladder. This will give you some idea of scale. The ladder sits below stem level so to keep this honest it is 7 ft to top of ladder

I did open her up so I went for wide, not tall. Looks like I got both on this one

[FlyinPolynesian]

Nui Loa Lani Pakalolo, yeah bruddah:thumbsup:

Looking good Haole, nuttin bettah wen droppin at Moku`auia or Puka ʻana den puffin da Maika'i pakalolo.... Shoots!!!

Youʻre making me fiend to be back home in Haleiwa nʻ the rest of the south pacific!!! iʻd kill for poke stop!!!

[CovertCarpenter]

...you Islanders are soooo firkin' lucky...

I've been doing some good stuph on my balcony of late, but it'd be nice if I could enjoy a climate like that year-round! Although, not having to worry about tropical storms here in TO is good, I guess. All we have to contend with are 90-95+ heat waves with a humidex that pushes over 100+...

Looking great, oldhaole! If you ever find yourself in Toronto The Good, please look me up!

And one o' these days, I'll be doing a Haw'a'ii run...

[oldhaole]

Nui Loa Lani Pakalolo, yeah bruddah:thumbsup:

Looking good Haole, nuttin bettah wen droppin at Moku`auia or Puka ʻana den puffin da Maika'i pakalolo.... Shoots!!!

Youʻre making me fiend to be back home in Haleiwa nʻ the rest of the south pacific!!! iʻd kill for poke stop!!!

Get plenty friends, from small kine. Wen leave Maui, go mainland, stay dere 20years. Ask 'em where home stay. Always same answer, I live here but home stay Hawaii...or beyond.

Stay in your blood. No can fight 'em. Crack seed. lau lau. and poke. Always going call to you. Wish I could bring you home. No worry, The aina going remember you.

Not going post any pics. Yea, it has changed since you been gone. But nothing major. One day you going come home and all going be good.

Aloha Brah.

OH

[oldhaole]

...you Islanders are soooo firkin' lucky...

I've been doing some good stuph on my balcony of late, but it'd be nice if I could enjoy a climate like that year-round! Although, not having to worry about tropical storms here in TO is good, I guess. All we have to contend with are 90-95+ heat waves with a humidex that pushes over 100+...

Looking great, oldhaole! If you ever find yourself in Toronto The Good, please look me up!

And one o' these days, I'll be doing a Haw'a'ii run...

I extend the same invitation to you. Every winter this rock turns into Little Canada. One year join the exodus. Come on over. Lie in the sun. Drop me a line before you do.

Hope your balcony treats you good.

[oldhaole]

Every time the phone rings late at night, the first question that comes to mind is "who died"? 3:10 AM First the cell goes off but i miss it. Goes off again. Who died? Nobody. It was the nieghbor that lives down the hill next to my driveway. They just woke up to a car stopping and voices comming up my driveway.

Well, well, well, We have us some thieves. And I have the drop on them. This should be fun. I quickly dress and get down in the wet grass at the start of my property line. Couple of minutes later here they come, Flashlights up in the trees. Shit, they are looking for Jacksons. They go right past me. Check out my pepper tree. Lots up there. Start climbing boys.

Signal wife who opens the door. And here comes the mob. What a show. One kid pissed himself. I almost felt sorry for them. Almost. Now I have three kids in the tree and I want the driver. So I ask. Who drove you? "Nobody, we walked".... bullshit. Lie to me??? Fuck you. enjoy your tree, see you later. By 5 am I found the driver and car. Went back to the tree and gave the punks a choise. Call you parents, or I will call the cops

I have just been up most of the night Talked to six adults that collected the little thieves. They were not happy. They had about 40 Jacksons collected that now call my trees home. They were not looking for weed so I am still safe there.

After I post this I am going to go to my neighbor down the hill and give them an oz. Already rewarded the dogs with steaks for all. and to top it off is is nice and summy this AM so last nights rain will not sit.

A very good night.

[LetsSeeYa]

Wow a pic of them up in your tree would have been great. What a story and a good neighbor, oz well deserved. Now iv read the thread many times, but missed what a ''Jackson'' is? I thought it was a plant in your tree, but still wasn't sure, never heard of the term before. So the Jackson was more important to them then the monster buds out back. Wish i had kids like that around here, but then im not sure what the Jackson is so i guess im still in the dark, but still laughing my ass off and haven't even rolled one yet.

I cut down a few branches of my Wit plant today, but not dry yet of course. I like to take the bigger ones when growing inside and let the rest fill out, plus my last indoor grow more buds grew back after i took some. I got 3 harvests from the re vegs, which was the indoor last winter.

Geez i looked at my roots on my Edna and they are small like yours holding up that monster. I cant make a frame, i think its too risky. Plus she isn't looking good at all, the NL that had its issues passed it to all my plants. I believe it might be ''black spot''. Something common in roses, if not its some sorta fungi's as its spread all over now so all i can do is try an anti fungicide. But its really yellowing my leaves bad and one is really packing on the buds, first i sprayed. But seems like what i used didn't slow it all that much so il be looking for something else. So my grow went from OMG to FUCK !

Il let ya know if it slows or not:thumbsup:Great story my bro:jointsmile:


:rasta:

[Weezard]

My buddy, Jackson, defender of the garden, bug eater extraordinaire!
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Howzit?

Weeze.

[GetThisOrDie]

Damn... those are some great looking ladies. Hope everything goes well.

[bigsby]

Wait - so what do the kids do with those Jacksons once they've collected a few? They don't throw them on the BBQ do they?

[ForgetClassC]

Haha no they probably sell them. I mean hell, they MIGHT eat them, but that'd suck. Anyways, those some good neighbors, I bet they've helped out before and know what goes down. A pic of the little ones woulda been funny, but life's only so good.

-C

[canniwhatsis]

:S2: Kids were just trying to collect jacksons and got their asses whopped for trespassing!!! :thumbsup:


Good neighbors BTW! :jointsmile:

[Weezard]

Wait - so what do the kids do with those Jacksons once they've collected a few? They don't throw them on the BBQ do they?

Dang Lizard poachers prolly sell them to pet stores!
They fetch about $ 100 for a male

They change color, have independent eyes, a foot long, lightnin' fast tongue, a prehensile tail, and their feet are on sideways.
What's not to love?;)

They are not native to the islands so I don't think they are "protected", but poking around on private property at 3:00am is a good way to get shot, or treed.:D

I would have taken some "mug shots" in case of future hassles.

