Just Another Crappy Day in Paradise Grow Log....Part Two.

ok, first off that was quite an interesting story you posted about the cane fields. A lot of action! haha. any ways, what i would like to know how old are you batches 4, 5, and 6? im kinda guessing about a week or 2? not really too much of importance, its just that i am really getting into these threads of yours and am following along with much interest, and after reading your story i figured you would be planting babies real soon! with that being said, you know how i said i had 2 seeds, well now i got 20 (half of which is og kush and the other half just random, all of which have parents that were grown on this island, from my friend that bred his batch.) long story short, a friend of mine owed me money and decided to pay me off in seeds :thumbsup: . and i am germinating only 1 for now as of this morning, i am tight on money and i dont really have too much supplies to be planting a bunch, (that and i wanna save most of them for when short season is done and i can get them huge)

i just wanna follow along with your planting to get a great yeild. which is why im curious as to how old these new batches of yours are, i want to have as close of timing to yours as possible :hippy: . as for soil... well im taking your tips about planting into the ground vs keeping them contained in pots. I couldnt find the soil brands you gave me, so i jus got some 'black gold' not too sure on wat company it is but thats what its called. as for ferts, i havent got any yet but i will be buying some this weekend, again i did some looking around and couldnt find the same brand that you use, i did however find a 'organic' 14-14-14 time release fertelizer (which is good cause of how i wanna keep my plants all organic) i forgot the name of the brand though.

so i did some sight seeing today in this jungle i call my back yard. i found a better spot then im using now, its a little further away but has way less trees and bushes around which in essence would give my plants less shade during certain hours of the day. the more direct sunlight the better right?! i have already prepped the hole. i dug it about 1 ft deep by 1 ft in diamiter. is this a good enough size hole or not? i cut out all the roots that was sticking out of the hole and pulled out all the weeds in about a 3 ft radius from the hole, again is this good enough or no? i will be dropping some lime in the hole and fill it some what with the soil i got and put in some fertelizer soon as i buy it! (well actually more likely as soon as you tell me if i need to prep the spot better or not) and as soon as this plant of mine will be ready to transplant it will go straight into the hole and filled up to the top with the rest of the soil! you said 5 sets of leafs if im not mistaken right? if theres any tips you can give me it will be much appreciated, i wanna follow you step by step and make the best out of the little i know.

The later batches were dropped in the cracking dish two weeks ago.

As for the seeds you have I would get them going now. You will run into more seeds. Right now you need to get a season under your belt. I've said this before, you will need a lot more seeds than you have. If you want to do it down and dirty, plant 4 plants in that big hole you just dug. Leave the males and females together, rip the fags (sorry if that term offends anybody) and let them do their thing.

Besides, you're screwed if those seeds you got for repayment are duds. The only way to know if your seeds are fresh is if you make them yourself. And you're going to need a lot.

You should be spending a lot more time in your backyard. Oahu has too many people, and there are a lot of rips. If you want to get trees, you're going to want a safe place to put them. Unless they are behind a fence, with a couple of mean dogs guarding them 24/7, some asshole will make a grab for them. Even then, if your not legal, green harvest will take them.

If you're creative, you should be able to pull some smaller ones. And the time to do that is now. Forget about trees. If your not legal you gotta go small. Three foot plants, in pots, southern exposure, blocked sight lines, NO TRAILS and NO PARTNERS!

You have a lot of guava or christmas berry? put them at the base on the south side of the bush. Use clippers to open them to the sun. You can water by going under the tree.

Nobody ever looks up. If you can, put them in the trees. Got blackberry or cactus? Lots of thorns? Put them there. The uglier the better. Hide them where nobody in their right mind would go.

Water at dawn or dusk. Don't ever get spotted hauling water.

Use tabbies instead of boots. Don't scuff or leave mud on any wood or rock you step on. Go under, not through.

And I'm only getting started. All this stuff you must learn by yourself. And it ain't no picnic.

