Just Another Crappy Day in Paradise Maui Grow Log

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


:rasta:

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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Originally Posted by ForgetClassC

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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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.