I showed the pua mana website to a local grower who moved here from hawaii. He said none of the strains in stock were anything he heard of, and that many of the names were ridiculous and implausible.
Frankly he was insulted by language used by the people who wrote the site, but he did get a laugh out of how truly far fetched some of the stories in the descriptions were.
He said that most of the growers he knew were growing modern american genetics, and that there was great bud available but heirlooms were pretty much nonexistent. He said the islands are small, it’s damp and hot so seeds don’t keep very long.
He told me most of the families that were growing in the 60’s and 70’s (especially the native hawaiians who actually originated these lines) had lost their land by now when the land was being developed for tourism and high income communities. so it would be unlikely that anyone had kept up the lines continuously.
I’m inclined to trust him, but that’s just my (and his) opinion.
He said that anyone growing heirlooms on the islands now would probably just try to find the oldest thai import seeds that they had access to.
On a personal note, this what gentrification does. It busts up unique local cultures and deprives the world of their uniqueness.
After the gentrification, the posers show up and try to claim ownership of the culture originated by the locals they displaced.