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Do you ever learn the same lessons over and over again? I’ve looked at ugly re-vegging plants too many times over the years in too many of my other experiments. After my last post I started to wonder about the stretchy flowers. I didn’t think things would try to re-veg so early in the season...

We had a lot of sun and 80 degree days this week...finally some heat. Plants ate it up and are looking strong. I’m starting to see some differences in this spring crop vs long season crop in terms of bud formation. It’s really noticeable on the clones because I’ve grown them all before. This...

One of the Maui x Konas that I really like was also interesting to a local gopher. It came up and girdled about 50 percent of the stem yesterday:( The plant will survive and flower, but I hope this isn’t the beginning of something.

I’ve never grown any other Hawaiian strains before, but I’ve seen a lot of the strains around for the last 25 years or so. If I had to guess now I’d say I’m gonna love at least one of them. These plants, though six weeks in, are just starting to show flowers because I put them out at just 5...

For anyone who wants to see a few more Pua Mana seeds play out...I started a thread in the outdoor growing section called Bay Area winter/spring crop experiment 2018. I threw a pack of Alenuihaha, which is their Maui x kona. I got 4 females and they are now about 6 weeks into flowering.

This is Bay 11 from clone. I got this strain as a freebie seed about 4 years ago and it remains some of the tastiest flowers I know. Smelling a jar some folks are actually offended. Pyew! Lemony funky hashy sticks on the palette flavor and everyone wants more:)

These are the 4 Pakistani Chitrali Kush. These are showing a lot of resistance to PM here as well. Keeping up exactly with the Hawaiians in height, leaf size. Flowering initiation may even be a little slower. The stems are good and thick with sturdy structures all branching held tight to the...

These are the 4 Alenuihaha (Maui x kona.) I like the way these are forming up. The two taller plants are very spacious, which is important to me for this climate. The two shorter plants are stacked a little tighter. Some great smells coming from stem rubs ranging tropical fruity to sharply...

About 6 weeks in. Things are looking strong. The clones are deep into flowering. Predictably, the seedlings are a little behind. They were only about five weeks old when I put them out into 10.5 hours of light. I think if they were a little more mature they might have kicked into flowering a...

Here’s my Jack Herer f2 selection, pic from last week. We’ve had just a little sun this past week and things are humming:) Flowers are coming. As for the seedlings, I’m a month in and the PCKs are showing flowers...the Hawaiians are thinking about starting to show, some more than others.

Good clay loam here in my hood. Soil test showed ph is all the way down at 5.02, so I’ve amended w recommended amounts of gypsum and limestone. Every year the beds get yards and yards of organic compost and grape pomace, plus rock dust etc... Plants look perfect in it, vegetables as well as herbs:)

I’d love to light dep these to finish, but I’m not sure logistically how I could darken my gigantic hoop house completely. Maybe just a huge tarp...but it’s really windy here coming up soon. Then I’d be out fussin with it every night and morning and my wife would be wondering why I’m not...

I found some comments in a couple of places here about Pua Mana seeds. It seems that they may not be who they say they are. I doubted I could get real Kona gold, Maui Wowie, etc, but I really wanted to believe it. So, clearly, I got a couple of packs from them. This is the second test run...

You’re right. I’m trying to justify keeping it simpler. I’ve got two kids under three and gardening minutes are precious indeed!

1 of 2 males of the PCK. I know purple is just a color, but I do like how it looks. I’ll mix the pollen from both the purple and green males for the crosses. These two plants luckily have good vigor, thick stems and normal leaf formation. Here’s the green male. Stem rub of this one is...

Here are the 4 PCK females in the ground. 2 green on right, 2 purple stems on left.

Here are the 4 Alenuihaha females as of yesterday. The bright green one on the left was eaten off all but completely by the mouse when it was tiny, just cotyledons and first serrated singles. Literally it was left totally leafless and I let it go just to see what would happen. I wish I had...

Thanks too larry. Sounds like I may run into re-veg with the Hawaiian genes. If so, at least I can see/smell who they’re becoming and run the best ones again for long season.

I’m at 38 degrees latitude here. I can put out most hybrid clones safely mid-May. My experience is that only the most predominantly Indica genes I’ve had tried flower that early.

That would be nice because the Hawaiian genetics are probably at least 10-12 weeks flowering to finish strong.