Northern Light: time for redention

So... here we are again! I screwed things a little bit with my past two growing experiences, one of which was a danish version of the Northern Light Auto, the Nordlys. My first mistake was to start the crop very early into spring for an auto, out of boredom during the coronavirus quarantine and some over excitement due to the fact that growing my own weed was becoming real! I also made some watering mistakes, that stressed the plants to grow less and to have some Ca/Mg blocking. Also, it made the roots not to develop to the maximum size of the pot -I think-. My father decided to plant his own weed too. But, as a father, he just went for the CBD weed 😂. With the seeds he bought, some presents from Royal Queen Seeds arrived. One of them was this seed. If you ever get to read this, thank you very much guys!! Now I have an opportunity to redeem myself with this strain, and apply my recently learned tips and tricks to outyield my first try with Northern Light Auto. That first crop is in week 6 now, so writing its diary will help make notes about any other possible mistakes. Why do I expect this one to go better? Well, I have more hours of light a day, more sunny days ahead, a good seed from a really reliable seedbank and a huge 25 litre pot. On top of that, I will LST this plant with the traditional tie to the border of the pot, so that there is an extra boost for maximizing my yield. ****FIRST STEPS**** First of all, I want to make clear that this diary will have very brief entrances in the basics-related stuff. My approach will be exactly the same as in my 'mistery autos' diaries, so I will just work based on that and sum it up here. When I do more complicated stuff I will dive into the explanations. So this week I just germinated the seed in a tupper with a napkin, and after 3 days or so it was ready to plant. I prepared the pot with a layer of rocks in the bottom and then mixed the soil with perlite and arlite, making sure the soil will be airy enough in the future. I watered the soil until it was completely wet, put the seed in and it popped out to the surface 3 days later. Right now I am using the greenhouse I had done for the previous grow. All day every day.

Second week was a bit cloudy and rainy, but not cold because of the greenhouse. When the plant grew as much as not to be endangered by birds wanting to eat it, I put the greenhouse apart during the day, but kept it on again for the nights. Nothing new to say, it is growing healthy and fast as expected. You can see in the pictures. I am already preparing root stimulator for the moment the soil dries. I want to make sure roots grow all over the gigantic pot!

Everything going smoothly. Good weather is helping. However, there was a lot of wind wind day, and a part of a leaf broke a little. But it is OK. No watering yet

I'm not paying a lot of attention to the plant, but, honestly, it is surprising me how fast it is growing. The big leaves are monster-like. First week I'm doing something different: Firstly, on day 24, I watered 3,5 L of chlorine-evaporated water with my root stimulant. Exactly the lentil home-made one I explain in my first diary. How did I do it? It is very little water for the volume of the pot, so I just watered around the border of the pot. Soil wasn't dry at all. However, I think this will not soak the roots as they have not grown that much, but make them extend towards the water. Secondly, on day 25, I sprayed very little, just a click, of a fertilizer I had prepared for other plants. It had a mix of NPK, with more P and K.

This week I paid even less attention to this one, but it keeps doing perfectly. I have high expectations for this one, both in height (>1m?) and yield (let's pray...). As it was growing so fast and beautiful, I decided to forget about LSTing it. I will have time to experiment with that technique in my next grows. It rained almost every morning on the plant, wich made the times of my watering, I guess. The only thing i did this week to the plant, apart from the photos, was to add a little root stimulant with 3 L of water along the edges of the pot.

I am tripping with this plant: can't believe it is growing this big, very crazy! Seems like it will grow as tall as a tree. Gladly, I can say I really think I will redeem myself with this strain. I did not touch the plant at all this week, and the only water it got was from the rain of a single day. Feeling like it is time to get playful with LST 😏.

I am so excited... lots of expectations for this plant. It is getting so big I usually call it the 'dinosaur' 😂. It has rained over it a lot this week, and I think that should stop so I'll be more careful with that. Because there is Mg deficiency in some leaves, typical of an overwatered plant. Apart from that it is really healthy. I am waiting for it to 'ask' for some cares, ferts or something, but it is not the case. Yet. I will gladly give whatever is needed. And this week's main thing... The LST! It is a shame that i could not keep record of the process and how the training evolved. Just a pic from 3 days later. Anyways, the important thing is that it seems to work. Now there is more exposure to light for the side branches, which will grow like colas from the height zero instead of being a little bud site in the shade. We have a very differentiated top part, growing like a plant would normally do, and a LSTed part in the bottom. This is my first real training of a plant, so I won't do more than this. And wish for it to work into a larger yield! Sorry for not having more pics...

What's up mfkas! What do you think of these nugs? I have been away from the diaries for a couple months and, when i compare the difference between weeks 7 and 14, I trip. Everything is going good and buds are maturing, meanwhile bigger fan leaves die and fall. Expecting a couple more weeks before cuting the plant. And also expecting a big yield! What do you guys estimate I will get away with? I will update in these next weeks. I'm sorry for not doing so this months but I had a lot of work to do. I wonder if paying less attention to plants these months has had a bad repercussion. Could it get better tho?

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