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Maui Wowie
Maui Wowie is the Hawaiian sativa landrace developed on the island of Maui through the 1960s and 1970s, becoming one of the most-celebrated tropical sativas of the American counterculture era alongside Acapulco Gold. Barney's Farm released the most widely circulated modern seed-form working line in the early 2010s, preserving the dominant pineapple-citrus terpene profile and the sativa-leaning structural traits of the original landrace. Plants finish in nine to ten weeks indoors — fast for a tropical sativa — with medium-density buds, bright orange pistils, and a moderate trichome layer. The high is sharp and uplifting with a fast onset, recommended as a daytime productivity or beach-day strain that holds the bright equatorial sativa character without the long flowering windows of more demanding Haze-family lines.
Reviewed 2026-05-23· Sources: seedfinder.eu, Barney's Farm catalogue, American Heirloom archives
Potency
- THC range
- 17–22%
- Typical THC
- 20%
- CBD
- up to 0.2%
Flowering
- Indoor weeks
- 9–10 wk
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Climate
- tropical, Mediterranean, warm dry
Yield & size
- Indoor
- 400-500 g/m²
- Outdoor
- 550-750 g/plant
- Height
- 140-180 cm
Indica / sativa ratio
Terpene profile
The aromatic compounds below shape how Maui Wowie smells, tastes, and ultimately feels in the body.
- dominant
Limonene
Uplifting citrus — typically associated with mood elevation and stress relief.
- secondary
Ocimene
Sweet and herbal — light, tropical, with a decongestant character.
- secondary
Pinene
Alert and pine-forward — associated with mental clarity and bronchodilation.
- minor
Myrcene
Sedating, musky, herbal — commonly linked to couch-lock effects.
Reported side effects
Lineage
Maui Wowie traces to Hawaiian landrace. The cross sits in the Hawaiian / Pacific family, which influences both the terpene profile and the flowering structure described above.
Genetic family tree
Documented parents for Maui Wowie based on breeder catalogues. Library entries are clickable; ancestors not yet documented on this site appear in a lighter, non-linked box.
Strains crossed with Maui Wowie
Maui Wowie is a parent of 3 strains in the broader catalogue. These are crosses that carry Maui Wowie genetics on at least one side of the cross.
Grow profile
Grow profile
- Indica / sativa
- 10% / 90%
- Flowering days
- 63–70 days
- Stretch
- High
- Pest resistance
- High
- Mold resistance
- Moderate
- Training methods
- topping, scrog, supercropping
Feed schedule for Maui Wowie
These EC and NPK targets are starting points calibrated for the strain's Sativa lean and moderate difficulty rating — not gospel. Drop 15-20% off any EC ceiling on your first run and let the plant tell you where it actually wants to feed.
Suggested feed schedule
- Late veg
- 1.2-1.4 EC
- Early flower
- 1.3-1.5 EC, NPK 2-2-3
- Mid flower
- 1.6-1.8 EC, NPK 1-3-4
- Late flower
- 1.4-1.6 EC
- Final week
- Plain pH-balanced water for the last 7-10 days; light flush if you ran nutrients on the higher end.
Full breakdown of feed math, runoff testing, and salt buildup in our nutrient guide.
What to expect through the grow cycle
Maui Wowie is documented with a 10-week flower and a longer stretch phase typical of sativa-leaning hybrids. The visual below maps a documented 14-week cycle built from 4weeks of vegetative growth and the strain's published flowering window.
Published grow reports for Maui Wowie concentrate the most observational notes on the stretch window. This timeline is descriptive — it reflects what reports document, not a how-to. Actual week-to-week behaviour varies with phenotype, light intensity, pot size, and environment.
Phase details
- Veg (weeks 1-4)
- The documented vegetative period for Maui Wowie. Plants establish root structure, leaf canopy, and node count before flower triggering, with a moderate difficulty rating shaping how forgiving the early canopy work tends to be.
- Stretch (weeks 5-8)
- Maui Wowie is documented as having high stretch. Reports describe the plant roughly doubling in height during this phase as the sativa-leaning structure establishes its final flowering frame.
- Bud sites (weeks 9-10)
- Pre-flowers form at the nodes and calyxes begin to develop. Grow reports for Maui Wowienote this as the window where the canopy's eventual bud distribution becomes visible.
- Bud development (weeks 11-12)
- Flowers thicken and calyxes fatten through this phase. Documented Maui Wowie runs show the bulk of visible flower mass accumulating here, with resin production accelerating toward the end.
- Ripening (week 13)
- Trichomes transition from clear toward cloudy and amber. Reports for Maui Wowie describe the Limonene-led terpene profile maturing through this window, with aroma sharpening week over week.
- Final (week 14)
- Calyx swelling is documented as complete and the harvest window opens. Published Maui Wowie runs end here, within the 9-10 week flowering range reported by the breeder.
Flavor & aroma
Reported effects
Common questions about Maui Wowie
Is Maui Wowie a true landrace?
The original Maui Wowie is a Hawaiian landrace, though the seed-form versions sold today are stabilized working lines rather than direct landrace seed. Barney's Farm's release preserves the dominant pineapple-citrus terpene and the sativa-leaning structural traits.
Why is Maui Wowie faster than other tropical sativas?
The Hawaiian landrace developed at a latitude where flowering signals trigger earlier than the equatorial Haze landraces, which is why Maui Wowie finishes in nine to ten weeks rather than the twelve-plus a Hawaiian-Thai Haze would need.
Breeder of record
Barney's Farm
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