My First Grow: Northern Lights

[WeedNeedy]

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!!!

WeedNeedy Reviewed by WeedNeedy on 03-26-2008. 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 Rating: 5

[WeedNeedy]

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

[WeedNeedy]

More pics

[WeedNeedy]

Thats it for today, will post more later...any tips or suggestions are welcome. Thanks, WeedNeedy

[zebulon]

Looking g8 Weedy....nice & healthy plants...:thumbsup: How many CFL's are you using?? and what kind??

[WeedNeedy]

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

[WeedNeedy]

*flower*

[WeedNeedy]

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

[WeedNeedy]

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.

[WeedNeedy]

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 :jointsmile: