Hawaii Growers

Puna Bud said:

a ten minute hike to your patch. Are you joking?!?!?!?! In no time at all youʻll have beaten a trail right to your beloved plants! In no time at all youʻll smash down all that buffalo grass you think that is hiding your future stash!

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There isn't any obvious trail from the top and the trails lead away from my plants. I made sure to cover my tracks and theres a number of trails leading off in various directions. What is the problem with hermies and how would I get those if I'm using female seeds?

Hey there guys, hope everything has been going good for everyone.

About to harvest one of my short season girls.

Got this plant from a friend, he calls it Big Blood, but I think it may be Big "Bud" the strain, but I don't know.

This girl was started on 12/23. Been outside ever since. So I guesstimate the start of flowering because it sort of played around for a few weeks and did not really have the beginning onset of large bud clusters till a few weeks.

I guesstimate she started flowering 2/23/09. So up to today, that is ~93 days of flowering. Buds are semi-swollen in my opinion. They feel dense but not rock solid like Ive felt before on other plants.

Just watered her with plain water and some molasses on Monday. Before that it was watever blood/bone meal was in the soil mix from the original grower. I gave her a 10-10-10 "Grow" ferts during flowering and that might be why the fan leaves are still slightly green ( can see slight yellowing). Trichomes are mostly clear/cloudy with random full amber ones here and there, but I don't know for sure since I don't have a high enough magnification.

My question for all you guys are, should I -

1. pull her now and cut my losses in wieght?
2. Wait about another week and hopefully she will swell up?
3. or is this all I'm gonna get for a short season plant and now since its 12+ hrs of daylight she won't really swell that much more if at all?

Here are some pics - All the same plant, different camera settings ( hence the varying color in the pictures)

Make the buds sure look big lol
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could be BigBud X Blood,

blood is a famous hawaii strain that 'bleeds' red sap when there are wounds

RandomKindness said:

could be BigBud X Blood,

blood is a famous hawaii strain that 'bleeds' red sap when there are wounds

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Very well could be, doesn't bleed red though lol

Reminds me of the certain Kalo(Taro) that bleeds red when leaves are removed. The blood of my Hawaiian ancestors. Too high, can't place my finger on the name, argh.

Days say that she should be done, Leaves and Trichomes say she should go longer. I'll probably give her more time just to see what happens.

Smoked Blood before, That was the most uplifting energetic high I've ever had, good stuff man.

Is it the changing light cycles/seasons that is prolonging my girl from finishing up? Wanna harvest so bad, but patience is what I'm going for this go around.

alohas, from all accounts from folks who've grown "Blood" firsthand, all say it really does bleed red, nuts!

cut it craca this weekend

nice craca!! brah, that strain looks very similar to a mystery strain a friend of mine gave me I grew out just this past winter...honest brah! 808maligs should have some if he started growing em.... I gotta ask my friend about the seeds he gave me..........thx brah at least it gives me a start

Cheshireplant said:

cut it craca this weekend

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Sounds good to me. Will do. Any specific reason why? Just out of curiosity.

Sweet. Its a local strain definitely, seems quite mold resistant from what its been through these past weeks with full buds and all the rain we've been getting.

The rain is great for the islands and I love it, but not good for buds that can't be covered or shaken every time it rains. It has been raining a lot this past week over here and the last of my budding girls has mold/bud rot starting everywhere. Might have to pull her early even though I hate having to do that (airy/fluffy buds that haven't swollen).

The mold just spreads so fast though. How do you guys fight bud rot/mold if you get it. I know Puna had some problems with it around the same time I did last year. Just gotta cut your losses is what I've concluded.

I know what you mean bro I am still trying to find a wonder cure...that and bugs are my nightmares

well, the rain here now will only give problems for your outdoor buds, and looking at the plant it doesn't have much of any means of getting more developed as pretty much all of the energy gathering leaves are at the end of their life, so cut it and focus on the summer.
just my opinion.

right now i have a seven footer that is going back into veg, and i am just going to cut it and focus on next crop.

Cheshireplant said:

well, the rain here now will only give problems for your outdoor buds, and looking at the plant it doesn't have much of any means of getting more developed as pretty much all of the energy gathering leaves are at the end of their life, so cut it and focus on the summer.
just my opinion.

right now i have a seven footer that is going back into veg, and i am just going to cut it and focus on next crop.

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That's totally sensible. Thanks for the info. Took a cutting from that girl and dried it out over night on top of my computer monitor. Usually when I do that they lose lots of their mass and turn fluffy, but these buds have stayed considerably dense so thats good enough for me. This weekend it is!

I got a nice bushy 4 footer outside right now started about mid-January. She just started flowering a little over a week ago. I predict that she reverts to veg from the looks of her and continues for the summer. She is my experiment plant, she snapped the stem about 3/4 of the way up a while back. I propped her back up and where the stem snapped is now like a 1/2 in bulge (bulb) with the stem showing in the middle. Unintentional Supercropping If I've ever seen it lol.

Yea the rain of the last couple days forced me to bring my prized Afghani Kush (1 week from harvest) inside and I have had it under a fan for the last 36 hours just to be safe..
The main cola is as thick and dense as a can of coke so I was worried the moisture would cause some nasty mold....
Apparently we have sunny skies for the next week!!!! Jah love!

yeah!! sunny skies! my plants are starting to really take off now..... I can actually see the puppies growing!

prevention is wasup, lower the humidity and keep the buds dry.

i had some super haze plants a few years back and they did very well even when we had over 30 days and 30 nights of rain. Harvested after the rain and didnt see any mold on the buds. Couldnt believe how big the buds got with no sun coming out that last month. was a little fluffy but was very stinky you could smell it from like 20 feet away. stinkiest strain i ever grew and probably the most mold resistant. the smoke was awesome.

WE DON'T HAVE THOSE PROBLEMS OVER HERE IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA
this is some MOLOKAI i brought back from the island it tasted just like sum pineapples and the high was soaring

Kremnon that looks like some dankness

yeah mon! thats some dank! solid

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