Best Northern Lights available today?

[DoubleTripleOG]

I grew northern lights x big bud from world of seeds. Awesome plant!!! Made big buds that were super frosty, and I had a northern lights dom pheno. I say that because I also at the time was growing an old school cut of black domina, and they both shared a similar smell. Then I had a Sugar Black Rose from delicious seeds that shared some of the same smell as the NL x BB and Domina(Sugar Black Rose= Black domina x Critical+)

Point being..........I'm pretty sure the cut that WOS uses of NL is legit, and that there are some real nice NL pheno's to be found.

 

[InGhostgrower]

Be careful if growing NL x BB. I always fight PM in the summer because the colas get HUGE. But it is a good plant grows fast and good bag appeal. Anybody looking to boost there egos and maybe brag about their GPW look into this plant... lol

 

[Peaty Wheaty]

Wondering who has the best Northern Lights available today?

Thanks,

billy

I'm cracking a pack each of BCSC #5 and Sensi #1, #2 x #5 tomorrow in search of a mother. I'll provide regular updates on how they are going.

 

[Peaty Wheaty]

Actually, now that I think about it, Peak's "proprietary" NL cut, the one they use as the Mother in Northern Berry and Skunk Berry is from BCSC, and the male used to make their NL seed line is a Dutch (Sensi Seeds) selection from an early 90's seed line. At least that's my recollection. You can always email Peak. The breeder is a really nice guy and pretty quick to answer questions. He'll tell you straight up that the BB is derived from Sag, DP and DJ Short selections, so I have no doubt he will clarify the lineage of his NL if I'm wrong about it.

You are correct on all counts. Mike from Peak Seeds is a great guy and will answer your emails as if they really matter.

I purchased Northern Lights from Sensi and BCSC as well as DJ Shorts Blueberry for my new grow room before I'd heard of Peak so I'm more or less committed to them. I've chopped my test grow and I'm starting those beans off tomorrow in the search of mothers for a daytime smoke (Blueberry) and a nighttime smoke (NL) clone grow.

Funny though, I searched the world for the best Blueberry and the best Northern Lights and Peak has a reputation for not only having fine examples of those strains among their very small stable, they have a cross between the two as well. Wish I'd found them in the first place.

Anyway, I've decided to be ruthless - I'm not settling for second grade genetics - and if I don't find the mothers I'm after in this grow I will be going with Peak Seeds Northern Lights and Northern Berry (and maybe the Blueberry too, though Mike makes it clear on his website that the BB has germination problems and I've read of people who say the males from his BB seed stock are sterile).

As other have and will mention, Peak's prices are remarkable for the reputation Mike's genetics have. I've spent close to $400 on beans for the mother run I'm about to undertake. From what I've read and heard I will find mothers from Peak for a quarter of the outlay that will be as good as any to be found anywhere in the world for those strains.

 

[Peaty Wheaty]

I have 3 Sensi Northern Lights and 4 British Columbia Seed Company NL #5 seedlings nearing the end of week one. They are doing nicely alongside 3 World of Seeds Afghan Kush seedlings.

Light: MH
Temp: High '70s
RH: 60-70%
Pots/Medium: 1 gal pots, grow wool starter cube sitting on 4" grow wool block on bed of clay pebbles (placing the grow wool above the high water mark in my F&D tray) with pebbles filling in the rest of the pot
Nutes: Generic hydro and root zone stimulant, both at 1/4 strength every 3rd or 4th hand water PH adjusted to 6.0, plain tap water at about 7.4 the rest of the time. (I know the PH sounds high but they show no ill effect from it, and no seedlings I've had ever did, so who cares?)

They will go on auto feed of two minutes of flood, initially for 5 floods a day lights on then reducing as the plants get a larger root system to 3 floods a day. Nutes during early veg will be at 40-50% along with root zone stimulant at around the same strength. For the second tank I make up I'll go to 2/3rds strength nutes and full strength root zone stimulant.

