Ice Cool

Firstly I wanted to thank my sponsors Sweet Seeds for sending me the seeds and providing me with much needed support during this grow. I greatly appreciated it. However, despite being sponsored and having seeds provided, the opinions that I give in this diary are 100% my own and not biased in any way. The seeds were also chosen by me from their catalogue. To surmise the grow: This has been a great plant to grow. She has responded to all my trainings well, and ended up with a great shape which created some Excellent juicy buds. She drank all the nutrients like a champ and this was evident in her growth. I kept her in a vegetative state for 16 weeks, which is a bit longer than I had intended to, but this has resulted in some very fat colas. This longer vegetative state was down to some spatial limitations in my house. I look forward to seeing how developed her root system was although I have not yet investigated the pot. Upon reaching the flowering stage, I was delighted to find that one of my colas had developed into a polyploid. I have since been informed that this is a very rare mutation and made the cola look like it has three tops as opposed to one. The colours also developed into beautiful ambers, yellows and greens. The buds themselves have all come out in different sizes, with some coming out fat and juicy, and some on the smaller side. They are all very sticky and full of resin, and touching them without gloves means very sticky fingers. Living in a warmer climate, one of the biggest challenges I face is drying time, humidity and heat. I dried them in a dark room, with 55% humidity and 22 degrees Celsius. These dried for 7 days before being placed into a metal container with Boveda humidity packs. I do have to have the A.C running 24-7, during the grow and drying process, since where I live has an average temp in the late 20s to early 30s. This then began the curing process. In order to properly assess the flavour profile, I have started to utilize a flavour wheel. My girlfriend and I differed on the smells. She could smell a sweet pine sensation, and I myself could smell mainly the sour hints with lemon and mint. I could also sense an earthy smell which felt like an unidentified cooking herb. Taste wise its a very smooth smoke. This could however also be down to the organic fertilizing, and the penultimate water only regime. When I smoke this strain, it gives me an uplifting and powerful sensation, which makes me feel energetic, ants in my pants feeling. This mixes very bad with coffee. Doing an awake and bake is a terrible idea. Following this up, a down follows which sucks me into the couch, and makes me want to play video games and watch movies. However I would not recommend to smoke this strain close to bedtime and I'm just too wired.