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Breeder's Description - 'Northern Light Special The Original'
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Short, sweet and fast, this internationally influential strain has a smooth, spicey-to-peppery taste and an indica growing habit that assures nice yields and minimal headaches for trouble-free cultivation. Nice head effects with the warm glow of a relaxing body stone. A uniquely contemplative smoke for such an overwhelmingly indica-dominant hybrid.
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| Grower reports: 6 |
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Grower Report: tokinshitload |
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| Overall Rating: |
6 |
Effect: |
Somewhat heady |
| Potency: |
8 |
Stature: |
Extremely varied |
This strain does not get enough credit, and I find people who grow this strain don't talk about it much, seems to be on the down... continued
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Grower Report: ganjagirl dq |
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| Overall Rating: |
4 |
Effect: |
Somewhat couchlock |
| Potency: |
2 |
Stature: |
Somewhat tall and lanky |
KC Brains Northern Lights Special was a very easy plant to grow, not picky about fertilizers, fast stretchy growth. Although I ... continued
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Grower Report: doonugstem |
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| Overall Rating: |
8 |
Effect: |
Somewhat couchlock |
| Potency: |
7 |
Stature: |
Average size |
Northern Lights Special was my first name-brand grow. I planted just two seeds, and one turned out male. Topped at the fourth no... continued
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Grower Report: doppey |
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| Overall Rating: |
5 |
Effect: |
Somewhat heady |
| Potency: |
5 |
Stature: |
Average size |
Very easy to grow and cheap, good for a beginners first grow, wasn?t too impressed with the taste but it gave me a giggle in the... continued
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Grower Report: Crabs |
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| Overall Rating: |
4 |
Effect: |
All in the head |
| Potency: |
6 |
Stature: |
Very tall and lanky |
Out of 10 seeds 1 germinated, and turned out a Sativa dominant female. I veged for 7 weeks. I found I had to feed this plant hig... continued
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Grower Report: Ozimandius |
Northern Light Special The Original from KC Brains |
| Overall Rating: |
7 |
Effect: |
Somewhat heady |
| Potency: |
8 |
Stature: |
Somewhat short and squat |
| Yield: |
7 |
Phenotype: |
Indica |
| Ease: |
9 |
Indoor: |
- |
| Appearance: |
7 |
Outdoor: |
- |
| Odor Level: |
3 |
Odor: |
Slightly 'funky' at first, then citrus |
| Taste Level: |
7 |
Taste: |
Tasty sandalwood & citrus with bit of spice - ocassionally has a 'hashy' flavour |
| Grower's Tils: |
8 |
Sexes: |
Standard (M/F) |
| SI Rating: |
Not Listed |
Vintage: |
September, 2003 |
As my first grow with decent genetics, I was very impressed with this strain. I know that KC Brains' seeds get a lot of flak on these boards - but these seeds all sprouted and popped out the soil (planted directly into soil) within 36hrs, but the last two to sprout got chucked.
Of the remaining 8 plants, they were as close to identical as you can get, all were leaning towards the Indica side and grew to be short, squat little bushes with loads of sidebranches.
When the plants were around 10" tall, I fitted them with Scrog screens and took cuttings - the cuttings were put aside to root and I flowered the mums (& dads) to determine sex and to get some samples so as I could choose a mother.
Most of the way through, there were few, if any problems. Most of the time it was a case of overwatering - and this caught up with me later in flower as I had pH issues and nute lockout, causing excessive yellowing and 'crispy' leaves.
From the 8 plants, I got 5 females (all the males were axed immediately) which I continued to flower until harvesting at 62 days (the plants were slightly immature when put under 12/12, so this would affect the flowering time)
After drying, I had just under 8.5 Oz from the 5 ladies - the most from one plant was 49g (most were over 40g), and the least was 17g (due to it being finished in a 500ml pot - I called it 'lanky')
These buds are totally covered in trichs (nice fat ones that look like sugar) and are sticky as hell. When you open the jar, you get a heady, pungent fruity aroma which reminds me of some Neville's haze I tried a while back. The buds are a little loose on occasion, but most are quite firm - obviously, this would improve with more light.
The high does vary *slightly* from one plant to the next - but as yet, I'm still trying to decide which mother to keep (I like 'em all too much!). Overall, it's a more heady stone with a bit of couchlock - so it'll leave you still capable of demolishing the contents of the fridge (and trust me, you will with this stuff - talk about munchies madness) and quite a few visuals - this is one of the 'trippiest' strains I've tried (I didn't even find the Neville's that trippy). The high also lasts for hours - so don't smoke this stuff if you've got things to do.
I would recommend this strain to anyone - experienced or not as it's easy to grow, is very tolerant and yields well with a good level of potency.
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| Garden Information for this report |
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| Bloom Wattage Used: |
260w to 400w |
| Average Plant Height: |
72 |
| Average Yield per Plant: |
1.50 |
| Pruning or Plant Style: |
Screen of Green SCROG |
| Fertilization: |
Organically fed |
9sq. ft. Closet with Xpelair XID 150 (290 m3/hr) and 400W HPS.
Soil with 20% perlite, fed with BioBizz BioGrow & BioBloom + ProBoost.
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