Just Another Crappy Day in Paradise Maui Grow Log

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-pro...ml#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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Wonderful plants, man.

Shov

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.

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

:jointsmile: Shovl

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.