Full Moon!! Time to harvest a few plants

all day yesterday was spent preparing to harvest some of my plants. The girls that were off property and part of my guerilla grow are all infested with "Mealy Bugs" & "Scales". What a fucking job!!! It took three hours to clean just one five foot girl! I also threw away close to two ounces alone from that plant. Buds that those Mealy Bugs were just to deeply in bedded got trashed(actually thrown on compost bin). Now today is raining hard in Puna and I got more plants that need to be harvested. Guess I'll be busting out the 'Poncho' real soon? In some ways I enjoy this hard rain. It allows me the blend in with the background. Making it hard for the occasional passerby to see me or anything from their car in the pouring rain.

Plus my short season plants are coming along fine too. At 7 weeks these bastards are already four feet tall and two weeks into budding already?!?! They all look quite beautiful except one fermale. She has decided that she wants to be a "Tranny". I noticed the tell tale sign of the yellow Hermie flower on the main bud. I will move her to a secure location where my guerilla grow use to be. Hermie seeds are almost 85% to 90% female upon next grow. But they are a hassle too. If I had high end seeds I just throw them away. But I don't, so I got get seeds some how?

I have included a few pics from yesterday's chores. The pic of young plants was next gen at 4 wks. A pic of a 5 gallon bucket with Buds in it. another pic of my grow room closet with buds hanging,and other buds drying on trash bags.
The last pic is my "Ace in the Hole". It's priceless in this semi-tropical climate. I picked up this dehumidifier a few months back at "Home Depot" As important as growing is. To me it's more important to have your drying down. It could mean all the difference between a good crop and a bad crop! Plus I'm able to keep mold out of my life during drying! With the rain today, this toy will come in handy to prevent mold from taking over my freshly clipped buds. In no time at all my dehumidifier will collect about two gallons of water in the air on days like this. I highly recommend that anybody who lives & grows in Hawaii must own one of these.

Looks great. I tried making "gumby" hash yesterday with my trim and some budrot bud.

So far, so good. Hope it smokes well.

But how was that full moon that night? What a beauty. Sunrise was unreal too.

What your average Flowering times Puna? Gonna be different for the different strains but I was wondering If you just pull them all the same time, fully ripe or not.

That 1 girl I showed you is doing amazing. Buds swelled so much and got some good weight now hopefully.

nice looking buds ya got there! sorry to hear about the bud mold. hope everything goes smoothly for ya. couldnt help but notice the color of your stems, they look very woody. I have never seen that before.

nice job looks good

craca102 said:

Looks great. I tried making "gumby" hash yesterday with my trim and some budrot bud.

So far, so good. Hope it smokes well.

But how was that full moon that night? What a beauty. Sunrise was unreal too.

What your average Flowering times Puna? Gonna be different for the different strains but I was wondering If you just pull them all the same time, fully ripe or not.

That 1 girl I showed you is doing amazing. Buds swelled so much and got some good weight now hopefully.

