Northern Lights Soil 150w HPS 2x1x3' Cab Journal

Well this will be my second grow. My first had everything that could go wrong did go wrong. From nute burn to drought to light timer malfunction during flower. So I decided to go with Northern Lights this time as I've heard it's a good beginner strain as it is pretty hardy. The seeds were ordered from Attitude and go to Tucson AZ on the 6th day, including saturday and sunday. They're being mailed up to me now via UPS and will be here friday. I had to do it this way because last time they got caught by customs at the Chicago USPS station. I've heard this is more common than other places. Will cost me around $30 for shipping but still worth it if it gets here. Will post germination status come saturday.

Seeds came, 3 germinating.

3 of 3 germinated. Thrown into rockwoll for two days, then placed into 6" pots of FF Ocean Forest. Watered. Fox Farms website has their feeding schedule asking for Big Bloom alone in the first two weeks. I know everyone says "dont start nutes untill theres __ number of nodes!" But Big Bloom is very weak. When do you think I should start with Big Bloom?

One week in from seed cracking.

Second week. One is laggin behind. I have been using Fox Farm Big Bloom for a week now, every other watering. 1 TBSP per gallon, as the feeding schedule on their website dictates.

Are those seeds feminized? cause if there are males between there, they usually grow the quickest..

Nice grow man hope all goes well

They're not feminized, but in some grows the tallest ones are females. Rollin the dice!

Thanks purple.

Three weeks into veg. Healthy as can be. Started on weak grow big with big bloom. Going to full strength Sunday, as per the feeding schedule. Strange how the one in the back is stretching its arms while the other two aren't so much. Oh well. I think I'll be topping after the 8th node, as I've read the 8th node can develop pre-pre flowers for early sex identification.

After you top just root them and set to 12/12 to Identify your fems from men

Yea I just don't know if I have the time, floorspace, or height to do that. I only have one grow box, so I'd have to pull them out myself to make the clones schedule 12/12 right? I don't know for sure if I could coordinate that, busy with school and work. And doesn't it take at least 2 weeks to root and show the sex? By then they might be too tall. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I topped 2 days ago; FIM method. Still coming back. Then on two of them tonight I tried super cropping for the first time. I tried it because the internode growth is just not up to par. I would have liked to go as far as I could without doing any modification for yield increase, at the consideration of stress, but couldn't help myself to test it. I did try LST last grow but it took too long and didn't turn out great, so I am experimenting.
Average height before supercropping was 10.25"
Also does anyone know whats on the four leafs of my one plant, its the last picture. Other than the first two single leaves and the next two of three tipped leaves everything else is looking very healthy. Should I increase or decrease nute on the one thats showing illness?

4 weeks from sprout. Plants are 10-11" tall. The two have recovered well from the super cropping. Multiple tops are starting to sprout from the cut wound from topping.

mobone said:

4 weeks from sprout. Plants are 10-11" tall. The two have recovered well from the super cropping. Multiple tops are starting to sprout from the cut wound from topping.

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They look pretty good. The last pic, that you asked about, it looks like nute burn.

Fifth week. A little over a foot tall. Did some heavy LST. Will probably be turning to flower within the week. By the way it wasn't nute burn, just the opposite, nitrogen deficiency. Slowed growth and bottom leaves turning yellow and falling off. Also red leaf stems. Still working on correcting it which is why I might wait a little longer to flower.