By the time dem kidz finish tellin' their version of this story, curiosity might prompt some visits from bolder cuzzins wit' bad intent.
When dey get to da part 'bout da 6 dozen, huge, vicious dogs, it should dampen some of the interest though.:D

I'll bet O.H. sleeps pretty light this time of year anyway, yah?

Ah, good times!

Aloha,
Weeze

[Dutch Pimp]

running out of edit time...:stoned:...I forgot what I was gonna say...:rastabanna:

[oldhaole]

Weezard... Hit the nail on the head. The junior thiefs mom and dad said I "kidnapped" their little monster. Cops came up to talk to me. Explained that I never touched him, But I wanted to know who was the driver of the car, the kids told me to F off so I went searching on my own. And I didn't like the kids' attitude, so I left them with the mob below, up in the pepper tree.

That piqued their interest. Did I know the adult driving the car? You bet. Make, model, licence number, and dent in the drivers door, here you go. They ran it....stolen. Another cop pulls in. Ask me the questions again. I think I am
going to jail... one cops= questions, two or more = jail. They want names and numbers for everyone involved.... got them too.

Went so far as to ask one of them what I should get my wife of my now very pissed off youth how much my bail will be, so I can send her to the bank. He looks all serious at me, then busts into a smile. "You aren't going to jail. The kids will be, not you."

Why are they going to jail? I'm not going to press charges.

Cop explains that this little crew has not only been taking Jacksons. They also hit unoccupied houses and steal anything that is not locked up. Been at it for a couple of weeks. Now they have a witness....me. Realy? That's just peachy. Fuck Me Running. I am so screwed.

I'm not worried about the house. Until further notice the mob is all outside. Today I am going to switch cars, My partner in crime will be driving my car and I will take his wife's. I gotta lay low until this blows over. Weezard is right again. I do not see the kids families taking this laying down. They know the house is guarded so they will try to catch me away from it. Guess you all know where I will be.:D

From John Rambo To Joe Coward in 24 hours. A new record!

Your friend'

The Idiot.

Now some comments to your comments,

LSY...I'm not sure of what is mauling your girls. I can tell you I have never seen Blackspot from my roses hop to a weed plant. Do they grow any crops around you? It has to come from somewhere. What other plants does it hit? When I have a question that I can't find the answer to, I go to the U of Hawaii Agricultural station and ask the brains there. Maybe you have something similar. Get on the phone and ask a pro. Ya gotta stop that stuff.

Weezard. Much, much, mahalo.

Get this.... The plants should be fine. Nobody knows nothing. Pepper tree is 15 ft on to my property. Plants are 200+ yds away.

Big..They buy the jacksons for $20 from the kids, put them in a box and airmail them to the mainland. The big males can go for $200 there. A lot die in transit, but they don't care.

Class.. you got it. Everyone knows what I do.... but I am not the only one. So we watch out for each other.

Canni... I did not touch anybody. When the kids got home...yea an asswhooping was probably administered....just not from me. And the one that made it come off so perfectly was my wife. She had to keep the mob inside and quiet. And that ain't an easy trick.

Weezard... you know what living here is like. And you are reading my mind. Thanks again.

Dutch... Smoke another joint. It'll all come back to you. :thumbsup:


Now enough talk.....BUDPORN!

For those of you playing at home these are #,s 16, 11, 10, 13, and 8 in that order.

[bigsby]

The size of those things is just staggering. It is hard to appreciate from the pictures without some sense of scale. I would say well done but I'm thinking this may be an average grow... I think you handled that situation very well. Remember, they came to you. Not the other way around. I've seen those Jacksons before. We used to come across them in the Middle East. Pretty damn cool animals.

[Shovelhandle]

wonderbar! :thumbsup:

[ForgetClassC]

Big..They buy the jacksons for $20 from the kids, put them in a box and airmail them to the mainland. The big males can go for $200 there. A lot die in transit, but they don't care.

Man, ain't it a shame. And $200 is a deal an a chameleon around here, $175 for a baby that probably won't eat. You want an established, happy, well eating chameleon, at least $350, at LEAST. That's why I =got me a White-lined Gecko. I wish he wasn't as fast as he is so I could hold the fucker, but either way, he's tight. Those girls are MASSIVE, and I bet if your mob needs some help, I'm sure there are a few dogs that wouldn't mind being rescued to a nice house with tons of land where they are ALLOWED to f*** sh** up. lol.

Good neighbors are hard to find, smart ones are even rarer.

-C

[LetsSeeYa]

LSY...I'm not sure of what is mauling your girls. I can tell you I have never seen Blackspot from my roses hop to a weed plant. Do they grow any crops around you? It has to come from somewhere. What other plants does it hit? When I have a question that I can't find the answer to, I go to the U of Hawaii Agricultural station and ask the brains there. Maybe you have something similar. Get on the phone and ask a pro. Ya gotta stop that stuff.

I called the University of Mass. but she said that it was impossible to tell me what it might be in less she had it in hand. I believe she didn't want to take a guess and then be wrong. I did this 2 weeks ago. Its some type of fungi's and posted a pic of it on the growth around my area. There are a ton of Black Berry bushes, which might be related to the rose bush as they both are a thorn bush. No crops closer then 300-400 yards, its corn, looking mighty nice and a buddy lives closer to it then me, but hes got no issues. I bought some new anti fungicide to treat these issues and not just the 3 in 1 stuff that treats for bugs an mites. This stuff can be put on as a powder or a spray. Its going to rain today so il wait till it drys out a bit then apply. This stuff even treats Blight, which was something a friend told me to look at, plus other fungi's types it will control. But my yield will suffer as new growth has been infected.

Hell iv been worried about the heat and thieves, but not some sorta shit on them. But will see how this works and iv post a pic of the near by plant to show just that there is a fungi's amongus:mad:


:rasta:

[oldhaole]

The size of those things is just staggering. It is hard to appreciate from the pictures without some sense of scale. I would say well done but I'm thinking this may be an average grow... I think you handled that situation very well. Remember, they came to you. Not the other way around. I've seen those Jacksons before. We used to come across them in the Middle East. Pretty damn cool animals.

The red handleled shovel is 5 ft. Since I have no level ground to take a picture from maybe this will provide the scale you would like to see. With no level ground I am always taking a shot from above, (Plant looks smaller) or below (Plant looks bigger.)

Hope this helps.

[deserthealer]

i must be sick. that last photo looks downright sexy. :abduct:

[Weezard]

i must be sick. that last photo looks downright sexy. :abduct:

"You're not sick, you're just in love"
:D

Weeze

[nugssgalore]

Those plants are gorgeous!!!

