Hawaii Growers

ChefT808

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Right on ChefT, looking good! Is the plant in that top pic that green from just the Fox Farm soil?
Ya I guess so also they have a lot of purple undertones so maybe that’s y so dark. Nice looking greenhouse braddah! Wish I could get mine that big maybe when I move out soon. (Dad doesn’t let me get um big) so I work with what he lets me do for now . This ones from when I was in culinary school and no supervision
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ChefT808

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Cheee nice looking crop @rikdabrick! That dos si dos looks so juicy!! My neighbors and dad small kine complaining about the smell :-P. I tell em :finger: :-P and thanks for the compliment. And I get some from the mothers to smoke while I wait. Aurigh!83D7D286-3965-440C-9483-341D76637A71.jpegBA53868A-9B84-4AF5-93C8-7F18E131B386.jpeg
 
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waterproof808

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I just checked out my local dispensary (big island grown) for the first time and was pretty disappointed, but damn am I glad I grow my own herb. Its probably the first time in the last 8 years I've bought weed in Hawaii but I wanted to see how my own stuff compares since I am somewhat of a hermit lol.

Tried the POG, Zkittlez, and American Pie....
POG had no smell, no taste but got me decently stoned.

The Zkittlez i'm pretty sure is a fake cut. Smelled like trainwreck and sour tangie. No berry, no grape skittle like everyone says it should smell like, . The taste was like any mediocre sour tangie pheno you'd find in a single pack, except the high was weak as shit.

American Pie was the worst but had the nicest bag appeal. Thats about the only positive aspect of it, literally had zero flavor and smell.

They also had the supposed durban blood from maui in stock, but even the budtender didnt have good things to say about that one, so i skipped it.

It's really too bad the State didnt allow small growers to participate in the dispensary system, there are lots of people growing much better herb than the dispensaries are despite what the news and the people at steep hill like to tell people.
 

ChefT808

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I just checked out my local dispensary (big island grown) for the first time and was pretty disappointed, but damn am I glad I grow my own herb. Its probably the first time in the last 8 years I've bought weed in Hawaii but I wanted to see how my own stuff compares since I am somewhat of a hermit lol.

Tried the POG, Zkittlez, and American Pie....
POG had no smell, no taste but got me decently stoned.

The Zkittlez i'm pretty sure is a fake cut. Smelled like trainwreck and sour tangie. No berry, no grape skittle like everyone says it should smell like, . The taste was like any mediocre sour tangie pheno you'd find in a single pack, except the high was weak as shit.

American Pie was the worst but had the nicest bag appeal. Thats about the only positive aspect of it, literally had zero flavor and smell.

They also had the supposed durban blood from maui in stock, but even the budtender didnt have good things to say about that one, so i skipped it.

It's really too bad the State didnt allow small growers to participate in the dispensary system, there are lots of people growing much better herb than the dispensaries are despite what the news and the people at steep hill like to tell people.

I feel the same way here just bs buds. Why pay 70 an eighth when I can do this! Gelato x jet fuel week 6 just pure fire. I wish u could smell the gas on this one. So diesely

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rikdabrick

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I just checked out my local dispensary (big island grown) for the first time and was pretty disappointed, but damn am I glad I grow my own herb. Its probably the first time in the last 8 years I've bought weed in Hawaii but I wanted to see how my own stuff compares since I am somewhat of a hermit lol.

Tried the POG, Zkittlez, and American Pie....
POG had no smell, no taste but got me decently stoned.

The Zkittlez i'm pretty sure is a fake cut. Smelled like trainwreck and sour tangie. No berry, no grape skittle like everyone says it should smell like, . The taste was like any mediocre sour tangie pheno you'd find in a single pack, except the high was weak as shit.

American Pie was the worst but had the nicest bag appeal. Thats about the only positive aspect of it, literally had zero flavor and smell.

They also had the supposed durban blood from maui in stock, but even the budtender didnt have good things to say about that one, so i skipped it.

It's really too bad the State didnt allow small growers to participate in the dispensary system, there are lots of people growing much better herb than the dispensaries are despite what the news and the people at steep hill like to tell people.
I'm not an advocate for the dispensaries here, mostly because of the shamefully greedy prices, but I'd guess the state's threshold for the fungal count of 10,000 probably has the dispensaries doing some stuff to come in below that number that negatively affects quality. I doubt anybody could test below that number here without a fairly dry grow room with very stable humidity controls and a very quick dry to very low moisture content post harvest or a decently strong H2O2 soak post harvest and both of those techniques would definitely have a negative effect on the finished bud. The 10,000 fungal count threshold is too low and indescriminant IMO. People in the wet areas of the state are probably breathing close to 10 billion spores everyday and it's generally not harming anyone. If they raised the fungal count or just tested for harmful/pathogenic fungus I'd guess the dispensaries would be able to produce better smelling, feeling and tasting product.

The one upside to the dispensaries is that the flowers do pass a lot of strict testing numbers for fungus, moisture content, pesticides, fungicides, etc., which is good for people with compromised immune systems or something like that, but in reality people with immune deficiency disorders shouldn't even live here for their health. There's waaay too much micro life (fungi, parasites, bacteria, viruses, etc.) that is continuously thriving here so a little bit of clean bud isn't going to make any difference IMO.

With saying all that I'm sure your flowers are great and hard to beat; they always look top-notch :mrgreen:
 

rikdabrick

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Hey @rikdabrick, how did the Dosidos do in your green house?
It's a lovely plant while it's growing. Looks great and smells great. It's not super resistant to botrytis, but it doesn't start getting hit until it's time to harvest so it doesn't matter much.

