From a fellow grower: I picked 2 seeds out of the 20 I received of Northern Lights autos. Germed and potted the same day, growing great…until three weeks ago when 1 out of 2 plants just didn’t flower. Now it’s smashing into my lights after 5 weeks+ of stretching.*
Strain: Northern Lights
Type (fem/auto/reg): Auto
Climate (indoor/outdoor): Indoor
Medium (soil/hydro/details): Hydro
pH of runoff or solution in reservoir: 5.7-5.9
Nutrient mix strength (EC/TDS): 1050-1100 for blooming
Light type & schedule: 24/0
Temperatures day & night: 75 at canopy top
Humidity day & night: 45%-50%
Ventilation: 4" 195CFM duct fan
AC: I have AC
Humidifier: N/A
De-humidifier: I have one in tent as well as in the basement
Co2: How the hell would I measure that
Attached is the image of this tent. You can see how the left plant, which is the same strain, from the same order, from the same bag, started at the same time, is flowering just fine. The right plant is 3 weeks behind. It is female, it is preflowering.
I have a Spider Farm 2000 for a 32"x32" tent. This is not a lighting issue. While the left plant finished their stretch weeks ago, the right plant forces me to move the light up daily.
Northern Lights autos will sometimes have a plant that takes longer to flower and grows very tall.
had one that grew 6 ft tall and took over 16 weeks before harvested. Got a LOT of product but t was a battle.
Best thing to do is bend those stems down and train them to grow sideways. Its called LST, or Low Stress Training. I will look for a pic of the one I had.
Even with pulling the branches down it still grew up to the light. There is another light behind the one blurple one you see.
Normally I would say bend the branches. Tie them down till they have enough weight on the flower and finally release. But in this small of a tent it just wouldn’t work. Not enough height.
welcome @Doctorvanos
Don’t blame ILGM genetics here, autos do what they do sometimes. Kinda like a purebred dog, you get an odd one sometimes as a result of selective breeding.
If they were different generations I would understand, or a couple weeks out of sync, but pushing a month out of sync from the same order and the same bag? Very disappointing.
I would recommend reading up on genotypes and phenotypes. It will not matter where you get your seeds from, this will happen (different looking plants even though it’s the same “strain”).
If your goal is to grow the exact same looking type plants, the only way that will be possible is with clones. Just my 2 cents
Edit : just wanted to mention you can not clone autos.
Weird how this doesn’t happen with any other seeds so far, but I’ll deal with it some how.
And yes, I know you cannot clone autos, thanks though.
Cheers, these have been an extremely easy grow except for them coming out of sync by almost a month. (These developed cotes 60 days ago from today by the way).
I didn’t know that the way ILGM took care of CS issues was to post it to their forum otherwise I would have written a more detailed description of my problem originally.
I am not sure why everyone keeps telling me to contact CS…I didn’t start this thread. I’ve already contacted them and this is the result.
Before @dbrn32 even suggested it I dropped lights. 8.5hrs of dark immediately flipped the plant into flower. Bad genetics.
Also not sure why you guys keep saying this “is normal”. This is not. This is pretty weak genetics as far as “auto” genetics goes as obviously some of these seeds still have photo genes in them. My guess is that these are F1/F2, but we’ll never know since those details are never posted.
Lesson learned though, never buy seeds on sale from ILGM. Thanks @dbrn32 for the suggestion.
We always post grow questions on the forum, as then you can get advice and tips from our expert growers. If the question is regarding orders, or issues with seeds, then we deal with it via the customer support channel. Thanks
