First post here- I’m currently growing Peak’s untested NL99. I am at day 47 of flower, but I am probably about 10 days behind schedule. This is my first grow. My set-up has been a work in progress, and I have been learning as I grow.
And by “work- in- progress” and “learning as I go” , I mean complete clusterf$&&@ck. I am having problems with temperature and light burn in flower. I’m also running these in supersoil, which i thought would be a just add water and blackstrap solution , but unfortunately I’ve realized its just not that simple- and I think the plants have been under/over fed at certain points. I will stick with supersoil, but pay more attention to pot sizes, and timing transplants with nutrient needs.
Basically I started these in my basement with no tent, with the intent of moving them outdoors in May. We’ve got young kids, zero privacy, and lots of thugs nearby. We decided to keep this operation indoors, so we moved these out to the garage-Into a 3x3. I started flip in a 3x3 with no fan, and only 1 4000k qb288. (Really, really dumb) By the end of week 1 I had added 4 inch exhaust fan, and a 3000k qb288. I blame this 1st week for most of my future problems.
Basically I am too inexperienced to offer a good opinion on this cross but here is what I can tell you so far:
1- MJ at Peak is a solid dude with a great sense of no bullshit biz. Will be ordering more from him. Order 10 beans, he sent me 16.
2- I germinated my beans using the sub-cool method and all beans were above ground within 6 days.
3- exactly 50% were female.
4- vegged 7 weeks from seeds in 2 gallon fabric pots, under a 4000k qb288v2. Topped for 4 colas at about 4.5 weeks Plants were short, squat, and extremely dense. Defoliated at 42 days of veg, and again at 49 days right before flip. These were about 8-10 inches tall at flip. Preflowers were too close to call at flip, but i’m learning... a more experienced grower would have been able to call it quicker.
5- Flip is were I really began to screw things up. I just wasnt equipped and set- up to handle it properly. This is why I ended up being behind 10 days. I really stressed the plants. Broke 2 main colas right at the base on 2 plants. Quickly tied em back together-Did n’t even wilt. Pretty bullet proof. I also did nt have enough light, had major temperature/humidity swings in the 1st 2 weeks after flip. All males immediatley confirmed themselves on day 14 after flip, and it took until day 21 for the girls to lift their skirts.
6- There are 2 main phenos. 1 slighty lighter coloured with a less dense structure, and 1 denser with darker leaves. Of the 2 Darker leaf phenos I have 1 is shorter and very squat. It is packed with bud sites and at 16” tall looks like it could yield like a beast if I could just get the buds to swell - still mainly white hairs at day 47. The lighter phenos are more finicky and seem to struggle a bit in my set-up. I should mention I have 4 females. 2 lighter leaf phenos, and 2 darker phenos.
7- all of my plants have an immediate nose of exotic orange lilac popsicles. This the same across all phenos. This is the immediate smell of the flowers. The 2 phenos differ on stem rubs: the lighter pheno smells 100% like NL upon stem rub. The darker phenos have a deeper coffee/rubber smell on stem rub. Smell is mild no carbon filter needed for a garage grow.
8- they are all decently frosty, but plant number 4 is starting to get real photo-op frosty.
9- I have made succesful cuts of all of them under a single 26w cfl. Gave 1 to a neighbor. So I’ve got 3 slowly vegging under a 26w cfl.
I think these plants would be epic in the hands of an experienced grower or even a noob who simply has their set-up organized. I am thinking this grow will go 70 -75 days from flip ( 50-55 days) from white hairs showing up visible to naked eye. Again this length of flower here is based on my screw-ups. I just need to get through the next 25- 30 days unscathed. I don’t regret anything about this grow, and I will try this strain again both from clone and from the remaining seeds I have.
Based on smell and appearance I have no doubt that the buds I do get will be FIAH!
PS- Thanks Keizer and D_Urbmon for starting this thread, and Greenhighlander- thanks for your excellent medical grow journals.Even though i’m growing a different strain I frequently refer back to all if this. This thread and GH’s journals were influential in my decision to go with Peakseedbc.
Cheers!
