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My First Grow: Northern Lights
First of all, let me thank everyone who has helped me with my first grow. Cannabis.com along with you well informed and helpful members helped me accomplish something I've been wanting to do for a while now. Everything from convincing me to start, to what strain, to my setup, lights, soil, nutes, plant problems, etc.
I wish I had started a log from day one, unfortunatly though my camera was broken and i never thought it would take this long to get fixed, I finally gave up and went out and bought a new one today.
I'm already nearing harvest, Day 31 of flower. The strain is Northern Lights. My setup is a cabinet 30"X15"X60" using only CFLs. My exhaust is simply 2 Frebreeze odour catching fans that are aimed out two holes near the top of the cab, two air intake holes at the bottom. IMO this is a good way to exhaust for a small setup. They are very very quiet, they blow out a good amount of air, and they collect the smell as the air leaves the cab.
To fill you in on what has happened so far, I had trouble getting started because my white widow seeds would not even germinate...i had 4 trying to go, and after 3 or 4 weeks i just gave up on them, my 2 Northern lights had germinated within 1 or 2 days, planted and sprouted an inch over night...I picked a bad soil to start, the sprouts stopped growing after a couple inches and turned yellow....I transplanted them using a different soil and planted 2 more Northern Lights from seed at the same time. My 2 sprouts quickly turned a healthy green, and my two seeds had sprouted...The two new sprouts quickly grew and over towered the two older plants, and still today they are both much taller and more full than the original one....out of 4 plants growing, I only had 1 male which i immidiatly killed, leaving 3 beautiful healthy girls. That was it for problems, its been an easy grow since then.
I was feeding them with 20:20:20 nutes and they loved it...i used the nutes about once a week, until they grew so big that i was afraid they would run out of space so i stopped using the nutes...Instead I started using honey in my water which i was told helps with the buds....I've been using honey once a week since.
But enough reading for now, lets get to what im sure most of you came here to see, PICS!!!
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Mar-26-2008, 19:02
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1. Britni - One of the girls planted from seed
2. Chandler - One of the first two plants i started
3. Jasmine - The second girl planted from seed
4 and 5 - group photos in the cab
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Mar-26-2008, 19:09
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More pics
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Mar-26-2008, 19:18
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Thats it for today, will post more later...any tips or suggestions are welcome. Thanks, WeedNeedy
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Mar-26-2008, 20:24
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Looking g8 Weedy....nice & healthy plants...  How many CFL's are you using?? and what kind?? |
Mar-27-2008, 15:24
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Thanks Zeb, for veg I started with 5 27Watt Cool Light, and then added 3 more...for veg i switched the bulbs to the regular Daylight 23Watt bulbs
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Mar-27-2008, 16:22
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Mar-29-2008, 17:17
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Couple Questions
Couple more photos....not too much development really...but you can really see the THC coming in on that last picture
I've been looking at some pictures of Northern Lights right around the same day in flower as im at now, my pictures are not as impressive as thiers...especially you can tell with this first pic, its showing a lot more stem than i would have expected for day 34...I realize I'm not using as good as lights as they are, but their pictures show full thick buds over the entire stem, this one plant in particular are little tiny buds that seem to be spread out...is this normal for Day 34 of flower?..there is only about 10-15 days left until harvest so i want to help them as much as i can...is there anything I can do to help mature the buds more? I'm already mixing honey in with their water, but I stopped giving them nutes, should i continue to give them nutes?
An unrelated question that maybe i should have asked at the start....but should i be spraying my plants with water?, the leaves and flowers? would that do harm, good or nothing?
Thanks, WeedNeedy
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Mar-29-2008, 18:16
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You see, this is what im talking about...This is Nirvana Northern Lights, same as mine....this was grown with 12 23W CFLs, the difference, and definatly something im going to try next time, this grow was done using 12/12 from seed....this is only 54 days after germination....yield was over an ounce off each plant...pretty amazing if you ask me...any tips on how to grow pot like that? Perhaps my cab was over crowded, or i was overwatering? I had to have done something wrong...don't get me wrong, i love my plants and i'm proud of them, but after seeing how everyone elses turned out i know they could have been so much more and i just want to figure out what to do different for next time.
