Thank you all for the warm welcome to our first autoflowering strain
As you may know, it has not been a priority at ACE to breed autoflowering strains, but the birth of the Auto Malawi x Northern Lights happened in a such natural way, and i am so satisfied with its testing that we have finally decided to release it.
Most cannabis strains flower correctly with at least 4 of hours of direct light (obviously the other growing variables must be correct too) although of course the more light the better.
To answer your question, Auto Malawi x Northern Lights is a big sized (or XL as other seed companies like to call it) autoflowering strain, with lots of sativa vigor and surprisingly producing very high yields for an autoflowering. It can easily reach 1.5 meters when grown properly, producing a huge main cola and heavy side colas too.
To be honest the effect is not so overpowering like our photodependent Malawi and Malawi hybrids, but it has good strength and great qualities by its own, it's not a typical Malawi, neither a NL, the good thing is that it's a completly new and interesting thing on its own right.
Thanks for the info Dubi!
Appreciate your sincerity. I have allready purchased 3 beans. They sprout 2weeks ago the 3 of theme. For now, everything is going great!
I have started a Grow Report of this strain!
You all are welcome to visit it and interact.
Im loking forward to on the one hand recive your opinions and suggestions in order to achive a more complete growing experience and in the oder hand answer all your cuestions and doubdts the best way I can.
Feel free to come by! https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=7952255#post7952255
I'm not so interested in the auto version of the latest cup winner. but an autoflower malawi...or thai. etc. this could help add some diversity to a pretty much afghan dominated selection that works for folks around 50 N
although you say the sativa pheno in your cross is not as interesing smoke wise, the growth sounds very interesting. maybe in the future projects one of these very sativa auto's will be the line you continue to breed future generations with. sounds fun.
We are testing this season many different lines of the Malawi x NL auto flowering hybrid. The hybrid is being tested at 3 different spots and they are at different stage of development (in each location they were planted at different moment, late March, April and May).
Here are some Auto Malawi x NL finishing the stretching in late May and getting ready for the flowering under the strong sun.
What's the maximum stretch outdoors? They're starting to flower now and they're about 25-30 cm
Maximum height restriction is approximately 90-100 cm
Will they exceed that height?
What's the maximum stretch outdoors? They're starting to flower now and they're about 25-30 cm
Maximum height restriction is approximately 90-100 cm
Will they exceed that height?
The maximum size that this Auto Malawi x NL fem release can reach when it is grown to its full potential is 1 up to 1.5 meters (check indoor pics of the strain in the first page of this thread).
In order to get the biggest autoflowering plants as possible (and obviously also the highest yields) then you must really grow her to the max since her very first day of life and in her first 4-5 weeks of life (whole growing stage until early flowering stage/flowering stretching) using big pots of at least 15 liter size, with strong good quality light intensity, perfect feeding, etc ....
A friend wanted to grow this spring different lines of our Auto Malawi x NL and share his results. Seeds were planted the last week of March, and they are already finishing in the first half of June.
Plants could be bigger as he kept the seedlings in their 2 first weeks of life in small pots, only then they were transplanted to bigger ones. Plants also had to deal with all kind of pests that are so typical here in the terraces of our area in these first hot weeks of late spring.
Anyway, they have developed nice, quite big, resinous and aromatic flowers under the intense mediterranean sun. And it has also been interesting to continue exploring the different phenos of this F3 generation. The outdoor results have been also more consistent regarding flowering times and aromas than my previous indoor test with the strain.
Thanks a picture says more than thousand words
I think I'm good
They're just really taking flight right now, very vigorous and thickest stem although the youngest of my plants, thicker than Kali china who's more than 2 months older
Let's see, if they get too big I bend them a little
I will go a bit into details about the different phenos of the strain.
First, the more indica pheno. Shorter columnar structure, with a big main cola, and few well developed branches with heavy buds too.
Very good resin production, sweet, creamy, coffee, hashy aromas.
Not the best flower/leaf ratio, super early flowering.
Auto Malawi x Northern Lights - sativa/indica phenos
Auto Malawi x Northern Lights - sativa/indica phenos
The sativa/indica pheno is usually taller, with stronger, more separated kind of branching, with thinner leaves. The flowers are less denser (a bit foxtailed), with more or less the same resin production than the indica pheno. Longer pistils, better flower/leaf ratio in average. The flowering time is approx 10 days longer than the indica phenos. These are my favourite phenos to smoke: with more Malawi influence.
Auto Malawi x Northern Lights - early flowering resinous more sativa pheno
Auto Malawi x Northern Lights - early flowering resinous more sativa pheno
And here are the very early flowering (same flowering time than the faster indica phenos) resinous more sativa phenos.
It's a F2 S1 line, seeds coming from the very small, fast flowering, very resinous, more Malawi influenced F2 parental plant that we finally chose to reverse to produce all the F3 released lines.
The yield of this line is lower due being a S1 (selfed line), but displays the more resinous sativa phenos, with quite foxtailed kind of flowers.