Peace Be Upon You and Yours, I hope everyone is well!!! I would love to know more about the Original Hawaiian strains, hybrids and crosses that came from the Islands. I only have knowledge of a few like Kona Gold, Maui Wowie, and Hawaiian Sativa. Are the more lesser known Og Hawaiian strains? What are the stories behind each strain/pheno? What varieties really hold the spirit of the Island?
Peace and Blessings!!!
Check out the landrace threads. Theres plenty of guys over there that can give you a history leason if youd enjoy to listen like i do 
Keep On Growing
Iāll check them out, thanks 
@Dankk1
From what I gather Maui is from seeds boel brought to the island afghani x mexi I think and Kona gold has African heritage elephants ear has Thai heritage and the blood is supposed to be from old Columbian lines thereās way more this is just from memory lol everything in Hawaii is an heirloom cannabis isnāt native so no landraces to be found tbh there is a good thread on icmag regarding Hawaiians and there origins thatās well worth a read I wouldnāt post on there personally but that bits for your self to decide lol
Can you guys possibly help out here as it is your area not mine
@Sheikh Great thread brother! Glad you started this topic and Iām lookinā forward to the journey 
I think that there is a little snapshot into history with all the strains mentioned. I still havenāt com across one that represents a 60-70ās sativa dom. Especially a thai one. Most of them started offā as sativa indica hybrids and became more and more indica as the years went by.
Mahakala uses a paki/thai from the islands in his mindblower line that looks amazing. I use Federation Hawaiian Sativa in my work and it is an all time favorite. The best I found. I have tried 2 konaās and kauai electric, both quite indica. Yet to try maui cherry bomb, if someone has some to share let me know. I did hear it is quite mild. Would love to try any se asian genetics that were bred in islands, as a Thai I tried many moons back was the strongest of all herb I have come across.
Puna, Kauai, Molokai are some others.
Maui has variants, like the North Shore. Itās pineapple smelling and very sativa which was not like the others iāve had.
i really like the Kauai x Pineapple Ghost (ed. from Surfer) cross a ran a while back. Super guava smelling. Very psychedelic.
I havenāt got a female in my Molokai beans yet, but maybe this year.
whatever barneyās farmās Hawaiian is, is really nice, and very pineapple forward. Itās probably not what they say it is though.
@Sheikh @Conor_c @Dankk1 Iām 28, so I wasnāt around, it took me almost 4 years to even consider trying to find any local heirloom seeds. The first time I tried Kona Gold was actually in Everett, WA to put it one way. I like to think my grow has actually sort of revived the want to grow local heirloom cultivars again. After I grew out my Kona and shared it with the community, a lot of other people shared as well. In the last year after I shared my Kona with folks in island, a local breeder started a Kona project, a big island legend was shared for the first time in a while in the ā97 BI white widow from Mike Jr, one of our local OG aunties brought Puna Buddah and Maui Wowie back into their rotation. Itās the first time since I started in canna circa 2018 that Iāve actually seen the heirlooms in peopleās yards again. That was all a round about way for me to say that, yes we donāt have any native landraces, Ancient Hawaiians didnāt have cannabis. Cannabis came later on SE trade routes, with vaqueros during the ranching era, and finally with transplants like BOEL bringing bag seed. Locals were indeed growing back in the day, my great grandfather was growing plants in Keaukaha and Waimea back in the 40ās that they had held from his dad. I assume they held Mexican seeds from the ranch days. I do believe all our genetics are a mash of Thai, Afghan, Mexican and whatever else came over.
Can second this, all the early pictures you see are of sativa leaning plants but generation after generation eventually became more and more indica like after Green Harvest.
@Sodapop sorry someone told me you might be able to give some input
I heard possibly Swazi too in the mix with some at least but who knows as you said Thai mexi ghani seems to be the ones most mentioned when itās the older stuff however alot of Thai got wrongly labelled so thereās a good chance some of it would be from Laos too in reality as thatās where alot of tai stick came from as well
I knew Hawaiian seeds were mixes from multiple different places. What would yāall say are Heirloom Originals from Hawaii? Are the strains with more Thai/Lao or S.E.A. influence better?
I would say only Big Island White Widow tbh everything else thatās āfromā here were launched on the west coast of the continent.
I have a Kona IBL and a Maui IBL that never left here and theyāre wildly different from whatās marketed as Maui Wowie and Kona Gold
Kauai Ć Pineapple surfer sounds awesome. I love the psychedelic leaning plants. I also didnāt know Molokai even had one.
The frost ? Or am I getting mixed up Iāve heard good things
The Frost!! Bong of Pakololo Seeds has some Molokai exclusives
@DougDawson holds some frost
Big Island White Widow sounds crazy. I didnāt know the Island had its own WW. What makes the Kona IBL and the Maui IBL different from the mainland ones? Iāve only smoked Maui and that was a few years back when my mom found it in a Disp.