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This year I am growing 3x Northern Lights (fem) from Sensi Seeds.
May 1: I started with all seeds in paper towel.
May 3: I moved the 2 seeds that had root to small pots with ground.
May 5: I moved the slowest seed as well. It came up nicely but for now it shows like in the photo. Should I try to help it?
Here weather is alternating few sunny days, to others mostly cloudy or overcast.
I added a panel to reflect light from windows back to the plant.
In sunny days they grow in a way that you can appreciate by eyes.
Each weekend I make photos and videos for the diary and I report what I do, hoping to help other fellow growers with my very casual growing style.
The 2 plants that were 18 to 20 cm tall, they have been moved to final 17L pot, after rubbing with Mycorrhizas (*).
I also added some rabbit poo as fertilizer in the ground and mixed with gloves. Please note that herbivorous animal poo is safer and the one of rabbits, does not smell.
The third and slower plant since beginning, is now 15cm with less leaves and internodes, to I decided to wait 1 more week before moving it to the final pot.
*) I set Mycorrhizas as a nutrient, for educational purposes. Mycorrhizas are symbiosis between a plant and a mushroom, where the plant provides organic matter to the mushroom and the mushroom offers its system of "roots-like" filaments to help the plant to absorb inorganic matter from the soil.
This is Mycorrhizas by contact, it means that you have to rub the powder on the wet rooted part of the plant before inserting it in the ground while transplanting.
Ok, week started with the 2 freshly potted plants growing a lot, from 20 to 38 cm despite the reduced sunlight due to rain here.
Smallest plant was still in the minor pot until Saturday 11 June when I swapped the pot with the 17L one, repeating the same steps I did last week for the other 2, including mycorrhizas rubbing and the rabbit poo fertilizer.
Yesterday I removed the lowest level of leaves and small growing that was starting very close to the ground. Personal choice related also to what I have seen in past growing.
As of today, June 14, I register the following:
plant 1 = 39cm tall, wider (more chubby) leaves up to 8-9 points leaves
plant 2 = 38cm tall, slightly narrow leaves, up to 7 points max
plant 3 = 19cm tall
(?) Are plants 1 and 2 showing 2 different phenotypes for the different width of the leaves and the 7 vs up to 8-9 pointed leaves?
(?) Are plants 1 and 2 showing 2 different phenotypes for the different width of the leaves and the 7 vs up to 8-9 pointed leaves?
(check photo and video from week 4 of my diary)
Hey bud
Pretty nice plants ,
Yess there are two different phenotypes , but that's good , the taste and the look on the buds may be different too.
Happy growing
In this week I can easily recognise the positive impact on the growth of moving the plants to the bigger pots, they increased the growth rate so much.
#1 is 55cm tall (21+ inches), it still displays 9 pointed leaves above the internode where it started as reported in previous week diary page
#2 is 54cm tall (21 inches), it displays couple leaves with 8 points and one or 2 new leaves seems to have 9 as well, I will confirm once they grow more
#3 is 34cm tall (13 inches), this is the one that got problem in beginning (read previous page for more details), it is doing its best to recover and get to the same level of the other 2. I see only max 7 pointed leaves so far.
Please share with me your thoughts about it, here's a n00b that likes to learn!
Does the 9-pointed leaves mean that my NL contains more sativa genetic?
If someone was growing SensiSeeds Northern lights before, how were the leaves?
Thanks
The number of blades/points on a plant leaf has no relationship or indication to either sativa or indica genetics, nor does it reflect anything else such as potency, health or vigor, it is all controlled by genetics.
I have had both sativas and indicas with 13 fingered leaves.
Fat, broad and usually shorter blades are usually associated with indica genes and long thin blades are usually associated with sativa genes.
The picture you posted certainly shows a plant with strong indica genes, judged solely on leaf shape in my opinion, which is to be expected from Northern Lights.
Hope this helps, Organoman.
Why would you do that? What problem are you trying to resolve? If they're turning yellow and dying off naturally, sure, go ahead.... otherwise it's a non-issue!
Good luck!
This week temperatures are really high here, more than 3 days above 30° C (86 F)
I increased the watering amount to daily frequency. I use raining water that we collect in garden
I also added few grains of fertilizer Nitrophoska in each pot, mixed with the soil and provided water.
Plant #1 is now 69cm (27 inches)
Plant #2 is now 68cm (27 inches)
Plant #1 is now 47cm (18,5 inches)
Now they all display 9 pointed leaves on new growing leaves of the central stem.
During the night, I have noticed that 2 plants out of 3 stand with normal leaves straight, while 1 has leaves going down during the darkness and when the sun rises, it gets back to normal.