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Apr-05-2008, 15:36
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Got some more pics...they're starting to look a lot more like what i was expecting, i guess i was impatient, the one i was worried about was just slower than the other two...the first pic is of the one that was almost all stem last week...one of my plants already has its pistils turning orange, getting excited, harvest is only a week or two away  |
Apr-05-2008, 15:50
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Some more
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Apr-05-2008, 18:27
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Like you said, just a little impatient, but that happens to everyone from time to time! I think your ladies look just fine for a little over half-done, and especially since you're using just a few CFLs. The 12/12 from seed guy with over an ounce per plant with ~300 watts seems a little incredible. You can't see the medium in the pic so it could be possible with a good hydro setup, but still sounds a little fishy to me.
Next time maybe some bigger containers? The plants look fine but they would definitely do better with some more dirt to work with.
Good luck and happy harvest
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Apr-07-2008, 11:01
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I think the other guys got such big buds because he flowered from the start, which has kept the plants shorter meaning his light don't have to travel so far. You've vegged yours much longer and they've got taller and cfl's don't penetrate so deep. You could still veg for the same amount of time as you've done for this grow but next time look into LST to keep the plants shorter and get more budsites at the top of your canopy. That way you'll have a lot more cola's that are closer to the light that will grow big and juicy 
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Apr-07-2008, 11:23
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Those are nice, how long did u veg them for?
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Apr-11-2008, 16:51
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Those are nice, how long did u veg them for?
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the small one was vegged for about 6.5 weeks, the two tall ones were vegged for 4 weeks
New pics guys, AND PROBLEMS!!!! I hope i didnt ruin this plant by waiting too long or something, she's dying, my best plant is turning almost all yellow, and shes not drinking water....she was soaking wet as if she had just been watered and the other two were bone dry....i dont know what to do, is this a sign shes ready to harvest? shes getting the same light and watering as the other two so i dont see why shes so different...im getting a scope hopefully tomorrow to check the thc maturity....please any advice or knowledge as to why my plant is dying, shes on day 47 of flower...should be very close to harvest, but i think its too early for her to be past when i should have harvested, hardly any of her hairs are even orange..am i wrong by thinking that? |
Apr-11-2008, 17:02
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On a happier note, check out the buds on these girls....4-20 is gonna be a fuckin BLAST!! |
Apr-11-2008, 17:45
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Hey weedneedy, your plants are looking real good, looks like they added plenty weight. Have you flushed them lately? Maybe worth a try for the yellowing, I like to flush mine once a month to stop any locks.
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Apr-12-2008, 07:19
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Hey Weedy....first of all, nice plants....
You should relax, there is nothing wrong whit that plant....it's getting old, but it isn't ready for harvest yet, believe me...yellowing is a normal thing when so far in flowering, bloom ferts. contain less N than grow ferts., and this is causing the yellowing....You don't want much N in the plants when harvesting, it makes the smoke harsh and it takes more time to cure....
Other thing is that the plant is probably rootbound too...
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Some yellowing is from lack of N (no worries) the weeping of the plant is a concern, but probably a combo of nute locks and root bound plants, I would have re potted before entering flowering. Flush with ph adj. water until runout is low 6s.....6.2. Check the stem to see if its red. If it is check to make sure your water softener isn't on. Get a PPM detector and get the readout from your water (personal experience). Good luck man hope everything works out well. Trust your instincts rather than listening to everyones solutions including this one. |
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Apr-14-2008, 16:26
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grrrr im starting to worry about them now....i hope i get a reply by the end of the day cause i dont want to wait any longer
my water is fine, same water i've been using all along and i had dark green healthy plants up until last week....i'm not adding any nutes to thier water at all and i havnt for a while, should i be? i was told not to give them nutes when they are nearing harvest...is this a possible sign of over watering? what does that look like? its starting to spread to the plant beside it, i noticed its starting to turn yellow, and the one beside that is a lot lighter green than usual...Would it be a good thing if i gave them a dose of nutes this late in flower?, its day 50....im thinking not, but i really dont want to kill them...i was going to add a bunch of new soil on top and water and hope the organic nutes in the soil would help...does anyone think this will help?
I read that yellowing plants nearing harvest is normal, but as you can see from the pics the worst plant is starting to burn, its almost like its getting nute burns, but im not giving them any...is this normal as well? my second plant is getting brown spots on the leaves...if this is nothing to worry about then fine, but the burning tells me that there is something wrong, and is it too late to fix it with proper nutes
would flushing even do anything right now? i've been watering them so long without nutes that there's probably nothing in it to flush out, its just water, and honey once in a while, anyways if i could a reply ASAP it would be appreciated, WeedNeedy
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Apr-14-2008, 18:17
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How long you think till you harvest?
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