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Planted one of three seeds in 0.5L pot filled with a low nutrient mix. Germinated fast and without any trouble.
Didn't even have to remove the helmet !
Nothing special occured during the second week following germination week. No weird leaf mutations. Growing with expected vigour.
End of week 2 she was ready to be transplanted into 1.5L pot filled with 50% Compo Sana QBE Light 15% Perlite 15% Vermiculite 20% Coco (Coco simply because I had some left and didn't want to throw it away)
Happily arrived in her forever home (until harvest ;) She grew vigorously and with low internodal spacing. Had to defoliate fan leafs so lateral branches could get adequate light.
At the end of this week I topped her because next week the switch to flower was coming, and I like all the lateral branches to end up around the same height after the stretch.
Mainly prep for full flower this week. Cleaned up the lower branches and removed some leafs to allow light to reach the upcoming budsites.
Some branch training too because there's always one or two trying to do their own shit.😔
Still stretching a little... For the NL the start of flower seems a little bit more vigorous than for the others in the tent.
Took a few cuttings (in flower) to see if they would root/reveg.
Trichome development is starting too.. could not help myself and touched some and rubbed my fingers to smell. Completely blew me away! Most plants, to me, smell somewhat comparable to something edible, this one didn't. If Axe made a deodorant called "Woody Pungeant Christmas Blast" it would smell like this. (And I would buy it😋)
As the earliest of the bunch her pistils started browning this week too. Stretch was over, she would stay relatively small.
Bud development is progressing nicely.
Even though the plants shade of green was already a little on the lighter side, some fan leafs started showing actual signs of chlorosis - should have been more generous with nutrients. (Solution was around 1700uS with tap water already coming out the wall around 450uS)
If only setting up reverse osmosis wasnt that much work. :(
I apologize for the colour discrepancies in/out of the tent (this one and other weeks). Lots of light seems to confuse the automatic setting on my phone and the manual mode might as well be in Swahili. 😩
Buds are developing well. Symptoms from nutrient deficiency aren't worsening (I gave her some additional epsomite for Mg and upped nitrogen last week). Plant should be ready in the next 10 days so only water now.
Overall growing Seedstockers' Northern Lights was a great experience. Both of my other plants in the same soil-mix/nutrients this run had some Calcium problems leading to necrosis on the leafs. This one just did not. I'm guessing her root system must have been more capable?!
Another thing which surprised me was the consistency of fresh-from-the-plant mashed trichomes between the fingers. Usually that to me feels a little sandy and mostly sticky. Not on this plant though .. this was very fine and almost oily. Interestingly this difference doesn't effect smell or potency - which are both absolutely great! There _was_ a minor, strangey-planty aftertaste when consumed early after the drying process, but that completely disappeared during the cure.
Harvest on this one was a little more work than usual. My fault : lower buds turned out to be slightly on the fluffy side (I should have removed more sites not fully in the light).
(Will add the smoke report some time later probably next week)
Danylo