So far as the kids....how old are they?

So far as the lizards, that's a damn shame how they die in transit...is there any way you got them back and put them back in the tree?

Set up some motion sensor lights in your driveway or in different spots to discourage "visitors". They are cheap.

[Weezard]

Those plants are gorgeous!!!

So far as the kids....how old are they?

So far as the lizards, that's a damn shame how they die in transit...is there any way you got them back and put them back in the tree?

That was the easy part.

"They had about 40 Jacksons collected that now call my trees home." -O. H.

Set up some motion sensor lights in your driveway or in different spots to discourage "visitors". They are cheap.

Not dat kine sing ovah here.
It's sort of rural, kind of country, li'l bit funky and jungle-fied.

O.H. has a pack of organic, self-propelled, mobile, motion sensors, with built-in "sniffers".:D
Coupled with the "distant, early, warning neighbors" he'll be fine.:cool:

Gotta go feed my "motion sensors".
Aloha,
Wee 'zard

[oldhaole]

Aloha Desert. Thanks for stopping by

Thanks nugs. We are just getting to the good part. i don't know if it is strain related, or the season, but these are going off earlier and faster than normal.

Which kids? My kids that regrew were planted in Febuary and the kids from seed in March.

The other kids in the tree were just kids. The youngest (call him the urinator) is 13. The other two were 15. From what I have heard, the 13 year old ratted everyone else out. So I am no longer at the top of the shitlist.

When I caught up to the driver, I scared the guy, and the first thing I grabbed was the Jacksons. If he was going to run, I wanted my stuff back. So I now have 40 new residents in the trees around here.

I have tried motion sensors but have had too many false alarms. The mob is sleeping outside, for the next few months, so I am not too worried about midnight visitors.

Damn Weezard, As I was typing this, I just read your comment....that makes it easy nugs.....what weezard said. Thank god I swallowed my coffee or it would be all over my monitor.

Looks like the authorties are doing Green Harvest #4 this week. Yesterday a bit before 10 AM a single chopper was just there, and gave me the once over. If this was last year I would have been so busted right then. I love this legal stuff, no panic, just stroll out to the deck and wave at the nice policemen.

Started my harvest on Sunday. Took three of the Cali girls. #s 11, 18 and 19 are gone. 18 & 19 were below average and had the mold. My partner had some 3 ft clones and he gave them to me so all the holes have been turned around. 11 was a fine girl, She is still drying, but I think I will get 10-12 ozs off her. On that one I beat the mold. So it can be done. Will update when she is ready to burn.

Turned all my leftover weed for the rest of this summer into kief. I can't describe how good it is. Two hits and blotto. Take too big of a hit and you hack up a lung. Funny as hell, turn a friend on, tell him or her to take a tiny hit. They never do. Get to watch them change color as they try to hold it in. Then they explode. Works every time.

Thanks to all following this log. It helps me to put my thoughs down and bounce ideas off of you. I also have a timeline for this season. It helps to know what was done when. So thank you all.

[Weezard]

"Damn Weezard, As I was typing this, I just read your comment....that makes it easy nugs.....what weezard said. Thank god I swallowed my coffee or it would be all over my monitor."

Dharma.
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[oldhaole]

Another week meets it's untimely demise....

It's been quiet....a good thing. The girls have switched into gear. This is an early year. A normal year, my sativa takes it,s own sweet time to bud....not this year.

In the last week I am looking at the crop and seeing bits and pieces of harvests long gone by. In a regrow summer harvest you are racing the sun, so you don't have the time to let the weed fully mature. Now we are working on Maui time....It takes as long as it takes.

All the regrows have a common father. Good old W.W. The moms are bloodweed, strawberry guava, my own H.B. and W.W. I am just beginning to be able to see the traits of them, and their grandparents. It is a blast from the past.

The garden looks great. The usual order; Gulch, Bottom, Top.

[oldhaole]

The rest of the gulch; Except #6

[oldhaole]

Here is #6.... Then we carry on...

[oldhaole]

More:D

[oldhaole]

More...:D

[oldhaole]

A couple more... stick with it.

[oldhaole]

Last one.....hope you enjoyed the tour.

[weeddaddy50]

I have been following it for more than a month now.

:thumbsup:

[oldhaole]

Give a fool a camera and stand back....I wanted to do this legaly for many years....Kinda like giving a child a lighter and telling him to go play in his room.

Have a good morning... I'm going to sleep.

[ForgetClassC]

Doin good, I looked at too many pictures just now to give a distinctive remark about one of them, they all look good. Nice work.

-C

[benjammin5284]

Greetings OH,

You've got a good thing going! I just re-located to the northwest side of your volcano, made the long trek from Lahainaside. So far it has been a welcome change. The wife and I are getting our hands dirty in vegetable gardens on the property but we don't have any experience with growing the finer things in life. Was wondering if you had any words of wisdom for someone looking to get a start?

[oldhaole]

When you say Northwest I think Of Pulehu Rd to Makawao Ave. If you are on the Pulehu or Omopio Rd side you are golden. If you are in Pukalani to Makawao...not so good. To many neighbors. Olinda is ok too.

Advise? Yea I have plenty. A lot depends if you own or rent. If you rent...or have a flock of neighbors close in, don't even bother. You are just setting yourself up for failure.

Get Legal. It sucks to worry about every chopper that flies over. Your project controls you, To this day the sound of a hovering chopper still freaks me out. Want to see me miss a 4 inch putt? Fly a chopper anywhere I can hear it.

Start small. Short season plants, in pots, is the way to go. One here, one there, in christmas berry trees, thick grass, lantana bushes, or painene. If you want to make it easy run a drip line under the grass. Any place that CAN NOT be seen from off your property is good. Have more places than plants. At night move them around. Get greedy and you're going to get ripped. I assume you know about our seasons here. No summer plants. Period.

Fence your land. Well. And the more dogs you have the better chance you will have a harvest. It is an island. If your dogs get a reputation, people will talk, and you don't get ripped.

Plant and water stuff like haole koa or tinaroo to make fast stash places for your girls. See what weed grows well around you and cultivate it. Use kiawe or blackberry or bougenvelia to keep people away from where you don't want them to go.

Lastly, tell nobody.

Good Luck.

[nugssgalore]

I finally checked up on your log and I was so happy to read that you saved the jacksons and they are back in your tree. Those plants are awesome, it doesn't seem possible to smoke that much weed, do you freeze some of it after harvest?

[oldhaole]

I finally checked up on your log and I was so happy to read that you saved the jacksons and they are back in your tree. Those plants are awesome, it doesn't seem possible to smoke that much weed, do you freeze some of it after harvest?

