| Northern Lights x Shiva Grow Report |
| Posted By: |
ManyClouds My Strains |
| Genotype: |
Mostly Indica |
| Breeder: |
Nirvana |
| Grow Location: |
Indoor |
| Medium: |
Customized peat-based medium |
| Sea of Green? |
No |
| Lighting & Wattage: |
400 watt HPS |
| Fertilizing Method: |
Fish (powder & liquid), seabird guano, kelp, epsom |
| Pruning Method: |
Topped/tied/trained |
| Stature: |
Incredibly bushy, loves to grow multiple colas |
| Flowering Time: |
Approximately 75 days average |
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| Grow Results |
| Appearance: |
Heavy bud production, silver white due to resin content, lovely fall colors late flower, throws erratic double serrations on leaves. |
| Odor: |
Veg: Skunky, Early flower: Sweet & Skunky, Mid-late flower: Black pepper & Sweet Skunk |
| Average Height: |
2-4 feet, depending on veg. time |
| Yield Per Plant: |
Heavy |
| Taste: |
Sweet, mentholated hash. Fantastic smoke. |
| Buzz: |
Incredible, and surprisingly well-balanced for a mainly-indica plant. Potent, and long lasting. |
| Ease of Growing: |
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| Overall Rating: |
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| | Strain: Northern Lights x Shiva Rating: |
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| Northern Lights x Shiva Grow Notes |
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I absolutely love this plant! Found her in 2009, although the pack received was stamped with Sep. 2007 on the back. Lost the seed mother in 2011, but still have her around in clone form.
This specific phenotype is thickly coated in resin, stretches about 3x, and the leaves turn burgundy, purple, and black during flush. She's rather pungent in smell, especially considering it's a Northern Light hybrid, and even has a prominent stank in vegetative state. The smell from beginning of flower to about 3-4 weeks in is a very sweet, skunk funk. At about mid-flower, that's when the fresh cracked black peppercorn smell takes over. Undisturbed, it smells like black pepper. Rubbing a stem or a trim leaf however, releases the skunk smell, but the black pepper is still there.
75 days (give or take a few) seems to be the best time to harvest, with about 10-15% amber trichomes. This plant is best cured for a minimum of 2 months. After about 2-3 weeks, the buds in the jars develop an almost over powering "new rubber tire" smell, to the point of making your stomach turn. After a while though, the rubber smell fades into a sweet, hash smell.
The taste is really nice. 3 words describe it best, "sweet, mentholated hash", with the sweet hash being the most prominent flavor. It also has a not-so-minor secondary menthol taste, apparent on the exhale. Old-school, awesome taste. The smoke is very smooth, but very expansive in the lungs. Can cause coughing fits.
Yeild is very high, pest and mold resistance is great, and she clones and grows very easily. This pheno of this hybrid seems to prefer more magnesium than normal though, so keep some Epsom on hand. Everyone that I know loves this plant, and for good reason. Nirvana discontinued this strain, so if you have it, grow it and make seeds. Wish I saved a male, but oh well.
ManyCloudsOfSmoke. |
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| Comment Posted by: neville hz on 01-04-2015 at 19:59 | | | Beautiful buds mate | | Comment Posted by: evertking on 03-04-2014 at 13:03 | | | I was in the mood to drop some doh on big money seeds, ran into this and well I'm growing this next! | | Comment Posted by: Laser_Face on 08-07-2013 at 18:34 | | | Very impressive structure! Great work! | | Comment Posted by: ManyClouds on 02-13-2013 at 14:25 | | | Hey, Buddle! Thanks for the kind words! I received the pack of NLxShiva in 2009, but the pack I received was stamped with Sept. 2007 on the back. I don't know if the stamp was put on by Nirvana or SeedBoutique. BTW, thank you for the nice comments about a couple of my pics. I tried responding, but I can't due to me being too new a member, and not having the privileges. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks again! | | Comment Posted by: Buddle on 02-11-2013 at 01:50 | | | Lovely grow and fantastic report. Do you remember what year you bought these beans? Nirvana is so underrated.I got a gorgeous Blue Mystic yrs back and the Bubbalicious beans i grew were very similar to a gorgeous BG clone thats been held onto by some fellow growers for yrs. | | Comment Posted by: Buddle on 02-11-2013 at 01:50 | | | Lovely grow and fantastic report. Do you remember what year you bought these beans? Nirvana is so underrated.I got a gorgeous Blue Mystic yrs back and the Bubbalicious beans i grew were very similar to a gorgeous BG clone thats been held onto by some fellow growers for yrs. | | Comment Posted by: Robert Fortune on 02-08-2013 at 03:08 | | | Sweet! | | Comment Posted by: bibo on 01-17-2013 at 12:42 | | Hello ..... ,ManyClouds
I you leave the link to your cultivation please? Very interesting! Thank you and Happy cultivo!;) Bibo. | | Comment Posted by: Mr. Alkaline on 01-13-2013 at 20:01 | | | I guess I better put mine in the shotglass.
I think I wrote up the seedboutique comment for nlxshiva like 8 years ago.
I can't wait to smoke some again,...great report!!!!
| | Comment Posted by: lovekush® on 12-11-2012 at 01:17 | | | Beautiful color...dettagliate report, nice job, plant pushed to the maximum.
Bye | | Comment Posted by: lovekush® on 12-11-2012 at 01:16 | | | Beautiful color...dettagliate report, nice job, plant pushed to the maximum.
Bye | | Comment Posted by: ManyClouds on 12-06-2012 at 15:36 | | | Hello, jump /injack! Thank you for the kind words! Mr. Nice did indeed offer this hybrid at one point, but I recently went through their inventory looking for it, and I think it's been discontinued. Very unfortunate. Thanks again for looking! | | Comment Posted by: jump /injack on 12-04-2012 at 18:12 | | | Very good grow report and pictures, thanks for taking the time. Doesn't Mr. Nice have this one? | | Comment Posted by: ManyClouds on 11-29-2012 at 12:32 | | | Thank you SetHeh, thegambler, and MrMagic!
| | Comment Posted by: MrMagic on 11-27-2012 at 05:38 | | nicer work man,great pics and documentation | | Comment Posted by: thegambler on 11-25-2012 at 22:46 | | | Nice job.......good report. | | Comment Posted by: SetHeh on 11-18-2012 at 20:45 | | | Beautiful plant & great grow report. |
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