[oldhaole]

Sit down, kick back, and I'll tell you a story. The story of 2012. It has yet to unfold...and I don't have a clue how it'll end. Hang in there and see if it all works out.

Who, what, where, how and why. That's what we need to know...let's start with the easy one.

Where....Upcountry Maui. Three thousand feet up on the west side of Haleakala. I've lived up here, above the heat for twentyfive years. I own a small house and five acres of land. In that time I've set it up so that everything is hidden behind hedges and the natural contours of the land.

Why....Easy one....why buy weed when you can grow all you and your friends need? Yes I am a cheap fuck. That will become quite obvious as this log progresses.

Who....I grow for myself, the wife of my youth, and a single patient. The three of us are allowed 7 plants each. Three mature and four immature per blue card....them's the rules....and were going to bend the shit out of them.

What and How. That's what this log is all about.

I spent the last couple of weeks tuning the garden up. And I'm happy with what emerged. Those of you that followed this last season have heard most of this song before....bear with me. It's awfully hard to do this for a few years without repeating myself....now where were we?

Yea...the garden. The gulch is my gold mine. I have a small gulch that runs the lenght of the property. Through the ages, dirt has built up. Plants hide real well in there. I've also planted cover along the lip so any plants in there can't be seen from off my property. There's also a few holes scattered in the bottom rose garden and a single hole in the top rose garden. Last year I has 11 plants stuffed in the gulch. That was pushing it, the plants were too close together. This year I remodeled the whole thing and I have room for six trees and two smaller plants. Check this out.





The new and improved gulch. I built retaining walls and backfilled, creating terraces. This'll make it alot easier to get up on a ladder to check the tops. Last year I had a nightmare of falling into one of these monsters off that ladder...not going to happen this time.

So...Got the room...need the trees. To do this we gotta chuck some pollen. I'll cover all this stuff and more later as this moves foreward.

This log will take forever. Eight months. March to October. It'll be a strech to keep everybody entertained as it runs its course. So here are the rules.

1) There are no rules.

Simple huh? Got a lot of time to kill and I hope you help me kill it. Questions are welcome. Comments too. Go off topic if you want...I don't give a shit.

And with that introduction...Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls....I give you another crappy day in paradise...2012 long season.

[Bloom]

[dubite]

pulled up a chair!! looks promising

[ixnay007]

Beautiful place to grow.. and live!

[420ish]

sitting on a bucket!

[rasputin]

I was gonna pull up a seat but it's going to be a long show so I'm rolling a cot in here.

Good luck this year, OH.

[oldhaole]

Let's get this show on the road...

We're hairs away from twelve hours of light and twelve hours of dark. That's the cue to get going. I have holes ready for seven big ones and five smaller ones. Three more holes are done and waiting for dirt. Still have to find well covered spots for five more small plants.

It's time to plant seeds....and that gets us into breeding.


I do my breeding over winter. The short days force the plants off early, inableing me to plant many pots in a tray, As they grow I pick what I consider to be the best of the tray out, and only polinate those worthy plants. Over short season I messed around and crossed Headband, Violator Kush, Rodney (ganesville green)...yea Rodney is Ganesville Green, Jack Herer and the plants I grew last season; Diesel x Rodney, Kush x Rodney and Big Island Hash Bud...all girls, with Rodney, Jack Herer, Diesel x Rodney, Kush x Rodney and a Big Island Hash Bud males. Here's a young BIHB girl.



Many of these crosses were discarded...especialy anything the Jack Herer line produced. Most of what Jack begat pulled that way...hard. I also got ahold of some mainland seed crosses, Valley OG and Grape Romulan crossed with C99 and a couple of unknown crosses that come highly recomended. Since I only got my mitts on these seeds a month ago I didn't have the time to run and cross them I have no idea if they will even sprout, or what they will be like even if they sprout.

Here's a tray of Headband crossed with Diesel x Rodney. Of all these plants I only found one plant worth breeding in this tray. That's in the foreground of this shot.



So I made a shitload of seeds, most of which I won't run, and what I pick I've never run before, again I have no clue what they'll come out like...the only thing I have to judge them off of was what the moms taste like. This is one big crapshoot. I do keep notes on each, but sometimes that doesn't work out like it should.

In each hole I've planted ten seeds in five groups of two. After they sprout (no guarantees there) I'll cull the smaller, weaker, starts out. If none of them sprout I can dig them up and move two from another hole into where the duds were.


So I'm planting these seeds straight into the dirt. Did this last year and when the plants were done and pulled there's a nice straight tap root that produced sturdy plants.

The gulch has been planted many times over. When I was putting these holes in, the vacated holes were full of earthworms and what I turned over looked great. This year I took a different route. Each year I make large batches of compost. I use last years compost for this years plants. Also my partner scored a job cleaning out a foreclosed house, and turned me on to bags of Maui Onion fertilizer (16-16-16)...a month ago I spread both the free ferts and compost heavy, turned it into the soil and let it rest. Last week we had a good rain...which I was waiting for...so now the holes have cooled enough to plant. All I bought was a single bag of Fox Farms Ocean for each hole...and of course a 50 lb bag of Osmicote 14-14-14...love the stuff. Mix the compost and the FFOM in the hole, fluff the rest of the soil in the terrace, and we're ready to rock. With all the goodies put there over the last few years this year we'll be fine. Here's a Headband clone in a pocket of compost and dirt behind a retaining wall.



Those of you following this last year know I lost half of my crop to Green Harvest. This year I'd bet they will be back, so we're going to do things differently. We'll have the nine big ones from seed and twelve clones maturing at all times. Clones we have going right now are Headband, Skunkdog, Chemdog, Alien Abduction, Valley OG, and g13.

Each day they go outside in the day and under lights at night. When I want them to bud...inground and outside they go. Sixtysomeodd days after they go out they should be done. And the moment a clone is yanked there should be another to go back in the now empty hole. And I have to time the last clone to be done by the week before Labor Day.

Oh Green Harvest was flying last week. Nothing for them here to see...yet. But I will probably get messed with sometime this season...stay tuned....that's always fun.

[Canniwhatsis]

Here it is!!!



Love watching the trees grow! I really wish I could start ANYTHING outside right now, but if it's not cold hardy as fuck or done in a green house it simply won't make it for the next month and a half

[Greyskull]

looking sweet bro
your on schedule it looks like
whatever your schedule is hahaha

sorry i was stoned earlier
you left then the friend w cancer came over then another friend and we smoked the whole gamut + oil each time. i was tripping bizzalls....

[Smunk]

Off to a great start & hoping your crapshoot gives you some great winnings!

And I saw those green harvest boys last week flying low over the cane fields - off mokulele and central baseyard.