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📋 Grow Diaries: Week 2 of Flowering – The Northern Lights Auto Sisters
The Northern Lights Autoflower sisters, Charlotte and Makayla, have confidently stepped into Week 2 of true flowering. The initial transition phase is settling, and both girls are busy stacking up distinct pre-flower clusters on the deck.
Because these are autoflowers tracking on a fixed schedule, this week clearly illustrates how a complete divergence in training strategies can entirely alter the plant's architecture and budding profile.
🎀 A Study in Contrast: Natural vs. Pinned Down
While sharing the exact same indica-dominant genetic backbone, the structural contrast between the two sisters is night and day right now:
Charlotte (The Natural Tree):
Training: Left completely alone to do her own thing, Charlotte has been allowed to grow naturally.
Structure & Flowering:** She is exhibiting a textbook, upright Christmas tree shape with a strong apical dominance. Her primary central cola towers over the rest of the plant, heavily stacking clusters of white pistils along a single vertical pillar. Her side branches gracefully skirt the main trunk, catching excellent sun from her upright stance.
Makayla (The Pinned-Down Canopy):
Training: Placed under intensive low-stress training, Makayla has been meticulously pinned down closer to the soil.
Structure & Flowering: By forcing her main stem down horizontally, her natural apical dominance was broken. As a result, her side branches have been thrown into the spotlight, rising up to create a much flatter, bushed-out tabletop canopy. She sits significantly lower to the pot than her sister but features multiple evenly distributed budding tops across her wider footprint.
The Mid-Bloom Menu: Dialing in FOOP Organic Bloom
To fuel this rapid flower production without stalling their internal clocks, the girls have been transitioned onto a premium organic bloom regimen:
FOOP Bloom 1 & Bloom 2: This core base duo is delivering a highly bioavailable punch of organic phosphorus, potassium, and fish-based micronutrients to accelerate calyx stacking and strengthen stem development.
FOOP Sweetener: Infused into the feed to load up the root zone with complex carbohydrates, driving up microbial activity in the soil and giving the sisters the raw fuel they need to crank up early resin and trichome synthesis.
Irrigation Setup The green automated drip rings (1000003513.jpg) ensure this organic blend is evenly distributed across the entire surface of the fabric pots, feeding the root zones consistently without creating dry pockets.
Pistil Development: White hairs are actively grouping up at every node site, most prominently on Charlotte's dominant main tower
Foliage Check: The fan leaves on both plants remain an incredibly vibrant, healthy green (1000003325.jpg), showing that the FOOP nutrient uptake is smooth and perfectly balanced for this stage of life.
Grower's Note: Watching a single strain express itself in two totally distinct structural shapes because of a simple twist in training is what makes grow diaries so rewarding. Charlotte is maximizing her main vertical column, while Makayla is converting her flat footprint into a broad field of tops. Next week, the bud swelling truly begins!
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@TerpTurtle
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terpene expression is getting more rich and funky fuely & calyxes finishing up
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@Mo_Powers
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the weather in my part of germany is really bad for this summer at the moment. it's raining too much. i've put them in a dry place to prevent mould from forming. maybe they're not getting as much fertiliser. they'll get one more week and then they'll be harvested.
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@GreenthumbJacobs
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Die gute wächst und wächst 🤩🙏🏻
Ein bisschen Training für die gute und ein bisschen entlaubt.
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@CannaGods
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Last week I had decided to flower the plant as it is growing very large, here are a few notes for new growers.
Always flip your plant's light schedule when the plant is at the desired height this plant is now 3 1/2 feet tall. Cannabis plants tend to double in size depending on how well they are taking care of.
If you do not pay close attention to the height of your plants you will inevitably have a plant that will outgrow your tent.
Here are a few notes for some growers that have not grown in h20.,
First you can grow your cannabis in any substrate you want, the substrates that growers put here are common that you can find all over the Internet and in some local flowering shops however, all that matters is that the roots touch the water. You can grow in the glass fish balls, you can grow in non-toxic gel balls, you can pretty much grow in any substrate you want.
Second note: growing in h20 in my opinion is a lot more easier than growing in soil. Some growers will say that cannabis has a different taste in soil there is no science that concludes that the cannabis will taste any better or any less good in H2O or soil. It is all opinion.