I've only trimmed up a test bud and it looks stellar. The aroma is nice, but pretty soft so far though. Hopefully it comes out a bit more with a cure. I'll keep you updated
 

rikdabrick

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I'm not an advocate for the dispensaries here, mostly because of the shamefully greedy prices, but I'd guess the state's threshold for the fungal count of 10,000 probably has the dispensaries doing some stuff to come in below that number that negatively affects quality. I doubt anybody could test below that number here without a fairly dry grow room with very stable humidity controls and a very quick dry to very low moisture content post harvest or a decently strong H2O2 soak post harvest and both of those techniques would definitely have a negative effect on the finished bud. The 10,000 fungal count threshold is too low and indescriminant IMO. People in the wet areas of the state are probably breathing close to 10 billion spores everyday and it's generally not harming anyone. If they raised the fungal count or just tested for harmful/pathogenic fungus I'd guess the dispensaries would be able to produce better smelling, feeling and tasting product.

The one upside to the dispensaries is that the flowers do pass a lot of strict testing numbers for fungus, moisture content, pesticides, fungicides, etc., which is good for people with compromised immune systems or something like that, but in reality people with immune deficiency disorders shouldn't even live here for their health. There's waaay too much micro life (fungi, parasites, bacteria, viruses, etc.) that is continuously thriving here so a little bit of clean bud isn't going to make any difference IMO.

With saying all that I'm sure your flowers are great and hard to beat; they always look top-notch :mrgreen:
Also, in regards to this post, that's not to say they don't possibly suck at growing, harvesting, drying and/or curing. That could be the case also
 

waterproof808

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I'm not an advocate for the dispensaries here, mostly because of the shamefully greedy prices, but I'd guess the state's threshold for the fungal count of 10,000 probably has the dispensaries doing some stuff to come in below that number that negatively affects quality. I doubt anybody could test below that number here without a fairly dry grow room with very stable humidity controls and a very quick dry to very low moisture content post harvest or a decently strong H2O2 soak post harvest and both of those techniques would definitely have a negative effect on the finished bud. The 10,000 fungal count threshold is too low and indescriminant IMO. People in the wet areas of the state are probably breathing close to 10 billion spores everyday and it's generally not harming anyone. If they raised the fungal count or just tested for harmful/pathogenic fungus I'd guess the dispensaries would be able to produce better smelling, feeling and tasting product.

The one upside to the dispensaries is that the flowers do pass a lot of strict testing numbers for fungus, moisture content, pesticides, fungicides, etc., which is good for people with compromised immune systems or something like that, but in reality people with immune deficiency disorders shouldn't even live here for their health. There's waaay too much micro life (fungi, parasites, bacteria, viruses, etc.) that is continuously thriving here so a little bit of clean bud isn't going to make any difference IMO.

With saying all that I'm sure your flowers are great and hard to beat; they always look top-notch :mrgreen:

Yes their herb was really dry but not to where its crumbly and brittle, and looking at the harvest/test/packaging dates i think all of it done within 2 weeks time...i know alot of people take that long just to dry properly. They probably were in a rush to get some product on the shelves so they sped up the dry time....to be fair, the smoke was actually pretty smooth there was just a noticeable lack of flavor or smell.

They also have pretty decent prices compared to everywhere else I've seen...$30-40 8ths and 200-230 ounces but I'm not in any hurry to start paying for herb again.
 

rikdabrick

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Yes their herb was really dry but not to where its crumbly and brittle, and looking at the harvest/test/packaging dates i think all of it done within 2 weeks time...i know alot of people take that long just to dry properly. They probably were in a rush to get some product on the shelves so they sped up the dry time....to be fair, the smoke was actually pretty smooth there was just a noticeable lack of flavor or smell.

They also have pretty decent prices compared to everywhere else I've seen...$30-40 8ths and 200-230 ounces but I'm not in any hurry to start paying for herb again.
You're probably right about them being in a rush to get product on the shelves. And those prices aren't bad especially for a dispensary, but I doubt they'd sell much on the BI if it were more expensive. I used to run a metal recycling business in Hilo and I always had a mason jar full of weed samples from my customers and I'd get great deals on living plants and fresh cut plants from time to time just because homies needed gas money for the day and flower prices were pretty low anyway. It seemed like almost everyone in Puna grew weed so that might be a tough area for a dispensary. No point in paying for it if you can grow your own
 

rikdabrick

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I saw where you guys are in for some big waves and wind this weekend. Supposed to be coastal flooding. Hope all of you are high and dry.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Hawaii-Line-Huge-Surf-High-Winds-and-Potential-Unprecedented-Coastal-Flooding?cm_ven=cat6-widget
Yup, supposed to be a decent storm and it definitely feels like something is brewing. If I didn't know about it I think I'd feel like something is up. The weather just has that pre-storm feel to it so we're doing some prep work around the house today. Areas will be getting wind and rain that don't normally don't. It looks like we should be getting a decent amount of rain from the north on Wednesday too.

Overall though we have had some really nice weather this winter where I'm at, which is one of the wetter sides of Maui.

How's the winter weather where you're at @too larry ? Do you get any snow?
 

too larry

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Yup, supposed to be a decent storm and it definitely feels like something is brewing. If I didn't know about it I think I'd feel like something is up. The weather just has that pre-storm feel to it so we're doing some prep work around the house today. Areas will be getting wind and rain that don't normally don't. It looks like we should be getting a decent amount of rain from the north on Wednesday too.

Overall though we have had some really nice weather this winter where I'm at, which is one of the wetter sides of Maui.

How's the winter weather where you're at @too larry ? Do you get any snow?
No snow here in NW Florida, but we did have some lows in the 20's. It seems like it has rained nonstop since the hurricane, but the last couple of weeks have been nicer. Highs in the 70's and lows in the 40's and 50's. Lots of clouds but no real rain for a while now. Which is good. Our river has been right at flood stage for 4 months.
 
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