GHS - Hawaiian Snow Feminized
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I've been debating what my next move should be. With the veg room full and the flowering room underutilized, I've gone ahead and taken 8 clones from the veg room and set them up in a stadium arrangement of 2 tiers of 4 by the 600hps. This is not an ideal situation, but it will buy me a couple of weeks of finish time at the end of the season and hopefully not cause a detrimental effect on the clones. Its only for a couple of weeks or so and then they'll get configured into a classic donut of 8 plants (6 keepers and 1 of each of the trellised clones).
I'll bring the SLSD seedlings into the flowering room in a couple of weeks (giving them a 6 week veg) and sex them behind the donut (in the background). I'll continue with the males only until they're just about ready to drop pollen and then move them into mrs smilley's room for pollen collection. This way I won't be putting the males into flower and then back into veg. And it'll finish off the seed project by the end of January.
flowering room before
flowering room after
I'll bring the SLSD seedlings into the flowering room in a couple of weeks (giving them a 6 week veg) and sex them behind the donut (in the background). I'll continue with the males only until they're just about ready to drop pollen and then move them into mrs smilley's room for pollen collection. This way I won't be putting the males into flower and then back into veg. And it'll finish off the seed project by the end of January.
flowering room before
flowering room after
Hi SOTF420. 
I'm at the antsy stage of this grow. Everything seems like its taking forever and moving in slow motion.
3 of the plants are at day F70 and the keeper is at F56. Its becoming obvious that the 2 trellised plants are going to go past 11 weeks of 12/12 and the keeper will go at least 11 weeks and maybe more. 
I'm gonna chop the runt at day F77 whether its done or not. Most of the trichs are opaque now, but none are amber yet so it'll be close. I've been feeding it straight water for the last week and will continue till harvest.
For those of you keeping up with the feeding regime. The last 5 waterings were this: 5ml PBP Bloom/gal, 2ml/gal potassium silicate, 4ml/gal CalMag and 4 ml/gal LK. This is the feeding regime I'm going to run the rest of the season with and a good starting point for anyone planning to run the HS. That being said, the smaller of the trellised plants has had lots of issues with burnt leaves and substantial tip burn while the larger trellised plant is doing perfect. What's up with that?
The keeper was looking nice and green and at about day F50 the big fans started to yellow and shrivel. I've given up trying to sort this out and just think its the nature of the life cycle. Its much further advance than the other 3 pheno's at F56 so I'm hoping it finishes around the same time as the trellised plants. If I'm lucky the keeper will finish at 77 days and that'll make the trellised plants 91 days or 13 weeks. We'll see.
I just wanted to add, stoney917 was right about the runt, it has gotten a spurt and although its not going to yield a lot, it'll yield better than if I'd chopped it last week. Thanks stoney
I'm at the antsy stage of this grow. Everything seems like its taking forever and moving in slow motion.
3 of the plants are at day F70 and the keeper is at F56. Its becoming obvious that the 2 trellised plants are going to go past 11 weeks of 12/12 and the keeper will go at least 11 weeks and maybe more. I'm gonna chop the runt at day F77 whether its done or not. Most of the trichs are opaque now, but none are amber yet so it'll be close. I've been feeding it straight water for the last week and will continue till harvest.For those of you keeping up with the feeding regime. The last 5 waterings were this: 5ml PBP Bloom/gal, 2ml/gal potassium silicate, 4ml/gal CalMag and 4 ml/gal LK. This is the feeding regime I'm going to run the rest of the season with and a good starting point for anyone planning to run the HS. That being said, the smaller of the trellised plants has had lots of issues with burnt leaves and substantial tip burn while the larger trellised plant is doing perfect. What's up with that?
The keeper was looking nice and green and at about day F50 the big fans started to yellow and shrivel. I've given up trying to sort this out and just think its the nature of the life cycle. Its much further advance than the other 3 pheno's at F56 so I'm hoping it finishes around the same time as the trellised plants. If I'm lucky the keeper will finish at 77 days and that'll make the trellised plants 91 days or 13 weeks. We'll see.
I just wanted to add, stoney917 was right about the runt, it has gotten a spurt and although its not going to yield a lot, it'll yield better than if I'd chopped it last week. Thanks stoney
BubsNugs
Member
Things are really looking good dude!!
