Hawaii Growers

rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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bobqp said:
Yeh I'm in Australia sorry bout posting on your Hawaiian forum just enjoy watching you guys grow (:
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Nah, no worries, post away here. We've got some aloha for our island braddahs from down under :mrgreen: There's a few guys that post in this thread that aren't in the islands here. Besides sometimes we're too busy sipping mai tais in our hammocks on the beach to post in this thread so it keeps the thread going when we have visitors, ha ha!

P.S. Most of that was bull. I don't drink, I don't own a hammock (my kids all have them though, ha ha) and I rarely go to the beach, but I do get a little busy to hang out on the internets sometimes.

Do you surf bobqp? Have you ever checked out the breaks Shipsterns, Ours, Cyclops or The Right? Those are all some nuts waves over there.
 
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Purpnugz said:
Not to sure my buddy gave me an 8th of it to try out. Ya it's a great novel for the little ones. I have not read the chronicles but I wonder if they have an audio book. Yep a bit dense for a Congolese strain but the nugs have some give to them. It has hues of purple throughout for some reason. Very peculiar smell of honey and spice. Woody taste on the inhale and earthy pine flavor exhaling. Gives a mentally-clearing head high that made me feel alert, aware or totally paranoid.
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Other than the density that sounds pretty spot on for some Congolese. Maybe it's a Congolese leaning cross. Did your buddy grow that? Did he mention how many weeks it took to flower? Just curious.
 
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rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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bobqp said:
Do you know if you can revert a female plant after harvesting the seeds from a cs selfcross and then do another self cross with it 6 weeks later?/
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You mean reveg the female? I've never done exactly what you're saying, but I've had females reveg on me which didn't take too much time. I wouldn't see why you couldn't seed it again. It will throw out all new flowers the next time around so you should be able to self cross it again. I'd try it if I were you, but I'd probably give it more time than 6 weeks. Just the revegging takes at least a couple weeks (outdoors in the spring anyway). I would probably get it going into veg mode pretty solid and then flower again if I was going to try that. Let us know how it works.
 
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bobqp

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rikdabrick said:
You mean reveg the female? I've never done exactly what you're saying, but I've had females reveg on me which didn't take too much time. I wouldn't see why you couldn't seed it again. It will throw out all new flowers the next time around so you should be able to self cross it again. I'd try it if I were you, but I'd probably give it more time than 6 weeks. Just the revegging takes at least a couple weeks (outdoors in the spring anyway). I would probably get it going into veg mode pretty solid and then flower again if I was going to try that. Let us know how it works.
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I've heard some plants Hermie if you try and reveg them after spraying colloidal silver on them . will reveg at a mates house until 20th august then put it outside and try to get another gth1 cross out of it. Hope it works because its a really great female
 
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Slife said:
EDIT: Hey Hawaii Growers! I am moving to Hana to start growing Medical. I am from Oregon my whole life and have been growing for 10 years here. I've done it all here. Started hydroponics, did that for a couple years. Didn't like the unnatural form of growing that way then moved to smart pots and started using the Cana line as a nute system. I enjoyed that for years. But then wanted to get into True Living Organics, to the purest form of Organics as I could, and have been growing that way for years now and I will never go back.

I will be using my manual I've created for my No Till system in Hawaii. I've been brushing up on the climate in Hawaii for quite some time but there are a couple things I could use help on for you Hawaii growers that obvious have it down!

I've searched this thread as well as I can, considering there's over 750 pages.

I will be growing in a hoop greenhouse by my design and will be supplementing LED's (while blacking the greenhouse out while sun light is out with tarps at night for that extra few hours for vegging) I am trying to use a very little electricty considering it costs about 5x times by kilowatt than here.

Now my huge question is about Mold. Your Hawaiian humidity levels are something that I have never ever dealt with before for outdoor growing. I know there are some strains that are more resilient then others but with humidity levels at most as low as 60% (At least it seems in Hana) I don't know how to attack it properly.

I do have a Floiar/ Mold Spray I make that I spray on my plants once a week that help with Mold problems, which work wonders here, I never have a problem that I will share with you now straight from my manual:

Pest and Mold Prevention Foliar Spray


· 1 Tblsp Aloe Vera Juice

· ½ Tblsp Organic Rosemary Oil

· ½ Tblsp Neem Oil

· ½ Tblsp Potassium Silicate

· ½ Tblsp Dr Bronner’s Soap

Again, this works amazing here in Oregon, but other than my other regular regiments for my AACT, is there something extra I could be doing to help with Mold Prevention?

I don't want to use a dehumidifier considering costs of electricity, that is my one requirement.

Any help on this subject would be amazing!

Thank you all for your time,

-Slife
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Like waterproof said, airflow is important in humid areas. Strain selection helps a lot too. Some strains just suck with humidity and/or they're bug magnets, Maple Leaf Indica comes to mind for example. But with enough air flow mold shouldn't be a problem in general. Also, if you ever send in soil tests then getting your calcium, boron, silica and copper to luxury levels and keeping potassium and nitrate low helps a lot too. You can bump up the potassium the last month of flowering to boost yield.
 
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bobqp

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rikdabrick said:
Nah, no worries, post away here. We've got some aloha for our island braddahs from down under :mrgreen: There's a few guys that post in this thread that aren't in the islands here. Besides sometimes we're too busy sipping mai tais in our hammocks on the beach to post in this thread so it keeps the thread going when we have visitors, ha ha!

P.S. Most of that was bull. I don't drink, I don't own a hammock (my kids all have them though, ha ha) and I rarely go to the beach, but I do get a little busy to hang out on the internets sometimes.

