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Aloha from Hawaii,
As Febuary draws to a close we here in the islands have short window of time to work. A seed put in the ground here in December will get 3 ft high and yield an oz or so. A seed put in the ground in January will have some that sky and some that do indeed go off and provide us over summer.
If you would like to take a ride stick around.
Exhibit A In the beginning
that looks like a good place to hang with your plants and burn some good buds!:jointsmile:
The lanai of my house is my sanctuary. My roses grow there,same with easter lillies. Deck also had a sweet lime tree and strawberries and tomatos and cucumber. All are giving fruit right now.
Countless joints have been burned there as the sunsets unfolded. Whan my wife snores me out of bed I have slept out there many nights, and watched the stars fall. Deck faces toward Maui's central Valley and at night a sea of lights greets me.
If I am lucky enough I want to die on that deck. I have often said the only way they will get me out of this house is feet first.
The starts in the pics are a cross of a white widow male crossed with Strawberry guava, Maui bloodweed and White widow females. This cross gave me a very potent short season this year. Added bonus is only 3% turn out to be fags.
The State of Hawaii in their infinite wisdom gave both my wife and I our blue cards. We are caregivers to two other MMJ patients. That is 28 legal plants. And this years goal is to get at least a couple of them to 15 feet tall. We have done this before but I never had a chance to document a full year. So we will be giving it a shot this year. Stick around this just may work out.
I died when I read this. Thank you so much for my laugh this morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldhaole
I'm so on board for this ride, best of luck to you and your girls this season. I so envy the outdoors...
sounds like you are on the road up to Haleakala....i palyed in a golf tournament at Wailea ....beautiful island!Quote:
Originally Posted by oldhaole
love to see the show :thumbsup:
Aloha,
I am Upcountry. Upcountry streches from Kula 200 to Ulupalukua. It is an area about 10 miles long and 4 miles wide. I'm in there somewhere.
As for golf I grew up in Wailea. I lived on the 4th hole on Wailea Blue Course many many moons ago. I used to rule that course. Now I just suck at golf.:mad:
The mess on the deck has been cleaned up and removed. Starts are just beginning to get their 5th set of leaves and are a bit under a foot tall. A few are showing sex at 5 weeks. Males are pulled and the best females are put in 2 gallon pots for later planting in my garden.
The other two trays were given away and all now are in new homes. They are scattered from Hana to Hoonokawai. A small sample is shown in the second pic. If all goes to plan some of these will be done in late April and the few will go long and by done by October. The later ones should be in the 10-15 ft range. The April harvest plants will be harvested with anything exceptional dug up and brought inside and put under 24 hour light to regrow.
I am now in the process of killing and burning two feet of Kikui grass in my new planting area. It is on my property and in a small gulch with no way to see it, unless you walk right onto the site. I have 7 of 28 holes dug and full of aged Sunshine/manure/bonemeal mix. I can legaly have 12 trees as tall as I can get them. The other 16 I will start in a couple of months and with lights keep them immature.
The madness part of my year is done. I can now move at a slower pace
me too...because of injury...i was a 6 capper...hole #5 uphill after a par 3..don't remember the color but tossed one in the cup from about 120yds on the fly...swish! was playing in a golf tournament at Wailea and ended up winning:jointsmile: had a great time on the island but i would have had a better time finding your lanai and hanging having a few burn sessions!:smokin:Quote:
Originally Posted by oldhaole
Aloha,
It was a beautiful Sunday. I was finding homes for my kids. Two weeks ago I found a nice place to work. On the way in I found this;
Not bad huh? Too bad, so sad, They aren't mine. In the last two weeks an amature dropped these right on my trail. They are clones and will be ready in about 5 weeks. Mine are long season and will be ready in October.
So in the intrest of keeping mine, mine, I dug up all my happy kids and placed them a half mile away. Hauled them off on my back. Not around, through, the field. Beat the crap out of them and me.:mad:
If I were an asshole I would take them for making me work extra. Another way of keeping the rif-raf out. However the first rule of doing this is don't take what ain't yours. Karma is a bitch and I don't need her pissed at me.