I was glad to get all those Jacksons too. None of them were from my trees, they had been taken from other trees down the road. :D

So far so good with the girls. But harvest is still far away and much can go wrong. I always expect the worst, and hope to be wrong. So ask me that in three months.

Of the four I have taken two were full of rot, and worthless. One was great and everybody got a nice piece of her. The last one wanted to mold, but the hot weather held it back.

So I am 2 for 4 so far.

Sorry for the fuzzy pics. But it does give you an idea what they look like.

[oldhaole]

This is what happens when a half inch of rain and some wind meet regrows.

[nugssgalore]

YIkes!

[Weezard]

Shuckin's brah.
Us farmer kine expects a li'l trouble.;)

Folks on da East cost are a 'bout to get Earled.:(
Now, dat's a Yikes!

So it goes,
Aloha Bros

W. 'zard

[weeddaddy50]

after the storm....Hope everything is good for you.

[oldhaole]

The last three afternoons have been wet ones. Our usual trade winds have been cut off. This may be the wet streak I was worring about. Just enough to soak everything down, but not enough to help with the drought. The next week will give me a few more grey hairs.

All the framed plants came through fine. The smallest regrow looked like a giant foot had steped on it. The main stem split in five or six places. I built a small frame, got a huge pack of zip ties and used about 50 ft of fishing line to put her back together. And it lived! It ain't pretty. See pic 3.

The other one not framed was the big one. As it collapsed, it twisted. I built a frame, but I'm not happy with it. When we dry out, I'm going to redo the frame. Maybe go with six sides, but I have to do it soon. Now I have wet buds piled on top of wet buds. The natural shape of the plant is not square, it is fan shaped, and there is way too much plant stuffed in there.

The rest were easy fixes.

We only had an inch of rain, total, that day. No big deal. The frames work...so far. Some others are takable, but they will be much better if I get a couple of dry weeks. I do not want to be forced to take anything because of rot. I still have a couple of Cali girls that I am trying to nurse to the finish line.

[oldhaole]

Between drizzles I went out and took some quick pics. Three wet afternoons and nights in a row. So far no mold. All except #8 are Sativa. Eight is the last cali girl in the garden. That would be pics 3 & 4

[oldhaole]

I think I can scrape a few more pics out. Most are in the bottom garden.

[camoxnhx]

im for sure hypnotized! what do you think your yeild is gonna be! i tell you what i call those THE GREEN MONSTERS!!!!

[nugssgalore]

Hey, now we are starting to get some drizzle here in socal after that killer heat wave....go figure! I'm sure my plants are as confused as I am and right now are covered with a fine mist. As long as they are outside with a nice breeze blowing on them I am not too concerned about bud rot.. or should I be? It is going to be like this for the next 2 days...no heavy rain tho. They need about another month of flowering.

[nugssgalore]

just realized I was posting in your grow log and didn't mean to be a grave thread digger or gravedigger or whatever that term is.

Your plants still look great no matter all the recent stress they have had.

[oldhaole]

just realized I was posting in your grow log and didn't mean to be a grave thread digger or gravedigger or whatever that term is.

Your plants still look great no matter all the recent stress they have had.

The term is threadjacking and no, you didn't come anywhere close to it. If anything I write makes you go "hey, I wonder if that may be happening to me?" that is a good thing.

As to if you have the rot, if you have an extended period of wet weather, it is always possible. Go out and check. Look in the fatest part of the main top, and the places that are shaded.

From what I hear you have had a strange season too. Never hurts to pull up a seat and go over everything.

[nugssgalore]

Thanks for the tip, I'll keep an eye on the fattest bud. You are a veritable fount of knowledge!! :thumbsup: You seem to be very experienced and can save your plants from rain, wind, stress, thieves......even your broken plants that you tied back up with their frames, good job!
I feel so bad for LSY and his thievery problem...if only we could all mentally hang out in his yard and gang up on the cowards.

[ChawabaBuds]

Of the four I have taken two were full of rot, and worthless. One was great and everybody got a nice piece of her. The last one wanted to mold, but the hot weather held it back.

I just had a question about this, have you tried using cloning gel on the areas that look to be getting moldy or rotten? I tried it once and it seemed to work, because it's supposed to disinfect without hurting the plant. Well, obviously depends on the kind of cloning gel. It also may have been that I stopped watering near the base of the plant. I was just wondering, to see if anyone else had tried the gel.

ALSO! What I found for my outdoor plants that worked fairly well was putting my plant on a bigger mound of dirt, so that the water leaks away from the immediate root system a bit faster. The only issue I had was that some of the top soil washed down, but I replaced it with dry dirt and redwood bark and the bark seemed to keep things from sliding down.

I'm still considering moving to Hawaii.

I'll be on AIM if anyone would like to chat.

[LetsSeeYa]

Hello my friend, looks like you once again saved your girls from the strange rain you had previously said, there isn't much rain to deal with. Its been a strange season for everyone this year. A lot of people are complaining about how their plants are taking so long to begin flowering. And lots of rain which brings out the snails, bugs and rot:wtf:. But you really know how to make your cages work for ya:thumbsup:. Sure wish i could make one as two days of rain blew the Edna over. I tied her back a bit and added soil to the area around the stems and ran it over good with my back wheels to pack it in to stabilize the plant a bit more. This stem looks a lot like your big short one thats real close to the ground plant, thats why i put the rope around it to let the plant move with the wind, but not as far as to brake the branches. I saw a chopper looking the other day and my heart was in my throat the entire time. It flew a mile away in about 5-6 circle's then came my way, but went right over it twice without slowing down. Im hoping this is a good sign, but will feel better in a couple days. I also got a Dog a few days ago and liking her a lot. Shes my first female Dog ever and a Rotty mix. She's starting to let me know people are coming in the driveway already so im hoping soon she will get to know the back areas well.

I am letting the Edna go as she may and the others are doing ok, but still have the fungus, just not as bad. I guess im a bit freaked now after seeing the chopper, but feeling good it didn't slow down, but just circled around it and went over the area and kept going. Iv never seen them looking before, but you would think if they saw something, they might come around again to get a better look at it. Its one thats out further then the others and looks like your plain ol Christmas tree. I wanted to bend it down, but a friend told me to let her go, sure wish i laid her on the ground now. I know you have seen them before, do you know how they go about finding them at all? Im very curious:wtf:

I cant even imagine the yield your going to have, i just hope everything works out like you have planned:thumbsup:, il be shooting you an email tonight, just an FYI,


:rasta:

[GetThisOrDie]

Those are looking great. Good job at dealing with all the mother nature bs.

