Hawaii Growers

rikdabrick

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77 in summer and 70 in winter. Tonight is the first night in winter I have had the heater on.
That's pretty decent water temps. How cold is it there to have to turn on the heater? I've only lived in one house here with a heater. It was up in an area called Olinda in 2003 or so. It gets pretty cold up there. And I've never had a house here with an air conditioner. Good thing too because my wife would want to use it and power is too expensive.
 

rikdabrick

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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.
Hmm, that could be pretty Congolese leaning. I grew out some Africans that ranged from 10 to 14 weeks though they only finished at 10 weeks during short season. They went around 11-14 weeks during long season. They were all loose flowered strains though. Was it pretty potent?
 

bobqp

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That's pretty decent water temps. How cold is it there to have to turn on the heater? I've only lived in one house here with a heater. It was up in an area called Olinda in 2003 or so. It gets pretty cold up there. And I've never had a house here with an air conditioner. Good thing too because my wife would want to use it and power is too expensive.
Haha yeh temps here we're 50 lastnyte. Its warm here compared to other parts of Australia. Nice place here because we can grow 12 week Sativa's anything longer than that and they won't mature
 

rikdabrick

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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.
You can probably see if they're in the buds if you pry the buds open a little bit and get a look near the inner bud stem. There's a stage of life that cottony scale looks pretty similar to mealy bugs too, just FYI. Cottony scale pretty much do the same crap as mealy bugs and suck just as bad. If you're only growing for personal use you can probably salvage plenty by just cutting out the mealy bugs when you break up a bud. If you're growing for other patients then they're not cool. Your buds will look perfect on the outside, but it'll look like it has little white mold spots on the inside. I've had to toss a lot of buds from those guys, but that's a part of the outdoor scene. I'd guess they won't get too nuts indoors.

And a praying mantis or two won't hurt. They eat everything including each other so if you get a couple (you shouldn't need more that that I wouldn't think) get them pretty equal sized if you can and they probably won't try to eat each other.
 

rikdabrick

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Haha yeh temps here we're 50 lastnyte. Its warm here compared to other parts of Australia. Nice place here because we can grow 12 week Sativa's anything longer than that and they won't mature
That's pretty chilly especially if you have some humidity. It would get into the upper 40's where we use to live on the Big Island and I was still too cheap to use a heater, ha ha; that's what blankets are for. Daytime temps were still good there so you could grow whatever you wanted flowering time-wise, but outdoors there was too wet to grow dense budded plants.

You ever check out Kangativa and Bushweed's grows on icmag.com? Those guys were growing some awesome looking sativas over there. There's actually several good Aussie growers on that site.

I shortly considered moving to Oz just because I heard weed prices were like $4500/lb. That sounded good, but I'm not motivated enough to move anywhere yet.
 

bobqp

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That's pretty chilly especially if you have some humidity. It would get into the upper 40's where we use to live on the Big Island and I was still too cheap to use a heater, ha ha; that's what blankets are for. Daytime temps were still good there so you could grow whatever you wanted flowering time-wise, but outdoors there was too wet to grow dense budded plants.

You ever check out Kangativa and Bushweed's grows on icmag.com? Those guys were growing some awesome looking sativas over there. There's actually several good Aussie growers on that site.

I shortly considered moving to Oz just because I heard weed prices were like $4500/lb. That sounded good, but I'm not motivated enough to move anywhere yet.
Yeh I've seen kangas grow and kogs grow as well. There's strains in Australia which get huge but there secretly guarded to there strains no ones going to get there hands on. I have e few sativa strains , tnr x sweet sativa and sweet sativa pure. Love the tnr smell its like pure Thai smell
 

White boy in hawaii

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Out of the 5 camp stealth girl scout cookies 2 are garenteed male and out of the magical mangos both are male and one fofana male.

So the only solid strains i will be making this time are more camp stealth girl scout cookies and more fofana then im going the pollinate girl scout cookies female with magical mangos male on a branch or 2 and then same with the male fofana then cross the magical mangos with the fofana female and the male girl scout cookies with the female fofana
 
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Purpnugz

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Hmm, that could be pretty Congolese leaning. I grew out some Africans that ranged from 10 to 14 weeks though they only finished at 10 weeks during short season. They went around 11-14 weeks during long season. They were all loose flowered strains though. Was it pretty potent?
After a months cure it got an intense high.
 