Do you surf bobqp? Have you ever checked out the breaks Shipsterns, Ours, Cyclops or The Right? Those are all some nuts waves over there.
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Live 500 metres from the beach I surf in summer and spring. Spearfish in winter. We have a rainforest that's over 500 kms along just 1 km behind where we live so were jammed between the ocean and rainforest. I bought rare dankness strains Scotts og,501st og and moonshines ghost train. They will be my next breeding crop in a couple of weeks. Plant in 2 weeks and harvest seeds they I can plant outdoors in december
 
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rikdabrick

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sandhill larry said:
I made my peace with spiders 30 years ago. I have not intentionally killed one since then. Still don't like them on me.
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Yup, spiders are my buddies. They eat bugs I like less so we're cool. I never kill them or even run them out of the house. We don't have a dangerous spiders where I live so I don't really mind if they get on me, but I don't just let them crawl on me longer than necessary either, ha ha. The only ones that I really prefer not to have on me are crab spiders (different than the one Purpnugz showed in his pic) because they bite and it's not pleasant; they stay in their webs though so no big deal. And cane spiders (aka Huntsman spiders) because they're big and fast and banana spiders because they're also kind of big and creepy, but at least they just stay in their webs and chill. Other than those the rest are pretty passive and docile.

And funny enough in reference to youy mom used to go out and catch wolf spiders and bring them in the house to kill off the black widows.

This is the one we call crab spiders over on this side of the island @Purpnugz
 
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SPLFreak808 said:
Has anyone ever had a mealybug infestation before? I found one just chillen on the stalk of my plant with what looks like cotton around it. I go to pick it off and the motherfucker juked me with some bruce lee shit lol it glides around the stalk pretty quickly making it hard to pick off. Do they cause damage?
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Kill them with righteous vengeance. I've had them several times. They suck sap from the stem and get all inside the flowers, mostly near the stem, so when you break the buds open it's a fluffy mess. If you can find a mealybug destroyer outside they'll take care of the mealy bugs real quick.
 
rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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bobqp said:
I've heard some plants Hermie if you try and reveg them after spraying colloidal silver on them . will reveg at a mates house until 20th august then put it outside and try to get another gth1 cross out of it. Hope it works because its a really great female
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I could see that happening too. Like I said, I've never done, but I'd try it to find out for myself unless a bunch of people have tried and everybody said their plants hermied on them. Aren't you getting the plant to herm when you do the CS spray anyway?
 
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bobqp said:
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Live 500 metres from the beach I surf in summer and spring. Spearfish in winter. We have a rainforest that's over 500 kms along just 1 km behind where we live so were jammed between the ocean and rainforest. I bought rare dankness strains Scotts og,501st og and moonshines ghost train. They will be my next breeding crop in a couple of weeks. Plant in 2 weeks and harvest seeds they I can plant outdoors in december
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Nice looking board! That sounds like a great place to live. Pretty much the same as my environment as far as ocean and rain forest nearby. What's the summer and winter ocean water temps there? The water temps in the winter are about 75-76 deg. here in the winter and 81 in the summer.
 
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bobqp

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rikdabrick said:
I could see that happening too. Like I said, I've never done, but I'd try it to find out for myself unless a bunch of people have tried and everybody said their plants hermied on them. Aren't you getting the plant to herm when you do the CS spray anyway?
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Yeh germ on certain branches to make fem seeds but people say if you do it twice on the same plant then the whole plant herms and throws herm seeds. Still going to try it anyway and see what results I get (: . better off trying something then not giving it a go . had a lot of people telling me if I crossed a photo male with an auto female that none of the offspring would be auto . I done the cross and over 75 percent we're auto. Sometimes you gotta try stuff and see if it works or fails
 
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bobqp

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rikdabrick said:
Nice looking board! That sounds like a great place to live. Pretty much the same as my environment as far as ocean and rain forest nearby. What's the summer and winter ocean water temps there? The water temps in the winter are about 75-76 deg. here in the winter and 81 in the summer.
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77 in summer and 70 in winter. Tonight is the first night in winter I have had the heater on.
 
Purpnugz

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rikdabrick said:
Yup, spiders are my buddies. They eat bugs I like less so we're cool. I never kill them or even run them out of the house. We don't have a dangerous spiders where I live so I don't really mind if they get on me, but I don't just let them crawl on me longer than necessary either, ha ha. The only ones that I really prefer not to have on me are crab spiders (different than the one Purpnugz showed in his pic) because they bite and it's not pleasant; they stay in their webs though so no big deal. And cane spiders (aka Huntsman spiders) because they're big and fast and banana spiders because they're also kind of big and creepy, but at least they just stay in their webs and chill. Other than those the rest are pretty passive and docile.

And funny enough in reference to youy mom used to go out and catch wolf spiders and bring them in the house to kill off the black widows.

This is the one we call crab spiders over on this side of the island @Purpnugz
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Purpnugz

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rikdabrick said:
Other than the density that sounds pretty spot on for some Congolese. Maybe it's a Congolese leaning cross. Did your buddy grow that? Did he mention how many weeks it took to flower? Just curious.
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Nope I didn't get much info on the strain but he said it was a self pollinated seed and took 11 weeks to harvest from a bean.
 
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rikdabrick said:
Kill them with righteous vengeance. I've had them several times. They suck sap from the stem and get all inside the flowers, mostly near the stem, so when you break the buds open it's a fluffy mess. If you can find a mealybug destroyer outside they'll take care of the mealy bugs real quick.
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Thanks rik. Im going on week 5 flower and i started trippen when i seen it. I had a nanner show up right next to the stalk that had the cotton substance and it also appeared to have some kind of brown/orange sap leaking from right under the buds on the lowest colas. Im really hoping the larvae cant/didn't make it into my lower colas.

Im guessing praying mantis would work indoor? I could get a hand full.
 
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