Hawaii Growers

hotpotato8

hotpotato8

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I think of big leaves as big solar panels for the plant. However......

Given a choice I'll take big buds over big leaves.
 
rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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hotpotato8 said:
I think of big leaves as big solar panels for the plant. However......

Given a choice I'll take big buds over big leaves.
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If those are the choices then I agree, ha ha. Though when I was growing straight outdoors, given my environment I preferred lots of medium sized bus; huge buds had too much of a risk of mold and sometimes we'd have weeks of straight rain. It's really depressing to put a lot of time and effort into growing just to watch it all rot away, but strain selection is part of the game. Now that I'm under cover I would consider growing some big budded girls again. What do you have growing ATM hotpotato?
 
hotpotato8

hotpotato8

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rikdabrick said:
If those are the choices then I agree, ha ha. Though when I was growing straight outdoors, given my environment I preferred lots of medium sized bus; huge buds had too much of a risk of mold and sometimes we'd have weeks of straight rain. It's really depressing to put a lot of time and effort into growing just to watch it all rot away, but strain selection is part of the game. Now that I'm under cover I would consider growing some big budded girls again. What do you have growing ATM hotpotato?
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Rik, I've got another Northern Lights auto, a White Widow, a Maui Wowie, a Very Berry OG and Jilly Bean. They're all pretty stunted this year for various reasons. Most should harvest in a few weeks except for the WW which is in week 4 of flower.
Knock on wood but so far I've not experienced bud rot or mildew, I'm guessing from the trade winds drying off the leaves and buds. The Jilly Bean is sure getting fat and I'm keeping a close eye on it.
 
White boy in hawaii

White boy in hawaii

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I plan on ordering seeds online at the end of this month what are some good seedbanks that ship to hawaii and accept prepaid credit cards and thats fairly cheap
lmk thanks
 
rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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hotpotato8 said:
Rik, I've got another Northern Lights auto, a White Widow, a Maui Wowie, a Very Berry OG and Jilly Bean. They're all pretty stunted this year for various reasons. Most should harvest in a few weeks except for the WW which is in week 4 of flower.
Knock on wood but so far I've not experienced bud rot or mildew, I'm guessing from the trade winds drying off the leaves and buds. The Jilly Bean is sure getting fat and I'm keeping a close eye on it.
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Tradewinds help a lot to decrease the chances of mold. The trades were my saving grace outdoors. If it was as wet as it is here with no wind I would've been pretty limited in what strains I could grow. I'd usually only get bud rot if we had non-stop rain for a couple weeks or more and bigger buds or from rain and damage caused by bugs especially bud worms.

How's that auto performing? How about the WW and Maui Wowie? Where did you get those two?
 
rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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White boy in hawaii said:
I plan on ordering seeds online at the end of this month what are some good seedbanks that ship to hawaii and accept prepaid credit cards and thats fairly cheap
lmk thanks
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Did you get the prepaid card yet? If not, then just send a blank money order to Great Lake Genetics. They're supah legit. So is James Bean Company along with several others.

Here's a few threads to look through:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/best-seedbank-to-order-from-in-us.908367/
https://www.rollitup.org/t/reliable-seed-bank-post-below.895328/
https://www.rollitup.org/t/us-banks.921075/

There's some more threads on the topic if you want to search them out. I don't know of any seedbanks accepting straight up credit cards anymore. James Bean does PayPal or cash/money order and Seedbank for Humanity does Bitcoin or cash/MO. The credit companies apparently don't want to be part of the cannabis industry yet.
 
hotpotato8

hotpotato8

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rikdabrick said:
How's that auto performing? How about the WW and Maui Wowie? Where did you get those two?
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The Northern Light auto has gone thru it's life cycle quicker than normal seeds. Once they popped I put them into 5 gal pots outdoors. They started out fine but the veg cycle was faster than I expected, about 1 month. As a result they never got tall, only about 22 inches. I never topped them, only LST'd them.

The Maui Wowie and Jilly Bean were started in peat pots which were way too thick. As a result they never grew more than about 10 inches before I caught my mistake and put them in red solos. Then I put them outdoors and within a coupla more weeks and they too started flowering. I knew they wouldn't veg much more so I put them into 3 gal pots. They should be harvested in a coupla weeks. Mostly one big cola on each of them about the size of a soda can.

The White Widow was started outdoors from the get go and got up to about 20 inches before starting to flower. It's feminized but not an auto. Lots of LST has given me lots of buds and it's about week 4 of flower. Still it's only about 22 inches tall.

NL, WW and Maui Wowie were bought thru the Oregon Marijuana Seed Co. The Jilly Bean was from last year at James Bean.

