Hawaii Growers

Vnsmkr

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What's the DDA cross? And let us know how the Colombian Gold is. I picked up a pack of Bodhi's China Yunnan strain mostly for the pack of vintage Acapulco Gold. If I can stay ahead of the game I might be able to throw a couple of each out for the end of long season.


Here's some of the last of my long-short season plants. Long season is in full swing now and the plants are exploding.

I had some crazy foxtails on my Harlequin BX. It came out nice though.
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Here's some Kali Mist that went 13 or 14 weeks. I always try to push Kali Mist 14 weeks if can. It's a big difference even from 12 weeks.
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I cut this Skywalker OG x Pipeline somewhat recently. The stink on it is really strong and almost nauseating. Straight lemon, diesel, hemp seed smell.
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I don't know what this is, but it's bud porn anyway, ha ha.
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A Jamaican x Goji OG. It's still kicking along and has a lovely sweet/tart fruity/berry yogurt smell to it.
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@Vnsmkr Do you guys have Brahminy blind snakes in your neck of the woods? These are the only kind of snake we have here and I read they're in Asia. They make good little garden buddies, ha ha.
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Plants look great mate (or the buds do ;)). Nah Ive never seen any of those of course Im not out in the bush too much. Loads of geckos/lizards in my garden. I hope to get some pics up next week, have a bunch starting to flower now, TGA Dr Who, Gage Green Good Ideas, Gage Aloha Grape Stomper, Karma AG13 Haze x Biker Kush, Karma 24k White Gold, Greenman Organics Copper Rhino, and there may be a Bubba Kush in there too from Humboldt Seeds.
 

808newb

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What's the DDA cross? And let us know how the Colombian Gold is. I picked up a pack of Bodhi's China Yunnan strain mostly for the pack of vintage Acapulco Gold. If I can stay ahead of the game I might be able to throw a couple of each out for the end of long season.


Here's some of the last of my long-short season plants. Long season is in full swing now and the plants are exploding.

I had some crazy foxtails on my Harlequin BX. It came out nice though.
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Here's some Kali Mist that went 13 or 14 weeks. I always try to push Kali Mist 14 weeks if can. It's a big difference even from 12 weeks.
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I cut this Skywalker OG x Pipeline somewhat recently. The stink on it is really strong and almost nauseating. Straight lemon, diesel, hemp seed smell.
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I don't know what this is, but it's bud porn anyway, ha ha.
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A Jamaican x Goji OG. It's still kicking along and has a lovely sweet/tart fruity/berry yogurt smell to it.
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@Vnsmkr Do you guys have Brahminy blind snakes in your neck of the woods? These are the only kind of snake we have here and I read they're in Asia. They make good little garden buddies, ha ha.
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DDA just stands for Dark Devil Auto. I crossed with a Barney's Liberty Haze with female pollen using CS from both plants, so two batches of seeds on each parent. Just an experiment to see differences in offspring and combinability of the same cross just each parent carries the other's seed. So interesting work.
Offspring of DDA pollinated by the Liberty Haze
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Offspring of Liberty Haze pollinated by DDA
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I really don't like the bud structure of this one. It's super fluffy like the consistency of a moist sponge. The only reason I didn't toss it was she was totally covered in trics on every stem and even the main stalk where it was still green while in veg and I have never seen this before...only in flower or going into flower.
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My seven week Kali pheno at 6 weeks
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Funny u should mention those snakes. My bosses father was telling me about them last week and never knew.

Guardians of the garden
Standing watch on clone dome
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Just chillin
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These guys are only on my sour blackberry diesels for some reason.
Praying mantis maybe? Less than a half inch in size but not green...just babies I am guessing
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Holy Smokes SBD
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808newb

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Woke up this morning to find these bugs on my SBD but they were only on one leaf on the entire plant, on the only branch I air layered. Anyone know what they are? I chased them away with neem...just curious
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Nugs808

Active Member
Those bugs look beneficial. On another note anyone use voodoo juice for an organic outdoor home grow? Thinking about using it on my seedlings. Mahalo for any manao out there
 

rikdabrick

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Woke up this morning to find these bugs on my SBD but they were only on one leaf on the entire plant, on the only branch I air layered. Anyone know what they are? I chased them away with neem...just curious
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I have no idea, but I'd have gotten rid of them too. And that was definitely a praying mantis in your last post. There's some small ones here too. There'a at least a few different varieties in the islands.