SPLFreak808

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You can probably see if they're in the buds if you pry the buds open a little bit and get a look near the inner bud stem. There's a stage of life that cottony scale looks pretty similar to mealy bugs too, just FYI. Cottony scale pretty much do the same crap as mealy bugs and suck just as bad. If you're only growing for personal use you can probably salvage plenty by just cutting out the mealy bugs when you break up a bud. If you're growing for other patients then they're not cool. Your buds will look perfect on the outside, but it'll look like it has little white mold spots on the inside. I've had to toss a lot of buds from those guys, but that's a part of the outdoor scene. I'd guess they won't get too nuts indoors.

And a praying mantis or two won't hurt. They eat everything including each other so if you get a couple (you shouldn't need more that that I wouldn't think) get them pretty equal sized if you can and they probably won't try to eat each other.
Ok so i threw a mantis couple in the room & scoped the plant in question at 60x.

I found some bright orange to clear sap balls under the buds but i cant see any white specks anywhere up there, i can't even find young larvae ect which is weird considering I've caught 1 adult on the stalk 3 seperate times in 2 weeks. I opened up a cola and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, in fact the bud was still very tight and would smash together trying to grip it. I have a feeling im in the middle of a mediocre infestation and they have not made it up there yet.


Good news is that particular plant seems to be moving along again after wiping down the stalk with neem last week. It's all good, I'll be chopping before august so im not worried much but it would suck to get them indoor again.

one of the lower colas i chopped up to inspect last night

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rikdabrick

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Ok so i threw a mantis couple in the room & scoped the plant in question at 60x.

I found some bright orange to clear sap balls under the buds but i cant see any white specks anywhere up there, i can't even find young larvae ect which is weird considering I've caught 1 adult on the stalk 3 seperate times in 2 weeks. I opened up a cola and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, in fact the bud was still very tight and would smash together trying to grip it. I have a feeling im in the middle of a mediocre infestation and they have not made it up there yet.


Good news is that particular plant seems to be moving along again after wiping down the stalk with neem last week. It's all good, I'll be chopping before august so im not worried much but it would suck to get them indoor again.

one of the lower colas i chopped up to inspect last night

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It sounds like you don't have much to worry about. You can see them easily with your naked eye on the stalk or in the buds, assuming you have decent vision, ha ha. And I'm pretty sure you'll find them on the stalks first before they move into the buds or at least that's how it always seemed to me. Finding 3 mealy bugs is really minor. I would just squish them and wouldn't give it a second thought. Though I would be keeping my eye out for them so I guess I wouldn't give 3 of them a third thought, ha ha. Generally, the only times they were a really big problem was with plants that would grow big long colas in which it was difficult to inspect the center stalk and I wouldn't notice that they moved in. Then they'd set up shop and mess up the whole cola pretty much. By the time I'd notice them they were moving down the stem below the cola and piled on top of each other there was so many of them. Tis a sad sight. Anyway, if I were a betting man (which I'm not because I always lose as soon as money gets involved, ha ha) I'd be willing to bet you won't find any mealy bugs in your buds given your description of your situation.
 

rikdabrick

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Jus found out from seedsupreme this a royal queen seed starting to smell like berries now
Right on, I've heard good things about Royal Queen Seeds, but I've never grown any of their seeds before. You can't go wrong with berry aromas. I've got a couple berry smelling plants and I really like them, but I can't say I've found a weed smell that I didn't like so far. I ordered some Jamoka seeds from Greenpoint Seeds which is San Diego/NorCal Catpiss x Stardawg and it is actually supposed to have some catpiss smelling phenos. I know that a decent amount of people have had catpiss smelling weed, but I haven't and it sounds horrible, but every person I've known who's had catpiss scented weed said it was one of their favorite varieties ever so I guess it smells A LOT better than it sounds. I actually got them because my best patient said Catpiss was in his top 3 strains ever so he's stoked that I'm getting these seeds. I like weed with unique aromas so if nothing else these should fit into that category. Maybe I'll cross it to one of my berry strains and call it Very Berry Catpiss, ha ha. That's the worst sounding strain name ever, but at least it's memorable, ha ha. Okay, I'll knock off the rambling, ha ha.
 
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