RQS Northern Lights Auto 💚🧡💜

Kirsten 8.3.25: Northern Lights: Seed has broken ground in less than 48h. 🌱 I used my little 5 watt heat matt under the pot, to keep up the temperature whilst germination takes place. So far, so good! 🌱✌️🍃 9.3.25: I have removed the heat mat, and also I had to remove the shell, it came off easily. I was worried because the shell had trapped water inside and so thought it best to remove it. I also removed the humidity dome. The first leaves have emerged today. The super soil mix I made was approximately constituted 8 gallons of; ☆ 60% Canna Coco ☆ 30% Perlite ☆ 9% Worm castings ☆ 1% Organic dry amendments. - Ecothrive Life Cycle - Ecothrive Charge - Diatomaceous Earth - Ground Cinnamon - RHS Mycorrhizal Fungi granules - Great White Mycorrhizal Fungi blend

Kirsten 14.3.25: Northern Lights is looking great. 💚💜🧡 I watered a couple of litres over the last week. I've been watering around the whole pot to encourage root stretching and kick-start the dry amendments and feed the Mycorrhizae. I left the first 2 inches around the seedling until today🌱 Today, I watered with 1.5 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.2 with: ♡ Black strap molasses ♡ Ecothrive Biosys Thanks for checking in ✌️🌱🤞💚

Kirsten The super soil mix I made was approximately constituted 8 gallons of; ☆ 60% Canna Coco ☆ 30% Perlite ☆ 9% Worm castings ☆ 1% Organic dry amendments. - Ecothrive Life Cycle - Ecothrive Charge - Diatomaceous Earth - Ground Cinnamon - RHS Mycorrhizal Fungi granules - Great White Mycorrhizal Fungi blend 14.3.25: Northern Lights is looking great. 💚💜🧡 I watered a couple of litres over the last week. I've been watering around the whole pot to encourage root stretching and kick-start the dry amendments and feed the Mycorrhizae. I left the first 2 inches around the seedling until today🌱 Today, I watered with 1.5 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.2 with: ♡ Black strap molasses ♡ Ecothrive Biosys 16.3.25: Northern Lights got 2ltrs of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4 with; ♡ .5g Mega Crop Part A ♡ .5g Mega Crop Part B I watered all around the outer perimeter of the pot inwards. I left the centre 3 inches dry. 18.3.25: Northern Lights 💚💜 I decided to go ahead and top the plant. She looks to be strong and healthy. I took the sterilised scissors and tried to cut it cleanly. I think, Surely will be interesting either way! 😅 she is currently 12 days old. Very pleased with the progress so far. 23.3.25: The plant has taken very well to being topped. Growing well and strong 💪 looking forward to starting proper veg phase here soon! 😊 Thanks for checking in ✌️🌱🤞💚

Kirsten Wow, this has been a wild week here! She is looking so good. She has perfect form, many tops. And is definitely winning against my FastBuds Mystery seed #1. Hands down my favourite plant, maybe... ever! It's absolutely perfect. Look at her! 😍 A true dream come true... Now watch me mess this up! 😅 Anyway so I fimmed, and ended up with 7 tops. Very happy with that. Training started, to begin to open up all of those tops. I used the LST clips to bend over the stems away from the plants centre. I did this with every branch. I water with 2 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4 which I will add .5g Ecothrive Biosys to. I water about every 3-4 days, when the pots have dried sufficiently. Thanks for checking out my diary and hanging out 🍃✌️💚🙂

Kirsten 6.4.25: I watered with 2ltrs of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4 with the following nutrients;- ♡ 4ml Xpert Nutrients Cal-Mag amino acids ♡ .75g Ecothrive Biosys Total PPM 880. NORTHERN LIGHTS: After the absolute disaster that occurred after my last update here, we have managed not to do any further damage! I did not put Grommets/ Eyelets in the pots and forgot until everything was planted. Obviously, it wasn't a possibility at that point! 😅 I decided to make some little wire holders for the pot. I used some pieces of fleece, which I cut to size, then sewed them to specification. Afterwards, I used my glue gun to secure them to my pot. The soil does stick to the fleece and absorb water, so it may cause mould issues. If you're not careful. I could have used my felt, but fleece was closer at hand. Felt would have been better. I'm only using it as I forgot the eyelets this time around. So I threaded the wire through the holes, cut to size, and began to LST the plants branches into place. I made sure to water before doing the training this time, as I really don't want to snap anything else off of her 😬 only bending down the multiple tops to achieve an even canopy. I'm very pleased with how she has handled all of this stress like an absolute champion 🏆 Thanks for hanging out 🍃 ✌️ 💚 🙂

