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CKS Northern Lights Auto
Spring 2020
Two NLA plants grown in ~5 gallon pots (one bucket, one homemade fabric pot) in a 3x3 tent under a 900 watt LED.
Northern Lights Auto
Day 76 (Week 11)
29 updates
37 photos
Day: 76
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Looking like she will get the chop very soon!
4 years ago
Day: 69
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Buds are coming in well. Giggity.
4 years ago
Day: 64
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Buds starting to show big promise
4 years ago
Day: 60
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Still growing strong. No changes to note.
4 years ago
Day: 55
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Still going strong.
4 years ago
Day: 51
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Buds are starting to thicken up a wee bit. Looking nice, green, and healthy.
4 years ago
Day: 49
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Buds are starting to get long tendrils. Looking good and healthy!
4 years ago
Day: 45
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She seems to be enjoying the outdoors, even though it poured rain yesterday.
4 years ago
Day: 43
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Ran out of space so I had to move her outside. Buds are starting to form!
4 years ago
Day: 40
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The main plant is starting to take over the grow tent. Lots of growth!
4 years ago
Day: 35
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Starting LST for second plant.
4 years ago
Day: 33
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More growth. Looking good so far! And the plant that moved to a SWP is taking to it very well.
4 years ago
Day: 31
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Growth.
4 years ago
Day: 29
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Going strong. Upgrading the back bucket to a self-wicking system.
4 years ago
Day: 28
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LST really shining
4 years ago
Day: 27
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The LST is working out. Might even switch the back pot to a self-wicking system, because the first one is doing really well!
4 years ago
Day: 26
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Starting some LST on the self wicking pot. Really, really impressed with how well it is doing. So much so that I want to move all plants over to this system!
4 years ago
Day: 25
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Not much luck germinating in coco, but the self-wicking pots are doing AMAZING. Might change them all over to this system.
4 years ago
Day: 19
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On day 18, I moved the oldest into a self-wicking pot that shouldn’t need to be watered as often as pots with drainage at the very bottom. Should be a good experiment to see how it affects growth etc. Part of moving it to the sw pot also meant moving it to a coco mixture medium.
4 years ago
Day: 16
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Daily update.
4 years ago
Day: 15
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Peat moss seeds didn’t pop, so I’m going to try a coco/peat moss/vermiculite mixture and see how that goes. The others are looking good and healthy though!
4 years ago
Day: 11
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Bucket 2 has sprouted! Gonna leave the “dome” on it for another day to keep humidity high. Bought some peat moss and perlite and gonna try a seed in it. It behaves very different than soil does when watered.
4 years ago
Day: 10
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Things are moving along well. The top bucket seed seems to be almost sprouting through already!
4 years ago
Day: 9
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Seed #2 didn’t make it, so it was removed and replaced with a new seed. Seeds 1 and 3 seem to be doing well!
4 years ago
Day: 7
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All three seeds germinated and broke through. The questionable seed didn’t grow much in the past day. Wondering if it will make it. Here’s hoping!
4 years ago
Day: 6
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The second seed has broken through the soil. It looks a little strange, so I’ll keep an eye on it.
4 years ago
Day: 4
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Sapling is starting to work its way toward the light. No action on the other two yet. Planted a third seed in a bucket out of excitement!
4 years ago
Day: 3
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Fabric pot has sprouted a little sapling. :)
4 years ago
Day: 2
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Fabric pot seed was planted on day 0 and bucket seed was planted on day 2.
4 years ago