Just Another Crappy Day in Paradise Maui Grow Log

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:

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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:

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.

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

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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.

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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:


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

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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.

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.

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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.

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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?

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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:

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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.

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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

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Well it looks like you fixed your issue.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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:




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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?

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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:

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.

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".

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


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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.


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Good luck catchn' da deer with snares!

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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.


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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.

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!

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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!

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

-C

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.

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

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:

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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:

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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.

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

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.

That looks like a nice joint smoking spot.

-C

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.

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.

prayers

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.

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.

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


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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?

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

...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?

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. :(

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:

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.