However, growing in H2O does need to be taken care of carefully. Always remember to make sure no light is getting inside the reservoir and keep the reservoir clean of all debris. It's the same concept of having a pool. If you have a pool with no debridement it will stay crystal-clear with no filtration for a very long time. However, if you get debris in a pool unwanted organisms will start to grow such as algae bacteria, and other things that you would not want to touch your body, take that concept and apply it to a cannabis plant.
Hydro guard is a failsafe in case you are too lazy to keep the reservoir clean. It will prevent root slime rot and many root problems (It's beneficial bacteria similar to what is in recharge only for H2O)
Lastly, Your plants if grown in hydrogen will grow rapidly more rapidly than in soil you yield will be produced faster. Also, remember the substrate is free, if you cannot purchase deionized water you can use regular tap water as long as the PPM is low, even so, you can offset the PPM as long as it's tested. You will save hundreds of dollars in soil Perlite, and other fertilizers. Some growers will state that the chemical fertilizers are bad for you, that is completely untrue and also unproven. Again NASA uses general hydroponics To grow produce in space.
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Week 10
Gorilla Cookies Auto (Fast Buds)
Keep getting fatter
Week 10....5 week of flowering (73 days)
It has 64 centimeters
16L
This Week - Defoliation-
Godzilla Cookies (Herbies)
Keep getting fatter
Week 9 Week 3 week of flowering (63 days)
It has 71 centimeters
15L
This Week - Defoliation
Gorilla Glue Auto (Herbies)
It has 25 centimeters
6 Week...1 Week of flowering (38 days)
This Week - LST - Defoliation
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Week 8 and the smell is unbelievable..the name suits this strain well..its extremely sweet ,kinda like grape soda syrup and gases the entire room every time the tent is opened..all plants are caked in frost..
We checked trichomes last week nearly all were still clear but the density is amazing.. these are still showing slight signs of nutrient burn with little change from a week of water so we'll give it another and then one last heavy feeding to finish the grow out with water..
I can't wait to smoke my first bowl of this stuff..the pictures don't do it justice, I know its going to be out of this world...thanks as always for dropping by and happy harvests everyone!! ❤️🌱
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@DankeyeBeaverjuice
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Cal-def on 1 plant of 6 (tallest)
Color fade beginning
Overall good health
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@NAG420
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Finally get to update she is now in a 5 gallon pot inside the @MarsHydroLED tent with the FCE4800 lamp at 50% 18in day time temp was 78F with 58%RH she is doing great right now will start LST this week next feeding will be only water she is on her 2nd 3Week feeding schedule I only use Fox Farm product's. Water is always 6.5 PH Reverse Osmosis.
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Looks like the streching is just about done.
some nice buds are forming all over but i cant really tell if it will be verry productive yet. The flowers seem somewhat dense, that is a nice change fron the usual airy buds.
I am feeding acording to a chart i found... But i dont think i will go above what i am giving now.
The plan now is to feed at this rate till second to last week, then lower the amount of nutrients before flushing for the last week.
Any input or comments are welcome. Things i should do aswell as things i should not.
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Day 100 - All ladies looking good at this point in the grow. Noemi's pistil hairs have mostly all curled up and turned amber in color. Also her trichomes are starting to appear amber in color. Will flush her pot with about 5 gallons of pH'd water soon. Natalia's pistils are about half curled up/amber and half white. Her buds still appear to be packing on trichomes and weight.
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23/4 :
Received the Migro Aray 240W so i switched the lamps in the box. I'm not using the old 600w LED fixture.
It will grow even better with the new light !!! 👽
Still don't have a basic grow nutrient, will try to grab one soon.
2 Pink Gasoline and 1 Capri Zun didn't make it unfortunaltely 😞
25/4 :
The Migro light delivers the first results !!
Also i ordered the whole FloraFlex nutrient line. Can't wait to receive these 😊
Processing
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@FrightNiteFreddy94
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Everything's good buying a 600watt ZNet 4 to add more light!
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@ibbzy
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- just water feedings from now and might start defoliating in week 8 to prepare for harvest