Royal Queen Northern Lights

Switched them from the 4" pots to the 6" pots. Also did a 60/40 mix this time with the coco and perlite. Going to keep them in this small tent for a few more days and then move them to the main room when the cleaning and "renos" are done.

Well you can tell by the picture that one of my plants has a mad lean to it. That was from a attack by a 2 year old the other day. He figured out how to work zippers and got his hands on my plants. 2 were killed and 1 was well bent I guess. You can also see coco all over the place that I haven't had a chance to clean yet. I wanted to have these in my room by now but the grow shop is out of coco tell Wednesday so I'm waiting for it to come in. Well that's all for now, happy growing everyone.

So it's moving day for the plants. Guy at the grow shop told me that my root control disc's won't be in tell the 9th. So I moved them too 1 gallon pots on the 2nd. Then he calls me up on the 4th and tells me they are in.... if I had know they were going to be in on the 4th I would have left them in the last pots.... oh well. I'll give then tell the 9th and then repot them. So because of my limited head room (max 65") and because I'm sitting them on top of the autopots I switched to the Spider-Farmer SF-2000 for veg and then I'll be going back to the SF-4000 ones there in the autopots. One plant is not looking very good, had a bit of issues with it. Ive decided only to do five plants In the room so I might actually move the good one to under the SE-3000 and toss the weak looking plant. Time well tell. Did a bit of FIMing on them to start there training. After I set up the ScrOG then I'll be doing a loot more. That's all for now so happy growing.

So this was the strain that ended up going down to just one plant. The other ones roots were crap and it didn't look good. Now ot gets the SE-3000 all to itself. Well there in the autopots and everything is running. Had a few issues getting it all set up. First one of my tee connections snapped and then one of my inline filters snapped to. Getting the tee was easy but because I'm still running the older autopots, not the ones with the aqua5 valve, the filter was a bit harder to get. But I was able to get the last 2 from one of the local grow shop. After I got the lines all done set the tank up and opened the valve and watched for small leaks. Found 2, fixed them and now everything is running perfectly. Turned the light down to 60% because the DLI was just a bit over 47 and I want to keep it just at or below 45. Well that's all for now so happy growing everyone!!!

Man this single Northern Lights is doing a great job on its own. Got the rest of the reflective mylar up around it. Ran out so won't be able to do the rest of the room but it shouldn't matter. White poly is almost as good as reflective mylar. I've got high hopes for this plant on its own. I have to say I am really happy with the quality product by Royal Queen Seeds. Both Special Queen #1 and Northern Lights plants in the main room and the Shogun in my micro by them I am growing look amazing. Been growing really quick and have bounced back from training really nicely. Definitely going to try out a few more strains by then over the next few grows. Humidity and temperature have had a bit of a swing back and forth this last few days. Humidity has been jumping from 60 down to 42 and temperature has been having a few spikes but thankfully the duct system has been helping with that. I did a clean and a some maintenance on my dehumidifier to see if that well help. Hopefully it's not cramping out on me (had it for a few grows) but if it does I'm upgrading to a quest dehumidifier. I had a bit of a swing with my Ph and temperature in my rez. It jumped up to 6.4 so I lowered it down to 5.8. It went back up to 6 but hasn't gone up much past that since then. The temperature in the room drops down to 13c at night and so I have been using a 50w tank heater to keep it warm. Unfortunately a few times it's gotten the tank a lot warming then I'd like (24.5 - 24.9c). So I've had to turn it off during the day and then turn it back on at night. So now it goes back and forth between 20c and 23.5c. So I did a defoliation to start the week, at most I removed about 6-8 leaves per plant, so not much. Next day I FIMed them and then 4 days later decided to top them lol. Still got a lot of work to do. Going to do a bit of LST over the next week and then after Christmas I'm going to set up a SCRog net. Well that's all for now. Happy growing and marry Christmas growmies.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!!! We have had some crazy cold weather here the last 4 days and for the first time in 13 years had snow on Christmas day. So with the cold and snow came grow room issues. My grow space is outside and not attached to the house so maintaining a proper temperature and humidity has been a bit on the difficult side. Even with the lights running 24 hours, it's had a few drops down to 19c and the humidity has gone up to 68% a few times. Now luckly I'm still in veg and the humidity isn't a issue yet but the temperature has been making me worried. Going to put togther a heater with its own temperature switch increase it drops below 20c. Did some training over the last week with some LST and FIMing. With the LST every 3nd day I've been adjusting them and pulling the plants back a bit more and more. Since I don't think I'll be able to set up a SCRog net this go around (spent to much for Christmas and wont be able to affordthe PVC tubing) ive got to figure out something else and fast. Plants are getting big and it's going to get hard to bend then properly without braking stuff. Because I was showing some issues with 2 of my plants I started adding a bit of Revive to my res to see if they get better and they have. But because of the cold that's been hitting us my tank has had a hard time staying warm. Even with my 50w tank heater it's been fighting a up hill battle because the area outside the main room where the tank is, has been sitting around 14-17c. So with that the air pump I use to circulate the tank, it is pulling in cold air and thats been fighting the tank heater in getting it up to what I like it at. I tried using my water pump instead of the air pump for circulation and the res went up to 25.6c soooo I would much rather have 19c res then water that could kill my plants. So let's talk about the plants themselves. Both Special Queen plants are doing great but as you can see from the picture, one is doing absolutely amazing. Great growth (understatement) and has bounced back from training like a pro. The other plant is still doing really good when compared to all the other plants in the room but still could be a little bit better. Depending on what I'm going to do for supporting the plants this might be the last week of veg. Well see. So this plant was doing great and then about 2 days ago I started to notice issues. Almost looks like leaf rust or a Ph problem but ive tried my best to keep them correct and I'm hopping that like my Ripper badazz plants that they well just grow out of it. Doing a big clean up today in the room so I'm going to keep my eyes open for any pests just incase that's the issue but fingers crossed it isn't. Well that's everything for now. Happy growing growmies!!!

