Description
Gaze at the stars as you dive into the sweet relaxing effect of Northern Lights from Sonoma Seeds. This fantastic strain comes with a pungent, sweet and spicy aroma that comes from its dense and crystal-coated buds. Northern Lights give you a potent relaxing effect that will settle deep in your body and inside your mind. You will be overpowered in dreamy euphoria which will last for a long time.
Northern Lights offer comfortable relaxation and laziness. You will be completely relaxed and at the same time very sleepy allowing you to forget about negative depressive thoughts and stressful situations. There are a number of Northern Lights phenotypes that are available in the market, choose the best one that will match your mood.
For growers, Northern Lights is easy to grow and will yield more buds than any other indica strain. It flowers in just 7 to 9 weeks but remains a small plant which means it is ideal for growing indoors and in stealth situations.
Description
Northern Lights is a small indica plant with a big surprise. It offers total relaxation and superb sleepiness which means you can use this to cure insomnia, depression, stress, and pain. It can flower fast and bear dense, resinous buds. It is very resilient so you don’t need to worry about pests, mold, mildew and common plant diseases.
Northern Lights has crystal-coated buds that have a tinge of purple. The buds have pungently-sweet and spicy aromas that will give you extreme psychoactive effects that settle throughout the body. It will make the muscles relax and will pacify your mind.
This strain is used in a variety of medical conditions. This has powerful analgesic, mood-elevating, and anti-inflammatory effects. Therefore you can use this to deal with stress, depression, insomnia, pain, and inflammation.
Having your own supply of Northern Lights for medical or recreational use is a good idea. You can purchase only the best and the most potent Northern Lights seeds from Sonoma Seeds.
Origin of Northern Light
Northern Lights hails from equally-popular landrace strains. It was made by combining an Afghani and Thai landrace. Obviously, Northern Lights has inherited its height and its effects from its potent indica parent. This strain has given birth to a number of rich and potent hybrids including Shiva Skunk and Super Silver Haze. The smell of this strain is so strong with a combination of pine, sweet candy and earthy; these aromas were inherited from both its potent indica and sativa parents but more from its Afghani lineage.
It is also believed that Northern Lights has originated in an area near Seattle, Washington but was cultivated in Holland after 1985 from a company now known as Sensi Seeds.
Effects of Northern Light
Northern Lights comes with extreme psychoactive effects even when you take this moderately and especially when it is your first time. The effects settle throughout your body from your brain to your muscles to your bones.
There is that comfortable relaxed feeling that you will experience even in moderate amounts. It will make you feel happy and euphoric. It will make you forget all your worries and troubles as if these never existed in the first place.
As you enjoy these relaxing effects, you will soon feel that overpowering need to sleep. It is so powerful that you may not be able to resist dosing off even in your own couch. But somehow you may still have to give in to a powerful drive to eat as you will feel as hungry as a horse.
It won’t be complete to discuss Northern Lights’ effects without mentioning its negative effects. This causes dry mouth and dry eyes, two common side effects due to this strain’s moderate THC levels at 20.26%. THC can leave you with red and dry eyes and dry mouth due to its ability to increase blood flow in the body.
This strain can also cause dizziness, slight headaches, and slight paranoia because of its overpowering relaxing effects. These negative effects may be reduced by consuming only a low to moderate amount of Northern Lights. Taking this on a regular basis can also develop tolerance to this strain’s effects and side effects.
Medical Uses of Northern Light
Northern Lights is not just a potent recreational strain but also a powerful medical strain as well. You can use Northern Lights to deal with stress and depression because of its top mood-elevating properties. You won’t have to use synthetic medications to reduce negative mood and to forget worries even for just a few hours.
It has top effects on insomnia. It acts like a natural tranquilizer which can help stop sleeplessness and insomnia minus any negative effects as well. Aside from these therapeutic effects, you can also use Northern Lights to deal with pain and inflammation. It can help block out pain naturally so you can live free from headaches, muscle pains, muscle strains, chronic pain, and migraines.
It’s very tempting to use Northern Lights for any of these medical conditions but to stay safe talk to your doctor about the ideal strain to use. Your doctor will also prescribe the best dose according to your medical needs. You must not discontinue any medication just to take Northern Lights. Only your doctor can discontinue your medication before you can take medical cannabis.
Taste and Aroma of Northern Light
Northern Lights has earthy, sweet and pine aromas which can be experienced as soon as you take the first inhale and exhale. Like most potent cannabis aromas, these flavors will constantly stay in your system for as long as you are influenced by its effects.
Northern Lights smell and the taste is a combination of terpenes from his parents but it is likely that it has inherited its very potent aroma more from its Afghani parent. And like all strains that are cultivated indoors or inside greenhouses, the smell can accumulate and become very potent. The strong odor might become too strong enough to be distinguished from far away.
You need to reduce this odor by using easy measures like installing two fans inside your growing area. The first fan would be installed on the top of the growing room or tent to suck up smelly air from the inside of the tent to blow it outdoors. The other fan will be installed at the bottom part of the room and this will suck up cool and fresh air outdoors and take it inside. This way, you are not just removing smelly odors but you can also dry up the soil and reduce mold and mildew attacks.
Growing Northern Light
You can grow Northern Lights indoors or outdoors but most growers cultivate it indoors to get multiple growing cycles in a year. It is a fast-growing strain, therefore, you can get more yields as long as you maintain the right growing environment.
Train your plants early. It is best suited for the sea of the green method where your plants will grow behind a net. This technique will let light reach the top canopies of your plants equally. You can use twine or wire to create a screen over your plants.
Keep a steady flow of air inside your growing area to prevent mold and mildew growth. Northern Lights grow large, dense buds and these are very susceptible to mold growth. You must also water only when the soil is dry and not when it is wet or moist to protect your plants from the mold.
This strain prefers long summer seasons and warm, sunny temperatures between 70 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit. This is a good strain for new or novice growers because it is quite easy to grow.
Make sure to supply this fertilizer or nutrient feedings with high nitrogen during the vegetative stage. This will help your plants develop stronger and healthier stems, branches and roots. But during the flowering stage, use a fertilizer with low nitrogen but high phosphorous and potassium to help boost bud growth and increase yields.