| Overall Rating: |
7 |
Effect: |
Varied effects |
| Potency: |
9 |
Stature: |
Very short and squat |
| Yield: |
7 |
Phenotype: |
Mixed, primarily Indica |
| Ease: |
10 |
Indoor: |
50 to 55 days |
| Appearance: |
9 |
Outdoor: |
- |
| Odor Level: |
2 |
Odor: |
Low, sweet grapefruit |
| Taste Level: |
3 |
Taste: |
Sweet, citrus, a little pine |
| Grower's Tils: |
8 |
Sexes: |
Standard (M/F) |
| SI Rating: |
Not Listed |
Vintage: |
- |
I grew this as a newbie and it was as hardy, stable, squat and low odour as the classic NL reputation suggests, with all the potency as well.
Odour: Oddly, plants smelled more skunky in veg than flower, when they were sweet 'n' low odour. A very sweet 'n' citrusy grapefruit smell, but stealthy. I vented from a closet back into my small apartment and had no stink-related security issues. Heated-oil room fresheners will easily mask small grows.
Germination: 100%, no runts.
M/F Ratio: 60/40, no hermaphrodites.
Uniformity: Plants generally alike, except one specimen which had more advanced branching by far than all others and in fact any plant I've had, and I now have several strains and grows under my belt. Turned out to be male so I pitched it (damn) - keep an eye out for a super-branchy plant with these!
Ease: Never any problems, very tough and resistant to my many newbie mistakes. No nute issues with 1/2 strength GH and B1. Vigourous and branchy, ideal for SCROG. My cloning techniques were not textbook and yet these took easily.
Height: Classic low Indica profile, no lanky ones here.
Yield: Buds everywhere, but they weren't very dense. I now believe this was due to newbie mistakes. I'm sure this will yield above average when I try it again (and I will!).
Appearance: Got frosty fast and crystals stacked up everywhere. These really look great.
Flowering Time: I cut at fifty, but in retrospect I'd say leave them another 3 to 7 days to bulk out. I suspect that was what made my yield suffer.
Taste: Sweet grapefruit comes through, with definite piney, earthy tone as well. When my Bubble Gum and NL get mixed up in sessions, I know the NL because of the piney taste. Not really a mind-blowing taste, but nice enough.
Potency: Psychadelic couchlock. Delivers the hard body blow that makes walking seem inadvisable combined with a trippy, heart-pounding "gasping for reality" type of edge that can bring out the sweat. Gripping the edge of the futon and holding on for dear life, face feeling numb while your reality falls to pieces, and so on. This is the first time I've literally felt like my molars were going numb from weed. My girlfriend can handle her reefer and she pulled a whitey, freaked out and hit the sack shaking the first time we took big bong rips of this. I had to tell casual smokers to be cautious when handing them the bong. Very good for glimpsing the truth of the universe from your couch. Will allow you to concentrate very, very hard on dub reggae. Basically, this is potent dope.
Overall: Easy in all respects, short, low-odour, very strong. BCSC's Northern Lights #5 would seem to be a faithful version of the classic NL strain.
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| Garden Information for this report |
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| Bloom Wattage Used: |
20w to 250w |
| Average Plant Height: |
36 |
| Average Yield per Plant: |
1.25 |
| Pruning or Plant Style: |
Screen of Green SCROG |
| Fertilization: |
Chemically fed |
Micro Closet SCROG
Medium: 50% promix 25% perlite 25% vermiculite
Light: 2 x 150w HPS
Manual watering when needed.
Feed with GH 3-Part every two weeks, plus some kelp-based B1 supplement
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