A quick note:
I used root zone stimulant right up to the end of the 6th week of flowering last grow and I'll be doing it again - the health of the main stem and the resilience of the branches (I could pull a branch completely away from its normal spot, let it go and it would spring straight back to where it was. I've never had plants like it before) was something to behold.

Also, I have another 2 of the BCSC #5 but they don't look like they're going to make it.

I should have another 2 #5s and another 5 of the Sensi NL but I had a issue with cold temps in the middle of germination. The beans popped, but they didn't make it out of the grow wool. I was using a well tried method so it was definitely the cold that caused my losses.

I lost another couple of WOS AK's as well. So instead of starting with my usual 16-20 before losing half to males/culling and ending up with 7 or 8 nice females, I'm starting out with 10 or so and I don't know which sex they are.

If I was to flip them and find I only have 3 or 4 females I will be disappointed. So I've decided to veg for 2 more weeks, flipping them at around days 19-20 for the purpose of sexing and growing out clones of the females.

As I won't be finishing the plants off it won't hurt to butcher them. So I'll look to take 6 or 8 cuttings off each of my 7 or 8 viable Northern Lights seedlings on the 6th day after the flip. Another week or so and my cuttings will be well on the way to rooting under CFL's at 18/24 light cycle and the parents will be close to showing their sex.

As soon as I've identified which of my clones are from females I will be able to begin a proper row-out. Let's say I only have one female and so I only have 8 viable clones - OK, I'll veg for an extra month - but at least I know what I can expect to see at the end. As it stands that female/mother would be the only plant I chop and I might get 2 ounces if I'm lucky, which isn't much of a return, lol.

Peace

I intend to take one more crop of cuttings off this first proper grow but unless I have a real standout in among them that I'm yet to identify I am definitely getting my next Northern Lights beans from Peak Seeds. Also, I am really keen on Mike's Northern Berry. Peak's beans have a great rep and the prices can't be beat.

I'll keep the thread posted on how my Sensi NL and BCSC NL#5 are going. Wish me luck.

Peace

 

[Pinball Wizard]

I just harvested the first plant of my: Advanced Female Seeds- Northern High Lights

crippling high

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[yesum]

The Peak Seeds NL I just harvested is really feel good smoke. I ordered 3 more packs.

Just started 5 BCSC NL, have to wait 4 months now. If it is about the same as Peaks's, I will maybe just go with Peak and save on buying more of it.

 

[Sovereign]

I just harvested the first plant of my: Advanced Female Seeds- Northern High Lights

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Hey old man what's up..since when did you grow something other than ww? it's me kush..glad you still around Dutch

 

[Peaty Wheaty]

Just a quick update on my British Columbia SC #5 and Sensi Seeds Northern Lights seedlings. They'll be 3 weeks old over the next few of days.

The Sensi are flying. I have 3 and they are already have 5 nodes and a crown and are about 10 inches tall. One is doing slightly better than the others but really these things could be clones of any indica dominant hybrid.

I have 6 seedlings of BCSC #5.

One is 15 inches and has just 2 sets of normal leaf and the crown. Not sure if it is a lanky male of no value or if it is a single branch pheno, in which case the sex is irrelevant to me, I would consider breeding with it as either the father or mother.

Does anybody know if there is such a single stem pheno to be found among #5?

Of the remaining, the very best is around 8 inches and like the Sensis has around 5 nodes already coming up to the 3 week mark. It looks like a Sensi NL as well. It has 7 finger leaf, with 12 or so sets of serrations on the middle finger. This plant had a bit of twisted leaf early on but it grew out.

The rest resemble each other closely as far as being short, squat, broad 5 finger leaves with 8 sets of serrations on each middle finger.

The best of these is the same height and number of nodes etc as the more hybrid looking #5 above, and it too suffered twisted leaf early but has grown out of it.

Two others are 6 inches or so with 4 nodes and a crown and the last is small and very slow going. None of these 3 had twisty leaf. Neither did the suspected male.

