MrSauga, Synchronous Foxtails, Northern Lights Auto and a Harvest Report For Good Measure!
We’ll need a little time-warp for this as I’ve been seriously out of action for a bit. A few weeks ago
@MrSauga made
this excellent post about the kind of foxtailing that can happen due to light and/or heat stress. When I read it many somewhat disconnected thoughts in my head came together and I realised that is exactly what I’d been seeing on the Nothern LIghts auto, for some time.
I noticed light stress early, in the form of 3 and 4 bladed leaves and was wondering about it
because although I’d found and fixed a light leak that shouldn’t have effected the NLA, it being an auto.
I have realised, though, that it was intensity and that it was also heat stressed a lot of the time. It’s been a good gauge to find out about my lights and what they put out.
A while back I cranked the lights, to see. And I saw, that it was too much. Plus I had NLa only 1.5’ from the lights.
Here it is at day 85 and after I’d moved it further away from eh light. The 2 tall colas at the back came on very late and they both foxtailed like mad ...
I was already contemplating an ‘early’ harvest anyway even though there were lots of white stigams still, becasue I was
so ready for it to be done already and it looked ripe In spite of all the white hairs. Then I read Saugas post and my mind was made.
Then, in the 2 days between deciding to harvest and when it actually happened, white stigmas exploded all over the plant!
These new stigmas turned brown/orange and receded very fast.
Anyhooooo... here’s the harvest report and I’ve included, for MrSauga and followers
, a nice pic of one of the foxtail flowers with white stigmas and fully cloudy trichs - case in point
Northern Lights Auto, seed to harvest 92 days, 3.3oz.
It grew in high brix living soil - started in a 2.5gal AirPot and was moved to a 4gal regular pot during stretch - and did put quite a few roots into the new soil. I underwatered it consistently (not on purpose!), and stressed it with light and heat consistently (also not on purpose!).
It was twisty and variegated from the start and as noted had an accidentally rough life. And while the buds are a tiny bit airy (so maybe some of the foxtaily nature was genetic) the colas got very fat and were a delight to look at! ON w the show
Here’s a closeup on that foxy top! Fully cloudy.
It has a sweet and funky aroma. No tester tasted as yet...
This was a Seedsman NLA. It’s by far my best auto. I have more seeds for it I really look forward to growing another one. I’ll hope for
not a twisty variegated one but one that still grows vigorously and takes a long time to flower like this one did. Next time I will top it I think. The LST is a bit taxing on my hands and arms
Something related to that foxtailing thing which didn‘t happen to this one but
is happening to my Sour Bubba, is the fist-shaped cola tops that Sauga noted can happen. The Sour Bubba Is doing it big time, which I will update momentarily
I’ve just raised the light again
Great days to all of you there and here. It’s 730am Saturday morning and I’ve not yet had my weekend wake-n-bake so I’d better go fix that! I wonder if this NLA is ok to test yet - a week in the jars... could be iffy In the harshness department... let’s find out!