If these are yours they are still there. Don't worry I have no interest in your shit. Thanks for making a rough day that much rougher. Oh and find a better way of marking your grows. A saw three more of your markers on the way down the road. If I was a real asshole I would have just moved your markers.:D
Amature Hour.
i bet if you left a note with them you would see them disappear...that would be cool way to get themm out of there and leaving yours alone! so hoping miss karma takes care of you!:jointsmile:
Aloha,
This person is not far from harvest. All are clones. If I left a note they will be laughing at me, since the next time they visit, they will harvest. When I find stuff that is not mine I do not want to leave a note. I try my best not to leave footprints. A note would tell them I am also in the field and may encourage them to search. If they search long enough they may find other peoples stuff.
The first thing I do when I go into a field is make sure I'm alone. If I find an occupied area I go elsewhere. It is not uncommon in the fields to find someone else's plants. Happens to me about one time in ten. In this case they were put out after I put mine in. Nothing I could do, except get mine out of Dodge. I was just lucky that my plants were small enough to be transplanted.
All in all it was my own fault. This field was a bit close to civilization. I chose poorly. :(
Aloha,
The powers that be flew the first Green Harvest today. I saw five choppers total. The DEA was up along with three county opperated ones and bringing up the rear was a Coast Guard search and rescue helicoptor.
All my season's work is now up in the air.
On the bad side they were just planted and they are visible from the air.
On the good side the wind is cranking with a sideways rain. Gusts up to 40 MPH. Half the island has been under a blanket of rain. If this weather holds tomorrow I have a chance.
Only one way to find out and that will happen in 6 weeks. If they are gone nothing I can do about it. Just one of the problems of the job.
It really seems ridiculous that they would go after a fairly small grow like yours. If are up there looking for whole fields run by smugglers with guns n such, maybe I could understand...
In all honesty I think this was to just show the flag. The choppers flew a grid search and I did not see them send anyone down. So they got nothing from this area. They also stayed above 500 ft. It used to be that they would rattle roofs and stampede cattle. Choppers have clipped power lines here and crashed more than once before.
In a small gulch I have took out a large swath of grass and have all my holes dug and filled with my dirt/compost mix. I also have holes dug in all over this property. Nothing is in yet, but they sure were intrested in what I have been up to. I am legal, and they do have my address so maybe they just dropped by to take a look. I would think from the air my property looks like a kid's face with a real bad case on acne.
Green Harvest is Maui's way of keeping the patches small and well hidden. If you get greedy they see and take your stuff. Keep it small and you get a chance. If you have just a few illegal plants they rappell down and take them, but no charges are filed. If they see a lot they take pictures then come back with a search warrant and make an example out of you.
With Obama's new budget, and considering the state is a billion dollars in the hole, I expected a light Green Harvest to be light to non exsistant this year. Looks like I was wrong. But time will tell.
Usually, when I hear the green harvest choppers, I freak. What follows could best be described as a Chineese fire drill. I can tell what type and what they are doing just by the sound. This time I freaked, then realized I am now legal. What a feeling! Happiness! So I wandered out to my deck to take pictures of them looking at me. It will take some time to get used to this legal concept.
Aloha.
My first seven went in yesterday. I cleared down two feet of kikui grass to reach the dirt. Patch is @8 ft wide and 60 ft long. Plants are 6 to 10 feet apart. Holes are two feet deep and two feet wide. It is in an old watercourse that through the ages built up some deep soil. These are my first legal plants and are planted in the ground. Two are budded and should be ready in mid to late April. All have showed me that they are female and with the size of my area should get up to 15 ft tall. The plants are in the full sun all day.
Soil is a mixture of moatly FF ocean mixed with, topsoil from the hole, aged steer manure, bone and bloodmeal, and some old Sunshine mix #3 that produced last years potted plants. Also planted roses and sweet peppers just for grins and giggles. So patch #1 is off and running.
Patch #2 has had all seven of its holes dug and half are filled with my mix. There is only one place that sells FF Upcountry and they want $18 for a medium sized bag. This outside stuff at home is expensive. At least I don't have to spend large amounts of money on power and lights.
Patch #3 is going in the blackberries. I have already cleared a hole through the thorns and begun to clear the area for my kids. I'm already cut up but I can tell you this one will be a bitch. On the plus side if you do not know where the hole is to get into this patch you will be flailing around in some mean thorns.
