FirstCavApache64
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Yeah, when history is told by a bunch of potheads that all have both bad memories and sometimes financial interests in how it's remembered it definitely gets murky. Looking at the plants he's grown out and pics of old NL plants in cannabis books from then they at least seem really similar and that's all I can hope for at this stage of the game. I like to smoke/consume heavy indica strains mainly and Northern Lights was my first really good weed I ever tried when a buddy smuggled some back on a plane from Amsterdam in the 90s. It was like eating lobster when your whole life you had eaten nothing but Top Ramen. I can't decide if I am going to buy the NL#2 or wait for the purest indica seeds to come back as a cross with the NL#5 which is what I'd really like. That would make some excellent tincture for night time use.Like I said. Ask 5 different people get 5 different answers.
If you do a google search for "Northern Lights strain history" you'll get various different stories. Some say it was created by the "Indian" on an Island in Washington State. Some say it came from California, while others say it was bred in the Holland and came to the Pacific Northwest in the 80's. I'm sure there are more different stories but those are just 3 that took me a minute to find.
I don't know what story is correct. There's about 50 different versions out there these days all claiming to be from the original.