[Greyskull]

I like that culling action!
no shame i know you are only looking for the best - thats what growers are supposed to do. only the best lose the rest.
20-2 sounds like you are not fucking around

those 2 better be fucking good or I am gonna be hearing it.
oh boy will I hear it.
but id rather hear truth than some happy bullshit crap.
spill it.
i am not worried - ITS 50% SKUNKDAWG.
like the good ghost says, and I have taken to use as my own now (I owe you casper!)...
no worry beef curry

I am curious what you're gonna be saying in a couple months....

[Arthritis_sucks]

Nice addition to the garden man, sorry bout the west winds.

[kalopatchkid]

Interesting about the wind. We've had an extremely dry winter here on the eastside BI, the other day I was just wondering what would happen if the weather switched and kona got all our usual rain and we got the sun. Probably be devastating for just about everything except growing herb.

[Dawn Patrol]

OH, looks like we're thousands of miles apart, but on the same schedule. Harvest starts March 3rd for me and goes through the entire month - March Madness indeed!

Best of luck this year to all you guys keeping hawaii green!

[iTarzan]

I would like to follow along. Permission to leave ship and come to the island.

Do you have trouble with rippers in your area?

[Casper808]

Sorry fo da mahu....or whatevahs u guys like call em......shit happens...supah windy tonight,but wuz a mean sunset and cherry moonrise.......I wuz tinkin u da guy dat goes thru afta me and picks out all da boys,mussa been we both em missem....alohaz ..oh and Greyskull bes upcountry

[oldhaole]

Well, as I type this, the second rain band, two of three for those keeping score at home, has just begun to caress our shores. The leading edge of a very thick area of Low pressure has moved the storm track South, and South be.... right on top us.

Luckily, the storm track itself, there isn't much storm there, and the thick Low is moving away, so what we are getting is just the West winds feeding the Low, as it retreats. The atmosphere over the state remains stubbornly dry, so any storm heading this way has to pass through the mass of dry air, thus weaking it before it gets here.

The one neat thing for weather freaks like myself, is that the entire wind flow for our area is now Zonal. From the jet stream, 40,000 feet above, to sea level, everything is moving East, out of the West. Almost never happens, and this has been going on now for a few days, and is gonna continue for another couple of more.

Where I sit on this rock? The only thing that can really hurt us is a strong West wind. I'm protected from everything except for that. A West wing comes right up the hill, straight into what few teeth I have left.

But none of this matters. All we got from the storm was some 35 MPH gusts, then a good inch of light rain. One flowering plant, already messed up from the last two Kona storms keeled over, snapped, so Febuarys take just got smaller. As expected, some of the new plants in the gulch were pushed over, but they are young and easy to put back into place. Best of all, the bottom garden, where I'd expect to face the worst of the West winds? The cover around the garden protected everything just perfect. Not a branch was broken.

Since everything in the garden is young, two more plants were taken before the rain, this event has been far more good than bad. Nothing like a visable jump after the rain.... and more is falling right this moment.

Lester... Answer your question?

Weez.... Sorry to hear about the mess. Always have the worst time getting that to root.... unlike some people.

Grey.... I'm not worried. There was nothing really wrong with the big cull. You had a great germination ratio, I cracked too many, so I picked out the two that look most like Skunkdog, and grew the tallest, something that the SoCalMaster is not exactly known for. My bet is those two will lean Skunkdog, and we both know..... you can't fuck that up even if you tried.

Arthritis....Thanks. Always nice to put an area that gives nothing back to work. And the winds weren't so bad after all. I was worried when they were saying 50 MPH. Didn't even come close.

Kalo... yea, you guys have been dry this Winter. We are catching the rain as it fades out, you guys are getting nothing. Probably gonna be an ugly fire season later on this year.

Dawn.... glad you followed the trail. If all goes as planned.... like that's gonna happen.... March should be stupid. For both of us. Keep in touch.

iTarzan.... Permission granted. Rippers? No, I have a great security team. Not much gets past them.

Casper... No damage done. Just needed my pound of flesh.

[CountryBandit]

Hows the wind treating you OH? That's a massive front northwest of us. I hear some of the biggest surf to come this winter will be here in the next few days. I just hope my girls can make it thru the night hahaha.

[oldhaole]

Let's see.... This may be good. In theory, now let's see if it flies.....

Kids, I don't want to be that guy, I really don't. Best let sleeping dogs lie, but I'm just not wired that way. Santa is alive and well at the North Pole, busy making toys for next year. The Tooth Fairy is waiting each night for that first tooth to fall out. And the Easter Bunny, well he is dying eggs and waiting for Spring.