Patch # 4 is the wife of my youth's This means they go where she wants them to go. My input is not needed, or wanted. She is now in the process of digging up MY ROSE BED. We have close to five acres and she has to pick the one area that I have had beautiful roses on for ten+ years. By the time she is done a whole bunch of my beautiful roses will be dead or near to it. So on top of everything else, I get to prepare a fifth area to try to save what she is gleefully ripping out.
Here are pics of the first patch;
1)Comming soon.
2)Top View. Empty.
3)Top View. Same Day. Occupied. 1st plant will be grown at sideways. 2nd and 3rd should be giants.
4)Girl 1. Done By April
5)Girl 2. White Widow/Bloodweed. Also Done By April.
very nice...looks great! you must be part backhoe doin all that diggin or at least damn sore! :thumbsup:
The first seven were the easy ones. Through the ages that little gulch has built up dirt. Though the grass was tall and thick fire worked well to clean it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by stra8outtaWeed
Now if you want a bitch of a hole check this out. I've been working at that stone for hours yet it will move a bit, but it looks like I get to take it in chunks.
Here is a pic I took this evening; Another crappy day draws to a close :)
right on..nice view...wish i was there enjoyin a hoot wichya! :jointsmile:
Hello again.
Stra8 if you ever get to my neck of the woods please let me know. I'd love to stone you out.
Easter is done and so am I. My 21 holes are dug and filled. Each has a plant and is off to the races. Even got that bitch of a rock out. That is a big hole.
First patch (gulch patch) has been in the longest and were planted with my oldest plants. They were planted on the cusp. Every year I plant on the cusp. The plants look like they will go long and all of a sudden they all go into bud. Instead of going long season it looks like they want to go off now. Flowers are quarter sized and getting fatter by the day. Every year this happens, I worry that the plants will elongate out of buds. But, so far, this has yet to happen.
Second seven is growing too. This patch is right under my lanai. I put the best ones there because my dogs and I can sleep out on the lanai with my shotgun. Rocksalt for rip offs.
Third seven are up in the roses. Through the years I built rock walls and terraces planted with roses. I lost intrest and let it overgrow. This year I oppened it up again. Now some pics;
ah hey bro very nice outdoor grow im gonna have to do something simalar to this soon :thumbsup::jointsmile:
Happy taxday all. :mad:
Sticky, yes you should. This is my first year legal and it is so much fun.
It,s been 10 days since my last update. Everything is still getting fat. Since last report I have taken two girls. Girl 2 in above pics was ready and I took it yesterday. Another plant began to rot and was also taken before major damage was done. The only problem I encounter here is budrot and it is due to the very high humidity.
In two weeks or so everything that is budding will stop and start to elongate out of buds. That will be my cue to take everything smokable. That should last me and my patients enough smoke to last us until July. For July onward I have another trick up my sleve and will show you it as it goes. Who says you can't get a outdoor plant to bud in July?
Now the Pics;
1) Patch 1 uphill view
2) Patch 1 downhill view
3) Only double plant (2 plants 1 hole) I have. Part of Patch 2
4) More of Patch 2. The small plant in foreground is a replacement of the budrot plant.
Patch 3 is a whole different trip and I will cover them next post.
Below are some of my harvested or soon to be harvested plants. All are from Patch 1. Will get a digital camera soon for some close ups.
About eight weeks ago I began my return to the fields. Midway thru authorities flew the first Green Harvest of the year. All of my starts were in and there was nothing I could do but wait and see what happened. In the past couple of days we returned. The plants shown are from the starts seen in my first post in this thread.
All were given permenant homes in late Feb, early March. I have not seen them since then. Until yesterday.
All were where they belong. Unnatural Losses so far....zero. As usual, some were males. Most were removed before the fields. A few poped next to a girl and 20% is heavily seeded. I removed all males and fags so from this point all should be girls. Some went small and have been taken. Others, not quite ready, will be grabbed on my next adventure. And there are a few that are going long.
Now some bud porn from last trip.
