Just Another Crappy Day in Paradise Maui Grow Log

[oldhaole]

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.

[oldhaole]

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.

[LetsSeeYa]

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

Great log, i was sucked in after first post:thumbsup:

:rasta:

[oldhaole]

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.

[oldhaole]

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.

[oldhaole]

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.

[LetsSeeYa]

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:jointsmileh and yeah your plants look very nice. Very healthy:thumbsup:


See ya:rasta:

[oldhaole]

You want to see the gulch plants. My pleasure


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.

[brodoggy]

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

[oldhaole]

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

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.