I wouldnt mind moving to hawaii like you guys.... Then maybe weez can give me LED DIY classes!

Or at the very least let me play with that wild looking black cat of his.

[oldhaole]

Nugs...thank you....now please save it until harvest is in. There are a couple that are very ready. I am just starting to get there. And I am in the full paranoia mode. So far so good.

Chawa... If the mold was in a single location gel would work. Instead tiny spot break out here and there. What gets me is the constant humidity. Here is the daily readings from a weather station lower than me.

Weather Station History : Weather Underground (http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KHIKULA4)

Humidity....100% all night.

If you are thinking of living here do it with your eyes open. Go to City Data. There are lots of comments from people that made the move. See what and how they did it.

LSY... glad you have the new dog. I won't say you are out of the woods but you have a chance. Will discuss more later. Ain't it a bitch when one falls over? Do the best you can with her, but you can leave her like that.

Since I have never seen how they GH there, I can only tell you how they work here. Do some research. Use the Google. Learn what you can. then we can compare notes.

I can sympathize with the "oh shit is that them???" feeling. That sound is hardwired into my brain. E mail me when you can.

Get This...Thank You. Flights leave daily. It is rough but some poor bastards have to live here. Weez and I are just doing our duty. Living here, so you don't have too. :D

Today I went to a good friend's only son's wedding. This was planned from quite a ways back, but for the three hours I was away, I was shitting bricks. Hurry up,.... say I do already,...yeah yeah yeah...love, honor...come on I gotta go. Wife of my youth was so pissed. Fuck the reception, gotta go home.

[Weezard]

:D <--Beeg one!

[Dutch Pimp]

did the typhoon mess with y'all?...I heard it was a big one?..that hit the Big Island?

[Weezard]

did the typhoon mess with y'all?...I heard it was a big one?..that hit the Big Island?

First I've heard of it, DP.
Round this piece of da planet, dey calls 'em Hurricanes.

Hurricane Iniki hit Lanai'i in the '92.
We been lucky since dat.

Did have a wowser of an earthquake in Kona a few years back.
Was a lot less fun than one would think.

Aloha,
W.

[Dutch Pimp]

that's good news...:D...I'm pretty sure something big hit, somebody? ...somewhere's?...oh well...:jointsmile:

I rode though 2 super-phoons (substained winds-135mph) on Okinawa...a long time ago

[oldhaole]

to hit the state hit Kauai eighteen years ago to the day (9/11/92).

On Maui it pulled a couple of boats from anchor. Big waves. We went bodysurfing.

Eighteen years ago...I'm F##king old. :(

I will take some of these soon. Time for the 2 week picture bomb. Looks like next week will be cloudy. One of these will be gone soon.

[Weezard]

Too lazy to stand.

Mahalo, I get the hinter-islands confused.

Should know, though,
Visited kauai in 95 or 96.
Saw some of the damage.
Beeg Yikes!

Lookin' good O.H.:thumbsup:

Weeze

[oldhaole]

The rest of the front...now we go to the gulch....

As soon as the wife of my youth and I WASH DOGS. What fun!

Life is a bed of....roses.

We went to Kauai to get sister out of there. Tropical island without a leaf on a tree. Stacks of busted poles. Did Coco Plams ever reopen? Cane fields a foot high. Bazarro World.

[GetThisOrDie]

Hurricanes are no joke. Been through a few in houston/galveston area then some more in florida. Also believe it or not a hurricane and some tropical storms in virginia. Thankfully Earl skimmed past us in virginia... only had some really high tides at the harbor where im at.

Saw a piece of sheet metal that was used to cover our sliding back windows pull off and just float there in the air... we were waiting for it to fly through the glass but didnt.


oh ya earthquakes in socal and blizzards as well in virginia. natural disasters are crazy...

[ForgetClassC]

All those flowers look awesome, love the assortment of roses as well. LOL to confuse people if for some reason they go on your land, put roses all in your ladies, lol, they will be like WTF?!?!? Nah, sorry, I'm a lil buzzed, the simple thoughts slip out sometimes. Either way, looking awesome, who's the tallest now you think?

-C

[oldhaole]

All those flowers look awesome, love the assortment of roses as well. LOL to confuse people if for some reason they go on your land, put roses all in your ladies, lol, they will be like WTF?!?!? Nah, sorry, I'm a lil buzzed, the simple thoughts slip out sometimes. Either way, looking awesome, who's the tallest now you think?

-C

Tallest right now is the lead off plant in the gulch. The last rain knocked her down, so I built a quick frame and stuffed her onto it. I was going to re do it, but I don't want to take the chance of her splitting.

The other damaged plant (the flat one).... a split branch did not make it. Considering what she looked like after the rain I got off easy. And I took the red pistil cali girl.

I haven't shown the gulch progress in a couple of weeks. so here they are, from bottom to top.

[oldhaole]

The biggest one I have is in the first and second pic. Notice I did not say best. On that the jury is still out and will be for a while. So far the "best" is one of the Cali girls. Damn. It hurt to say that.

[ForgetClassC]

The biggest one I have is in the first and second pic. Notice I did not say best. On that the jury is still out and will be for a while. So far the "best" is one of the Cali girls. Damn. It hurt to say that.

Lol. They all look good to me.

-C

[nugssgalore]

Were you talking about a hurricane from long ago in Kauai or a recent one? I have friends who live there and am concerned.

[Weezard]

Were you talking about a hurricane from long ago in Kauai or a recent one? I have friends who live there and am concerned.


"Eighteen years ago...I'm F##king old. :("

Weed too good fo' to read, yah?
:D

No worry, nothin' on-deck fo' da Islands recently.

Aloha,
Da Weeze

[oldhaole]

I can see the finish like. It is still a long way out there. The weather has been great. Summer has shown up at just the right time. So as long as it is this nice, the girls live for another day.

Things are getting overwhelming. Wife of my youth is freaking out. This is her first long season. We told her what to expect, until now, that was an abstract concept to her. Now it sits in front of her nose. Literally.

Now, up comes the rippers moon. This will be the thieves last shot on many of these. So I worry. and worry, and worry. The next two weeks...make it through them and we coast to the finish line.

[deserthealer]

You've got yer plan in place, yes? If they're dumb enough to come, they'll run like hell when they see dogs coming for em.

Your plants are beautiful.

[Dutch Pimp]

I can see the finish like. It is still a long way out there. The weather has been great. Summer has shown up at just the right time. So as long as it is this nice, the girls live for another day.

