Ice Seeds from Nirvana

These are my observations of “Ice” from Nirvana seeds….

Plant size and formation
…500-600 mm high, about the same in width.. large leaves (one resembled more indica) very long stems on the leaves , keeping them from covering any bud sites , very fast grower , fills out to very well shaped …continued

I had two distinct phenotypes:

The second was more Indica influenced that took *very* well t …continued

This Ice plant was the only one that survived until harvest. Planted 4 outside early Spring that were already establish for ~1 month. 2 were male, got mauled. One got munched on by rabbits.

The one that grew uninibited I named Athena because she was one beautiful bitch. Ended up finishing a …continued

I grew Ice from clone. IMO this strain was very sensitive to wind and nutes.
My problems with this plant grew so big that I had to cut her down on day 31 of bloom. She still produced a lot of resin and some nice buds.

Ice is one of my faves. It produces so many resin glands that the plant is completely covered. The high is nice and uplifting and will not turn you into a couch potato. Ice is good to smoke before doing something active like biking or hiking. The high creeps up on you after smoking … you might en …continued

Started out with 5 seeds, 100% germ rate!

They were very easy to maintain in my DWC setup, very happy wi …continued

The Grow
This is my second Ice plant grown, the first was male. It was an extremely vigorous strain. I used Sams Choice soil with a 40% mix of perlite. During veg I used Miracle Grow AP 15-30-15. She was vegged with 100 watts of CF’s for 5 weeks and 13″ at which point she showed female pre fl …continued

I thoroughly enjoyed this plant! I am re-growing it right now. Don’t let my numbers fool you, I think I may have messed up somewhere with the hydro solution. It isn’t the plant’s fault, even though I wish there was no Ruderalis in the strain (causes early flowering), I wanted to veg my plant for a b …continued

Five seeds germinated out of six, in 3 days, directly in soil.
They stayed for a week under 54w of fluoros and then for other three weeks under 250w of HPS.
All the plants grew very fast with a lot of side branches and just one showed a bit of yellowing; they need quite a lot of nitrogen during vegging and preflowering, little pots can cause problems.

After the preflowers the females were four, but absolutely I hadn’t the space to grow more than three plants, so one was gave to a friend.

Despite the reduced distance between the lamp and the plants, I had a consistent stretching in preflowering, passing from 30 cm to one meter. I had two plants with a more indica pheno and one kind of 50/50. Neither a little problem during flowering, they started ripening very soon and I harvested after 53 days from the switch to 12/12.
In that period I used the 250w HPS plus 36w of fluoros.

I fed with a generic fertilizer (NPK: 10-5-5+Fe) during vegging and preflowering, Canna Terra Flores (2-2-4) after the first flowers, PK 13-14 in middle flowering and GHE Ripen as end bloom booster (it made the buds much bigger and dense!).
I gave Plagroon Roots too, after transplants.

The pots were 1,5 litres for seedling, 6 l after 2 weeks (a bit too late!) and 12 l after the sexing to the end. German pro soil + worms humus + expanded clay.

The final result is 125 grams of top quality buds and 30 g of trims and microbuds (used to make a great hashish!).

The stone is quite balanced for the two more indica plants: it’s very heady at the beginning but after a quarter of hour you realize that stand up from the sofa is so hard…
The third plant, less indica than the others, was the worst yielder and it’s more sweet and candy-like… It’s also a bit less destructive, so I can even smoke it in the morning!

Yes, because talking about ICE you can say it has a strong and nice smell, a not so bad flavour, but what everybody would say after a joint is that this is one of the most potent strain in commerce! All of my friends are amazed from ICE…
 
 

Report added by: chiro^

I grew my ICE from seeds (3 plants totally) and vegged them with 18/6 hours of light/dark for 2 weeks
I transplanted on the 13th day and till that day I used 3 x 17W fluoro lamps
The day I transplanted I put them under a 400w HPS Son-T-Agro from Philips and the next day I put them on 12/12 hours …continued

Planted 8 seeds in soil mix under 400w in less than a square meter..
After 13 days of vegetative i put in bloom whith 5-6 nodes each plant..

Whith 10 days more …continued

In veg, she showed sex (pre-flowers) at day 22. Which was great! I don?t believe that she is the nute hog like others say. I never over fed her and still there was a slight nute burn (fox farm products).
During veg there was a definite fuel like smell in the grow room

Flower: she stretched prett …continued

This was my first grow, I only germinated one Ice seed (along with a few other seeds of other strains). It sprouted and turned out to be female (my only one actually). I cared for this plant well because she was all I had left. I was on a slight time constraint so I only vegged for a little under 4 …continued

VEG: I started 7 plants total, and ended up with 4 females. All the plants were similar in structure. Very branch and somewhat short. I used fish emulsion once a week for veg. They smelled very skunky during veg.

Flower: Flowering these plants was easy. I used Fox Farm Big Bloom for bloom. T …continued

Planted seeds 10 seeds, lost 7 due to soil buggers.

Plants were grown in soil and scrogged: good leaf to bud ratio and all the leaves were covered …continued

Well….

The seedlings were all started in 16 oz. bee …continued

I started these 3 plants, dubbed the ICE Girls, directly into flower from seedlings at about 6-7″.

I had 4 of 6 beans show female in 5 days of 12/12. I used GH Flora nutes at 5ml/10ml/15ml per gallon. Spider mites attacked at 2 weeks, I put in a No Pest Strip and raised RH to 70%. Mites were gone …continued

First of all let me say this is the best Nirvana’s strain I’ve grown; very good final quality and quite good stability.
I started with 10 seeds bought in Amsterdam , got 4 females. One was given to a friend and now is a wonderful mother plant used to make clones.
ICE is a strong, resistant and …continued