Let them believe. After all, nobody got hurt, nobody has to crush their illusions, I certainly derive absolultly no pleasure from it.

One problem with that. Someday, they will know the truth. Santa is a drunk homeless dude they clean up and trot out each Christmas. The Tooth Fairy is dead, it's not like your gonna get paid for all those other teeth that will fall out over the course of your life. Fuck no! Those gonna cost you big time. Tooth Fairy my ass. And the Easter Bunny? Good luck! Santa and the other homeless guys that live under the overpass just killed him and are roasting him over an open fire, about to eat his sorry ass.

Hold on.... I got more.

I believe I can see the future,
Cause I repeat the same routine.
I think I used to have a purpose,
Then again, it might have been a dream.

Where were we?

Oh yea, Kids. They are sooner or later, they will find out the truth. And, they won't really trust too much, the fool that has been pissing on them, when the little darlings realize it isn't a warm rain that is falling. No, It is far better to crush their illusions now, rather than bullshitting them, and having them find out the hard way that Mom and Dad are full of shit.

I used to think I had a voice,
Now I never make a sound.
I just do what I've been told.
I really don't want THEM to come around.

So , Like the kids you are, it falls, yet again, on my wide shoulders, to explain to you how Hawaii really works. No, I'm not talking the garbage the pro MMJ groups are slinging.

Every year is the same. Some group or committee comes up with all these recomendations. That's the morphene, that will make you feel great, right up to the point where they castrate you, or you have to sell those great ideas to the legislature. The the warm fuzzy is gone, replace with the cold douche of a little thing called reality.

Here is a little thing you are up against.

Of the 50 states, all but two have some form of leagized gaming. Be it a lottery, casino, whatever, One of those States, Utah, has a religious problem with gaming and won't let it happen. The other state is Hawaii. No religious problem here, we send thousands of players to Vegas every week. It's not like the various ethnic groups that make up the stew we call Hawaii don't like to bet, they do.

So why no gaming? The public preception, how you see us, would be forever changed in their eyes. Japaneese call it face. If Hawaii allowed gaming, we would be the Vegas in the Pacific.

Thirty years ago, this was a good idea. Now, when every State has one form of gaming or another, it isn't. We send billions each year to Vegas, but the State doen't care. The perception is more important than the money. Period. Just like MMJ, every year some gaming bill or another is introduced. The it gets taken out back and cooked on an open fire, and fed to the homeless Santas' under the H-1. Just like most, if not all of the current crop of MMJ legislation.

I can feel their eyes watching,
In case I lose myself again.
Sometimes I think I'm happy, yeah.
Sometimes, I still pretend.
I can't remember how this got started.
Oh, but I can tell you exactly, how it will end.

MMJ is a geanie accidently let out of the bottle. You seem to think it was the people that did this. No way. The Legislature did it, it wasn't suppose to pass, let alone be signed into law, but Ben Cayatano did it to stick his finger in their eye. He was suppose to veto it. He didn't, only to give the legislature a big fuckin' tar baby they had no clue what the hell to do with. So they put it in a corner for a decade plus. Every year they trot it out, take one look, then put it back.... maybe not in the same place, Santa doesn't get to roast the tar baby. You ever roasted one? Believe me, it takes weeks to put out..... and talk about smoke.

And let me leave you with how this will work. Hawaii will cobble some program or another together. Just not this year. When they do, everyone behind the curtain will be someone who "knows" someone. My bet would be a Haole front with Japaneese money behind. They have yet to figure out how to do this cleanly, and this won't be easy, so nothing this year.

I'm writing on a little piece of paper.
I''m hoping someday you might find.
Well I'll hide it behind something.
They won't look behind.

Dispensaries? On Oahu, they would do real good. Big Island? I don't think so. But where they gonna get product from? Oh yes, the producers! Methinks that be where the gold lie. But it strikes me as you'd want the dispensary just for the producers licence alone. Cart before horse.

Once this can of worms gets opened, it can't be closed, so it better be very unlike the current fucked up law. And, honestly, I like the current fucked up version. No, what they will do, one of these days, is copy some other State's laws, so they don't have to think hard, then try to impliment them here. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm still inside here,
A little bit comes bleeding through.
I wish this could be any other way,
But I just don't know, I don't know what else I can do.

Out in the garden things continue, just as planned. Added nothing, took nothing. Yesterday, another Kona storm ran over us with the usual wind and four inches of rain. Tonite is cold and clear, with the next bout of, perhaps, nasty weather is this weekend. Until then.....

Every day is exactly the same.

[Dirtboy808]

Peanuts! Popcorn! Candy! What else did you expect from the P Gallery. You are dead on with our government and how they work. We had high winds and no rain. Haven't seen this weather here in many years. Latters