Hawaii Growers

@surfd, me too brutha, miss the indo!!

@coots, yes brother, Happy Valleys. I actually just pau grow some out. I like it better than the first batch. taste was not bad. yield was definitely low, but it finished quick. good luck brother!!

stay high. aloha

Highhawyn! said:

@surfd, me too brutha, miss the indo!!

@coots, yes brother, Happy Valleys. I actually just pau grow some out. I like it better than the first batch. taste was not bad. yield was definitely low, but it finished quick. good luck brother!!

stay high. aloha

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rajah dajah

Any of you HI guys run hydro? Do you use water coolers?

Hey Cali,

I do Hydro indoors. For veg primarily now, and because I cannot afford AC/dehumidifer, I use the igloo ten gallon coolers w/reflectix taped around it. I throw in a 1.5 L frozen bottle and my temps stay @ 70 F for well over 48 hours.

For outdoor hydro, I used to dick around with it, but my old roomate was better. If you are able to do outdoor hydro and your obviously worried about temps. My two cents would be use a 10 gal res, like the cooler mentioned above, attach reflectix. But, I would build a little structure for it w/ 55% shade cloth on all sides, the roof can be the clear plastic Sun Tuf panels from Home Depot.

I recommended this to my hydro guy @ the store and he hugged me for it lol. I originally got the shade cloth for my eggplants, but my girls love it too. Due to my location, I get really intense sun light and higher temps(with high RH), so having a nice little bit of shade defintaly helped. Good luck

What's up guys… just passing through, and since I can't like all your posts to let you know I'm lurking… well, I'm lurking.

I have a friend that does a recirculating hydro system. he has AC room which helps to keep the temps overall down. he has a water chiller but no need use um. all depends on temps in the room.

Starting to get into that Flo x AW, nice nose on her.....did she seem to lean towards a parent?

How tall do you folks veg your girls before you place them outside? Approximately how many of hours of sunlight do the girls out here need to reach quarter pound plus yields? Mahalo nui loa.

caligreen420 said:

How tall do you folks veg your girls before you place them outside? Approximately how many of hours of sunlight do the girls out here need to reach quarter pound plus yields? Mahalo nui loa.

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Depends on the time of year, strain, and island location. More Sun equals bigger yeild. I usually take about 6 weeks from cutting to put into flower and I get around a qp evertime. In the summer I can go from a cutting to qp in 3.5 - 4 months total time.

Some of you guys might remember the picture of the first 2 plants. I tried this ecoscrape soil from home depot, it's the little sick looking one in the left. That soil sucks. I almost threw that plant away, but I didn't. I saved it. I just harvested it last night. That's it in the 2nd picture. I transplanted it into sunshine 4 with roots organic dry fertilizer mixed in. Not bad for plant I almost killed.

That ecocrap soil always smells like doodoo. I thought it was because the HD here keeps theres in the rain and it stays soaking wet but I walked past a pallet of it the other night at walmart and it smelled just as horrible as the ones from HD.

I wonder if they or anyone else has done soil tests on it to test for pathogens that stuff smells so bad.

Ecocompost is made with human manure.

Oh god I just threw up

Pasted from an article criticizing companies selling sludge as organic.

On EKO Compost’s Web site (www.ekocompost.com/), you learn that “EKO compost is the original organic compost.” It “helps promote rich organic soil,” claims the company. Not until you scroll down quite a bit do you discover “every batch of EKO compost is rigorously tested to ensure that it meets and exceeds all process and product standards including the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s class A ‘Exceptional Quality’ compost, good for unrestricted use including food crops …”

EKO Systems, the folks who produce EKO compost, is a residuals management company, says Marc Merritte, a recycling consultant in Maui, Hawaii. EKO Systems does indeed compost sewage sludge, incorporating it into a number of products. Unlike other biosolids producers, EKO Systems makes a point of not mentioning “biosolids” or “sewage sludge” anywhere in its PR. With a bit of word magic, the company has turned “biosolids” into EPA-approved Class A “Exceptional Quality” compost – Class A “Exceptional Quality” organic compost.

hahaha like all you guys didn't know that all of that green grass you guys walking on in Waikoloa is all ferted with human shit lol. don't walk under the sprinklers haha. of course everything is under regulation so its all good lol.

I not sure on the FloAW flavors bro. I smoked AW many times and didn't get that funk. I only smoked the Flo a couple times and it was always in between some other dank so I couldn't tell you truthfully bro. aloha

Kellogs is the same here. It had sludge listed on the ingredients until a couple of years ago when they changed it to "organic compost" - what a joke!

Mohican said:

Kellogs is the same here. It had sludge listed on the ingredients until a couple of years ago when they changed it to "organic compost" - what a joke!

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Not entirely,

I use Kellogg's Patio Plus and to the best of my knowledge it doesn't contain any biosoilds from human waste, some of their other products probably do, but i think that's common for a lot of bagged soils.

I think you're right coot. I'm pretty sure Kellogg's uses biosolids in their Growmulch and maybe one other product, but the rest don't have any, or so I read. Did any of you Big Island boys see Green Harvest flying around yesterday or today? I thought I might have heard they were back from winter break and flying around Puna.

Yep, saw them flying around.

rikdabrick said:

I think you're right coot. I'm pretty sure Kellogg's uses biosolids in their Growmulch and maybe one other product, but the rest don't have any, or so I read. Did any of you Big Island boys see Green Harvest flying around yesterday or today? I thought I might have heard they were back from winter break and flying around Puna.

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I hope so brah...i would have been upset with myself for using such a shitty product ...lol I've been using KPP for a long time off and on over the years and i would have been bum'd out if i had to retire/ban the product. It's cheap and it works really good with a little help.

It's amazing to see unfunded helicopters flying around.....wonder where that money came from? Black Ops perhaps?