Okay OG growmies, I’ve partnered with @Sodapop to grow out some Maui seeds from the island. I’m hoping once I post @Sodapop will fill in any details for the history of the seeds.
I successfully germinated 5 seeds. Wish me luck.
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Nice man got any photos of the genetics?
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Ooooo will definitely follow along for this ride!
Best of luck @Il_medical 
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This sounds like a great project! Tagging along as well.
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@Headies12green sadly no pictures, the seed run this came from was around 2016 then I got them in 2018 from a friend who lived in Wailuki, he moved here to O’ahu for college and then away to Texas for college again and now resides in Utah. He gave them to me when he found out that I was getting into weed cuz he was getting out of weed for the field he wanted to go into. He said that he wanted to bring something from home if he ever got back into it so we split the pack. He has not gotten back into yet and just married into a Mormon family. The story goes, that it’s something his dad them had been growing since about the 2000’s after they found a box with their dad’s seeds after he passed. So, they had been growing it and it became called “the jewel of the island” but I think probably just in their circles maybe like friends and family like. I wasn’t into cannabis back then cuz I was a kid and then in the 2010’s I was an athlete and the highschool I went to and the league I was in would drug test often. So, I didn’t get into cannabis until about 2017 when I gave up on college football. Anyways, I’ll try and get some pictures. I was supposed to grow them out forever ago, I never got around to it and they just sat around in my room. From what I’ve been told, they’re very similar to Maui Gold, they are long branches, squat plants, they had lots of bud sites instead of large cola’s and they smelled like ripe bananas and citrus. I can’t even offer a smoke report sadly but I would say that they could be considered Maui island heirlooms just from being around so long.
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So, I’m just as along for the ride as everyone else.
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I dropped 6 Colombian black seeds in water yesterday to keep the Maui jewel company. I sourced the seeds from @medmanbrand . Keep your fingers crossed for viability. I’ll post when sprouted.
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Noice!
Unsolicited advice (hope you dont mind?): the black will be more nute sensitive then the gold and will require a bit more time (12-14 weeks)
Stoked to see what you do with her!
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I’m praying on these 3 making it! Pretty excited to see some Colombian in the mix
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@medmanbrand the Colombian gold was very sensitive to nutes. I will have to start them very slowly. Also, the Colombian gold I’m running right now starts week 14 in two days, so I’m use to it. Can’t wait to see the difference.
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Can’t wait to see what you’ve got here!
Thanks for growing these @Il_medical.
Thanks to @Sodapop for donating the genetics and the sweet background story. So much of our lives go into what we grow.
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Your plants you posted look great!
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Update on the Maui jewel. The three remaining plants are still small and not much vigor. A couple Colombian black seedlings almost as tall even though they just sprouted. I just moved them to an led light.
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The Colombian black had five germinate so far, one more left in paper towel. I placed 5 in soil and two are almost as big as Maui jewel.
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Nice I also left beans in Hawaii to a local when I went to work there for 6 months about 3 years ago, he wanted mimosa so I brought him some equilibrium genetics purple mimosa, and man they turned deep purple over there, I believe he still has them in his greenhouse but lost his number when I lost my phone 
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Man, they definitely are small and lacking vigor! Thank you for the update, hopefully they grow into showers. This isn’t the best look for weed seeds coming out of Hawai’i! I’m holding out hope, sometimes the runts are the deadliest of the run.
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I’ve been babying them too. I have them on a heated mat. I just put them under the LED from the CFL. The Jamaican looked a little rough too before the heat mat.
All I need is one of each.
The Colombian black shot out. I just put it in soil a day or two ago and it grew quickly. I’m still holding out hope. I figured I would share to keep you informed.
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I really appreciate you still making this effort, truthfully I was really believing in the pedigree they were given to me on. I guess vigor can lessen through generations but the Kona that I just did weren’t vigorous at F8 but I wouldn’t have called them slow or weak of development either.
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