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Tent Seed Grow - Northern Light Autos
Life has been throwing some challenges, sorry for the missing & sporadic updates...
This was Northern Light Autoflower #3 (NLA #3), 8 weeks at bloom, 11 weeks from seed. Oddly she was the youngest of the 3 Northern Light autos, but with amber trichomes coating what few leaves she dis have, she was the most mature as well. At just week 8 of bloom, and only 11 weeks from seed, the size, appearance and overall quality of the plants show these Northern Light Auto-flowers have proved themselves as capable producers of high quality meds.
They were connoisseur quality in aroma, flavor from day 1 of being dried. Sandalwood & hash early on, but now that is has had cure time, the smell is almost candy-insence like, and the flavors do vary from between green buds and purple buds, much to my surprise.
I'd never had Northern Light prior to this grow. Anytime I mentioned NL, a friend would get all excited, and go on for a while on all the wondrous qualities of the strain. As with most strains, I dismissed this to hype. I cannot describe how blown away I was from my first hit of a flash dried sample piece. Knowing my friend worked nights and was home asleep, I called her anyway. "H...Hello?" she stammered. "Oh my gosh, you weren't kidding abou..." before I could finish my sentence she was laughing and exclaimed, "Oh! So you got some Northern Lights, huh? I told you so!!! I'll be right over - 'Click'..."
Not a very tight noded specimen, but the buds are amazingly dense and encrusted with trichomes.
Beautiful purple-hued buds and a calyx to leaf ratio so high, it requires little manicuring.
The aroma is sweet and incense like, and the dense buds themselves will have little stem waste.
The first cut is the deepest!
The first cut weighed out to 1 - 3/4 oz.
A trichome wonderland!
These were the remaining nuggets that were left to ripen further. Final total weight was 2 1/8 oz.
The coolest part really is the win/win scenario in being able to bloom AND veg under one light in the same space, all the while supplanting seedlings & cuttings to the 12/12 Bloom-Room.
I haven't got around to loading pics yet, but all 3 NLAs are now harvested. Each one has its own distinctiveness - berry-insence, citrus, and a sweet-woody/skunk, yet you cannot mistake they are related as they share many indescribable traits.
I likey!
Be well everyone!
Life has been throwing some challenges, sorry for the missing & sporadic updates...
This was Northern Light Autoflower #3 (NLA #3), 8 weeks at bloom, 11 weeks from seed. Oddly she was the youngest of the 3 Northern Light autos, but with amber trichomes coating what few leaves she dis have, she was the most mature as well. At just week 8 of bloom, and only 11 weeks from seed, the size, appearance and overall quality of the plants show these Northern Light Auto-flowers have proved themselves as capable producers of high quality meds.
They were connoisseur quality in aroma, flavor from day 1 of being dried. Sandalwood & hash early on, but now that is has had cure time, the smell is almost candy-insence like, and the flavors do vary from between green buds and purple buds, much to my surprise.
I'd never had Northern Light prior to this grow. Anytime I mentioned NL, a friend would get all excited, and go on for a while on all the wondrous qualities of the strain. As with most strains, I dismissed this to hype. I cannot describe how blown away I was from my first hit of a flash dried sample piece. Knowing my friend worked nights and was home asleep, I called her anyway. "H...Hello?" she stammered. "Oh my gosh, you weren't kidding abou..." before I could finish my sentence she was laughing and exclaimed, "Oh! So you got some Northern Lights, huh? I told you so!!! I'll be right over - 'Click'..."
Not a very tight noded specimen, but the buds are amazingly dense and encrusted with trichomes.
Beautiful purple-hued buds and a calyx to leaf ratio so high, it requires little manicuring.
The aroma is sweet and incense like, and the dense buds themselves will have little stem waste.
The first cut is the deepest!
The first cut weighed out to 1 - 3/4 oz.
A trichome wonderland!
These were the remaining nuggets that were left to ripen further. Final total weight was 2 1/8 oz.
The coolest part really is the win/win scenario in being able to bloom AND veg under one light in the same space, all the while supplanting seedlings & cuttings to the 12/12 Bloom-Room.
I haven't got around to loading pics yet, but all 3 NLAs are now harvested. Each one has its own distinctiveness - berry-insence, citrus, and a sweet-woody/skunk, yet you cannot mistake they are related as they share many indescribable traits.
I likey!
Be well everyone!
NL can be a very pleasurable strain to grow, and when done right, an even greater strain to consume. I've become pretty familiar with her myself, and will always have a soft spot for her. 
