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Northern Lights in northern Alberta
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Week 1. Vegetation6y ago
12 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
5 °C
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26.5 L
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Northern_Ent Scrambled to purchase seeds locally after online order of one Royal Jack Auto seed failed to germinate. Growing outdoors at latitude 53 so timing relative to last frost day and summer solstice is crucial.
This is the last of the plants to get started. Also growing Polar Express, Pineapple Chunk and Girl Scout Cookies. All outdoor in soil.
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Week 2. Vegetation6y ago
3 cm
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22 °C
Day Air Temp
7 °C
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26.5 L
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Northern_Ent Lost some seedlings to birds (damn magpies) and/or dog (he’s still a good boy) and general over confidence. Down to last NL auto seedling.
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Week 3. Vegetation6y ago
5.08 cm
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20 °C
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4 °C
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26.5 L
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Northern_Ent Lots of rain and cool weather.
Next two weeks look to be prime growing conditions and well timed with the summer solstice in two weeks. 🤠
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Week 4. Vegetation6y ago
15.24 cm
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12 hrs
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22 °C
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6.4
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10 °C
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26.5 L
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Northern_Ent NIce weather.
Bought pH meter. City water pH is 7.5 but cannabis optimum is 6-6.5. One capful of vinegar in 7 L of water to fix.
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Week 5. Vegetation6y ago
17.78 cm
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12 hrs
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20 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
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8 °C
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26.5 L
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Northern_Ent Topped plant on Day 23.
Molasses and Natures Source in pHed water.
Looking good.
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Week 6. Flowering6y ago
30.48 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
22 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
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No Smell
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8 °C
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26.5 L
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Northern_Ent Seems to be doing okay after being topped. Started later than other plants.
Still using molasses and Natures Source. June was cool and rainy but plants are doing fine and well timed wrt frost and solstice. 😎
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Week 7. Flowering6y ago
58.42 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
22 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
No Smell
Smell
10 °C
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26.5 L
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Northern_Ent Gaining some height this week with flowering starting. Same nutes as other plants (molasses, Nature’s Source, calcium citrate, pHed water).
Lots of rain and cool weather this summer but plant still seems happy.
Updated: try to get my day and week count to match up better. Gained 5 inches in six days (now 23 in).
Added Epsom salts to fertilizer concoction one day this week and all four plants loved it.
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Week 8. Flowering6y ago
63.5 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
22 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
No Smell
Smell
10 °C
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26.5 L
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Northern_Ent Gaining some height. topping seems to have worked and there are now four evenly sized colas.
I think the cold nights here must slow down the metabolism of these autoflowers a bit. Long sunlight hours here (53N) make a big difference too. AnywAy the combination of toppping, low temps, and long hours of daylight work well together. I think all of my plants are taller than advertised....and we’ll see how they yield. 🤠
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Week 9. Flowering6y ago
88.9 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
No Smell
Smell
75 %
Air Humidity
10 °C
Night Air Temp
26.5 L
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Northern_Ent Cool rainy and humid. Where is summer? I’ve got buds to ripen.
Trimmed lower canopy on July 20 to improve airflow.
Stretch happening as it has gained about an inch a day lately. A couple hot days got things going again. 🤠 Day 59 now 35 inches (89 cm) despite being topped.
Day 61 used Big Bud for first time after I decided I needed a different bloom nute.
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Week 10. Flowering6y ago
88.9 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
Weak
Smell
75 %
Air Humidity
10 °C
Night Air Temp
26.5 L
Pot Size
Nutrients 1
Big Bud
1 mll
Northern_Ent First week using Big Bud. See Week 12 comment in my GSC diary. The colas stretched noticeably the day after the first round of BB.
Day 74 still going with Big Bud, molasses and pHed water. Harvested main colas on GSC and PE today but this plant was started later and needs more time.
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Week 11. Flowering6y ago
88.9 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
25 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
Weak
Smell
75 %
Air Humidity
10 °C
Night Air Temp
26.5 L
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Nutrients 1
Big Bud
1 mll
Northern_Ent Flowering with Big Bud, molasses and pHed water.
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Week 12. Flowering6y ago
88.9 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
Weak
Smell
75 %
Air Humidity
10 °C
Night Air Temp
26.5 L
Pot Size
Nutrients 1
Big Bud
1 mll
Northern_Ent Blooming. Messed up diary entry...days are off...happens
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Week 13. Flowering6y ago
88.9 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
Weak
Smell
75 %
Air Humidity
10 °C
Night Air Temp
26.5 L
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Nutrients 1
Big Bud
1 mll
Northern_Ent Still flowering...Big Bud, molasses and pHed water.
Looking good.
Day 86 applied a bit of soluble seaweed extract as a foliar spray mostly to provide K. Gaiagreen soluble seaweed extract in 300 g container should last a long time as only 1/4 tsp in 1L is used for a foliar spray. Not necessary for this plant but GSC needed it and this plant got some too.
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Week 14. Flowering6y ago
88.9 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
6.3
pH
Weak
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
8 °C
Night Air Temp
26.5 L
Pot Size
Nutrients 1
Big Bud
1 mll
Northern_Ent Plants were watered while I was away, but no photos.