Last post I was happy. Got all my work done. Males gone. Some seeded. Some elongating and going long. And some short fatties ready to take. But I will give them another two weeks and take them all. Life is good.
Two weeks. Two lousy f##cking weeks. Harvest time....
Monday morning phone goes off early....They are going to fly. Green Harvest #2... as Monday goes on I set up my telescope and start looking... Sure enough they are there. All over the fields. Choppers. All day Monday they were busy. I watched them remove a LOT of weed from the fields. This is not going to be a good day.
Tuesday afternoon...I'm in the bath... Hear the buzzing... great... There here.
House starts to shake , dogs start going nuts...Get out of the bath and out on the deck... 100 yds away is a white Hughes 500 with 4 cops slowly circling my property.
WTF :mad:
My #s are posted. I am legal. Chopper circled... twice... Slowly.... Letting everybody in this area KNOW what I am doing. Them banked off and were gone.
Lesson Learned... If it's ready TAKE IT.. you may not get a second chance
There is an off chance they missed some. Let you know in 2 weeks.
that sucks ass man, I was watching COPS on TV and they were in Hawaii dropping cops by strings from helicopters and choppin the plants then picking them back up. I immediately thought of this thread. "This one appears to be maui wowie, definitely going to hurt this growers harvest." looked to be about an oz plant, they were in cornfields with driplines. I think the episode was from 2007...
keep your head up man.
Aloha,Quote:
Originally Posted by TruePyroman
I saw the show too. And I got quite the kick out of them dropping on the canefield patch. I remember thinking "moron put a golf course in. (too many holes).
I will find out next week if I got screwed or not. The fat lady has yet to sing. You never count on anything until it is in your hand. I expect the worst and can only be pleasantly surprised. Anything there is pure gravy.
Harvest time. Recap; wish to delete this post
Now to recap; these three were planted in early January. These are also the plants I expect will grow the largest. They were put in before my first post. When they first saw the sun the days were less than 12 hours long. They showed sex about a month after planting. As the days grew longer the plants continued to bud. We call this planting on the cusp and can be done here from Christmas to @ Jan 25th
Two weeks ago I noticed the bottom branches start to shoot up. The girls are now looking at almost 13 hours of sun each day. This week the flowers began to elongate. It is time to take the tops. I will do this in two stages. I will leave the middle of the plant for 10 more days to fatten up. When I am done each branch will turn into a complete plant grown on a single trunk. I will leave as many branches as possible.
Now meet the girls
1) girl 1 Bloodweed mom/WW dad
2) girl 2 Strawberry Guava/Thai mom/WW dad
3) girl 3 Maui HB mom/ WW dad
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Originally Posted by oldhaole
Aloha wonderful world,
The wife of my youth calls me "The Drama King". And if the shoe fits....
Yesterday was the day of "oh shit, I don't want to do this" Long story short, Green Harvest missed everything. They got nada. Went out and checked everything. Lost 2 of nine lines to rats. If you have a plant , even lightly seeded, it is a stick when they are done. If it is totaly unseeded they leave them alone.
Plants shown in these pics were the starts in he first post. There are 20 or so left behind that will go long and get big. The rest is "in the bag". Partner and I removed close to 5 lbs (wet) yesterday. All ready, all unseeded (thanks rats) My patients will be stoked, now I have enough to carry them through summer with no interuptions in supply.
The big ones left behind have been sexed, fertilized, And are off to the races. I do nothing now except wait. Will go back in August to fert again, I do have a lot of empty holes, so I may start a batch of clones going, to go in with me and refill the emptys. Cross that bridge later.
Plants shown were planted straight into ground, no soil was taken in. Each hole got a handfull of 14-14-14 time release, nothing else. Here are some pics of what I saw (I would have bet money they were gone).
Pic 1 Hello Baby!
Pic 2 Ohh.... little fatty. And friends.
Pic 3 Let these go long... See ya later.
I took the tops of the girls on the 5/7. Bottom branches are wanting to sky and my plants want to be rid of the mature middle branches. So today I will take the rest of the budded branches.
I do things this way for many reasons. The plants are females. I am not wasting my time, or one of my 7 legal plants, with a fag or male. No questions there. I get a small harvest in May. It is pretty dry here this time of year. I also get to taste what I will have come October. Also this method gives me a huge round bush, instead of a tall tree. And If I wish to this will be my chance to take clones, and not hurt the yield down the road. Those clones will have the time to get big too.
