Yes, the N.L. #5's are regulars.......they are in a side room where I do regulars. They are with the W.W.'s. Large room is for feminized to make it workable.
Since you're currently growing another regular version, I still don't really understand why you couldn't try the Peak Se-eds NL regs if you really wanted to. Regardless, I'm sure you have your reasons, you certainly don't need to explain them to me, and I'm moving on.
My point was I've been searching for a really good N.L. for a long time and haven't found anything that could touch the originals.
You and everyone else, apparently.
Me too, actually, though to be absolutely clear, I think we're talking about beans here (not cuts).
For what its worth, if you look at the SC labs website, they let you search their database of tested samples, and if you check out Northern lights, there are several ones sold at dispensaries tested in the last year running at 20%+ THC. I don't know how "legit" these are in terms of genetic pedigree, nor how closely they resemble the older line, but at least somebody has SOMETHING fairly potent that they're calling "Northern lights".
Not incidentally, two different samples of so-called "Atomic Northern lights" from two different dispensaries, have tested out at 13 and 19% THC, respectively, in the last year. Presumably, those are cuts from the Dr. Atomic version, and so maybe that one does have some potential if its selected and grown properly.
Sensi N.L.'s are now hybrids with new parentage and is not anywhere like it used to be. Mr. Nice Ortega, which is supposed to be N.L. #1 X N.L. #5 is full of hermies and just not that strong. Nirvana's are OK, but again no where as good. Dinafem's I.P. is supposedly the original mother of Jack Herer, the plant. not the man- and is good but way different then any N.L. I've ever seen. I could go n and on. Etc. etc.
For what its worth, the original Jack Herer was a three way hybrid that's supposedly 50% Haze, 37.5% NL and 12.5% Skunk. I don't know the exact way this was bred, but its probably something like (Haze x NL) x (Haze x [Nl x (NL x Skunk)]) from two highly select hybrid parents, kept as clones to make the beans. Regardless of how the actual crosses were done, based on the listed percentages, the mother plant of JH has to itself be an NL hybrid of some kind with Haze and/or Skunk, and this alone could explain why the "industrial plant" is unlike pure NL and has a higher flowering time.
I've read something called P91 (I think that's it) is around on the west coast and is original....but good luck finding seeds/clones of that baby!!!!!!
The P91 "Poway Class of 91" is a "clone only" from the San Diego area and the story is that this is an original NL#5 inbred by members of the Poway High School graduating class of 1991 who were growing commercially, then later busted in '94. Some say the real line was wiped out in that bust. Don't know if that's true or not (probably not), but believe it or not, buds of this do turn up for sale in certain SD area dispensaries and sometimes even clones do. I don't think you're going to find beans of this anywhere, but if you're OK with a cut, and want this badly enough you can likely get one.
An afterthought on the BCSB "N.L. #5" I'm currently doing. I did this one years ago, and it was pretty good. Everyone liked it a lot. But it's been maybe 10 years since and I thought I'd give it another grow and see how it turns out for shits and giggles.....
Well, I'd love to see how this one does.
MMMM MMMM GOOD!!!