Back soon with another update.

Peace

 

[HeriMarry]

I have not seen anything about this strain but my curiosity is tempting a seed purchase.

Purple thai – the original northern lights #2 clone going back 30 plus years. also called purple northern lights, purple skunk etc. very old thai x very old afghani. 3rd place sativa ty expo 2014. the mother of probably 75% of all the most popuar and awared strains in the common era of breeding. big yield, big vigor, big white, purple leaves. very very pungent. 50-60 days

 

[Peaty Wheaty]

My 3 Sensi NL regulars are now at days 25-26 and I've just flipped.

They are around 17-19 inches tall, have 7-8 nodes, big crowns, huge fan leaves, strong stems and laterals 8-10" in length at the bottom nodes.

I have 2 World of Seeds Afghan Kush plants doing almost as well as the NL's and they are very, very nice looking plants. But the Senisi NL's are exceptional.

I've grown indoors, often with crude set ups I will concede, but the NL's at just under 4 weeks from seed are the best plants I've ever grown. And I am doing nothing special at all, in fact I'm still hand watering even though they are in a F&D tray awaiting move after males and females are identified (I have 13 plants in total). So they have in fact been in less than ideal conditions compared to the other plants I've grown.

My British Columbia SC's NL #5 are not what they claim to be. These are not a 25 year pure IBL strain. All 6 I have are different, two have distinctly sativa leaves on and indica body, two look like half siblings to the DJ Short Blueberry plants I have in, and the other two are weird.

Something has gone amiss with BC's breeding for sure, these are like growing bag seed. From 6 different bags.

I'll come back in a couple of weeks with a report of how they are going in the early part of the stretch, ease of cloning, time lapse before sexing etc etc. but I can only say at this point that Sensi Seeds Northern Lights is everything it's cracked up to be. These are great plants.

 

[Mustafunk]

Probably Peak Seeds and Dr Atomic have the most legit NL nowadays... maybe someone know about some others.

I would avoid most dutch seedbanks, no guarantees about the same parent stock as most have been raided in the late 90s. Especially Sensi, feedback is terrible lately as well.

Peace.

 

[yesum]

Yea Peaty, I had the same luck with BCSC. Phenos all over the place. One sativa looking plant did have a good high, the other more indica one was a bit bland for high.

 

[DJXX]

Redeyes NL#5 bx1 is killer...all of his gear is..he is reasonably priced too..DJXX

 

[Guest]

Hoping that Mr. Soul reintroduces their version of NL.

 

[yesca604]

My 3 Sensi NL regulars are now at days 25-26 and I've just flipped.

They are around 17-19 inches tall, have 7-8 nodes, big crowns, huge fan leaves, strong stems and laterals 8-10" in length at the bottom nodes.

I have 2 World of Seeds Afghan Kush plants doing almost as well as the NL's and they are very, very nice looking plants. But the Senisi NL's are exceptional.

I've grown indoors, often with crude set ups I will concede, but the NL's at just under 4 weeks from seed are the best plants I've ever grown. And I am doing nothing special at all, in fact I'm still hand watering even though they are in a F&D tray awaiting move after males and females are identified (I have 13 plants in total). So they have in fact been in less than ideal conditions compared to the other plants I've grown.

My British Columbia SC's NL #5 are not what they claim to be. These are not a 25 year pure IBL strain. All 6 I have are different, two have distinctly sativa leaves on and indica body, two look like half siblings to the DJ Short Blueberry plants I have in, and the other two are weird.

Something has gone amiss with BC's breeding for sure, these are like growing bag seed. From 6 different bags.

I'll come back in a couple of weeks with a report of how they are going in the early part of the stretch, ease of cloning, time lapse before sexing etc etc. but I can only say at this point that Sensi Seeds Northern Lights is everything it's cracked up to be. These are great plants.

How did these end up turning out?

I was thinking about running some Sensi NL but decided to with Mr. Nice NL5 X Afghan instead