Northern Lights CFL Grow

New Northern Lights grow. Seeds from Ministry of Cannabis. Also germed one Dinafem Blue Hash, one Crush, and five old bonus seeds (unknown) I had from a couple of years ago.

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Looking good so far. I've been through the NL from the same company, feminized, and half were still males. The females all made great mothers, and the males were easy to spot early on, no herms.

How many watts for all those plants ? You might just be better off going for an HID lamp if its in the budget

The big bulbs are 63 watts each. Knowing what I know now I would have bought an HID fixture of some sort starting out, but this setup has done well before, and I had the lights so I'm using them again.

Oh and there are four outdoors on the porch, two NL fem and two of the mystery plants. I don't even know if they are fem, they came unlabeled with "old" scratched into the little plastic bag. I've haven't had any males from femmed seeds so far.

Is it just me or does your grow space have an S&M vibe to it?

I have 3 NL in 5 gallon buckets just about to move to 12/12. Good luck with your grow!

Is it just me or does your grow space have an S&M vibe to it?

It's the chains, harsh lighting, tiny bare room thing going on. Yeah. And they will be denied pollen, promised pollen, denied it again.

Looking good so far. I've been through the NL from the same company, feminized, and half were still males. The females all made great mothers, and the males were easy to spot early on, no herms.

These ARE supposed to be femmed seeds. With what you told me in mind, looking again at the young plants, three have kind of a male profile already (taller, narrower.) I topped two of those today. I started extra seeds, there's really not room in the closet for nine plants, Unless I were to go to 12/12 after a very short veg. I was actually considering doing that but now I'm leaning toward topping them all and then vegging for 10 - 14 more days until 12/12 light and dark schedule and finishing the five or six best looking females.

I watered today for the first time since transplanting. Three plants with yellowing leaves got some Miracle Grow in their water. In my experience this should quickly green them up from any N deficiency. The second freebie was Cluster, not crush or whatever I said before The NL were started a few days earlier than the others.

Just now, lights raised for photo:

Edited by capitate, 14 May 2012 - 12:46 AM.

These ARE supposed to be femmed seeds. With what you told me in mind, looking again at the young plants, three have kind of a male profile already (taller, narrower.) I topped two of those today. I started extra seeds, there's really not room in the closet for nine plants, Unless I were to go to 12/12 after a very short veg. I was actually considering doing that but now I'm leaning toward topping them all and then vegging for 10 - 14 more days until 12/12 light and dark schedule and finishing the five or six best looking females.

I watered today for the first time since transplanting. Three plants with yellowing leaves got some Miracle Grow in their water. In my experience this should quickly green them up from any N deficiency. The second freebie was Cluster, not crush or whatever I said before The NL were started a few days earlier than the others.

Just now, lights raised for photo:

Keep an eye on all of them, not just the suspected boys. Take a little clone off each one so you can keep a mother around if the genetics turn out well. Also, I wouldn't rush the 12/12 switch.

Keep an eye on all of them, not just the suspected boys. Take a little clone off each one so you can keep a mother around if the genetics turn out well. Also, I wouldn't rush the 12/12 switch.

Thanks for the advice. I think I will take clones of at least the three or four best looking ones. If I do have a male I'll probably go ahead and collect a little pollen and dust a branch or two on one of the females.

It's the chains, harsh lighting, tiny bare room thing going on. Yeah. And they will be denied pollen, promised pollen, denied it again.

LMAO!! That's priceless.

It's been about four weeks since the germed seeds were planted. Three of the Northern Lights plants have been destroyed. They looked like males (all stalks, bolting even though topped early,) and also were pale green with yellowish blotches despite identical conditions. I'm glad I started extra seeds a couple days after the 10 NL. I raised the lights to take this photo, they usually are a few inches away from the plants. All plants not yet topped were topped three days ago except the runt in the back left.

Edited by capitate, 22 May 2012 - 11:16 PM.

My current NL #5 grow.

My current NL #5 grow.

What a beautiful sight.

This is a video from today, five weeks or so from germination: Northern Lights from seed grow CFLs - YouTube

I added some improvised heavy duty foil reflectors. The 12/12 light cycle began two days ago.

Looks like we've got a male or two. Oh well, definite female flowers on six plants including three fast growing NL plants I was worried about. (the back row, hard to fully see here). The suspect is in the white pot on the middle left. The plant to its right, in the center, is one of the old mystery seeds and it is also showing small male-looking preflowers. It's a dark green maple-leaf straight up Afghani hash plant looking motherfucker, moreso than the Dinafem Blue hash in the middle front. (That's the Cluster fem on the front right.) So now I'm thinking about moving it outside and using some pollen to cross with the NL, just some careful dusting of a branch

The only other plant I might yank is the NL front left. It's bolting, stemmy, no pistils, other than that very ornamental, maybe I'll drop it off in front of a dentist's office.

Two weeks under 12/12. :D Two males were removed a while back. Seven female plants including the ch9 Cluster, the Dinafem Blue Hash, and the rest Northern Lights are all just starting to bud up. The Cluster was fastest to start flowering. Last photo shows a plant that was a runt so I didn't top or fim, now it's shooting up.

They're looking great man! Look forward to seeing what you get with ~550watts of CFLs haha. Keep it up.

Peace.

Cutting down my northern lights today.

Cutting down my northern lights today.

Oh wow look at those donkey dicks