Hawaii Growers
- Thread starter pakalolo808
- Start date
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
Hey nitro, a lot of weed gets shipped here everyday from Cali. And a decent amount gets shipped out too. I know for a fact a good portion of weed shipped vacuum sealed in large Priority flat rate boxes makes it through USPS everyday. You can fit a couple of pounds in a flat rate box and send it on its way. And if you go with another carrier, I'd pick FedEx over UPS. I think they're faster. It's a federal crime no matter who you go with, just FYI. My brother has buddies that ship 30-80 lbs. a month through the mail. Do you mean HOVE when you say Ocean View?
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
Hey surfd, where do you find x-ray proof bags?
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
USPS handles about 60 billion parcels a year. They do use x-rays and dogs, but they can only check a very small percentage of parcels because they still have to be quick in their shipments. Even with that though USPS still found over 43,000 lbs. for the last year I found data for so it's like a lottery that you don't want to win.
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
Nevermind Surfd, a simple Google search answered my question
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
There is definitely some truth to that, ha ha, and fairly true to a lesser extent to the rest of Ka'u and Puna, ha ha.
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
I don't know and nobody does, but if you read as many news stories as you can find about weed being shipped you'll get a pretty good idea of a few things.
I read one story about how a K-9 team set up shop for three days at some post office and in three days they found 47lbs of drugs (mostly weed) and the operation was done after the three days were up. Now if that number carried out to be a median number for the amount of weed being shipped through each post office everyday it would average 487,782 lbs. moving through the mail system at any given time (47lbs x 31,135 post offices / 3 days=487,782.667 lbs) which carried out to a yearly number would be 26,516,642lbs. (47lbs. x 31,135 post offices x 365 days per year / 3 days for the operation) I don't really think it could be that much, but it gives an idea that there are a lot of drugs being shipped through the mail anyway.
Anyway there are a bunch of good stories to read about drug busts in the mail.
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
I was way off. USPS actually does about 160 billion mail pieces per year, so yeah, it's like looking for a needle in the biggest haystack in the universe.
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
Hey Surfd, here's the quote I was talking about where Bodhi said he breeds for his humid climate. It's in a thread titled, "best bodhi commercial strains?" on breedbay:
SurfdOut
Well-Known Member
Hi Rick, thanks for looking that up for us. But ya know, his reply doesn't give me a lot of confidence. I don't think he personally grows out much of the seeds he makes, but I could be wrong. He doesn't differentiate between ones breed indoors and his outdoor gardens. The main thing is my personal experience, his lines are good but not bullet proof for outdoors. I believe out of all his seeds for sale the only one that even mentions mold resistance is the NL5 that he got from BCSC and open pollinated.
kaloconnection
Well-Known Member
When I got a pack of sunshine daydream from holistic, bodhi had labelled the ziploc containing SSDD packs as "Good for Outdoor." Not sure that means anything...I put a SSDD out a week ago.
I have one blue temple pheno that is killing it mold wise and looks to be a decent yielder.
I have one blue temple pheno that is killing it mold wise and looks to be a decent yielder.
SurfdOut
Well-Known Member
Cool, I got a pak of SSDD. Blue strains seem to do good outside. Interestingly, Loompa told me his best strain for mold is his Moondawg.
Most guys don't have access to those kind of genetics Mo, so they order something from the web that has been bred for generations in someone's closet.
Most guys don't have access to those kind of genetics Mo, so they order something from the web that has been bred for generations in someone's closet.
doubletake
Well-Known Member
Looks like there's quiete a bit of sativa in this strain.Another unknown strain, a friend of mine gave me the load of seeds. Started in April
I have a two stragglers still in pots, this was the strongest girl of the bunch
This pic was 2 weeks ago, shes about 6' now. Got knocked over a little from the wind yesterday so tied her up today. Starting to flower, hopefully good yeild
doubletake
Well-Known Member
Hahaha so true
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
Hey Mohican, besides people not having access to those strains, a lot of the old school Hawaii strains more or less went extinct when Green Harvest started flying. Most of them were of tropical origin and would grow up to 20' tall making them easy to find from the air. Some also had longer flowering times, which isn't ideal for some cash croppers. I do know of one guy here though that's been hoarding seeds for the last 30+ years so guys like him might still have some of the old school varieties.
rikdabrick
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I'd take it with a grain of salt. I'd trust your experience more than what any breeder says, no offense to Bodhi, he seems like a really nice guy and he obviously has good genetics. I do know he has a lot of people test out his crosses for him and I don't know how many of his strains he actually grows out, but he gets the job done in the end. I'm going to be testing out a couple of his crosses for him and they're ones he guessed would be the most mold resistant, so at least he'll get some good feedback from me about outdoor mold resistance on those two crosses.
Last edited: