Pantagruel's 3rd - Northern Lights

[Calyx Hunter]

I'm stoked for you on your new light and veg area. It'll be cool for another awesome grower to help everyone decide on their next light purchase, which should be LED as we are all noticing.

Umm I hope this isn't terribly innappropriate of me to say about your untopped plant but it looks like she's giving me the bird. Hahaha!

 

[Mike Wright]

Thanks Cal! Led's have their place, that is for sure. I can't wait to see the effects.

 

[Light Addict]

Awesome news on your upgrades lush looking plant

 

[Mike Wright]

Thank you sir. So I caught a few pages of banter there on your thread...something about you starting your own commune?

 

[Kusharella]

Wow that one looks like the Empire State Bldg around the others. COOL !

My 1st Northern was already harvested and drying - should be ready to start cure in a day or so. I can tell from the smell - she's a KEEPER ! Yours looks even more scrumpdillyicious (definitely fatter buds than my 1st one). Kudos, buddy

 

[Mike Wright]

Ya, I was reading yours earlier. She was quite a tall and lanky lass for an NL!

 

[Mike Wright]

I wanted to speed up the harvest a bit so last week I dropped the lights to 11.5 hours and today down to 11. Hopefully there will be some amber soon!

 

[Mike Wright]

Shortening the light cycle seems to be having the desired effects. Quite a few orange pistils now and some amber trichs on one of the plants.

My seedlings are still suffering from what looks like a micronutrient def so this morning I repotted them into my new soil mix which now includes kelp meal. There was a nice batch of mcyo fungus growing uniformly everywhere on it so I hope this will just fix whatever the problem was.

 

[Mike Wright]

Decided to finish my flowering room up correctly. It is a 5x5x6 space. As soon as this batch finishes I'm going to partition it up the middle, finish with highly reflective walls so that I end up with 2 2.5x5 grow boxes. I should be able to use the one exhaust fan to ventilate through both, hopefully even creating a nice draft. The only catch so I can veg on the one side will be to make sure the back part is lightproof. And a nice 200 watt Led for each side.

 

[Light Addict]

Nice plans my man looking forward to it!

 

[Mike Wright]

As I am looking forward to see where you land

Had to chop one of my plants today as our stores are dwindling. Picked the smallest NL1, which was the LST trained untopped plant. The yield even fell below my modest expectations, just over an ounce. The other two will be better, especially with another week.

The cola was pretty decent, about 15 grams wet.

 

[Mike Wright]

Well, the quick-cured stuff kicked our butts, so it passes the potency test. It makes a really nice mix of head and body stone with the Durban, which is great because my pollinating experiment worked. I am getting a few DurbanXNL hybrid seeds, very large and mature, they look extremely viable.

Nirvana created 'Urban Poison' which is NLxDurban but backcrossed again with Durban to create a stable but Sativa-dominant strain. I'm more interested in the F1 50/50 hybrid. Can't wait to run a batch of these!!

 

[Light Addict]

Exciting times my friend happy daze!!

 

[Calyx Hunter]

I'd like to see those seeds grow too. How about Pantagruel's Durban Lights?

 

[Mike Wright]

Sounds better than 'Northern Poison' (although it is a Canadian strain - hehe)

 

[Mike Wright]

Harvested NL2 the topped plant today. Yield was about the same as the LST, will be just over an ounce when dry.

I have to say I'm disappointed. The plants were on the small side, because I was originally set up for 6 plants, then had to pull 3 Durban's half way. Still, I thought I would get 2 ounces each at least. I guess size really does matter. Hopefully the untrained untopped plant NL1 will yield the best. I'll harvest it on Friday.

For the next go round I got 4 great big pots. No f'n around. Time to give these girls what they want: room to grow!!!

 

[Calyx Hunter]

How many total days or days of flower did your girls grow? I'm doing an Auto NL on my next grow.

 

[Mike Wright]

How many total days or days of flower did your girls grow? I'm doing an Auto NL on my next grow.

I pulled the first one at 7 weeks, which was a bit early but our stores were running low. This morning's was 53 days, the last one will be 8 weeks. They could go a little longer, only about 5-10% amber, but I'm ready to up-pot my next batch so I need to free up the space. Potency is awesome.

 

[Calyx Hunter]

I thought it seemed quick. I'm getting super anxious as my harvest draws near. I'm looking forward to your new setup and LED. May your transplanting be quick and painless.

 

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I get really antsy too. I guess that's probably true of everyone. I'm kinda fanatical about schedules and timelines, but the girls will take their own sweet time sometimes!

Here is the last lonely lady waiting for her date with snips. She is only 22 inches tall. I wish I had vegged a couple more weeks.