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.

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

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.

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.

"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

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?

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Originally Posted by 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

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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

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Originally Posted by oldhaole

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

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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

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! ;)

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.

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Originally Posted by oldhaole

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

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That shits sooooo awesome.

-C

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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

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!!!

...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...

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Originally Posted by 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!!!

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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

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Originally Posted by 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...

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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.

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.

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:

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

Weeze.

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

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?

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

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


Good neighbors BTW! :jointsmile:

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Originally Posted by 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?

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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

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

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.

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.

wonderbar! :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by oldhaole

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.

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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

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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.

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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:

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.