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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.
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
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.
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...
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by ForgetClassC
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldhaole
-C
Were you talking about a hurricane from long ago in Kauai or a recent one? I have friends who live there and am concerned.
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Originally Posted by nugssgalore
"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
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.
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.
ripper's moon?....:thumbsup:...I like that!Quote:
Originally Posted by oldhaole
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?
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:Quote:
Originally Posted by bigsby
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.
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
Alls well that ends well.
-C
congrats, that was one of the best story grows that this forum has seen in a long time, good work.
Hooo Brah!! Be Stoked..... fo dat epic Pakalolo :thumbsup:
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!!
...and you're 50% done, you say? :D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by oldhaole
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?
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?
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:
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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Originally Posted by oldhaole
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
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.?
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
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
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
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
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:
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