They are all same strain, grown in same way, why?
Hello. As with babies, each seed is a induvial and is slightly different than the others. When this plant sleeps it likes to do it with it's leaves down where as the others can sleep with their leaves up. Chuck.
Another good week of growth has passed, +20cm (+8 inches) and counting
I noticed that the 3 plants react different to the darkness at night, one of the 2 tallest is the only one to bend the leaves downwards during the night, while the others keep leaves straight.
Plant 1 = 88cm (34")
Plant 2 = 86cm (34")
Plant 3 = 66cm (26")
OBSERVATIONS:
Another week is passing, light is naturally decreasing with the prosecution of the season and now it is about 15h and 40m of natural light.
Previous days were mostly cooler and overcast outside, I think for this they grew less than before.
Smell is increasing on direct sunlight.
You can see details of the apical parts of the plants, with top growing from the central colas in the photos, please share with me your opinions about my humble window growth
#1 is now 95cm (37")
#2 is now 90cm (35")
#3 is now 75cm (30")
One more week and another +10cm length for the girls :D
Forgive the bad group picture of this week, for better overall images, check previous week, they look quite similar.
From this week, check instead the 2 details I posted, I can see signs of pre-flowering. Small white barbs are growing close to the nodes, it should show that they are real female plants.
Final part of each central cola is segmenting in smaller spin-offs that I hope they will bring more buds sites.
Plant #1 is now 105cm, (41")
Plant #2 is now 100cm, (39")
Plant #3 is just 88cm, (34,6")
Last 6-7 days were quite warm down here, plants were drinking more water than usual but they also grew more
Pre-flowering barbs are visible in all of them (better details on previous week photos
Plant 1 = 125cm / 49 inches (!), +20cm / +8" from last week
Plant 2 = 120cm / 47 inches (!), +20cm / +8" from last week
Plant 3 = 100cm / 39 inches (!), +12cm / +4.7" from last week
Unless you’ve flipped to 12/12 DO NOT switch to bloom nutes.
You’re plant is just naturally maturing to show it’s gender. It is not beginning to flower just because stigmas are showing
I'm not familiar at all with your nutes... but since they are now in pre-flower, I would be adding bloom nutes and starting to decrease grow nutes that contain a lot of nitrogen....
Good luck! Looks good!!
This week alternated rainy and chillier days (up to 18°) to very warm and sunny (up to 37° like yesterday).
Surprisingly, the plants handled these changes well and they still displayed a growth pattern of about +20cm each (almost +8 inches).
There are some new growth around some nodes in all 3 plants that I took photo of, please have a look and explain me if this means something specific.
Plant 1 = 145cm (taller but skinnier)
Plant 2 = 132cm (medium but wider leaves and bushier branches)
Plant 3 = 115cm (the usual running up one, shorter but similar to plant 2 for the rest)
Plants slower down the growth rate, it seems
They have lots of leaves compared to N13 Kush for example. Should I consider some action to improve them?
Plant 1 = 150cm (59"), +5cm from last week (+2")
Plant 2 = 140cm (55"), +8cm from last week (+3")
Plant 3 = 128cm (50+"), +13cm from last week (5")
Hello!
NL are in the 12th week of vegetation and they grew up nicely and bushy. (See photos in diary latest week)
Should I do something to make it better? Maybe something about leaves amount?
Thanks
There are any number of techniques you could use with photoperiods... the simplest being LST - which is gently pulling the lower branches out away from the main stem so the bud sites on them receive more light. Many folks will tell you to top them which will get you more main colas but this needs to be done when they are young - when they've got 4 or 5 nodes. There's also mainlining and fimming but I'm totally unfamiliar with those techniques. I would research the different techniques (YouTube has a lot of vids on how to do each!) and decide which of them you will feel comfortable trying... and you can combine techniques as well... Each is designed to produce more bud sites that have more access to light which in turn will produce a larger yield.
Good luck - THIS grow looks great!
Main event this week, was that on Monday, plant 3 (the shortest and the one with "difficult beginning") bent its top stem. (see photos of week 13).
I proactively acted and used a stick in bamboo to support it and I truly hope that it works! For now it did not show evidences of main sufferance.
PLANT 1 = 165cm (65"), +15cm (+6")
PLANT 2 = 152cm (60"), +12cm (+5")
PLANT 3 = 135cm (53"), +7cm (3")
Last days were mostly overcast weather and fresher temperatures here. All 3 plants slowed down their growth and they also lost some yellow leaves from the lower part of the plant. I hope this is normal.
