Indoor Tropical Outdoor: White Widow Max, AK47, Cheese, Great White Shark, Northern Lights

[Exotic Flower]

Young Miss Northern Lights 2 is doing well.
Visited her again late last night.
Looking perky and starting to get her perfume going.
The last 5 days of wonderful weather have been helpful.
Still, it'll probably be the end of Oct at the earliest.
Just hoping no more tropical storms,
and that the sun pokes through the clouds a bit,
and not too much super wet / foggy weather.

Love and hugs,
Maria

 

[Exotic Flower]

Thanks @Spanglish for your "like" bomb!!!!

 

[Exotic Flower]

Oh, a few days since last post.

Rain.
Cloudy.
More rain.
More cloudy.
Rain.

Still putting on a bit of thickness.
Pistils still mainly white.
Hope there's a bit of sun before she finishes.

Love and hugs,
Maria

 

[Exotic Flower]

Cloudy. But at least no rain today (so far...)

 

[trailanimal]

¡Hola! @Spanglish,

My basil and mint garden is doing much better than my other herbs... ;-)
Because I can keep them on the balcony and really look after them well.

The Northern Lights is still hanging in there.
She got battered and lost some leaves, but she's budding up now.



Yeah, small pots means high maintenance and micro detail care, for sure.

For this grow, I started in little seedling pots, about 300 mL in size each (about 9 x 9 x 10 cm in size),
then some went into 1 L pots and later 8 L, while others just straight into 8 L.
Personally, I seldom have problems transplanting. I think I've got good technique and steady hands.
But your point is well taken, thanks!

My plan for next spring is to start in 1L pots, and make an indoor micro garden
where I can fit in about 8-10 or maybe even 12 1L pots.
Then once they are about 20cm tall / 20 days old / starting to pre-flower,
then transplant to 8L pots and put them outside.
But in that season they won't go out to meet tropical storms like now (late summer / early fall)
but go outside to late spring early summer, with more daylight hours and less cloud cover, and a bit drier.
Then let nature take it's course for the outdoors.
Just use the indoor set up to get them off to a really good start.

That's my present plan, but I have to wait months... impatient, haha!

Love and hugs,
Maria

good plan

 

[Exotic Flower]

Looks like a bit of sunshine today, so far.
Still some clouds, but the weather report seems to be for clear skies.
So, hoping that my last Northern Lights lady can make the most of it.

She's still doing well, her perfume deepening,
with the Afghani side of the NL hybrid mix now showing through.
She's got a nice top cola, maybe about 6"-7" = 15-17cm long.
Not those massive NL buds that you get from indoor lighting,
only about 1" = 2.5 cm thick, but still very nice.
And a range of maybe 8-12 smaller buds,
which are just individual smaller nuggets up to 2" = 5 cm long.

She's still fairly green in color, though obviously rather battered.
So I hope that there is no major bad weather for the next 2 weeks,
and I'll aim to harvest her after a spell of nice clear / dry weather
at the end of the month.
She would be harvestable right now, but really needs longer.

I owe you all photos, huh? Will try later today or over the weekend.

Love and hugs,
Maria

 

[Exotic Flower]

Day 63 - Northern Lights (reg)

I promised you all photos, so... up the mountain I went to take some photos in the (rare) sunshine.

Hope you like them!!!!

She's weathered three major tropical storms, and a fully bent in half main stem at the base.
But she's still (fairly) green and healthy, and now packing on the crystals.

Not sure how I managed to work the nutrient situation, because with some very high rainfall at times,
a lot of nutes just get washed / flushed away, so I tend to add in heavy concentrated doses,
and figure on the rain diluting it down. She'd be over-fed otherwise, but looks not bad, no burn at all.
Most of the leaf damage is not from bugs, but just from the storms, ripping the leaves and wind burn.

As you can see, the pistils are still about 75% white, so she's got some time left to mature.
I'm figuring about two more weeks +, until the end of the month or so.

Love and hugs,
Maria

 

[tobe]

Day 63 - Northern Lights (reg)

I promised you all photos, so... up the mountain I went to take some photos in the (rare) sunshine.

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Hope you like them!!!!

She's weathered three major tropical storms, and a fully bent in half main stem at the base.
But she's still (fairly) green and healthy, and now packing on the crystals.

Not sure how I managed to work the nutrient situation, because with some very high rainfall at times,
a lot of nutes just get washed / flushed away, so I tend to add in heavy concentrated doses,
and figure on the rain diluting it down. She'd be over-fed otherwise, but looks not bad, no burn at all.
Most of the leaf damage is not from bugs, but just from the storms, ripping the leaves and wind burn.

As you can see, the pistils are still about 75% white, so she's got some time left to mature.
I'm figuring about two more weeks +, until the end of the month or so.

Love and hugs,
Maria

Hi Maria
Your plant looking nice i like the pictures with the mountain and the sky in the backround.
cu tobe

 

[Exotic Flower]

Hi Maria
Your plant looking nice i like the pictures with the mountain and the sky in the backround.
cu tobe

Thanks, @tobe !
It's a beautiful site.

 

[Eyeoftheworld]

Her stem/ trunk???!!! is wiiild!!! Wow!