Here are the girls; Same three as shown in post above.
Summer is here. Maui is in a Stage 4 drought. Sunny days, weeks at a time. Plants love it. I have one re-grow left to harvest. We are getting more than 13 hours of daylight and she is still packing on weight.
Below are pics of the three I have been following. I took all I can off them, and they are off to the races. For the next 4 months they need to do is reach for the sky..
1) Regrow, three branches, Already 3+ ft tall
2) Junk Plant. Didn't meet standards and I pulled her. Replaced with another regrow.
3) Regrow, Now short 2 ft. But @ 5 ft around. Will be a big bush.
4) Last girl to go. Will take her today.
Nice grow guy:thumbsup: I sure wish i had a chance to re veg from the start of outside. Mine came from indoor, but they have 5 months to grow and they had turned to veg, before they were put out. I am really curious about just what i can get from them. Not sure if you have seen them in the ''outdoor'', but if ya get a chance, stop by for your 2 cents. I would like your opinion:D
Great log, i was sucked in after first post:thumbsup:
:rasta:
Time for the two week update.
First off LSY. Hats off to you. Looked at your log. Though we have slightly different styles of cutback, your girls are looking great. And you do it from a chair. Awesome job. Keep ,em safe and you will have a season to remember.
Season is progressing well. In two weeks, the big regrow (Pic 1) has passed 5feet. I planted her at angle ,to see what would happen, and was rewarded with three branches (soon to be trees) as well as a couple of oz,s. I will do this again next year.
Next down is a regrow (pic 2) that is giving me problems. Instead of veging , she is budding. Frankly, I am wasting that hole. I most likely will replace her if she keeps budding. But I will get a harvest in June like I promised above. Only problem is that harvest is a quarter oz. :(
Next down is the bush. ( pic 3) What a monster. Three feet tall and seven foot wide. Just took a bunch of clones off of her and it doesn't show. She gave me almost a qt lb so far and if I can pull her off she will be a record breaker.
Next down (pic 4) is a seedling. She was brought to me from one of my patients and is doing well for a mainland plant. Classic bushy look to her, nice branch growth. She is a Skunk/Thai cross. Looks Indica all the way, and has pink hairs. Since she is not a regrow I have yet to try her.
Next plant is story time. Friend on Mainland sends you seeds.Ranting and raving about how good they are. Seeds sent are old. One greminates. You pray for a girl. Prayers are answered. Plant put in best hole. Plant turns out to be shit. That would be pic 5. F##k me running. Don't know what to do. It has many months of sun left to go. If i yank it have I screwed up? Will it get tall? Is it worth it? PPPFFFTTT. Strain called Nightshade. Anyone out there heard of this?
As I mentioned umteen times this is my first legal grow. Instead of showing just the best, I'm going to show the mistakes, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Come October, we will know just what happened. Maybe others will learn from my screwups. So here is 1 thru 5. I have put a yardstick in each pic for scale.
Finishing off the tour of my 1st group requires two more pics. Here are the last two in my first patch. Both are regrows. The last one had some stem rot early and kinda topped itself. Yardstick is shown to provide some idea of scale.
Yesterday I went in and took any flowers that were left behind. So now these are in full vege mode. Also installed a drip system so all I have to do now is open a valve to water.
I have yet to begin to fertilize anything. So far they have been doing everything on the goodies I put in my holes. This week I will be using time release 14-14-14 on everything. This will cover my fert needs for the next three months. In early August I will start with the bloom fertilizers. Until then, I will check them once a week for bugs and other stuff that I don't want to see.
Aloha All,
Life on the rock continues. Since the last post we have had 2 drizzles and no good rain. I fertilized with a cup of Osmocote 14-14-14 per plant on 6/17. Also hooked everything into my drip system. So now watering is easy now.
So far I have shown the gulch plants. Now comes the bottom plants. This shows the importance of genetics. One of my patients brought me some seed to plant for her. One of her strains is over 6 ft tall. The other is a foot tall and going off now. Both were planted on the same day. I tried to explain to her that the first generation of Calif seeds here will do strange things. She will find out what I mean come October.