Things are getting overwhelming. Wife of my youth is freaking out. This is her first long season. We told her what to expect, until now, that was an abstract concept to her. Now it sits in front of her nose. Literally.

Now, up comes the rippers moon. This will be the thieves last shot on many of these. So I worry. and worry, and worry. The next two weeks...make it through them and we coast to the finish line.

ripper's moon?....:thumbsup:...I like that!

I lived a sheltered life...I've always had an old dog around...to warn me about intruders....
...(actually...he would warn me if there wasn't any, too...:wtf:...)..he was paranoia?

[bigsby]

My only question is, have you sharpened your ax?

[canniwhatsis]

My only question is, have you sharpened your ax?

LOL! Yeah,... he's gonna need a chainsaw to get thru those trunks come harvest day! :rastasmoke:

[oldhaole]

Please forgive me. I am very punchy this evening

Summer got here just in the nick of time. Sunny and dry. I couldn't of asked for better weather the last three weeks. It may all come to an end next week. But who cares?

Finish line has been reached. Fifty percent is in. Wide one gone. All big girls except the gulch girls and a couple of straglers are in. I actualy started my harvest almost a month ago. The Cali girls produced early and o.k. Plant #17 give up 22 ozs of Skunk / Thai cross. Plant #10 HB labled gave up 18 ozs. 9 ozs each of a silver tasty weed already gone. If any of you want to go digging in this log to see them, feel free.

The clones are doing well and need another two weeks to take. At this point Who the fuck cares? They are gravy. I am burried. All I am in charge of is production at this point....and I have not seen anything like this in 20 years :D The machine is alive again. Like it never took 20 years off.

Wife of my youth is whacking her way into her second plant. Poor girl is poleaxed. She did good. Patients are raking it in. Happy campers all around...I'm providing employment. I almost forgot what a Fat October feels like....who am I kidding? I eat this shit up. The girls were doing good trimming until they hit the wide one.

No pics this time round. Just a gloat. I'm still here. Wish you all were here too. The girls aren't going to finish the wide one by midnight and they need help.

[Weezard]

Congratulations Brah!
Epic grow.
Have a bear sammitch.

This grow was inspirational
Very well done!
And done very well.
Hmmm.
Runnin' low on doggerel.

Drat!
My rhymer is all bus' up tonight.
Maybe mañana it get mo' betta.

Aloha nui
Wee

[ForgetClassC]

Alls well that ends well.

-C

[florida boy 3]

congrats, that was one of the best story grows that this forum has seen in a long time, good work.

[FlyinPolynesian]

Hooo Brah!! Be Stoked..... fo dat epic Pakalolo :thumbsup:

[nugssgalore]

Congrats!! and congrats to wife of your youth to hanging in there and learning from you. May you be successful in providing to those who need medicine and cannot grow their own. Your posts have been informative and entertaining...come back next grow!!

[deserthealer]

No pics this time round. Just a gloat. I'm still here. Wish you all were here too. The girls aren't going to finish the wide one by midnight and they need help.

...and you're 50% done, you say? :D :D :D

you gon' be gloatin' fer loooong time :hippy:

and well deserved, it is!

p.s. but aw, come on. throw us one more picture before you're all, all done. pleeeease?

[oldhaole]

Seventy % in. Damn....What a year.

Now some yields. #3 the wide one gave 3 lbs +. My biggest #1 took top spot with 5 lbs 4 ozs. I got pics of this beast I want to show but can't....probably for the better. :wtf:

All the framed plants (regrows) are in. The little knock down re grow yielded a lb. She was less than 4 ft tall...a fuckin pound. :thumbsup:

My patients walked away with 4 1/2 lbs each. Wife of my youth pulled my guess 13-15 lbs. Who knows? She will be done trimming by next year. Add my take and the house is netting 40 lbs...easy.

And I did this staying within legal plant counts. The cops checked me out from the air. And left me alone. Set for the year.

We have about 1000 hrs of trimmimg in. Have yet to find a seed.

This has been the perfect season. I've gone bigger in my much younger days. But the way this fell so easily into place was unreal. No drag out harvest, no rip offs, no fags, no wammies, no bugs, no mold, great sun, all add up to my first legal harvest. Ain't MMJ great?

[LetsSeeYa]

Im happy for you my friend, i know you worked your ass off all summer to pull that big ass yield in:thumbsup:. So have you thought of how your going to out do it next year, lol. Your lucky you dont gotta trim, its taking me 4 hours to just fill just one jar. I trim them one last time before putting it in jars, but theres very little to nothing, but still coming off the branches. BTW il bet you had one hell of a strung up bunch of weed drying, lol. Can ya hear the ol stoner 20 miles down wind saying ''man im telin ya, i smell weed'', lol.

This thread really needs to be a Sticky in the outdoor grow section for sure:thumbsup:



Great show my friend:rasta:

[oldhaole]

The madness is over.... Just took a stroll through my now denuded garden. Of my 28 holes, 11 are still going. Two multi pounders, and the eight are clones. The rest are done and in.

The rest should be easy. I'm stage harvesting #9 last one to finnish. Just taking my sweet time doing it too. We have had convection showers for the last 4 days and #9 does not mold. Put her in next year's long season line up.

It was a hectic last three weeks. Total chaos. My house looks like somebody rolled a gernade into it. I grossly overestimated trimming time. Total was more like 300 hours so far.

Trimming was fun... in a sick way. When I did this in my younger years, before I was married, I had a crew of Japaneese girls that did good work amung other perverted things. So with wifey permission I tracked them down. Got two to come back to work. They still trim like banchees. Just 20 years older and married...bummer. :(

Patients got their cut and promptly got on flights to the mainland. They are so gone. I hope it works out for them, but I still have their licences until the end of the year. This was always a one trick pony, So who knows what next year will bring.

Today, For the first time in 8 weeks,I will go bodysurfing. Just to get away. Then its back to the grindstone. It will take another month to finish.

[Weezard]

Superior!

One question.

What's the best time to start seeds outdoors , and the best time to move cuttings out?

OK, so dat's 2 questions.

Can't count, but I know who to ask, yah?:D

Mahalo nui
Weeze

[oldhaole]

Some shit I learned this year.

Best time to start seeds outdoors? To answer that I need to know your goal for the year. On this log I started my re grows in early Febuary. If I started them in Jan, they would jump to 5 ft and bud totally, which messes up the chances to re-grow.

So if you want to go the re grow route plant in mid to late Feb. By April/May the tops should be takable. Leave a few unbudded branches behind, and your good for the rest of long season.