I actually had a dream about this grow a couple weeks ago...i had been checking out some pics you took and everything was looking very good indeed. Well that night I had a dream and I cant remember fuck all about the dream except that I came across this weed and I took a good sniff and it smelled of lemon, not sure where i had heard about the lemon smell but i clearly remeber that smell in the dream to....fuckin weird lol.
Be patient and you will be rewarded, If you get a pheno that goes longer then you want there are tricks you can try like runnin a lil extra night in yer schedule like instead of 12/12 start with 13/11 and maybe even finish with 14/10 and that oughtta speed things along.
Again lookin great !
Peace
I actually had a dream about this grow a couple weeks ago...i had been checking out some pics you took and everything was looking very good indeed. Well that night I had a dream and I cant remember fuck all about the dream except that I came across this weed and I took a good sniff and it smelled of lemon, not sure where i had heard about the lemon smell but i clearly remeber that smell in the dream to....fuckin weird lol.
Be patient and you will be rewarded, If you get a pheno that goes longer then you want there are tricks you can try like runnin a lil extra night in yer schedule like instead of 12/12 start with 13/11 and maybe even finish with 14/10 and that oughtta speed things along.
Again lookin great !
Peace
Hi BubsNugs. 
Thanks for the advice, I've gone ahead and bumped the dark phase up to 12.5 hrs and am going to leave it there.
I scoped the trichs on the runt today at F73 and there is a smattering of amber trichs now, so its close. I'll go ahead and chop it between 77 and 80 days of 12/12 or in the next few days. I looked over the other 3 plants in advanced flower and I feel they're close enough that I've started them on a straight water diet for the run up to harvest. That puts them about 2 weeks from harvest. That'll give the 2 trellised plants 91 -95 days 12/12 and the keeper 77 - 80 days. The keeper will be finished for sure in that time window but the larger trellised plant might still want another week or two. I might have just enough room in the flower room to let her go longer too, we'll see.
The next batch of clones have been on the periphery for a week acclimatizing to the 12/12 environment but really want to be up close and personal to the 600hps. The SLSD are a week from going into the flower room for sexing which will put us about 30 days from pollenation at that time. Things are starting to come together.
Thanks for the advice, I've gone ahead and bumped the dark phase up to 12.5 hrs and am going to leave it there. I scoped the trichs on the runt today at F73 and there is a smattering of amber trichs now, so its close. I'll go ahead and chop it between 77 and 80 days of 12/12 or in the next few days. I looked over the other 3 plants in advanced flower and I feel they're close enough that I've started them on a straight water diet for the run up to harvest. That puts them about 2 weeks from harvest. That'll give the 2 trellised plants 91 -95 days 12/12 and the keeper 77 - 80 days. The keeper will be finished for sure in that time window but the larger trellised plant might still want another week or two. I might have just enough room in the flower room to let her go longer too, we'll see.
The next batch of clones have been on the periphery for a week acclimatizing to the 12/12 environment but really want to be up close and personal to the 600hps. The SLSD are a week from going into the flower room for sexing which will put us about 30 days from pollenation at that time. Things are starting to come together.
Max Yields
Active member
I really enjoyed my hawaiian snow. I had a pheno that took almost 15 weeks to finish, but the final product was fantastic! This pheno had an exotic fruit, soapy, yet sweet hazy smell. Not much fried onion smell in this one, although I have gotten some amazing oniony smelling phenos before. Can't go wrong with hawaiian snow. Only drawback to me is the long flowering time and height. She WILL stretch plenty but shes definitely a keeper strain in my opinion. Nice plants by the way.
Hi Max. 15 weeks is unworkable for myself personally, but plenty of indoor growers don't bat an eye at it. I need to run 3 crops (1st from seed) in 42 weeks. I'm interested to see how its gonna work out this time around with the clones in the background for the first couple of weeks of flower. If that works out ok, it'll shorten the cycle time by 2 weeks and the total season by 4 weeks. That'll make 13 weekers work for me. Not long enough for some of the sativas, but long enough for a lot of the hazes.
jolygreensprout
Member
things look amazing...it still is weird to me the growing style difference between sativas and indicasi have a nice deadwood strain kicking right now..and can always use more veteran advice...check it out...https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=4780942&posted=1#post4780942
While checking to ensure my light cycle was running at 12.5/11.5 I discovered that the off tripper on the mechanical timer is working only intermittently and inconsistently. Not sure if the trouble is by wear on the tripper or cog switch or what but its been going on for a while as evidenced by the foxtailing on the buds. I replaced the timer last night and the problem is resolved with the exception of the flowering plants trying to reveg themselves. As the clones have already been in the flowering room for a week, I'm going to give the existing seed crop 2 more weeks of flowering and then focus on the clones.