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brah,

since all my seeds are grab bag seeds, it's always a fun game for me to figure out harvest time. My plants that range from 4 to six and a half feet in height have been around for months! I forced them into a vegetative state twice during their life. Some of these plants have been budding for months. The one pic I posted yesterday is my Bubblelious plant(smell & taste of bubble gum). I cut the top off probably a three weeks ago, and now the bottom is filling out nicely. I will harvest it soon. I try to set up my situation to have smoke constantly. Either drying ,curing or in storage. All the pics from yesterday buds in closet on plastic bags(2), and colas hanging are all from one four foot plant, and I only took a third of that plant too. Not to mention I threw away roughly about 2 ounces of Mealy Bug infested bud that just got me to frustrated.
A lot of my bug problems happened because I couldn't stay on top of my plants a few months back because I'd spend my week days surfing on Oahu, and only tended them on weekends. Plus my weekend time had to be split between "girls"(plants), my kids, my wife, my pit bulls, and friends. So it didn't leave me much time. Yet it allowed plenty of time for Mealy Bugs to "dig in". This will be my last group of plants that will have Mealy Bugs! I no longer have to do 'Guerilla grows',because I now have my Medical Marijuana License. Not to mention I will build stadiums once again. "Stadiums", are grow boxes I learned to build from Maui growers back in the 70's. In the old days we use to backpack our starters in to our grow locations. This way I'd loose almost half of my starters going over tough terrain in the blackness of night. So some grower friends of mine took me in and showed me how to do the stadiums. Stadiums are screened in boxes built near water sources. The screen keep bugs out! That's it!!!! My screened boxes will work here! Now that I'm licensed, I won't worry about Stadium being seen from sky either. Plus our Big Island law regarding medical marijuana is possibly gonna change too with the coming Nov. elections. WE residents on the Big Island have a bill that will make Cannabis a lesser crime if everybody votes for it. If passed, we will be able to have/grow 24 fucking mature plants!!!!
But getting back to harvesting. I cut them down hardly at the same time. I cut them down when they call for it.

Let us all over grow the government!

Absolutely wonderful !!! PUNA. Looks like you are still going to have a great Harvest overall. Nice work bra. The Trich's on my Oahu Sativa changed color so fast during Monday and Tuesday's moon I had to harvest as well. Do you think the VOG affects our plants in any way?

that first pic is a beast of a plant... bud everywhere; congrats even though you had to sacrifice alot of it

budy budman said:

Absolutely wonderful !!! PUNA. Looks like you are still going to have a great Harvest overall. Nice work bra. The Trich's on my Oahu Sativa changed color so fast during Monday and Tuesday's moon I had to harvest as well. Do you think the VOG affects our plants in any way?

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lucky for me with tradewinds blowing, the vog never comes to Puna. It goes straight to Ocean View, Kona, and then on to Oahu. I'd imagine vog would do major harm to plants when sulfur content runs high. Hardly anything grows in Ocean View except that hardest of plants.

I have included several volcano shots, plus two pics of Shipman beach in Puna. That's me and my two boys and one of my pit bulls. I have one aerial shot of my neighborhood too. Can you see my patch? I didn't think so, and I imagine it hard for the pigs too?

Puna Bud said:

lucky for me with tradewinds blowing, the vog never comes to Puna. It goes straight to Ocean View, Kona, and then on to Oahu. I'd imagine vog would do major harm to plants when sulfur content runs high. Hardly anything grows in Ocean View except that hardest of plants.

I have included several volcano shots, plus two pics of Shipman beach in Puna. That's me and my two boys and one of my pit bulls. I have one aerial shot of my neighborhood too. Can you see my patch? I didn't think so, and I imagine it hard for the pigs too?

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Cannot see them.what a nice place.........and family. Beautiful pics of the volcano too. Funny you mention growing on Maui..........I moved there in 1980 and my first job was trimming buds for 15.00 hr and all I could smoke............Lahaina Luna Ghetto, those were the daysNever seen a stadium set up.

Me neither. Never seen a stadium setup either. Sounds interesting!!!!

Damn so many people who used to grow on Maui.

Budy-budman and Puna now. Gotta keep up the tradition i guess lol.

I'm gonna build a new stadium whenever this rain stop. Upon completion, I will take some pics & post them here. For anybody who does "guerilla grow ops", these stadiums are a great idea! I think back to the old days of packing them in was way to risky for the health of the starters. Stems would get broken. starters dislodged from soil etc.,etc.. Everything that could possibly happen in a negative manner happened too. So when these growers took in this young grower at the time, I didn't realize how valuable their teachings would benefit me at the time. But just learning about the Stadiums increased my production by two folds!
Well, it's now 7:30 a.m Puna time, and I need to get outside and take my pit bulls for their exercise(walk/run tire pull). Then tend my girls for an hour or two....lazy....rainy...Saturday!!!

