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Yes, I would call it a win with the buds I am getting and I have made some oil and it does do the trick, lol...
First Grow In Over 20 Years! Northern Lights Under 600W LED
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Yes, I would call it a win with the buds I am getting and I have made some oil and it does do the trick, lol...
Oil is the shizzz
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I find it does the trick and after working so many years in steel mills and coal plants I want to give my lungs a break.
I hear ya on that!
Winter sucks!!
Only for showeling snow...
Lol the older I get the more I hate it.
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Amen!!
I hate it now used to like it !
Now I just want to be warm and cozy lol
Now I just want to be warm and cozy lol
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I agree 100%
TriangleCheese
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Nicely done Homie
I harvested my PC's last week and plants had mostly cloudy trichomes. Your current distribution of trichome colors is real nice for my taste. We can say that these have peak THC for sure. Personally, I don't like amber at all. I tend to turn the lights off for 48 hours when I detect any amber. High ratios of cloudy trichomes also knock you out after some point. Considering your plant is a strong indica, you shouldn't have any trouble going into sleep after a slim pure green joint. For all other cases, I prefer the buds that will keep me as away as possible from sleeping. I think high ratios of amber significantly reduces the characteristic effects of every strain. I tested this effect on Super Silver Haze. We added extra two weeks for one plant and it had lots of amber trichomes while the other one had mostly cloudy. Keep in mind that SSH already has a fair amount of CBN. The amber plant yielded significantly more than the other but we always enjoyed the cloudy one better.
I am smoking some shitty, small and dried nugs of my Pineapples and I am really really glad that I harvested them close to peak THC. These NL's will make you BUZZ mate
Should be able to back a truckload of coco in there now Homer. 
You can always tell the growers... last ones to shovel.
You can always tell the growers... last ones to shovel.
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Nicely done Homie
I harvested my PC's last week and plants had mostly cloudy trichomes. Your current distribution of trichome colors is real nice for my taste. We can say that these have peak THC for sure. Personally, I don't like amber at all. I tend to turn the lights off for 48 hours when I detect any amber. High ratios of cloudy trichomes also knock you out after some point. Considering your plant is a strong indica, you shouldn't have any trouble going into sleep after a slim pure green joint. For all other cases, I prefer the buds that will keep me as away as possible from sleeping. I think high ratios of amber significantly reduces the characteristic effects of every strain. I tested this effect on Super Silver Haze. We added extra two weeks for one plant and it had lots of amber trichomes while the other one had mostly cloudy. Keep in mind that SSH already has a fair amount of CBN. The amber plant yielded significantly more than the other but we always enjoyed the cloudy one better.
I am smoking some shitty, small and dried nugs of my Pineapples and I am really really glad that I harvested them close to peak THC. These NL's will make you BUZZ mate
Hey Triangle Cheese; glad to see you drop by again. I appreciate your timely input about my harvest because I am trying to make a decision so your post is helpful.
I actually made a small amount of oil when I did my bud trimming for back building probably almost a month ago now. I took way too much and it gave me quite the physical feeling of anxiety which was kind of disheartening. Since then I have made two small batches of oil one a couple weeks ago and one tonight. The one a couple weeks ago still made me feel physically anxious but the one from tonight was a lot smoother which I take as a very good sign.
There was a time I smoked a lot of weed when I was younger and I don’t remember ever having this feeling of anxiety from weed. The only way I can describe it is it feels like taking magic mushrooms while you are climbing with the same anxious feeling before you hit that peak when you go clear. So I don’t know why this stuff is making me anxious but I figure it is either because it isn’t ready yet or taking it after cooking it up with oil has a different effect. I’m starting to think it’s just not ready yet since this batch seemed a lot less anxiety inducing.
So to make a short story really long I think I may wait another week or so and then try another small batch of oil to see what that is like and see if I feel even less anxious before I do any harvesting. So I do want some at peak THC just to feel good but I just don’t want that anxious feeling along with it so I hope I am still a little early. I also want something that will just completely put me to sleep whether it gets me high or not I don’t care which is why I am thinking of letting some go really Amber.
When you say you harvested that Super Silver Haze two weeks later that had lots of Amber I see that you enjoyed the cloudy one better but may I ask how the late Amber one affected you; if it just put you to sleep that would be perfect for me?
Don’t get me wrong I also enjoy getting high and I don’t know how much sense this post makes me because my oil experiment is really kicking in, LOL.
Growingasmile
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This looks so comfortable, the only weather I like better is rain and thunderHere is my driveway before and after today. To each his own but I don't really understand what some people love about winter....
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Should be able to back a truckload of coco in there now Homer.
You can always tell the growers... last ones to shovel.
Yup, the truck can make it in now but because of your experiments, it might not be coco.