Plant 3, the one that suffered the bending trauma last week (see photos for details) is not showing signs of lethal damage yet, fingers crossed for me please! XD
Now let's have a look of the heights they have reached
PLANT 1 = 165cm (65"), +5cm (+2")
PLANT 2 = 160cm (63"), +8cm (+3")
PLANT 3 = 144cm (57"), +9cm (+3,5")
Hello!
I lost photos from week 15 at the time I created week 16, because it edited previous week and I lost them.
(I did not want to upload random pics but the right ones to keep the diary authentic).
I can share the height they had in week 15 from my personal notes
Plant 1 = 165cm
Plant 2 = 160cm
Plant 3 = 144cm
Plants keep growing a bit despite the fresher weather so far and they reached the following heights
PLANT 1 = 170 cm (67"), +5 cm (+2")
PLANT 2 = 170 cm (67"), +10 cm (+4")
PLANT 3 = 144 cm, +0
I posted some photos that shows the central cola of each plant, many white barbs are growing from branches, does it count as flowering?
Plants are growing indoor on a windows and enjoying natural light that now is about 13h and 30 minutes here.
In week 15 of my diary I posted photos showing central colas of my 3 plants from indoor windows growth.
They show many white barbs across the plant. Natural daylight here is about 13h and 30 min now. More details in diary.
Did they start to flower despite it is not 12-12 yet?
They have started flowering. the 12/12 rule is a bit misleading as plants will flower within 13/11 schedules as well.
Your little ladies are becoming women. Make sure to give them lots of love. It looks as if they have been in flowering for a week or so now as well because in week 14, they were in flower too.
Your diary does not list a light but says its in doors, guessing you growing just off of the windows light.
Will be interesting to see the results at the end of your grow. If you have a light meter you should mesure the stregth of the light coming into the window a diffrent points in the day and trying ti find an average of how much they are getting.
Good Luck!
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Autumn is approaching and the girls stopped to grow, but the amount of flowers is increasing and so are the white barbs...
They are losing some leaves in yellowish color from the bottom part of the plant.
This is their heights
PLANT 1 = 170 cm (67"), //
PLANT 2 = 165 cm (65"), //
PLANT 3 = 145 cm (57"), //
Howdy fellow growers ^^
This week plants did not vertically grow but they look still healthy.
Some lower leaves got yellow and fell.
Some small white dots are showing up on the leaves close to the buds, but the buds are not increasing visibly.
should I do defoliation to increase the yeald?
Thanks for reading me
Few leaves of my plants are getting these pattern with dots. I optimistically hope that it is just part of the aging of the leaves. Other leaves became yellow and fell also (maybe worth to mention).
Is it normal? Thanks
You've got a pretty intense infestation of thrips or spider mites... even if you can't see them! And it doesn't matter which it is so don't obessess with trying to figure that out... just grab yourself either some Spinosad or some Dr. Zymes Eliminator and use as directed - both will kill adult thrips, spider mites, aphids, whiteflies AND their eggs/larvae... both are organic and safe to spray through harvest... do not use neem oil as you are in flower and you don't want that oil on your buds - and it's not that effective to begin with!
Good luck!
Buongiorno amici!
Plants are not growing in height anymore, probably because of the windows growth type (one photo is about this). Also temperature are going down here and my heaters are broken.
Flowers instead are growing in size and the leaves close to them are also getting some coating, while large leaves close to the ground are getting older and yellow.
I believe that this is part of the process, like a natural defoliation!
I also think that they are still far from harvesting, because the buds are not swollen and not so large. Feel free to comment me on anything, I like to share and improve.
Thanks
Howdy Fellow-Growers!
Plants are not growing in height anymore, but the buds are getting heavier!
I took some pictures of the flowering areas and with microscope I took some details of Trichomes. Most of them are transparent and just some are milky. I will wait the flowers open more, barbs get more brown and most importantly, some of them are amber in order to get the insomnia killer effect I need for my condition.
Hello, in the last page of my diary (20), I uploaded some photos of Trichomes that I took with microscope. I believe that they are not ready for my usage (insomnia is my condition) and that I should wait until they are some milky and some amber. Can someone confirm my intuition?
You're intuition is right!
they are pretty clear, but a handful have started to turn.
For your condition, you're going to want the trichomes to be 50% cloudy and 50% amber. This will give you that great couch lock feeling and help you catch some zzzs.
I would say it should be a week or two when it will be ready to harvest, but keep an eye on those trichomes. as soon as it hits 50/50, chop it.
I hope this helps.
Good Luck!
Fellow growers, plants do not increase their height anymore and I think it is related to the height of the windows here!
Buds get more frosty white but still did not open or swell yet, so I guess that I have to wait.