The easy way would be;
a) get legal
b) get your own land
c) get fence
d) get a pack of dogs
e) get very cool neighbors (preferably also growing their own)

Once you do all that you shouldn't have any problems. Until that point, be content with a flock of smaller, easier to hide, plants.

Batch Two... The batch I had high hopes for....the ones that were suppose to be femmed....weren't. I just wasted a month and a few thousand seeds. Epic failure. Wonderfuckinfull.

So batch two is a waste. I could try to salvage something out of this, but it will come back to bite me later. So I pulled them all and dumped the seeds. Garbage in, garbage out.

But....I had batch three waiting in the wings. So my holes were empty for all of a half hour. So all those sweet plans I had....

Never mind.

A stumble, but not fatal. It will jam up my timing though. A big short season will not happen. To bad..so sad...for me. WHAAAAA.

Regrow Sativas need to be put in by Jan 21st. It will take a month to boost the starts, and I can do that in pots, so I don't need to clear and plant the big ones in the holes until the end of Febuary. Or I could sneak two plants (mature 90 day wonders with a small keiki in the same hole to regrow. Take the buds, and the regrow will be left smiling)

Batch one seeds will be ready. Batch three...probably. Four ,five and six...they won't be ready. Not even close. They are going to have to go into pots, or in the cane. Cross that bridge later. They are all good stand alone strains, so I may just make it easy and cross them with themselves.

A friend gave me two....count 'em....two. Jack seeds. Well praise Allah one is a girl, and one is a boy. Like them apples? Something goes right. WTF? Those seeds will be ready and crossed in time for long season. Unless the girl fags...anybody want to put money on that?

Jesus wept. This is starting to get complicated. I'm on a deadline. Why can nothing be easy? So I'll do what I normally do. Throw it all against the wall and see what sticks. Why should this year be any different?

Did I mention it rained today? Probably will have more this week? About time.

I have 90 give or take days to get these keikis up, pull males, into bud. defagged, crossed, seeds matured, harvested, seeds removed, weed tested, best saved, and replanted....Shit....Piece of cake, and I have some beachfront land in Iowa to sell you.

At least there is an outside chance that this log may get intresting. I may have to dig into my bag of tricks to pull this off.

Stay tuned.

my parents ( in there 70's now) always told me plan for the worst.....if you can live with that...everything is else if gravy.

Oldhaole.....I just chuckle about the Quads....I have several of them and have been on my butt several times.....I am too old to crash and burn on them....but it happens.

Good luck ....keep us posted.

I have a breeding project of my own going right now.....But I only have 30 seeds of each strain....we will see how it goes.

I am a sick bastard....like I'm telling you something you already don't know.

I also have too much free time today. So the sick comes bubbling right to the top.

Here's the story...and I'm sticking to it.

I wander out to the gulch. And what do I find??? See for yourself. That damn male is getting more than I ever did. There is no god.

Since I saw it with my own eyes and got the shots, I will be happy to explain what I saw.

Pic 1) What? looks like the old 69 to me.
Pic 2) Back to the conventionary missionary position.
Pic 3) The post coital smoke.
Pic 4) Shit...Looks like he went to sleep. I guess it's universal.

I think there is a fair chance she is hapai. My first cross. In living color. Before they went nuts...I'll leave that alone...I shook off...or should I say "manually released?'' two envelopes of pollen. They are in my freezer.

It appears the male expired right after sex and she ate him...go figure. So I have a hole to fill....don't go there....That's my job. :D

Later

The Pervert

Red dirt below.
Blue sky above.
He finds in da grow.
Hot, green, monkey love!

Well, did dey letcha get away wit' it, did dey?:D

Yeah, veg. porn!

Weeze

.wow......been awhile since I got to check this. I just love your threads. I make it a point to check in once a week and read. Your a great story teller:thumbsup: and I learn a lot by reading this thread. So far.....no questions. Check back soon. Peace:hippy:

Weez....Yea they have let me get away with more than I expected....Is that a good thing?:wtf:

True.... Thanks for feeding my oversized ego....Is that a good thing?:D

When we last left our hero, he was littering up the board with a totally gratuitious post. What was he thinking??? Maybe a second gratuitious post is needed.

