Seedsman Northern Lights - WTF?

[khronik]

I ordered a package of Northern Lights seeds from Seedsman at dope-seeds.com some time ago. I've never grown Northern Lights before, but I'm pretty sure the plants aren't supposed to look like this. Actually, I'm damn certain the plants aren't supposed to look like this. I grew two other strains at the same time, thankfully, (Mandala's Satori and Greenhouse's Arjan's Ultra Haze #1) and they both came out just fine. Initially I thought the disparity might have something to do with the fact that the so-called Northern Lights plants were started from seeds and the others were clones, but I took some clones from the "Northern Lights" plants and they shot up to about four feet tall in about four weeks, with their added height consisting of almost entirely stem. On the bright side, these plants were remarkably easy to clone, but unfortunately I can't see myself doing that again in the future.

This sucks because I was really looking forward to having some nice northern lights to smoke and instead it looks like I have the progeny of Mexican brickweed bag seeds. I'm not sure what's up with Seedsman, but they'd better get their shit together if this is what passes for Northern Lights with them. Not that I'd ever order from them again anyway. This is my first bad packet of seeds ordering from dope-seeds.com, and the seeds came in a nice sealed Seedsman-branded packet, so I'm going to assume the Dope-Seeds people aren't the ones at fault.

The first picture is of two of my "Northern Lights" plants. The other is a closeup of the buds on my best plant from this packet of seeds.

khronik Reviewed by khronik on 08-13-2009. Seedsman Northern Lights - WTF? I ordered a package of Northern Lights seeds from Seedsman at dope-seeds.com some time ago. I've never grown Northern Lights before, but I'm pretty sure the plants aren't supposed to look like this. Actually, I'm damn certain the plants aren't supposed to look like this. I grew two other strains at the same time, thankfully, (Mandala's Satori and Greenhouse's Arjan's Ultra Haze #1) and they both came out just fine. Initially I thought the disparity might have something to do with the fact that Rating: 5

[Hempsouth]

Looks like ditchweed from SE Asia. Have you smoked any yet?

Certainly not NL.

[ditdotter]

NL does not have leaf structure like the pictures posted. The leaves of NL are much wider. NL that I grow from seed or clones indoors stays short; 30 inches or shorter, with a compact christmas tree shape.

[phatsesh101]

thats a sativa and needs longer to grow whoa

[Chronabis]

REDANKULOUS!

[Barrelhse]

It looks like the crappy sativa everyone used to give away as freebies. Glad I saw your post because I was just considering getting some NL from Seedsman; guess I'll avoid the place until they straighten out the packet contents/labeling issue.

[palerider7777]

wow wtf lmao i looked at the pics first b4 reading and thought thats what was left over after a trim session lmao. it looks real airy as if there was no light.

ps last time i grew a nl the fan leaves were as big as my hand

[palerider7777]

Looks like ditchweed from SE Asia. Have you smoked any yet?

Certainly not NL.

yea at first glance i thought thai stick,if he did everything right in the grow room and it still came out like that then i'd say sum asain mix of sum sort maybe? thia is the only one iv'e seen that looks like shit on that scale.

ps have you smoked any yet and tried it kh? thai even looks like shit but can be pretty good. on sec thought thai still grows a hell of alot better than that tho. u have like a 1ft of nothing up each branch wow. how much light are u using and what was your cycle? the exact same as the others u were growing?

[JLennon]

Hey, I by chance stumbled upon your thread and I just want to let you're not alone with the Seedsman Northern Lights. It was such a shame for me to flower these and find out they were not at all northern lights, especially since this was the first plant I had ever flowered.

I'll attach a pic so that you can see I had the exact same genetics. The smoke was alright, but really I was rather disappointed.

[StoneyJake]

It looks like the crappy sativa everyone used to give away as freebies. Glad I saw your post because I was just considering getting some NL from Seedsman; guess I'll avoid the place until they straighten out the packet contents/labeling issue.

Yep looks like that G-13 power skunk attitude was giving away last year....Took 12-15 weeks to grow out and foxtailed like crazy, just like that.
Were they little tiny poppy seed lookin seeds?