I have some pretty gung ho neighbours so yes admittedly I am always one of the last to shovel but I always seem to get it done. I hate when it freezes with ruts in it because that makes it almost impossible to use the snowblower the next time so I tried to keep it clear.
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New York here...hated winter, moved to Los Angeles. Nuff said!
Pinene is a specific terpinoid to avoid if anxiety is an issue for you, as are pure sativas generally.
And if you do ever feel anxious from weed, smell and chew a peppercorn or have either CBD oil or a high CBD strain on hand you can hit to knock down the anxiety.
The stuff we smoked in the 70s with the seeds and stems still had higher levels of CBD in it which tempers the paranoia and anxiety that comes with some high THC low CBD strains. In the 80s they started breeding CBD out of strains as folks wanted more and more THC.
Pinene is a specific terpinoid to avoid if anxiety is an issue for you, as are pure sativas generally.
And if you do ever feel anxious from weed, smell and chew a peppercorn or have either CBD oil or a high CBD strain on hand you can hit to knock down the anxiety.
I was out showeling snow.... Again...
This IS a time when I wish I had a man in my life
This IS a time when I wish I had a man in my life
TriangleCheese
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I feel you Homie. I don't like the anxiety effects caused by consuming cannabis either. But I don't think you should compare an extract to a nug. Extracts always make me little anxious no matter which form they are in. Space cakes or other food with cannabutter, charas, BHO, earwax etc... But edibles cause lot more anxiety compared to other extracts.
Besides extracts, a great majority of sativa hybrids are also making me real real anxious. It is not a huge problem for me but I feel an alerted buzz instead of the chill effects of indica leaning strains. I am in my late twenties so I have no idea about the weed in 70's or 80's but knowledgeable smokers say that weed is definately stronger now. Of course by means of THC.
And about my SSH comparison... First I must say that it is my favourite sativa. I smoked Dinafem Super Silver, Royal Queen's Shining Silver Haze and of course Greenhouse Seeds' Super Silver Haze. Royal Queen's take on SSH is real real crap. It is fairly potent but it is very very different than the original. Dinafem's take on SSH was awesome. But the real thing for me will always be the one from GHS. Just like their White Widow is the best available. I don't know about the auto versions though.
Apparently in extra two weeks, sativa buds can gain a lot more mass. That was the main thing I wanted to test back in the day. But we figured quickly that these nugs had different effects. Then I did my first research about trichomes and internalised the theory.
I was watching GHS grow video about SSH and they measured very high levels of CBN for this particular plant. Still, the cloudy plant provided a very uplifting high. I think when you harvest your SSH with mostly cloudy trichs, you will get a perfect ratio between CBN and THC. Amber plant provided a nice high as well. None of these plants made me sleepy. Maybe slightly more sleepy on amber. Amber one made me gain a fair amount of weight. I was eating constantly because it was making me so hungry. Considering the SSH case, I can say that an amber SSH bud can treat your lack of appetite but not insomnia. But you will observe different effects for NL for sure since it is a strong indica.
My main point is, do you want a jar full of buds that is only dedicated to make you go to sleep besides some negative effects? These negative effects include several things. Amber makes you go to sleep easy but it also makes you get up in a bad shape. I always have trouble getting up in the morning when I smoke amber nugs. Cloudy plants doesn't have that effect, at least in my case for last several grows. Can you afford eating more or can you control this fake appetite? If you are okay with these effects, then you can go for amber. If you want a real chilling indica, I suggest turning the lights off right now.
My Pineapple Chunks are harvested with trichome color distribution similar to your NL. It is a very very uplifting strain and almost perfect for me because it doesn't have that anxiety effect at all. The high is so chill that it really treats minor depression. Basically you don't give a sh.t about your problems. I just smoke it and work on my projects or do professional work. It makes everything more convinient but slow, just the way I want them to be. When I want to sleep, I roll a slim full green joint and it knocks me out in 15-20 minutes for sure. If I smoke something like that in the morning or afternoon, I don't go to sleep because I am not yet spent or exhausted. PC is an indica leaning strain so harvesting it with mostly cloudy trichomes on, I preserved the characteristic effects for this particular strain. Also I can use it for sleeping because it is indica. I couldn't do both with SSH's no matter when I harvest them. You have a pure indica strain and that will definately make you more sleepy than my PC's due to its characteristic high.
Long story short, I wouldn't wait much longer if I were you. Or I would go extract some nice hash just for sleep. Keep the remaining buds with milky trichomes. Any homemade hash can knock us down if we roll and smoke it the right way. Northern Lights shouldn't cause too much anxiety when consumed in normal amounts. I smoked it long ago and it is coded "chilled and potent" in my memory.
Peace