I think I'll do a "wake & bake" secession with myself right now!

Nice.......it will be interesting to see the stadium Puna.
Quick question for you. I is it possible to plant starters now outside for a winter grow?.........I am trying to learn to grow medicinal plants, and have never tried a winter grow............thing that concerns me is all the rain I get here on the windward side is too much and affects the flowers somehow

Oh yea.......one more......are those Bulls PIG hunters?

Budy_budman, I got two seedlings about 2' tall now. Started about 2 weeks ago. I'm gonna try a winter crop this year. See what I can pull off.

Puna you gotta post some specs on those stadiums. They just regular screens built into a box?

craca102 said:

Budy_budman, I got two seedlings about 2' tall now. Started about 2 weeks ago. I'm gonna try a winter crop this year. See what I can pull off.

Puna you gotta post some specs on those stadiums. They just regular screens built into a box?

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I'm gonna build a stadium this week sometime. Once I'm finished I'll post some pics. You can build them accordingly to your own needs for the season. Just keep in mind your height. Personally when I first started building them they were solely for raising starters. Keeping the little creatures at bay is my main concern back then. Since we used them solely for Guerilla grows, they were kept fairly small in size for two reasons. One, because we had to pack in all the wood & nails, latches necessary to make our stadiums. Two, we didn't want them to be easily be seen.
Yep, just your normal window screen from Home Depot. The smaller the mesh the better of course.

budy budman said:

Nice.......it will be interesting to see the stadium Puna.
Quick question for you. I is it possible to plant starters now outside for a winter grow?.........I am trying to learn to grow medicinal plants, and have never tried a winter grow............thing that concerns me is all the rain I get here on the windward side is too much and affects the flowers somehow

Oh yea.......one more......are those Bulls PIG hunters?

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My question to you is. Where else would you do your starters? I don't care how much money one can spend at a Hydroponic Store. Never forget this, there is NO substitute for natural sunlight!

For myself, with the short season. I have thrown seeds into the ground as late as Dec. with good results.

As for my two "Bulls". They are both young still. Less than two years of age. My smaller one mixed with Whippet is the "attack dog". She jumps straight up to look for pigs above the wild orchids, then hits the ground running! She loves to run pigs down. Lucky for her she just is chasing piglets. If she runs into a 200 pound sow watch out!!! She's gonna have problems!! The 75 pd. Red with cow marking in the pic is more of a people hunter than a pig hunter! She loves to scare people riding bikes down our road She is near some of my girls too. I'm willing to trade a colas for an arm. But I think any "rip off" would think twice about having a 5000 pd pressure bite on their forearm. Both of my bulls love to eat pakalolo leaves too. So I don't think they wanna see their medicinal plant walk off. They love the leaves for their digestive system.

more mealy Bugs again!!! I harvested another two plants yesterday...Mealy Bugs have got a hold of all my long season plants! Any plant that was put in the ground around May is infested with Mealy Bugs! It's totally my fault too. Had I not elected to go surfing on Oahu weekly during week days perhaps I could have stayed on top of these little fucks.

All pics are from the other days harvest. I probably threw away another three to four ounces from frustration! One thing is for sure, my short season is gonna not have Mealy Bugs. My plants that are in grow bags now are bug free! Hopefully they will remain that way too!?

Damn fuckin Mealy Bugs!!!! Them caterpillars and Bud rot are on the top of my most hated list.

Sorry to here about the loss. Got any pics of the nice looking stuff?

craca102 said:

Damn fuckin Mealy Bugs!!!! Them caterpillars and Bud rot are on the top of my most hated list.

Sorry to here about the loss. Got any pics of the nice looking stuff?

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yeah, I took out several of my "90 day wonder weed" plants this morning from hiding to fertilize them. Here is a couple of shoots. These girls went into soil about 9 or 10 wks back. No Mealy Bug, spider mites,bud rot, or anything nasty. Just beauties that are waist high!