nl#5 gone?

[Herbsman_OS]

I recently acquired NL#5 x TrainWreck. Haven't flowered her yet, but I'm looking forward to see how she comes out.

 

[jj7leaf]

Shiva

Shiva

Yes, and (Shiva = Northern Lights #5).

Thanks for the info, I thought I read that the Shiva was a seperate Indica that was replaced by the NL#5 in Shiva Skunk later down the lineage.

Always looking to learn.


jj

 

[Junkhead]

I was going to post pretty much the same thing as jj7leaf, didn't know shiva was NL5, thanks

Anybody know what super shiva was?
I saw this on the cover of the positronics catalog (pretty damn sure) someone posted.

 

[DRorganic]

how about female seed northern lights or Atomic Northern Lights? and if i crossed ether one with a haze would it come close to nl x haze from the past

 

[SiR-GrOwS-aLoT]

this thread has inpired me to pull out the old pack of sensi nl#5..there pretty old but maybe they'll still germ

 

[Funion]

ahhhhhh,
the elephant in the room

 

[Piff Rhys Jones]

Sorry to chime in a bit late on this one.

Bit of info on NL from Nevil:

When I first got the NL varieties, there were 8 types, 1-8.
They came with descriptions, which I published in my catalogue. These descriptions may not correlate with what later developed. The original intention was to purchase seeds from the US NL growers. It didn't work out and supply dried up. I kept the lines separate and inbred them. NL1 and NL2 stabilised into distinct types and NL5 only produced one unique individual.
NL1 was a full blood Afghan indica. One thick main stem, dark green leaves, modest yield with nuggety buds, a little coarse with good resin production, which when ripe went golden. The high was narcotic. The seeds ranged from tiny to massive. I used to love the big ones. Large fat heavily and darkly mottled seeds. Selecting for these seeds made this Afghan even coarser. It was fun to show people these seeds.
The best line of NL1 actually came from the smaller seeded types, better high and bud structure.
There weren't many pure indica lines around in those days. Big Bud, Hash Plant and G13 were pure indicas in my estimation, but were cuttings. NL1 was the only good pure Afghani male line I had.( there was Sams Afghani#1, but that was toxic in a bad way) The NL2 was a Kush.
I put the NL1 out there as a pure strain. I wasn't popular. People would tell me, "give me the pure strains", but if it cost them 10% of their yield they would complain, well try 50%.
The pure indica hybrids were more popular. NL1 x HP and NL1 x G13 were the best. At least people could use the word pure (very popular). But they were good!

I expect that a lot of people holding what they believe to be pure indicas today, would find, if the truth be known, that the sire line traces back to NL1.
N.

Nevil received the various NL varieties as seeds and inbred them.

He suggests that his inbred NL5 mother was better than the original NL#5 cut from the Indian. I'm sure someone is still holding the original NL#5 cut somewhere.

Nevil's IBL NL5 still exists in seed form. Shanti managed to germinate some of Nev's old NL5 recently - he selected a new NL5 mother which he is now using in the reworked NL5xHazeC.

Shanti is your man.

 

[BillyBadGrower]

nevil and shanti's Ortega is NL#1 X NL#5

 

[SOTF420]

Shanti is the fcking man nuff said

 

[Tom Hill]

Yeah I saw a thread on that (ortega) recently and although the plant was still in veg it certainly had the telltale sharp leaf serrations of the original NL.