Northern Lights Blue - High Res Pics

Hey guys, 2nd grow, first auto. Click Pics for full res versions.

Got this as a freebie with an order(all my current plants are feebies) And have been letting it grow off to the side of the photos under a 230w led.

I'm sure I'll get railed for this but instead of worrying about light leaks I just leave it on the same timer as the photos and leave the tent open all the time.

I have pics from it's whole life, gonna post them soon, these are from today...

er....its an auto , why worry over a light leak? I often grow some autos with my photos, yet another reason for autos seeds to be dirt cheap ..!

What I mean is... I have the auto on the same light sched as the photos. I could zip up the tent after 12 hours and leave the LED on but I don't want that light getting out to the photos. (my tent is cheap as shit).

from the looks of it you should be fine to leave the light on 24/7 minor light leaks wont hurt your photo plants nor will it revert them back to veg...nor will it hermie them.


in my opinion the benifits of leaving the lights on 24/7 far oughtweigh any cons from possible tiny amount light that may get.


i have about 10+ grows now and none of my rooms are light proof and i leave my basement lights on outside the tent 24/7 found seeds in 1 plant and i doubt its because of light leaks, more likely its because it came from a fem seeds and fem seeds just hermie sometimes.

Bleh fine, maybe I will start zipping it up at night and leaving the LED on, that was the original plan... I just wasn't too concerned with the auto as I have it next to 6 large photos, those are the ones I actually care about, hehe...

Do you think there will be any issue moving the auto from 12/12 to 24? Been on 12/12 three weeks now, 18/6 before that.

AlGore said:

What I mean is... I have the auto on the same light sched as the photos. I could zip up the tent after 12 hours and leave the LED on but I don't want that light getting out to the photos. (my tent is cheap as shit).

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You are totally correct in your thinking, high post count on RIU. don't mean shit when it comes to experience, I urge you to google what causes herming in the first place, but from hard earned experience I can assure you light leaks do cause Herming, 24/7 is ok for some growers but if you want roots hence volume in your plant go 18/6, as the bigger the rootball the bigger the plant the bigger the yield

ps consider painting your tent a darker color ...?

vostok said:

You are totally correct in your thinking, high post count on RIU. don't mean shit when it comes to experience, I urge you to google what causes herming in the first place, but from hard earned experience I can assure you light leaks do cause Herming, 24/7 is ok for some growers but if you want roots hence volume in your plant go 18/6, as the bigger the rootball the bigger the plant the bigger the yield

ps consider painting your tent a darker color ...?

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you find me one legit research document about MINOR light leaks causing hermies.....i see you all over these boards in the past few days spouting off info like you know what your talking about but your just regurgitating the garbage you have read on these boards.

i have a high post count because i have been on these boards for 2+ years...

why would he paint his tent darker??? its more than liklely a black tent with a reflective mylar inside...how much darker than black should he paint it? or are you suggesting paining the reflective interior?? theres a brilliant idea...

the root ball will grow as big as the container....small container small root ball small plant.....large container, large root system, large plant......4 hours of darkness is not going to give someone a smaller "root ball"

learn your shit m8 before insulting others on here.

I've read people say a red led on a timer was enough to cause it.. but idk. How do you explain moonlight... then again I had a plant that was not flowering after 4 weeks 12/12 and after I sealed a slight crack in my closet I haven't had the issue since. So I don't know what to think. However I don't think you have any call asking for research papers , seems to me to be just a "checkmate" move to win the argument, do you have any on the subject?

Thanks for the pix Al. Very nice. My indoor Northern lights blue auto just sprouted this morning. I'd like to think it'll look like yours in a couple of months, but I'm using my buddy's old AeroGarden. Not quite as much light as you have.

Hey guys... Thanks for the info and all that...

Only thing I've really read on light leaking that comes to mind is last month's HT. Guy had a greenhouse a good distnace from a street lamp and it fucked his crop. I'm sure I've read about it in books too.

As far as the tent, the leaks come from the side flaps and the pinholes in the stitching. I thought about using electrical tape but whatever man, lol. The auto is budding nicely and I figure its got like a month left at most. Just gonna leave on 12/12.

I tell you one thing, this auto has been so easy to grow I've been thinking about just going all auto, lol. But these crops aren't really for profit or personal use anyway, just trying to learn and get experience. Hell I gave away most of my first crop, and made QWISO out of the popcorn and trim, got some since shatter out of it but still haven't even dabbed any of it, lol.

So I thought this Auto still needed time to mature based on the buds but I guess not, I inspected it 2 days ago and didn't notice anything but sugary buds starting to swell and some immature larf at the bottom I decided to just let be.

I had cut of some sucker branches off the very bottom like a week previous, they were so sad looking.

Anyway, Didn't wanna mess with trying to let any of this plant mature more. I thought about moving it and its light upstairs away from my early flowering photo plants, and maybe cutting out the branches with dicks and letting mature...

But I just said fuck it and I cut down a bunch of leaves, chopped it at the base, and hung it.

I've grown this strain of Auto before as a freebie and was impressed enough to order 5 this year. Mine aren't as far along as yours but are flowering nicely with a few differences due to phenotypes. Did you say that you've already chopped? I thought the plant looked like it needed another 1-2 wks or so.

Yea, sorry, the post wasn't clear...

I chopped because it stated to self seed... Look at the last set of pics, they have bananas growing out the tips of the colas.

A couple of questions--was this one grown under the 230W LED alone, or in combo with the 400W MH/HPS? If it was grown under the LED by itself, that brings me to question number two--where did you get the LED and what make is it? I've been looking at the Vipar LED lights on Ebay but I'm not entirely sure about LED's just yet. Right now I'm using T5 HO, 48" x 12 bulbs and just today got a couple of CFL bulbs, 2 x 40W (200W equivalent) 2700K to augment blooming on my Auto Anubis. I'm planning on a cab grow using either a spare PC case or a larger cab I can modify.....have a Northern Lights x Big Bud Auto germinating as I type this that will go under the T5's until my cab is ready. Thanks in advance for any answers/advice......am really liking your cab set-up--that NL Blue turned out VERY nice if you ask me!

Hey, it did get some light from the 400w, but just supplemental. I think it would have grown the same under just the 230W.

Be careful when looking into LED's. Mine is a cheep one from Amazon Prime. The brand is Taotronics. It's bright as hell despite only actually running the 3W bulbs at 2W, in reality it's only like 180w, but works well...

Since removing the auto, and needed some supplemental, I've bought another one and done this... hehe...

oh so it hermied without any light leaks....interesting.

unfortunatly some plants just do..personally i would have moved the light and let it mature more, picked as many banannas off as i could and saved the seeds for a outdoor jonny appleseed type grow. but hey thats me. you would have ended up with alot more but but also risk having pollen floating around the house, prob not enough to notice any more than a occasional seed here and there (if even that) but some people prefer 0 seeds.

i will say this, dont drive yourself insane with hermies.....given the nature of the marijuana plant they are designed to hermie if they feel reproduction is comprimised, that being said ANY female plant that has not been polinated has a higher chance of popping out some nanners to ensure reproduction.....its nature, not light leaks.

i had a blue rhino hermie on me not too long ago, decided to leave it alone since it was like week 5 of flower. picked as many nanners as i could and harvested when ripe (could have actually let it go another week) ended up pulling 5+ dry ounces off of it...prob about 100 seeds in the whole plant but if you think about 100 seeds and almost 6 Oz its really minimal.

Hey, thanks for the input. I went back and fourth on what to do with it, and I know nannars are low pollen but I decided not to risk it. Just not worth it for me in the end.