Day 95 applied Gaia Green soluble seaweed extract as a foliar spray. Returned four hours later and colours had changed a lot. Now has some great purple to go with usual ‘fall colours’ 🤠
Day 96 decide to do partial harvest to deal with what looks like mildew on the stems. Same problem on the GSC plant. Harvested 68 g wet trimmed buds today (Aug 27).
Colours are pretty great likely because we’ve had some cool nights here lately down to 3-4 C and then back up to around 20 C during the day.
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Week 14. Harvest6y ago
Happy Harvest Day!
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Super easy and beautiful colours with the low overnight temps. Nice choice as a resilient and easy to grow plant that works well outdoors.
There is a great lavender or floral smell in the curing jar, and the smoke tastes great. Medium strength smoke with nice relaxing effect. Nice plant for backyard or stealth grows. Highly recommended. 😎
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521 g
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91 g
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Northern_Ent Could have gone longer but there was some bud rot happening due to the cool and humid weather which isn’t getting any better soon. Had to harvest, but it still looks like a pretty good yield.
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Northern_Entcommentedweek 46y ago
This is my first attempt at an outdoor grow and I’m treating them much like my tomatoes and hot peppers. So, yes 10 C or lower (3C one nigh recently) can slow things down even when the days are in the 20s, but I figure with the allowed four legal plants here in Canada I don’t have to sweat it too much. I could bring them in, but it would pretty much have to be frost before I’d do it.
The plants are going good now, just at the solstice, and everything is on schedule.
I checked out your NL page...looks very good. I’ll be interested to see the difference with what I end up with. Should be similar but your seeds are RQS and mine are Crop King.
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CoastGrowercommented6y ago
@Northern_Ent, RH goes above 80 gor a couple hours during nights here..
It was the first time ever that I had mildew in
My life. But after the h202 wash it doesn’t seem to be infected anymore, it’s drying nicely without any mildew yaay :)
Yeah my new plant is growing faster :) now let’s hope it stays healthy!
Thanks for stopping by!
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Northern_Entcommented6y ago
@CoastGrower, I think I’ll make a point of keeping the plants off the grass overnight. I’ve had mould in the garden on regular flowers in previous years. I never realized how humid it can be here in the summer.
For the Morning sun plants are on the concrete anyway so that helps me remember to do it each day. 😎
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CoastGrowercommented6y ago
@Northern_Ent, maybe I need to put him on the concrete as well.. good tip!
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Northern_Entcommentedweek 16y ago
Germinated seeds using Crop King’s recommended paper towel method. Apparently I wasn’t keeping the towels moist enough here in our dry climate. Slow to pop, but finally got 4 of 5 to go.
Planted germinated seeds directly into soil on May 23, but not up as of May 26. Hopefully I didn’t stick them in too deep but I think I did over-water them a bit today.
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Cannibalgardenscommentedweek 136y ago
Nice colours
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Northern_Entcommented6y ago
@Cannibalgardens, ha ha. Winters are usually not all that bad here but last February was brutal. Our summers are usually pretty great but this one was pretty cool and humid.
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Northern_Entcommented6y ago
@Cannibalgardens, congrats on Grower of the month.
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Cannibalgardenscommented6y ago
@Northern_Ent,thanks man
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ShotGunBobcommentedweek 146y ago
Congrats. I guess 120g dry?!
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Northern_Entcommented6y ago
@@ShotGunBob, thanks. I was thinking in that range. With an outdoor northern latitude grow, I will be at or near the top yield on Growdiaries for all four of my plants. Not expected but pretty awesome. 🤠
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Northern_Entcommented6y ago
@@ShotGunBob, 91 g dry...I thought it would be over 100 g but still record setting for this strain on Growdiaries🤠
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Cannibalgardenscommentedweek 86y ago
I can say she is looking good brother I live in southern Ontario so cheers to Canadian growers . She gonna get tall with the stretch gonna follow along and see how she goes .
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Northern_Entcommented6y ago
@Cannibalgardens, thanks, eh? The Canadians are fairly easy to spot when they’re doing outdoor grows. Four plants and cool overnight temps 😎🇨🇦 I’m so stoked at the size of all four of my plants. I’m pretty sure I’ll be giving some away so I can have the fun of growing four different strains next year.
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Cannibalgardenscommented6y ago
@Northern_Ent,yes they are lol ,and with four plants plenty of smoke,edibles,tinctures oil eveything so easy to make it should be legal everywhere.
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Cannibalgardenscommentedweek 106y ago
Looking good ..nice buds.
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Northern_Entcommented6y ago
@Cannibalgardens, thanks, eh? This is the youngest of the four I’ve got going and was the reliable insurance plant in case the other ones crapped out for some reason.
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Cannibalgardenscommentedweek 96y ago
I'm hot humid and stupid hot here in southern Ontario lol .. she looking good .
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CoastGrowercommentedweek 46y ago
She’s growing fast! Do you leave her outside during nighttime? 10C is cold and can slow her growth. My NL is at week 10 you can check my diary if you want, I’m also doing LST.
Good luck buddy! 👍✌️
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