If you are using mainland seeds plant in April. They react differently to our growing season and tend to go off early. It worked out well for me this year because I got to harvest those 7 early, and at my leisure, before all the local re grows went off at once, burrying me.

Moving cuttings... If they have adjusted to the photoperiod Late April is good. Put them out too early and they will try to bud, that will slow things down til they figure out weather they want to go short or long. By April they should go straight to vege mode.

Once again, what do you want to do that year? The above planting times are what I used (or should have) on this years log. My goal was to push as much weight as I possibly could out of my garden. For that, re grows were the logical choise. Done correctly, re grows can and do yield huge. But they are not built to support weight, so you must frame them up and tie the branches in place because they will not handle rain weight at all. Many are a disaster waiting to happen. So if you can monitor them daily go for regrows. If they are out of your control, forget them, wait a month, then plant. No regrows then.

I consider this year to be an anomoly. Tail end of el nino, Not a single hurricane in the Central Pacific this year, no cabbage moths (drought killed them off) just one heavy rain, at a great time before buds, and almost a month of solid sun to finish. I could not have scripted this year better.

Now if only I could post some pics....Bummer.

[Weezard]

You just gave me exactly what I needed.:cool:

Credible, personal, knowledge is priceless, and other than a gift, is very hard-won.

Mahalo nui my fren'.
I one ya one, or ten.

Jus 'started 5 G. of Christmas-berry mead.
And another 5 G. of mixed grapes n cherry wine.
Come join da Hawaiian inebriatti fo' a sunset or two.

Aloha,
Wee, (li'l smarter now), 'zard

[oldhaole]

I owe you. Dude, you were the first person to befriend me on this board. My only wish is that you lived on Maui....Think of the Safety meetings we could have. :D

You may have forgotten, but I haven't, you and Moody 420 were the first people to answer the first question I asked on this board. You didn't know me from Adam, yet you took time to answer my question. Thank you.

Knowledge should be shared. There is no reason to make mistakes twice. If I can help anyone on this board I am a happy camper.

This is not my first rodeo. This whole log thing is so cool, because before I was forced to do this in the shadows. Now I can bring everybody into my world. And I get to show off...yea I can be an asshole at times though.

The last season has been the most fun I have had in 20 years. To know that I still have it is thrilling. To pull what I did is what I call "full teeth" harvest.

I will be over to see you when I renew. And I look foreward to meet you in person. If I can help you out in any way, don't be shy.

Your Friend
OH

[oldhaole]

This pisses me off. Every time I make some dumb ass statement about how everything is going well the shit hits the fan. The past 5 days suck. Once I brought the big ones in we had a weather shift. A cold front dug down and dragged across the state. Almost a week of 100% humidity 24/7. If the cali girls were still alive they would be big fuzzy balls of rot by now.

As things stand the garden has 2 big plants I have been taking my own sweet time stage harvesting. About half of each is still there, and I wander down there each day and bring in a pile of buds. There are also 3 clones of the wide one and 3 clones of the big one out there in the rain too.

One of this years major goals was to create a rot resistant plant. Last short season I crossed some of my better Sativs strains with a Thai male. Then backcrossed them again. Planted the seeds, they grew into monsters. Four of them yielded 3+ lbs each. One gave 5lbs 4 ozs. No mold or rot. But the weather was perfect so I could not say the Thai genes had any effect.

Well, I just took the tour in the rain and there is no mold. None. Nada.

I know this means nothing to you all. But for me it's big. I now have a clue on how to pull big harvests regardless of humidity or rain. This will also go into part 2 of my next grow log. Short season is here, and that is when I get to fuck around and create new strains. BWHAHAHAHA. This will be fun.

This grow log is almost done. I have a ton of pics I will EVENTUALY post. Still have 8 holes with plants or clones that need to dry out. I will leave one in and spray water on it each day to force it to mold. Stress test it to distruction.

After I digest this harvest I will also have individual yield numbers and totals. They will go in this log. And i will finish with my fuck ups and triumphs, and what I learned over the last year. So I ain't dead yet. We may learn something still.

Later

OH

[Weezard]

If you get half the cloudburst we jus' got, you'll be diggin' buds out of da dirt.

Woof!
Real gullywasher!
Best lay in som asschapstick, could be a mighty wet ride.:D

Mahalo nui my dhammic braddah.

Wee 'zard

[oldhaole]

My rain guage reads 3 1/4 inches in...lets think...since noon. I have clones in the dirt. Bust out the bamboo. no worry, get plenty.

I am not holding my breath for this to end soon either. If the clones can handle a week or two of this I will be Crappin in tall cotton.


BWAHAHAHAHA

[Weezard]

My rain guage reads 3 1/4 inches in...lets think...since noon. I have clones in the dirt. Bust out the bamboo. no worry, get plenty.

I am not holding my breath for this to end soon either. If the clones can handle a week or two of this I will be Crappin in tall cotton.


BWAHAHAHAHA


Bwahahahahahaha indeed!:thumbsup:

That tall cotton, line made da wife of my dotage, wet herself.

Nevah heard dat B4.

That goes right into my linguitistic armory.:cool:

:D:D:D:D

Weeze

[oldhaole]

I fear I just dated myself... Glad I could get the laugh. Unfortunatly wife of my youth has heard all my material a hundred times. The only laugh I get out of her is when I hit my thumb with a hammer...:(

Besides... would you want to crap in short cotton???

Weez... are you on the north side or south side of B.I.?

[Horsemanrocks]

Itâ??s rained (hard) here for the last 3 days, but every time I go out to shake the water offâ?¦itâ??s dry??? Must be water proof!!! :D

O H, Iâ??m 3 weeks into a seed run on Gainesville Green, so in another 3 weeks with a couple to dry Iâ??ll fire some off to Weeze. He will have enough to share.
If GG doesnâ??t mind the RH in Florida, then maybe itâ??s a candidate for your crosses.

Thanks for the laughs,
HMR

[oldhaole]

I would love to try that out. TYVM for the offer. I will take you up on it.
Life is to short to smoke the same old strains.

If they can handle our humidity they can only make things better. Throw a few extra in for me. :D

[Horsemanrocks]

Iâ??d already planned to send Zardly a lot of seedâ?¦.which he would have shared anyway. I only posted it as a reminderâ?¦.so that possibly one of the two of you old guys might remember. :D

Here the deer have been coming into the neighborhoods in the fall as wellâ?¦.letâ??s just hope that they settle for the low hanging apples over the motajuana.