This plant had a bit of a rough week. I was having issues with my tank heater and I have a feeling it's been going on for awhile and I didn't realize it tell just the other day. It's set to turn off at 21.5c but would always be a degree or two higher when it would finally shut off. UT it looks like it had creeper up to 24-25c a few times and started giving my plant early stage leaf rust symptoms. At first I thought it was a Ph issue because it did jump up to 6.5 a few times and I felt like that might have been the problem. That problem was fixed 2 days ago and it looks to have slowed down the progression of the leaf rust. Today is the last day of veg and the first day of flower is to come. If it goes a full 8 to 9 weeks I'll be looking at a March harvest. If that's the case I might be able to squeeze in a quick auto flower grow before the family summer vacation lol. The temperature has been getting warmer outside and the night time temperature hasn't been to bad. The humidity has been stay around 50% all week and thats were id like to keep it but we're expecting a lot of rain over the next few weeks so we'll see how well that works. I picked up 2 more temperature hydrometer meters with probes for the room. And with all the fans the air movement in the room has been great. Humidity and temperature is the same in every corner of the 8x9 room. I switched the lights from 24/0 to 18/6 this last week to get them ready for the approaching 12/12 light schedule. And because that is tomorrow I lowered the lights down so that tomorrow I just have to turn the lights up. I also emptied my tank and refilled it with the nutrients for flower so that the treys can empty a bit before I add all the new nutrients. I filled all the trays before I turned it all off so they would have enough for the night. Well that's all for now, happy growing and happy new years!!! Keep it growing!!!

First week went without any major issues. Plants been growing fine and you can see there is 4 steams on this plant that are growing a bit taller then the rest. The SE-3000 is running at 100% rite now and with the PPM set too 1000 for the Co2 it's getting lots of light and growth. Temperature and humidity have been stable for the most part. Was having g issues with my dehumidifier tho for a few days. I believe it was over heating a bit and was auto shutting off. So the my humidity would spike up to 75-80% but luckily it was during lights off and I was home when it happened. After moving a few things around and turning it off for a hour it seems to have corrected itself. Good caz I don't really want to have to buy a new one yet lol. For my nutrients I'm slowly bring it up. By the end of week 2 I should have it closer to 1000 ppm. I also stopped using airstones in my tank because I was having a few issues. Now I'm just using a water pump on a timer. Turns off when lights turn on and the back on a hour before the turn off. I've got most of my fans now running at 100%. Only ones that are still only running at 50% are my two lower section fans. With them set to that I find the temperature and humidity at all 4 corners of the room are close enough that I should have zero issues. Well that's all for now so keep growing everyone!!!

