Aurora

[leafminer]

I managed 8 oz. of prime bud off each plant and about an oz. of trim. That's plant moisture included. I'll post the dry weight when it finishes drying. So, if it makes 2 oz dry, then an 8-plant grow should make a pound of bud per harvest. So I'd say it is a practical closet grow at a pound per harvest cycle.

 

[leafminer]

I've dried one batch and it came to 40% of the off-the-plant weight. Not bad. From my figures, I'd say that Aurora will give you at least 3 oz. of dried bud per mature plant. Minimal compared with some, but the potency makes up for it.

 

[raoulduke2.0]

Well I just harvested and I feel pretty good about my small grow. I kept the plant beneath 3 feet and still milked some enormous nuggs out of a 150 hps. I've got a 3 1\2 foot 3 month vegged Northern Lights to tend to now, and I am shocked and appalled at the fact that I wasnt using coco coir to begin with.

I will post pics soon, and post a dry weight for a small plant. I'm guessing 2 0z.

 

[leafminer]

Well I think that's fine, about what I'd expect. I'm using a pair of 150 HPS backed up with 105W of CFLs.

You're growing in coco now? I've been using a locally produced coco base for about 18 months now with great results. The mix is almost all coco, I went through a spadeful and found - like it says on the label - tiny bits of roasted clay, silica sand, greeny pearls that I guess are the slow-release ferts "good for three months", Perlite, and couldn't spot the sphagnum moss or lime that's supposed to be in it.

I found with this Aurora that even with the presence of the ferts in the coco, the mature plants could take 3x the recommended concentration of Miracle Grow 15-30-15 in the water. What a glutton for nutes this strain is!
Northern Lights is one of the parents of Aurora, isn't it?

 

[BuddyLuv]

Yup I am happy with this strain. stays short and will handle all the nutes you can give her

 

[raoulduke2.0]

Yes, Aurora is the cross of NL and Afghani. I don't think aurora is keen to lsting. Northern lights is pretty easy to bush and I have had a mother on hand vegging for 3 months and it's time she flowered. The Aurora's I did lst wouldn't stop stretching. The yeild seems to soar if you grow this strain single cola style. But that's just IME.

 

[BuddyLuv]

Mine were not branchy at all. Great sea of green of plant.

 

[raoulduke2.0]

2 0z dry weight. SMooth hashy taste and a sweet malt ball like aroma. True low odor strain. Boosh.

 

[BuddyLuv]

Yeah not my best yielder but the smoke is fantastic.

 

[BuddyLuv]

it can be a good yielder though, right? hopefully the scrog with raise it!

Don't listen to me, I have been blessed with a few plants that have yielded 7-11 oz. It yields just fine, I just have high standards.

 

[leafminer]

2 0z dry weight. SMooth hashy taste and a sweet malt ball like aroma. True low odor strain. Boosh.

Yeah, that's what I got per plant.
Like another poster said, Aurora seems to do best as a single cola plant. My single cola clones produced as much weight as the LSTd plants and occupied a lot less area.
I'm going to do all single colas next grow, just waiting for the moms to reveg right now.

 

[raoulduke2.0]

Like another poster said, Aurora seems to do best as a single cola plant.

I am that poster and I agree, with myself, as well. I Have a heavily Lst'd mother that seemed to be crippled from the redirection of growth hormone. She was green and lush and every leaf pointed to the sky but it took 3 months to get her to a good size LST style while the other plants grew to maturity in a month-point-five.

They love the nutes and the smell is lowkey as hayl. Super potent though. Also it should be pointed out that I did not have good airflow for the above plant. It was a true closet grow with no closet mods. I had another room across town with a better setup and I guess I was just doing a lazy grow at home too. So my point being, it would be hard to not get a good yield from this strain(150 watt hps, organic, soil). It's pretty hardy and while I got upwards of 3 oz per plant from the others (organic, coco coir, 400 w MH Flowered with supplemental Flouro's), I think it's a great testament to burgeoning growers everywhere to see what you could do with minimal requirements(for indoor i mean, obviously outdoor is minimal requirements).

This strain is a great medical substance as well. After a month of cure it is pretty narcotic in its delivery. I feel my eyes tingle, my throat burn, and my brain shrink, and then I sink into the sofa, broken and fixed all at once.

 

[raoulduke2.0]

More flower **** fuh yuh. As you can see she was quite a little dwarf and I didn't get a lot of volume. Just dense crispy buds. One of these pictures is of quite an anomaly. I had a new seedling started in this pot and I didn't plant it. I don't know where it came from but it sprung up in the 6th week of flowering and I couldn't transplant it as it originated from well over 6 inches from the surface and was tangled in the root bed.. Probably the reused soil from the last grow (hermie musta dropped one.) Really gave me a laugh though.

AND FOR THE RECORD. THat is a Bush/ QUail bumper sticker and I found it in the basement of my old apartment building. It is supposed to be ironic. Republican am not.

 

[leafminer]

Cool pix. Great. Thanks.

"broken and fixed all at once":rofl: wonderful, very funny and totally apt.

I agree about the med value. I was having chronic problems with an elbow and it seems to have calmed down since I had some of this crop available and properly cured. I suspect it has anti-inflammatory properties.
Also, I consistently get 15 points reduction in blood pressure and was able to quit one of my two blood pressure pills.

Right now I'm still in reveg. I nearly lost the strain; three of the four reveggies failed, the plants flowered out and expired, nothing I could do. I have one left and it's produced three shoots already, so that's lucky, I should be cloning in about three weeks I think. Certainly intend to keep this as a permanent strain.

 

[GrowinGreen]

Hey guys- how fast did your Aurora's grow? How long did flower take?

What height did you veg until, and what was final height after flower?

My seedlings seem like they are growing sooooo slow. Was this the case for you as well?

Thanks!

 

[leafminer]

Heheh! That's Aurora you have there. I went through the same experience. Yeah, from seed it's like, "Are they growing? Or are they paralysed?"
Probably it will be the same as mine, they grew really slowly from seed and I ended up (this was an outdoor grow) with about an ounce from each plant of dried. I was not terribly happy except the smoke was so strong it was worth it.

Now for the good news:

When you raise this strain from clones it is really bonzer! Grows quickly and vigorously. It clones easily, too. You might like to top yours when they are the right size and use the tops as clones. Please keep us informed as to how your grow goes, the Aurora growers club wants to know! :hubba:

 

[raoulduke2.0]

IF grown soil, or at very least soilless( coco coir) then they grow about like any other indica. They mature just as fast but don't gain much height. I always flower them as soon as I get 4 alternating nodes. Hydro will probably boost the speed signifigantly but then again, they arent meant to be very big in the first place. probably that afghani heritage. Those phuckers don't EVER get bigger than 3 feet IME.

 

[GrowinGreen]

thanks guys, that is awesome to hear. i dont want them tall in my closet!! haha

 

[GrowinGreen]

hey AI people- just another question! When did you start feeding your AIs? Mine seem to be real sensitive to nutes still. Thanks!

And Leafminer- how big were yours when you put them in flower?

 

[BuddyLuv]

I feed mine from rooted seedling on. I think it is more your method then the strain GG... I have had mine up to 1800ppm and not so much a burnt tip. They will take serious abuse.