Naaa, I don't think so.****Danger!!!....boring post ahead***

I've been devoting this short season to a few goals

1) I want to get my short season plants to 5 ft. I'm going to win that battle, but lose the war. When you mess around and drop young starts under 24 hr light, you get a lot of males. I could have beat this thru shear numbers, but I didn't have the seeds I needed to do the job.

2) I wanted to put a flock in the fields, to do that I needed the seeds from batch two to be femmed. Total clusterfuck there. Failure.

3) I wanted to breed a larger and better Thai/Skunk cross. I now have people pissed at me because I won't let any of it go. I'm keeping it all for me. From last year I have reconized four different variations. I crossed the two largest similar variations....you saw it in the last post. This is going as well as can be expected. It should fly.

4) I want to grow new strains. Better strains. Notice goals 1-3 all depend on an abundance of seeds. Everything starts there. Everything. Screw this up and I am back to the strains I used last year. And they are cold product.

Sorry. boring post....It get's worse.

Breeding and crossbreeding....I'm sure many of you do this differently, and will get a chuckle off how I am going to mangle this, but it works for me.

In order to construct a good strain, first you have to de construct it. That means you must put a bunch of seeds in from a single plant m/f cross As these seeds grow, you watch them, and note the different phenotypes that occur. Pick the one with all the best traits, cross them, and dump the rest. Do that for a few years....and baby, you got something special.

I did this with batch one. Will it work? We'll see in part 3.

I also have the time I need to do the same thing with batch three. Three is a Sativa all the way, looks like it has potential, but if it doesn't...out it goes. I will cross it with the second Thai/Skunk I have....just to see what happens. There will be no more live sex shows. From now on it's paintbrush time.

The rest get done down and dirty. I'm going to dig into my bag of tricks, and fire these seeds out in 90 days. And I'm going to do it with just nine plants from each batch. I will try to do some selection, but it ain't going to be pretty. All of the last 3 batches, are low yielders, not enough yield to make them houseplants. The last batch is a old style Hash Bud....I gotta keep that alive. I drool just thinking about it.

Well if you slogged through all that bullshit...You're a better man than I Gunga-Din....I know...I mangled that quote too.

Fuck...It's getting cold here. It's 56 at 1 AM....Bet we will break 50 tonight...Just too damn cold.....Us poor Hawaii bastards....don't you all just pity us?

I'm thinking of a new name. It has been suggested by....let's just call him a far holier man than I....that I dump oldhaole, and go by the new moniker
Moneyloving asshole baby....I'm now giving that serious consideration....

I'll get back to you on that.

Best of luck to you in reaching your goals! I'll be popping in to check how things are going along for you and your crossbreeding endeavors. :thumbsup:

Dawn has broken for most of the island, but not for us. The sun will take 30 more minutes to come over the hill, and until then I am freezing. Fourty eight...here this AM. In the house!

As soon as the sun finds us I am going to snap some pics of my little seed project.

I start out with 4 inch pots. The spot I picked for them gets sunlight from 10 AM to 5 PM. I leave them alone, after the fifth set of leaves they should declare. Haul the males off to an undiclosed location, Let the girls grow, Kill the fa....I won't say it...hermis....You know what I mean.

I know...this is weed 101. Tell us something we don't know.

OK...timing is everything. Pollinate too early, no seeds, but good weed. Pollinate too late, tons of seeds, and shitty weed. Do the deed when the buds are dime sized, and you get mature seeds at the base of the buds, and good unseeded weed on the top. This becomes important down the road when you are trying to pick the best.

I'm not going to have the time to make deliberate informed crosses, because I am ignorant about these strains. Never grew them before...except the HB...that I've grown before. So this all turns into a learning experience. As I said earlier, throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.