Plants looks the same as last week, so this time I uploaded photos taken with the microscope, enjoy!!
This week is a bit special, because I had to harvest the plant NL III because it was getting dry and festered by mites, while the other 2 are still growing and flowering nicely.
Buds are so heavy that the plant bends a bit for the weight.
I upload photos of the trichomes of the 2 flowering and the crop photos for the third one.
Trichomes looks mostly milky, no one amber yet, but I was also reading that it is myrcene that gives the relaxing and sleepy effect more than the color.
Hi fellow growers! High-5!
Flowering continues thanks to a milder October in this cold country! Plants do not grow taller anymore but I post photos of the trichomes.
Flowers are getting very heavy and the plant is bending for the weight. I am looking forward for a yield that will help my insomnia, finger crossed!
Thanks for reading me!
A partially mild week in this crazy October, the plants looks charged in their trichomes and I am planning to harvest this weekend :)
Please share with me your ideas about maturation...
I know that losing leaves in Autumn is normal also for Cannabis (so I read on Sensi Seeds blog), but now many leaves are getting yellow and the tips of the leaves get curly and dry + trichomes look milky and this makes me think to harvest
Hello!
Northern Lights from Sensi Seeds is a great strain to grow. It is easy and resistant to most things except my stupidity (*) .
I grew them in Central Europe, in pots of 17L on a basic windows growth, with decent soil with additional mycorrhizas.
Generic multi fertilizer like Nitrophoska was added in beginning as granules + I added some poo from rabbits.
Plants grew nicely also with the light from the large windows, but I felt they preferred a warmer and sunnier climate. (next time you can try cool or continental climate strains).
After 25 weeks, I harvested 2 of them (one was harvested couple weeks before, read below for details) and I got 573g of material before drying.
I will try to update the value when it is dried.
Now they are drying like in the video I uploaded.
Thanks for reading my diary.
*) Once I opened the windows and I bent the central stem of the third plant, the smallest since beginning. I put a stick to keep it up and it still survived until flowering. I had to harvest it couple weeks before the others 2 plants, because after this "injury" the plant started to have some mites that were spreading in the plant. In this country, you cannot buy BIO products against parasites, so I preferred to harvest sooner.
For the numbers of this last harvest report, I counted only the 2 that I harvested together and 573g is the wet weight of these other 2.
Hello!
Northern Lights from Sensi Seeds is a great strain to grow. It is easy and resistant to most things except my stupidity (*) .
I grew them in Central Europe, in pots of 17L on a basic windows growth, with decent soil with additional mycorrhizas.
Generic multi fertilizer like Nitrophoska was added in beginning as granules + I added some poo from rabbits.
Plants grew nicely also with the light from the large windows, but I felt they preferred a warmer and sunnier climate. (next time you can try cool or continental climate strains).
After 25 weeks, I harvested 2 of them (one was harvested couple weeks before, read below for details) and I got 573g of material before drying.
I will try to update the value when it is dried.
Now they are drying like in the video I uploaded.
Thanks for reading my diary.
*) Once I opened the windows and I bent the central stem of the third plant, the smallest since beginning. I put a stick to keep it up and it still survived until flowering. I had to harvest it couple weeks before the others 2 plants, because after this "injury" the plant started to have some mites that were spreading in the plant. In this country, you cannot buy BIO products against parasites, so I preferred to harvest sooner.
For the numbers of this last harvest report, I counted only the 2 that I harvested together and 573g is the wet weight of these other 2.
Hello!
Northern Lights from Sensi Seeds is a great strain to grow. It is easy and resistant to most things except my stupidity (*) .
I grew them in Central Europe, in pots of 17L on a basic windows growth, with decent soil with additional mycorrhizas.
Generic multi fertilizer like Nitrophoska was added in beginning as granules + I added some poo from rabbits.
Plants grew nicely also with the light from the large windows, but I felt they preferred a warmer and sunnier climate. (next time you can try cool or continental climate strains).
After 25 weeks, I harvested 2 of them (one was harvested couple weeks before, read below for details) and I got 573g of material before drying.
I will try to update the value when it is dried.
Now they are drying like in the video I uploaded.
Thanks for reading my diary.
*) Once I opened the windows and I bent the central stem of the third plant, the smallest since beginning. I put a stick to keep it up and it still survived until flowering. I had to harvest it couple weeks before the others 2 plants, because after this "injury" the plant started to have some mites that were spreading in the plant. In this country, you cannot buy BIO products against parasites, so I preferred to harvest sooner.
For the numbers of this last harvest report, I counted only the 2 that I harvested together and 573g is the wet weight of these other 2.
Phaleg