Also, if you can handle try running your Kali Mist to 14 weeks. Don't look at the tricomes or anything else; just go by time. If it's still throwing out pistils let it keep going. Kali Mist really isn't very impressive before 14 weeks. The last few rounds I cut mine around 12 weeks and I was getting lackluster feedback which was surprising since it's such a good sativa strain. I realized I wasn't letting it go long enough and this round the feedback has been stellar again. Now I just have to get the patients to try it again and hopefully their preconceived notions won't overpower the experience of a great 14 week sativa; I doubt that will happen though.
 

rikdabrick

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Those bugs look beneficial. On another note anyone use voodoo juice for an organic outdoor home grow? Thinking about using it on my seedlings. Mahalo for any manao out there
It should work fine, but I'd better there's stuff out there that's cheaper, but the bottles aren't going to be as fancy. I'll check out Tainio for a similar product. They're a great microbe company. I think most of their stuff is bulk though.
 

rikdabrick

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I have no idea, but I'd have gotten rid of them too. And that was definitely a praying mantis in your last post. There's some small ones here too. There'a at least a few different varieties in the islands.

Also, if you can handle try running your Kali Mist to 14 weeks. Don't look at the tricomes or anything else; just go by time. If it's still throwing out pistils let it keep going. Kali Mist really isn't very impressive before 14 weeks. The last few rounds I cut mine around 12 weeks and I was getting lackluster feedback which was surprising since it's such a good sativa strain. I realized I wasn't letting it go long enough and this round the feedback has been stellar again. Now I just have to get the patients to try it again and hopefully their preconceived notions won't overpower the experience of a great 14 week sativa; I doubt that will happen though.
I should rephrase what I said. Kali Mist is a fine sativa before 14 weeks, but not particularly special. At about 14 weeks it becomes special. @808newb if that one won't go 14 weeks (it probably will) pop another one that will; that's the stuff that put Serious Seeds on the map.
 

808newb

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I should rephrase what I said. Kali Mist is a fine sativa before 14 weeks, but not particularly special. At about 14 weeks it becomes special. @808newb if that one won't go 14 weeks (it probably will) pop another one that will; that's the stuff that put Serious Seeds on the map.
It's funny you should mention that. I have two clones left of that same plant that I am going to reverse one and make some S1's. I should be able to see at least a little variation in the offspring. They're only a couple ft tall. According to the seed finder site there are 4 known phenotypes and I believe I have the tall stretched fast blossoming sativa dom type. I couldn't imagine taking that one past 10 let alone 14...probably be already dried and ready to smoke by that time:bigjoint:
MDL #2:




I had some black bugs emerge lat year on a leaf and I got scared and pulled the leaf off. I got them again this season and I let them be. They seem to have left. I hope they eat pests!


Cheers,
Mo
That satva looks tasty.
 

Jimi808

Active Member
Is that the Kaya Gold you're talking about? It might start flowering, but like @mmjmon said it could only be preflowers which happen after a plant get to be around a couple months old usually. If you can put up a decent pic we can tell you.

I just looked up the genetics of Kaya Gold and I wouldn't be surprised if it does start flowering being it's a mostly indica strain. I thought Kaya Gold was a mostly sativa dominant hybrid, but I was wrong. Because of our daylight hours most hybrids and all indica dominant strains (maybe an exception somewhere?) are going to think winter is right around the corner here all year long so they'll start flowering. For the most part, you won't get very big plants here without supplemental lighting unless they're bred for the tropical outdoors. A bunch of the oldschool Hawaii varieties got huge because they were from other tropical varieties and were grown straight outdoors here and continued to be bred here so they were used to the daylight hours and knew the difference between the light hours of the different seasons and also had a helping hand with some people who obviously knew what to look for in breeding.