Kirsten 13.4.25: This week has been so busy in the garden! I forgot to take any notes, so I'll see what I can do from memory! 😅 I watered several times this week, and I used Ecothrive Biosys with dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4. I watered about 2 litres to each plant. 14.4.25: I have been super busy with all the other harvests in the past several days, so this is a little late. Northern lights was FIM'ed, and the growth has been nothing short of explosive. I have been using wire, clips and Bio stretch fabric plant ties to LST the plant. The plant has expanded past the 8 Gallon pot perimeter by a good amount. The plant is in the first week of flower. I'm hoping to keep the canopy even with my FastBuds Mystery seed grow as I need to be able to compare the plants accurately for the experiments. I did snap off a branch, and break a couple more. The plant is very resilient, and you wouldn't know anything happened at all. Training Techniques used this week are LST and Super-cropping. I watered on 13th and 14th with the following solution; 4 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4 which contained: ♡ 8 ml Xpert Nutrients Cal-Mag amino acids ♡ 1/2 Teaspoon Mega Crop Part A by Greenleaf Nutrients. PPM: 1000. 2 litres were given on two consecutive days. I watered in a top dress, which I will add what I used here; but it was another mess up, I'm sure you'll be surprised to hear 😅 I started using the Cal-Mag as there were signs of deficiency on my FastBuds Mystery seed #1, which is 3 days older and still smaller than this one. So it was a good sign for me to dose up for both plants. The tent is looking a little empty 🤔🤫😅 Top dress: 4 gallons containing approximately: 50% Canna Terra Mix soil 25% Worm Castings 23% Perlite 2% Organic Dry Amendments, which were; ☆ Ecothrive Life Cycle ☆ Ecothrive Charge ☆ Diatomaceous Earth ☆ Ground Cinnamon ☆ RHS Mycorrhizal Fungi granules I used the top dress amount for established plants for a pot size of 30L / 8 Gallons. Thanks for hanging out 🍃 ✌️ 💚 🙂

Kirsten 16.4.25: I have retied the fabric ties again, as they're growing like crazy. Trying to open up the plant, to grow out as well as up. This will also create new colas. At this stage, I'm trying not to over fertilise like I did with the last grow. Focusing on Cal-Mag amino acids and Mega Crop Part A. The medium is my custom super soil, which is already fertilised with Ecothrive dry amendments. So I could just add water. However, as we've already run into deficiency, that would be careless. I find it easy to keep an eye on the plants and carefully inspect them daily to act quickly when issues arise. Learning how to determine the issue is what I'm still learning, which is the hard part 😅 It's all fun though, and I'm really enjoying this grow with all the toppings and FIMs. So far so good! 21.4.25: Hope everyone had a great 420! Northern lights is absolutely beautiful, great structure. I'm determining when to relax the LST as we are now in the beginning of week 3 flower. I do have height. However, I'd like to keep it reasonable. You never know when they will stop growing. I'm not really adjusting any ties since the last time, but I have added an LST clips as one of the middle tops was much talker than the others. I am trying very hard to exercise some much necessary self restraint here! 😅 it is becoming increasingly difficult! I have also noticed that there are signs of Nitrogen excess. Maybe 2 leaves have very thin overlapping blades. Instead of Mega Crop Part A and Cal-Mag amino acids, I will use Bud explosion PK booster with the Cal-Mag. This will make the N5 the only Nitrogen being given. It still may be too much, but will monitor closely to see the effect this change will make, if any. Balancing the nutrients is very important for me to learn, and it's going to be an ongoing process. I watered today with 3 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4 with the following nutrients: ♡ 1/2 Tsp of Bud Explosion PK booster by Greenleaf nutrients ♡ 5ml Cal-Mag amino acids by Xpert Nutrients 23.4.25: Plant seemed to be drinking heavily, so I watered again with 3 litres of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.3 with;- ♡ 2.5ml Cal-Mag amino acids by Xpert Nutrients, and ♡ Ecothrive Biosys 1/8 tsp. I removed the plant ties and retied the plant after watering. Less ties are necessary as the plant has moulded and stayed in that structure. 25.4.25: Northern Lights was much overdue for a retie of the fabric ties. After this session of LST, the plant is absolutely huge. I really could easily fill the tent with just her. The fact that this plant could fill out a 4ft² space absolutely proves that autoflowering strains can outdo photoperiods. This particular strain, as well as my RQS Fat bananas, have been an absolute dream to grow. They take training like they're craving it. 😍 Thanks for checking out my diary and hanging out 😃💚✌️🍃😊