Hello, A baby boomer friend of mine suffers from chronic pain and is considering cannabis as an option. Naturally, new dispensary weed is much different than what she was accustomed to. She was located in Alaska for a decade in 1984. She said what she smoked was called “Kona Gold”, flown in from Hawaii. Is this cultigen now extinct? Are there any similar successions I can look into? Please let me know, I’d love to help give her some much needed pain relief and a blast to the past.
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Hey I just did a reproduction of Kona IBL this is the thread you can look through and I can send you a puck
Hyp3rids also has a line that looks promising
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I hate to repeat myself as I first posted in Sodapop’s original post I have 2 boys and one girl, a Kona Gold increase , but boy oh boy if that’s the KG my sis brought over from HA in 1991, you got a real prize there. Smooth taste, killer high, don’t do more than 2 or 3 hits, though it tastes so good you’ll want to. 
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I think the only way to figure that out is to get some to your sister, if that’s possible.
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So I’ve been keeping this on the down low in case I made any mistakes but with all the seedlings clearing the soil, I wanted to officially announce that I will be doing my first OP reproduction. The catch is that the plants will be kept in the ground at the baby boomer’s place, so I will not be able to maintain them daily.
I’m using hyp3brids seeds, @Sodapop sent me some potential kona gold seeds as well, which I will grow a couple out at home for comparison purposes.
Send good vibes and good luck yall!
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Excited for this one @Low.Poly !
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Here’s one of the Kona beans, it volunteered itself in this marigold and sunflower pot. It’s been a little too wet for the sunflower to be happy.
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Heard lots about the Mighty KONA GOLD. I’ll be watching this one.
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Any updates on this one?
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Yessir, here is the konagold IBL. Nearly ready for transplant. They freaked out due to my tap water so I’ve spent the past couple of weeks nursing them back to health…. Never had seedlings react so strongly to my tap water but luckily I have a filter now. I’ve planned to pop your beans by the end of the month, no worries, we have a long grow season here(∞)
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I can’t feed out the tap here in Hawai’i! All our water comes out at 8+ so I’m mostly relying on rain water for my runs and a big blue filter on my hose. You got em looking healthy and the stretch they’ll hit should be pretty sweet. I’m not sweating when you pop mine! I really wanted to see the Hyp3 Kona in a grow
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Funny, all but one responded negatively to the tap water. They all burned up essentially. Meanwhile the largest didn’t give a fuck stayed happy as a clam. I’m sure they would be bigger than now if I hadn’t stunted them but I’m just glad I rescued them from death’s door….
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All the hot, young, rookie breeders would’ve chalked that up to a stress test lol you brought them back and that’s what counts
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I do think you’re right about them having had the chance to be larger, unlike my manageable dwarf sativa Kona Gold, Hyp3’s looked pretty big.
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My grow process is far from dialed in as well. I’m amateur at keeping things happy in solo cops and would always just size up the pot when things start to go wrong. I can’t do that for these though, all I’ve used so far is Alaskan fish emulsion every now and then, but beyond the initial tap water issue I’m probably leaving them a bit hungry on accident. The listing under these seeds did describe them as a sort of “mini sativa” with the christmas tree shape.
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My grow out didn’t feed out much at all, I did some feed through the first half of seed development but most of the island Sativa likes well drained soil and light feeds.
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The plants started eating up their lowers so I figured it was time for some food, this is my first season growing some pure sativas as well. I took some advice from this forum to make sure my soil wouldn’t be too hot. The other month I learned about how potting soil is really just dead wood, devoid of minerals, so I started incorporating decomposed granite and volcanic rock into my soil mix. I also bought plain top soil. So far they all seem happy with the conditions. (Minus the little ones I just transplanted) If they get hungry I will try to supplement with alaskan fish emulsion or worm castings on the top layer.
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It’s crazy how lime green the foliage of sativas are, I have one dragons blood hashplant in my tent and the color comparison is off the chain.
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For high ph in your tap water there is a fix and you probably don’t have to buy anything. My ph here runs between 7.9 and 8.9, I know from keeping african fish. I use a tablespoon of white vinegar in a gallon of water. Takes 8.2 down to 6.8. Has been working for me for over 5 years.
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This is a good tip I will try out, however I’m also concerned it’s more than just PH. We have very hard tap water. Do you think hard tap water can be significant enough to burn seedlings?
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