I just went and checked out one of my neighbor's plants yesterday. He grows everything from seed and they ranged from a little over a foot tall to about 3 ft. tall. He's probably got about 30 plants and they're a bunch of different varieties and it was a good example of seeing how genetics affect growth here. He only had a few that hadn't started flowering and they were the tallest and all but one of them had a big open sativa looking structure. Most of the smaller ones were flowering so they're probably more indica dominant; they also had a tighter structure to them which is another good indicator of indica genetics generally.

I think I might have mentioned it before, but in case I didn't, you guys should be taking a good look at any flowering plants at this time of year. The chance of hermies go up during this time of year for flowering plants because they'll continue to flower since there's not enough light hours to keep them vegging, but the days are getting longer so it's pretty unnatural to them. They'll start throwing bananas sometimes because of it; so be checking just in case, unless you want some seeds, then you might just get lucky.

I just threw two Dream Beavers (Bodhi Seeds), three Blue Dreams and one Hazmat OG x Kirkwood OG outside yesterday. The Blue Dream was a hit last time so I'll proabaly be running that quite a bit. It came out really lovely. The other two strains I haven't grown, but all the genetics have gotten really good reviews so I'm excited to see how they turn out. The Dream Beavers have been pretty tough so far and I appreciate that.

I'll throw some pics up later. I gots some yard work to do before the sun goes down.
How was the Blue dream to grow? What's your climate? (Mauka, makai,windward,leeward?
 

Kaaialii

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Had to harvest early on my mother plant
Left her outside when I was at work an got rained on
Try putting her back under the green house but saw some mould and just cut her down but here are some of my clones from the tangerine dream and some other clones I when take from a mother recently
 

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BIgrow

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Aloha from South Kohala. So I have been trying to wrap my mind around this photoperiod stuff. It seems that adding a red light to my outdoor plants, either at the end of day, before the sun comes up, or some of each, would keep them in veg until I wanted to let them switch over. (Red light seems more discreet, I have a red/blue led lamp. I'm legal, but wary) It also seems that if I hit the plants at the end of their day ( extended or not) with a half hour of Far Red light, it will speed up the plants switching to dark mode by about two hours, and allow me to increase the flowering time per day by about two hours,as in ten hours of dark and 14 of light ( with additional lighting). I'm hoping to start to get some big sativas going outside; my dream is to time them so they will naturally grow and flower without additional light, but I gottta get away from the hauling plants in and out.
 

rikdabrick

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How was the Blue dream to grow? What's your climate? (Mauka, makai,windward,leeward?
The Blue Dream grew great for me. I don't remember any mold and bugs weren't particularly attracted to it which is surprising because it smelled really nice. It yielded well and is really good stuff. And I'm makai and windward.
 

rikdabrick

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Anyone going to Free the Plant next Saturday? Or entered in the HMCC?

Will be there...look for the beard or follow the smoke ;)
Greyskull over on icmag is putting that on. There's going to be A LOT of smoke there; I doubt you'll be able to find anyone in the haze, ha ha. Are you entering? It's a double elimantion blind judging contest and the judges are the contestants and I think there are going to be a lot of contestants so be ready to smoke 100 different entries :) I don't think I could make it through all of them, ha ha. I would like to go, but it's not going to happen.
 

rikdabrick

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Aloha from South Kohala. So I have been trying to wrap my mind around this photoperiod stuff. It seems that adding a red light to my outdoor plants, either at the end of day, before the sun comes up, or some of each, would keep them in veg until I wanted to let them switch over. (Red light seems more discreet, I have a red/blue led lamp. I'm legal, but wary) It also seems that if I hit the plants at the end of their day ( extended or not) with a half hour of Far Red light, it will speed up the plants switching to dark mode by about two hours, and allow me to increase the flowering time per day by about two hours,as in ten hours of dark and 14 of light ( with additional lighting). I'm hoping to start to get some big sativas going outside; my dream is to time them so they will naturally grow and flower without additional light, but I gottta get away from the hauling plants in and out.
I'm not sure about the red light stuff. I just use normal 23 watt CFL's or 9 watt LED bulbs from Home Depot or Costco and they work fine. Do you know what variety you're growing? If it's a pretty far leaning sativa strain it might stay in veg now or at least by June 1st. How sativa do you think it is? If in doubt though keep putting it under lights at night or put lights over them outside.
 
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