BC Northern Lights Nirvana ICE Grow #3

smokedup12 said:

Darkness and ice at least a 50 percent visual trichome increase. its unreal. If you dont have time for the ice atleast use a few days of darkness during your flush. They will flush during the dark.

The Stichting Institute of Medical marijuana (SIMM), the first company to sell marijuana through the pharmacies of Holland, has been investigating the medical possibilities of cannabis, together with TNO laboratories and the University of Leiden. One of their discoveries has been that to keep the ripe plants in the dark before harvesting could increase their potency.

SIMM’s growers separated a crop of mature plants, harvested half of them and kept the other half in absolute darkness for 72 hours before cutting and drying. Analysis of the resulting dried buds showed that some varieties had seen an increase of THC of up to 30%, while CBD and CBN remained the same."

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Damn, good to know. I'll see if I can make it work for this grow.

Here's more pictures from the past 10 days or so. Things are looking good and getting very close. Humidity has been kept under 50. Im running my producer now with the doors open and a fan blowing on all the colas. I've got an inline fan and scrubber dealing with the smell. PPM in this last week is under 500.


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Day 56 Flowering




Day 58 Flowering




Day 62 Harvesting One Top

that looks 1 tastey bud there man

Looks great!! I'm glad to see everything worked out. Seems like just yesterday my computer was dead and you were just starting round 3 and I get my comp back and now it looks like your done already! So what kind of numbers did you pull out of this one? I'm happy to report my first grow of AK-47 in Producer was very successful and I harvested 17.5 oz. dried and cured(that is what had time to cure before being medicalized). Street value 350/oz metro Detroit area. I have a written daily journal and pics. I have also started grow 2(purple kush and mango kush) and have a journal for that as well, but I'm trying to figure out the best way to translate to comp(without adding a lot more time to my workload). Anyways, congrats on what looks to be your best one yet!

Nice work Bigbux! Now I need to replicate your harvest numbers!

I pulled 12 oz dry off this round. I can't say I'm disappointed since Im grateful for what I got, but I was hoping for more. I've got Blue Mystic cooking up now... as soon as I find some consistent time without traveling, I'm going to designate a mother plant and start cloning for better results. No major mold, heat or bug issues. Here are some final harvested nugs. Some really lived up to their name!

wow man wery impressive

Nice good job man.

looks freakin awesome looks like some medical grade mj hows the smoke hey can you tell us how you use your seperate inline and carbon filter

Damn that makes me worry that 17/18 oz. was just an anomolee(sp?)! I hope that wasn't a one-time fluke. I did a couple crazy things during that grow too. #1: I have a 1000w HPS that I just beamed in the Producer for the last 2 wks of flower to add whatever I could. I was really counting on whatever I could get out of this harvest and the first 3,000 was already allocated to bills. So, if I got a lot less than a pound I was fucked. I figured even if the insane light that looked horrible and brought the living area to 90 degrees brought an extra ounce or 2 it would be worth it. It's very tough to say how much it added-but it was quite funny(not to my girlfriend). I also was told this was a 40 to 50 day flowering AK-47 phenotype that I believe was really the more sativa 65-day phenotype as it was barely ripe at day 48 and I wound up having to flush twice. And I harvested many times between flower day 60 and 78 which I'm sure allowed more weight to grow. I think I still would have hit a pound or close to it without those weird end-of-harvest variables, but I'm sure they added their share too ya know? (BTW the pic of a vending machine is in a local medical dispensary here in Ann Arbor. All those green bottles have weed in 'em, but it kinda sucks 'cuz u can't see it very well. They recommend using that when you're in a hurry and don't have time to look thru all the strains! I thought it was pretty funny.)

smokedup12 said:

Ill give u a few hints to maximize mm recipe

you guys defenitly want to replace big bud for bud blood during the first week. This will literally 4x the roots in one week and boost that shit into flower.

Another trick is 36hrs of darkness pre flip.

I posted below, 1st pic is right before i flipped them, 2nd is when they were just finishing 36hrs darkness(2days later), and 3rd is after a week of flower.

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And below is my latest crop, fetched 15.5 ozs of pK

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Ive read your guys grows, and everytime you all seem to really be dialing it in. This is the site I look to get all of my info. I have a producer on the way and I take all my notes from yinz.

My question, and I dont mean to sound stupid....can you explain when to do the 36 hours of darkness preflip?

Thanks very very much

and to OP, congrats on another great grow

Hello evryone here is my story......I bought a BCNL bloombox used for 400$ i know cheap right but there were no light bulbs on either side and it looked like a family of rats were living in it so i talk him down from 800$ to $400 i work in sales lol. So i started working on this thing getting it up to par geting a 125 cfl for the bloom side then the 400hps hortilux then some avearage nutes from botaicare and went out to grow hydro for the first time. so i bought 15 clones alll differant kinds but mostly xj-13 and blue dream i did not know what i was doing so i turned to here and was school by the best "rollitup" and started addding things based on these blogs to prevent the problems they were having and could not stop, i bought it in Aug. since then i have a stand alone air condtioner fed right into the flower chamber i have a 4inch inline fan with a power converter so i can control the speed of it, with a coco filter atached and 5 extra fans 3 small ones and 2 bigger ones then i doulbled the amout of air bars and instead of using bcnl co2 injector i have my own requlater dispering co2 out of 4 differant fans so it get evenly dispersed and in both sides. then i wanted to convert the left side to a flower chamber as well cause u only veg for like 10 days so i added a 90 watt led ufo and 3 18 inch 25 watt t5's and then added 5 more 25 watt t5's to my right side and now have over 800watts in total and last but not least now im running the advanced nutrient line including ........sensi A&B veg and bloom, mother earth tea bloom, nirvina, sensizym, bud candy, big bud, bud factor X, rino skin, B-52, kushie kush, overdrive, and final phase this all because of people on here like M.M. AKA medicine man or ancap or smokedup12, Bigbux and foxgirl the point being you guys are the reason i have what i think to be the ultimate BCNL GROWBOX and just wanted to tell you guys about it thanks i pulled 12 oz dried on the first run and should double on this next run im 4 weeks in will post pics and journal soon.

here is just the rest of the pics and add on's my favoite is double the amout of air stones to 8 and ther 24 inches and the fan above the glass to keep it cool to the touch yell me what you guys think i really wanna know thanks

That's pretty cool dude! Keep us posted! My computer broke again but I'll be back soon hopefully!

Very nice work sir. I don't know if you're still actively using your BCNL box or not, but I've loved reading through your past grows. Some great insight to be gained... thanks for sharing!

Just picked up a used BCNL Producer Royale setup and I'm going for a full house of Super Critical from seeds. Link in my sig if you ever wanna peep in!

Cheers mate.