Maui Wowie

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Maui Wowie is a landrace sativa that emerged from the Hawaiian island of Maui, with the earliest known propagations tracing back to the 1960s. Local growers on Maui's high-elevation volcanic slopes selected for the healthiest, most resinous plants and bred them for generations, taking advantage of the island's combination of volcanic soil, tropical sun, and mountain climate. Hawaiian cannabis in general is referred to locally as "Pakalōlō," and Maui Wowie became the most famous strain to emerge from that tradition. The strain's reputation spread off-island via the surf and hippie scenes in the late 1960s and 1970s, with seeds and cuttings traveling back to mainland US growers. Maui Wowie's cultural position was cemented in 1978 when it was name-dropped in Cheech and Chong's comedy "Up In Smoke." The commercial version sold today is typically about 80 percent sativa and 20 percent indica, with the specific cross often involving Hawaiian landrace stock and an undisclosed second parent. The terpene data in our database shows a high terpinolene concentration at 1.62%, followed by myrcene at 0.43% and caryophyllene at 0.39%. That terpinolene dominance at such a high level is consistent with classic Haze-adjacent sativas and explains Maui Wowie's bright, tropical, almost floral aromatic character. The pinene at 0.20% contributes a fresh edge, and the presence of gamma-terpinene and alpha-terpinene (both rare in our database) adds complexity. Our database chemotype classification is "Orange (Terpinolene-dominant)", consistent with the landrace sativa classification. THC ranges between 17 and 22% across the lab samples in our records, which is on the higher end for a landrace-derived strain and consistent with modern Maui Wowie commercial reports. Reviewers describe the effects as euphoric leading, with creative, energetic, and hungry following in a classic sativa-dominant arc that matches the strain's long-standing daytime-tropical reputation.

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