If they can handle our humidity they can only make things better.

My guess would be yes, hopefully so!

HMR

[oldhaole]

This old guy has already talked to weez. Though I may be failing, I will remember.

We had our first good rain a few days back, so all the deer have gone back to the boonies. They only come around in drought. They took losses though.

I know my neighbor has taken a few. The past few months I have heard a 3 AM gunshot a few times.

About 3 weeks ago, on my dawn walkaround I look into neighbors pasture.... and there is a herd of 20 or so deer. I snapped, went inside, got my .22 went out and popped Bambi in the head.

Marched out into nighbors pasture to drag him back onto my property. Out comes neighbor. He's laughing, "what you doing?" he asks.

"Same thing you have been doing at 3 am about five times so far" I answer "only I don't need a spotlight and a 30.06. He laughs, shakes his head and goes inside.

As I type this I am grinding a smoked venison omlette.

When I'm done here I get to cut some more tops and trim all day.

And yes...I am gloating :D

[JohnnyZ]

OH, you live quite the life my man. I just read through your entire log. I am proud of you and jealous of you and happy for you and in awe of you. My current apartment situation is not the best place to be growing cannabis, but at least there is fungus among us.. ;)

Two questions for you, if you will.

First, what do you spray your plants with?

Second, what is the story behind referring to spouse as wife of your youth?

All the best homie, I hope next year's grow will shine like this one.. :jointsmile:

[oldhaole]

This sounds bad. When I spray my plants it is before a rain and I use Adams Flea and tick killer.... yep...dog shampoo. five tablespoons to 3 1/2 gallons water. It has lots of pyrethrine in it and the soap clings to the leaves. You can also mix some Safer fungicide in the same tank and stop the WPM too.

With our humidity the Adams is washed off in less than a week. But it wipes out all bugs including established budworms. Once the buds get dime sized I stop spraying.

Wife of my youth.... There's a term... marrying out of your class. I did that.
My wife has seven years on me. Since I am younger she will always be wife of my youth. Simple. She was an assistant city manager for a large city in Arizona. I was a semi crazy pot growing surf punk. Go figure.

Besides, when I look at her I don't see the 20+ years we have been married. I see the beautiful blonde, that didn't know she was beautiful, with long hair, long legs, and flashing blue eyes, the first time I met her, proudly whipping off her shirt and proclaiming "my tits are not too small!".....long story... But she had me, hook, line, and sinker. :)

Thanx Johnny. I was hoping for that last question.

Later
OH

[weeddaddy50]

my wife is also older than me by 5 years....I follow your grow log and the information is both interesting and informative....the ebb and flow about growing .....I.E. the highs and lows.... I experience this with my own grow at least twice a week.. and now you are doing the regrows...keep it up you have my attention.

I have two plants I did not take clones from that are flowering HUGE buds...2 to 3 weeks from harvest and I want to regrow both for the clones and then reflower both.

[oldhaole]

Not to say it can't be done, Just your failure rate is very high. I have seen my partner bring out lights and put 24 hour light on the leftover plant where it grew, just to see if the plant will reveg. It never worked.

It would be far easier to check the bottom of the plant for a scraggily branch in the deep shade and force individual clones out of bud, with 24 hour light vs trying to revive the stump.

The key to regrows is the days are slowly getting longer First the photoperiod tells the plant to bud, then it say, "Hold On , too much light. Poor plant doesn't know to shit or go blind.

Contrast that to now. The days are getting shorter and the plant knows what to do. It throws buds all over, then dies. It is geniticly programed to do that. Breaking it out of that program, very hard to do. Especialy this close to harvest.

Save yourself the trouble. Keep your genetics alive thru clones. The day the clones hit outside, they will immediatly bud. Try to stress fag some, make your cross, and plant from seed in Febuary for regrows the right way.

[oldhaole]

Looks like the picture posting is back up. The first 3 pics are the big one. I took over 5 lbs off of her. You should have seen the look in my trimmers face when I hauled this puppy inside.

The next two are stragglers. I am slowly finishing them on my own sweet time. Both are well on their way to 3 lbs each.

Time to dump all the pictures I have saved. Welcome to harvest 2010!

[oldhaole]

The last pic is of a plant already harvested. The first three are still going strong and are a few of the 8 or so left. The first pic is a clone.

[oldhaole]

Trimmin... I seem to have lost my trimmers. Wife of my youth got just into her third plant and said screw it. Whats up with that?

Patients got their cut and promptly bailed. Sat there, smoking my stash, got their cut done and thanks dude... later. Assholes. No help there. My two old girlfriends got the boot from wife of my youth. We were having too much fun. She doesn't want me playing alone with them. Christ, they both married animals, like I would even think of going there?? I want to wake up tomorrow too.

My trimming staff is now me,myself, and I. Life is a big pile of weed slowly getting smaller. You can't hire good help nowdays.

If my patients read this (and they will) I would like to wish them a Merry Fuck You. You insipid bitches, wait til you see what you get next year! I WILL fix you up!

Thank you.

[oldhaole]

And the last in this series... This is what it is all about. The finished product.
Here is this afternoons job well done. Almost 3 lbs. In the jars in personal stash. In the tray is still curing. All is spoken for.

My garage is still jammed, and my attic I don't even want to talk about. Spare bedroom is wall to wall and we are now hanging in the living room.

I will be done, at this rate, sometime in 2015.

The first two pics are a Maui HB/ Black Thai cross female with White Widow dad

Third is #17, the cali girl. A skunk/Thai cross. Im keeping it all for me.

[9fingers]

Wow that Cali girl sure is dark green even when dried. Was it really dark when livin ?

[oldhaole]

Here is a pic of that Cali girl I am saving for me. Same one you are asking about. It is not as dark green as in that pic I just took. I should be taking my pics in the morning sun, but I wanted to fire this out.

That plant got to 6 ft, and yielded 22 ozs. Of the 9 cali girls she was by far the biggest yielder.

The first pic is just the bottom part. I had already taken the top by then.

[9fingers]

Those look very nice, makes me wanta smoke and I'm just now having coffee. I do have a question about your soil. Is that sandy volcanic soil. I live on the side of a dormant volcano and grow in sandy soil and my girls just love it.:thumbsup:

[Shovelhandle]

That's a fine harvest, haole. I wish I could harvest before I get ripped, but that never happens anymore. I did get to put some seedlings outdoors for a few weeks and bring them in before they got looking like something. They would never had finished outdoors anyway as I'm at 45º and the girls are a hazey hybrid. Good luck with your chore! :jointsmile:

Sho