It's been a learning year for my 2nd season. I'm not looking for huge shrubs but I was disappointed in the short veg cycle of almost every plant. I need to be wrapped up by early Sept so I'll pop my last two Northern Lights and have them in jars by then.

Right now I'm smoking the Northern Lights that I started around New Year's and harvested April 18. My first attempt at bud washing and the smoke is much smoother, the buds are much greener without loss of trichomes. I'm a convert.

I'm open to recommendations to strains that grow well in Hawaii if you have any recommendations.
 
Mohican

Mohican

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You've grown that one before yeah? How is it?
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Yes. These are from seeds that fell off of the mom. The first one grew over the winter and never got very good conditions.

It is very funky looking now:




You can smell the Blueberry strong in the resin. The structure and leaves of the new one (which I misnumbered - it should be Blula #3) look just like the Maui dad.

I just poured another pile of the Alaska dry veggie ferts in the trash can and gave it a good soak. I will post some pics later.

Cheers,
Mo
 
rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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hotpotato8 said:
The Northern Light auto has gone thru it's life cycle quicker than normal seeds. Once they popped I put them into 5 gal pots outdoors. They started out fine but the veg cycle was faster than I expected, about 1 month. As a result they never got tall, only about 22 inches. I never topped them, only LST'd them.

The Maui Wowie and Jilly Bean were started in peat pots which were way too thick. As a result they never grew more than about 10 inches before I caught my mistake and put them in red solos. Then I put them outdoors and within a coupla more weeks and they too started flowering. I knew they wouldn't veg much more so I put them into 3 gal pots. They should be harvested in a coupla weeks. Mostly one big cola on each of them about the size of a soda can.

The White Widow was started outdoors from the get go and got up to about 20 inches before starting to flower. It's feminized but not an auto. Lots of LST has given me lots of buds and it's about week 4 of flower. Still it's only about 22 inches tall.

NL, WW and Maui Wowie were bought thru the Oregon Marijuana Seed Co. The Jilly Bean was from last year at James Bean.

It's been a learning year for my 2nd season. I'm not looking for huge shrubs but I was disappointed in the short veg cycle of almost every plant. I need to be wrapped up by early Sept so I'll pop my last two Northern Lights and have them in jars by then.

Right now I'm smoking the Northern Lights that I started around New Year's and harvested April 18. My first attempt at bud washing and the smoke is much smoother, the buds are much greener without loss of trichomes. I'm a convert.

I'm open to recommendations to strains that grow well in Hawaii if you have any recommendations.
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As far as recommendations, what are you looking for? Larger plants? If so, then pick strains that lean harder to the sativa side. We're in the tropics so if you want plants that grow well here naturally without putting in much extra effort then you'd want tropical strains. Most anything else is going to flower as soon as you put it outside. The possible downside (depending on your situation) to tropical sativas is that they can get huge during long season and they usually take a long time to finish flowering, but there's some ways you can potentially work around the extra flowering time and maybe even the size depending on what you want to do. But in general, the longer it takes to flower, the longer it can gain some size. Also, if you go that route and bud density matters to you at all then you may be disappointed. Personally I think bud density is for high school kids and people who read too much High Times to brag about. Bud density has zero relation to quality. The only real downside to looser flowers is trimming and/or if you're trying to fit 50 lbs in the trunk of your car. I doubt the latter situation applies to you, ha ha. Anyway, let us know what your goals are and I'm sure I or someone else here will have some suggestions.

And it sounds like you are doing a fine job of learning from your mistakes. There's no better teacher than experience. And I meant what breeders did you get those strains from? I know the Jilly Bean is from Subcool, but there's a lot of breeders who market WW, Maui Wowie and NL. I was just curious.
 
rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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Mohican said:
Yes. These are from seeds that fell off of the mom. The first one grew over the winter and never got very good conditions.

It is very funky looking now:




You can smell the Blueberry strong in the resin. The structure and leaves of the new one (which I misnumbered - it should be Blula #3) look just like the Maui dad.

I just poured another pile of the Alaska dry veggie ferts in the trash can and gave it a good soak. I will post some pics later.

Cheers,
Mo
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Looking good Mo! I'm always down with blueberry. And good call to get a fert with a little extra K for later flowering. Do you think that'll finish this time of year?
 
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White boy in hawaii

White boy in hawaii

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So iv been looking and my options for seed banks are james bean or green point seeds but cant decide green point takes pre paid credit cards and james bean takes pay pal
 
rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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White boy in hawaii said:
So iv been looking and my options for seed banks are james bean or green point seeds but cant decide green point takes pre paid credit cards and james bean takes pay pal
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JBC has buy one pack of Bodhi and get a second pack free right now. I think there's 4 different freebies to choose from. Picking the freebies is as hard as picking what strain you want. All of them should be good. I've read good things about Green Point too though.
 
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