Smiley, I had a similar timer screw up on my last grow and the plants did try to reveg. It took me 2 weeks to figure it out. I had to take my plants out an additional 3 weeks after correcting. I believe it did impact my final product. Hope it doesn't happen again on my next grow. Good luck and glad to were able to figure it out.
Hi bigAl25. At least I know what was going on. Its one of those things unless you're there after the timer is to switch off or before the time comes on its undetectable (except for the results to the plants). To further compound my problems this is my first run with this strain and first time with 100% sativa strain so I just assumed everything was going ok and the plants were doing what they were supposed to. In hindsight, it seems like the plants would flower good and then slow down and then flower some more, I thought this was normal but now I believe it was the timer working intermittently. When you turn the timer by hand, it switches about 6 hours after it should and if you rotate it again, sometimes it switches on time and sometimes not. I believe its due to wear. I've got a cheap mechanical one in place now, but I'm gonna go to a digital timer. At least with the digital, if it malfunctions, it switches off and I check the grow everyday so it'll be noticeable.
I'm gonna go ahead and harvest the runt today, I'll post a couple of pics of what I think is the start of return to veg. I didn't sleep at all last night thinking about this. This first crop just isn't going to be as good as I was hoping for but its not the end of the world.
I'm gonna go ahead and harvest the runt today, I'll post a couple of pics of what I think is the start of return to veg. I didn't sleep at all last night thinking about this. This first crop just isn't going to be as good as I was hoping for but its not the end of the world.
OK, I'm done sulking. Its time to take stock and move forward with an aggressive plan. 
Worst case scenario is the plants in the flower room got 7 - 10 continuous cycles of veg and numerous shorter veg/like cycles for weeks/months. Right now with the runt gone I have 5 of the clones on the first tier and the other 3 on the second tier (of my stadium config) in pretty good position. I'm hoping I can flower the first 3 from the seed run for up to 3 more weeks and just keep rotating and repositioning the clones for the duration. I have just enough room on one wall to build a small shelf that will hold all 6 of the SLSD for sexing. That'll make 17 in the flower room which is a record but should work out ok on a temporary basis. This is all dependant on whether the plants start to produce new pistils in good numbers. I'm sure this will be evident in 3 or 4 days. If they won't go back to flower, I'll chop the works and set up the clones in optimum position asap.
The upside to the situation is the clones have been vegging by the flowering light instead of flowering so they'll be huge, the downside is that the males and females will be only 1 week out of sync instead of the 2 weeks I was planning on but that's the way it is.
mrs smilley said it best..."at least it wasn't an invasion of the borg"...and she's absolutely correct.
Worst case scenario is the plants in the flower room got 7 - 10 continuous cycles of veg and numerous shorter veg/like cycles for weeks/months. Right now with the runt gone I have 5 of the clones on the first tier and the other 3 on the second tier (of my stadium config) in pretty good position. I'm hoping I can flower the first 3 from the seed run for up to 3 more weeks and just keep rotating and repositioning the clones for the duration. I have just enough room on one wall to build a small shelf that will hold all 6 of the SLSD for sexing. That'll make 17 in the flower room which is a record but should work out ok on a temporary basis. This is all dependant on whether the plants start to produce new pistils in good numbers. I'm sure this will be evident in 3 or 4 days. If they won't go back to flower, I'll chop the works and set up the clones in optimum position asap.
The upside to the situation is the clones have been vegging by the flowering light instead of flowering so they'll be huge, the downside is that the males and females will be only 1 week out of sync instead of the 2 weeks I was planning on but that's the way it is.
mrs smilley said it best..."at least it wasn't an invasion of the borg"...and she's absolutely correct.
