Nirvana Northern Lights Pure Indica Review

[2ezy]

Great Review!

IG4M, you can't go wrong with NL for your first grow. A bit of a cult classic too with older tokers.

 

[iGro4Me]

Great Review!

IG4M, you can't go wrong with NL for your first grow. A bit of a cult classic too with older tokers.

Well, I fall into both categories.....I'm an Ol' head on his first indoor grow, that does help make my decision a little easier hearing from others.

Actually I've already made up my mind on the NL now. I'm just trying decide what else might look nice next to her.

I've gotten some really nice input and it's definitely going to be some Indy/Hybrids.

Thank you for the input on the NL.

Peace,

iGro

 

[FirstTimer76]

Nice grow man. Real healthy solid looking plants.

 

[wantaknow]

igro4me can i recomend the ak48 ,tictok you rocked the house with 250 watts dude ,superb

 

[iGro4Me]

igro4me can i recomend the ak48 ,tictok you rocked the house with 250 watts dude ,superb

I'm a sponge in the sea knowledge at this point my friend. :wink:

I am an obsessive compulsive when it comes to research.....I'll gladly take your lead on the recommendation.

Out of curiosity, what makes the AK48 a good indoor first-runner for you ?

Thanks in advance for any and all tips,time and tidbits of knowledge, it's greatly appreciated by me.

Lovin' the place....

Peace,

iGro

 

[mysophilia]

Nice report

 

[Gunnarguchi]

I haven't seen a lot of reviews on Nirvana's "Northern Lights Pure Indica" strain on IC so I thought I would document my experience growing this strain. My setup is a 250 watt HPS and I used this for both veg and flower. My style is soil, LST and mostly organics.

Last September I planted 5 seeds, 2 seeds failed to sprout leaving me with 3 plants that were veg'd for 43 days to about 6-7" tall. It shouldn't have taken this long to veg but I found out part way through veg that my 2 year old FFOF soil was almost completely depleted of nutrients, and I almost starved my plants to death. After I transplanted into 1.4 gallon pots at day 36 of veg, adding 3 teaspoons of bloodmeal and 2 tablespoons of lime per gallon of soil, my problem was solved. They did the best when the ph was between 6.1-6.5 and daytime room temperatures between 72-78deg. Two out of the three plants turned out to be female. One female had more indica characteristics and the other was more sativa. But really they were both very indica dominant not really any sativa. The indica was smaller, had tighter buds and produced less weighing in at 1.85OZ dried. The sativa had big "foxtail" buds and produced more yielding 2.34OZ. This was a total of 4.19OZ dried, both were weighed after 7 days of hang drying before being put into jars. The indica I flowered for 56 days and the sativa for 63 days. Both pheno types were hungry and needed lots of nitrogen, more so for the sativa pheno. I harvested when the amber trichomes were around 25% on the indica pheno and 5% on the sativa pheno. They tripled in size during flower. The dried indca buds have a more piney smell and the sativa has a more sweet pineapple pastry smell. I have not smoked any yet because of my job, but I have listed some testers at the end of this report. Overall I would say the grow experience was pleasant and the genetics very hardy, so I give the genetics a 9 out of 10 for growth and hardiness. If not for the slight variation in pheno types I would say a perfect 10. As for the high I cannot rate it until I have tried it. Some other things worth noting are, they were stinky, this is contrary to what I have read about the northern lights strains so maybe its just Nirvanas version. I think they smelled more during veg than flower. I feel that I made a mistake by not feeding the last two weeks and sacrificed a lot of weight in doing so.

Sativa
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person a - Clear headed, pleasant, didn't feel lazy, no raciness. Overall score is a 7.5
person b - Did not test

Indica
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person a - Complex, vivid, medicinal. Overall score is a 8.5
person b - Totally mellow, no raciness, giggly, couchlock

Below are some pics I took. The indica pheno I harvested on Christmas eve and I got a little carried away with the decorations.

Indica Pheno




Sativa Pheno

impressive bud sizes for a 250 watt bulb even though they have been vegget for some time

what was the harvest for each plant and in total?
would be nice to know the watt/gram ration for those beauties.

 

[tiktok420]

Gunnarguchi,

Dude are you sure you read my review : )

4.19 ounces = 118.7845 grams
So 0.475138 grams per watt

My grams per watt wasn't all that great but I also trim very heavily. I don't like a lot of leaf in my bud. I also remove as much stem as possible. A lot of guys leave tons of leaves and stems when weighing, I don't. Like I said these plants were starved during veg and at 43 days were as big as any well taken care of plant at 30 days. If I would have used fresh soil during veg they wouldn't have taken 43 days and only 30 days to veg. This was my fault! Also if I would have upped the container size I probably would have gotten a bigger yield. But the problem is I just don't have a big enough foot print with my 250W to go to a bigger container size unless I go deeper instead of wider.

 

[shaman14]

as if you did all that with a 250 much respek

 

[Wfw1]

Yeah I agree with everyone very nice for a 250, so your stunk during veg too? A friend of mine had a NL clone from a friend of his who's grow a few batches of it and it stunk like mad in veg, never really saw it in flower.