Pic 1) shows the one of the Calif plant. The seed was labled HB. Looks like a sative to me. HB my ass. Big one has 6 feet on her. Small one on left is a re-grow.
Pic 2) Three in a row. Foreground is a re-grow. Back of her is another. Small girl going off is a Skunk Thai cross from Calif. She is lost. She was planted the same time as the big one in pic 1
Pic 3) This re-grow is pushing 5 ft. She was the last one I harvested the top from. She is in earlier pics under 4) last girl to go.
Pic 4) Cali girl. Had to pull her over. If she gets more than 5 ft she can be seen from neighbors pasture. So I will run her along the ground and keep her down.
Pic 5 is a shot of the biggest re-grow on the bottom. Seen in pic 2 foreground. She already has 5 ft and reaching.
So its like catching that movie you have never seen and my dish goes out? Whats up bro, i really need to know what they look like, or are you not going back for cant remember when you had said. Few months anyway. I d like to see how you build your cage as i think its going to be my best shot at keeping the Edna and NL from harm.
Its funny because i was thinking of some way i could show the size of my re vegged plants. So i grabbed a yard stick, come to this thread and ya got one in front of your plants. Hell if you could have said yard stick, i would have said steel wool, lol.
Il keep coming back, but if ya post let me know man:jointsmile:oh and yeah your plants look very nice. Very healthy:thumbsup:
See ya:rasta:
You want to see the gulch plants. My pleasure :D
Plants shown are from 6/7 post.
Pic 1) Now is a tad under 7 ft. This will be my best shot to get to 15 ft. One problem. Pic 2) is the stem. If your stem looks like this watch out. I will stake it up and wrap a bungie cord around the stems about a foot up. Then I will gently seperate the branches. That way the middle gets good sun.
Pic 3) is the wide girl. Going for a SOG. Pic 4) is the side view. That little orange thing is the yardstick.
Pic 5) is the bottom of the gulch re-grow. I think this will be the biggest yielder of the seven. Time will tell.
I said cage when I should have said frame. I will build a square bamboo frame around each regrow. When the branches get heavy I tie each branch to the frame so it does not peel off when the buds get heavy. A few of those strings will a small live wire that lead to an alarm in my house. Cut the wire, you cut the circuit. Then you get to meet my dogs. All 10 of them. :(
Wonderful pics, love the "gulch gang"......new here to this forum, been catchin up on all the posts. You have done an outstanding job with your children and posts keeping us on the edge of our seats with the GH whirlies.
Used to grow back in the late 70's (yeah old guys rule :hippy:" using a small greenhouse. Local authorities stopped by one time while I was at my day job and took everything and left their biz card, I didn't call....;)
Hope to retire soon to your beautiful BI, keep up the good fight and keep on postin
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Originally Posted by brodoggy
Aloha Brodoggie,
That, my friend, is a common story around here. Many moons ago my sister and BIL lived down in Kihei. He asked me to provide the starts and grow the plants in their back yard. The yard was tiny but it could not be seen from the road. Neighbors all around, but BIL was an animal, so nobody sane would take the plants.
Pulled a nice harvest the first year. I took half as agreed. They were some of the tastiest beasts I have ever grown. Kihei gets @330 days of sun and less than 8 inches of rain a year. One of the best places to grow on this island. Re planted, got the next batch going,then was told I was no longer needed. About three weeks before harvest the choppers flew.
Took everything from them. Left a MPD vice squad card stuck in the door. Card said "We took your plants. Any questions? Feel free to call us at and Vice's # was there. Needless to say they never called. BIL was pissed off. Got even madder when I told him that I knew when they were going to fly and "forgot" to tell him.
Months pass, BIL starts new crop. Green harvest took off and his house was first on the list to take a look at. Once they find weed they will come back each season and see if new ones are planted. He got another Vice MPD card. He gave up after that.
Good Luck on the Big Island. It is a growers paradise there. You will have a blast. MMJ licences are easy to get and keep. If you have 24(?) plants on private property they leave you alone. Just don't do anything stupid (like plant on Federal Land) and you will be fine.