So had a bit of a headache with the dehumidifier this week. Unfortunately it was all user error this time lol. I've found if I turn it off for a bit so it can cool down that it doesn't auto shut off, the only trick is I have to remember to turn it back on.... yea so a few times it got a bit high... like 80% humidity high. Luckily it was when it was lights off and I caught it fast. Going to start looking into another dehumidifier so I don't have to deal with this any more. Added Big Bud Coco to the nutrients today at the very end of the week. I cleaned out all the autopot trays and cleaned then floats a bit. Going to do a major line clean out at the end of this upcoming week don't want to have a tray dry out on me because of a clog. The plants are drinking a insane amount of water rite now. I switched to my 50L tank from my 100L because my water line frozen that goes to my grow room because of how cold it got. So I had to fill up a bucket and hand water my res so to say lol. I've had to refill it every 3nd day if that. I'm pretty sure that one massive Special Queen #1 plants is drinking the most but the others have to be drinking up a lot also. When I did 4 plants in just soil I was having to refill every 6 days. So to have it drain out twice as fast with just one extra plant is just crazy. Did a massive leaf strip and lolipoping on yhe plants. Didn't take off as many leaves as I usually do. Don't want to over stress them. Plan in doing another small strip in week 6 of flower. Well that's all for now. Happy growing everyone!!!!

So this plant looks amazing. It's not the ingest plant but she has great looking structure. Strongest looking plant of the bunch. The buds are starring to really grow now and there is lots of stacking going on. Ive got high expectations for this plant at this stage. Humidity has been staying within range the last week. Had a high point one night because I turned off my dehumidifier for a bit and forgot to turn it back on. I turned the temperature up a little bit after I moved the lights up. All the plants are getting roughly 1100-980 par depending on where there located. Got a 100L tank set up now and have increased the amount of ppm and have been swing the Ph up and down a bit trying to keep ot around 5.9 and 6.1 but she's floated outside the range a few times. I find when I have the water pump circulating the water it drops rather fast. But if I use the air pump with stones it jumps a bit but not nearly as fast as it drops with the water pump. Well that's all for now. Happy growing everyone!!!

Well this plant so far is doing really good. Week 4 is now over and it's got a lot of nice plump bud clusters all over the plant. Startedvto get a bit of LED light burn so I moved the light up. Not as bad as my special queen plants but definitely starting. This next week we'll be the last week I'll be running big bud coco and then I'll be switching to Overdrive for a week before I start flushing. I usually only do a week of flushing but want to if the extra week makes a difference. I turned the temperature back down because I noticed a few times the fan was having a hard time getting the temperature back down to 27.5 and my co2 was wasting. Humidity has been staying between 39% and 40% with the dehumidifier running. Well that's all for now so happy growing everyone!!!!

Just like the SE-5000 light, I'm having a bit of a issue now either the SE-3000 light, its about 18" above it and at 80% now. Think next go around I'm going to have to make some adjustments to the Co2 levels to try and help correct this light issue. Surprised that when I ran this light In the 3x3 tent that I didn't see any light issues. Almost makes me wonder if it's not something else, maybe a nutrients issue. The humidity and temperature in the room has been ok. Had a few some glitches with the humidity dropping below 40% by just a few percentage. I've also lowered the temperature a bit and we'll do so a bit every week tell harvest to see how it effects the plants. Going to start decreasing my nutrients levels this next week before flush. Well that's all for now. Happy growing everyone!!!

Well the this was the last week I well be adding nutrients to my res and tomorrow I start flushing. Plant trenchomes are started to turn milky so I'm atleast 2 weeks from harvest. Next to that not much to report so happy growing everyone!!!

Well one week into flush and the plants definitely starting to change color. Maybe another week before harvest. Nothing too crazy this last week. Plants are all looking great. Well that's all happy growing!!!

Not the biggest plant t in the room but it's got the nicest stacking out of the 5 plants. Trenchomes are about 80/20 milky/amber, not exactly where I like them to be at harvest but I'm running short on time. Going to harvest sometime in the next 24 hours and start hang drying. Happy growing everyone!!!

The week I harvested grow diaries was having issues and when I initially did my harvest and my update it didn't save and I lost all my photos. Next to that this was a easy grow but I would have like to have given this strain 2 more weeks of veg to have gotten it a bit bigger for flower.