Nirvana ICE Seeds.

Has any of you bought the Nirvana Ice Seeds? They give a very crappy distription of what each different strain likes. They never give what area it comes from. Did it come from tropical and hot conditions, or cool and high elevations, or if the plant does not like a lot of nutrients or thrives on heavy amounts. What one plants thrives on, might kill the rest. I am useing Botanicare Pro for my main Nuts. My plants have been growing very well and healthy. They showed sex with in 7-10 days, but then the buds just would not Enlarge and swell. And Yes, My room is Pitch Dark, this is not my first RODEO. I made sure to flush to make sure the salts had not built up. I checked for light leaks, I double checked temps and such. But 5 weeks into flowering the buds were only the size of my finger nails, just like they were 3 weeks earlier. So I slowly started increasing the Nutrients. At present I am at almost 4 times the suggested amount of nutrients, and the plants seem to be loveing it, the leaves are stretching for the lights, the buds are swelling, and the trichs are popping out. Has anyone ever grown ICE from Nirvana and had this same thing go on? I am only asking because I am wondering if I should keep pushing the nutrients higher. I was going to push it a little higher, and higher until I just started to get a little Nut Burn, then flush and lower it a little. But at 4 times the nutrient level, I have yet to see any burning at all. I am only asking about ICE. Not about any other strain.
And these lazy dam breeders need to get off their ASS"S and give us more detailed info on the different strains and what they like. They make enough money, to give us more then 1-2 sentences. But i guess this is what I get for liking to try new strains all the time.

No one out there has tried Nirvana's Ice Strain?

I've been wondering about this strain, BUMP

JP

srry cant help ya, but i might be askin the same question in a few days when mine gets here.

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mwowner15 said:

Ice is an amazing strain to grow, its high is very powerful and euphoric. I did not grow from Nirvana but i grew BCseeds Ice and man that was one killer strain. Does not smell to much and easy to grow. Highly recommend people to try this strain. It is also know as White Ice and is considered a white strain. They do not need a lot of nutrients just mild amounts but hey you can test it yourself and if anything goes wrong you always can flush. The buds are dense and smell great, does not stretch much. It is a afghan, skunk, hashplant mix. I really loved this strain and it is one of my favorites ( for now). Nirvana of course does not list much of where they get there genetics from so it might be a different pheno.

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So you are saying that you did not have to use much nutrients on your ICE? This Strain is also supposed to be prodominately Indica. But i see is being prodimantly Sativa. It is almost like the Seed bank was out of ICE and shipped me some other strain. But I will give them the benifit of the doubt. As I said, right now I am at 4 times the recommended amount of nutrients now, and this is where I had to get it for the flowers to start popping for me. Before I did this, once flowering stage was 3-4 weeks in, my stems and such started getting a violet coloration, which tends to make me believe it was not getting enough (P), this is when I started jacking up the Nuts after I had already checked everything else. Maybe I have gotten a bad batch of nutrients.. But that I doubt.
Well, I still have a few more of these seeds. I have another strain I am growing my next OP, I will switch to senzigrow and senzibloom for my next crop and germ these last ICE seeds and see how that goes. If they do the same thing, then it is the seeds. If they do not take huge amounts of Nutrients, then it was the Botanicare PRO nutrients.

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hey
mwowner15, I researched your post. And i found your thread asking why you ICE buds smell'd like Vinegar after you dried them. First off. There is a big difference between drying your buds and curing your buds. It might be that you in fact dried them, which locked in the Cloraphil. But I have never heard of buds having a vinegar smell. Maybe you said dried the buds when in fact you ment cureing them. Bud dry out from the outside in. Best to let them hand for 3-5 days depending on temp and humidity, until the outside just startes to feel firm. Then place them inside a paper grocery bag, burping in 2-3 times a day to release the gases and moisture. After about another 4-5 days of this place them in large glass jars, and burp thenm 1-2 times a day, flipping the buds every once in while. You might have to remove them sometimes if moisture builds up inside the jar or bag. You will notice that when the buds feel firm on the outside, and then you place them in the jar, the moisture from inside with transfer to the outside. This method allows the buds to to realease the Cloraphile which will give your buds a much smoother and less harsh taste.

Anyway. What happened with these buds that had a vinegar smell? How strong was the smell? Did you smoke it, I am sure you did. lol
Did it taste bad?

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Im currently growing ice.....just harvested one plant at 8 weeks and yeilded 3oz dry(Buds are really dense)......have another still growing...should i chop or let it go to week 9 or 10...the first one was really frosty and all the pistils were orange(been orange for a week) but the second one has a few white pistils....so should i chop or let it go for another week????

Nick, Go to radio shack and buy the $11.00 30x-60x mini microscope. Look close into the trichs. depending on the type of high you want is when you harvest. When the trichs are clear they are way to early. when they cloud up this is when they are starting to get ripe, You want 15-30% amber (orangish) color.
As for Mwowner, sorry bud, your advice has been trashed. I have done 10 time more experimental grows then you have tried to even produce. Sorry for being rude, But this was an advanced question. on a specific subject. Guess I should have put it in the advanced forum. I figured more people would see it here. Use the seach function and look at a few of my past crops. I have done lots of test grows on different grow styles, Like UV lights for more trichs,,,, what a joke...... Lollypoping. OH YAH. my favorite. But not good for a person who wants mass production, and a few more. Anyway, I will just do my own thing as usual. As I mentioned, I slowly boosted the Nuts and addatives until now they are at 4 times the suggested amount, and they still are showing not one sign of nut burn. But the Buds are Popping and swelling nicely now. But i will be dam'd if I will take advice from someone who jiffy pop dries buds. what a waste of time. Why grow buds if you are just going to screw them up at the end? I know I am a lot of in the face and abrupt, But come on, you spend 2-3 months growing something and babying it, just to screw it up at the end. if you need to try a taste, then wack a branch. And you can see one of my threads where I asked for the best way to Jiffy dry buds, because I was heading to mexico to run in the pretrial run of the Baja 250.

NICK, If you are wondering if you should harvest and you do not have no way to look inside the trichs, then most likely it is to early. When buds hit that final phase they explode with swelling. At least a lot of the strains do. Better to go a little long then harvest to early in my book.

Mwowner Purple on the stems is no big deal, but that happens early on usually, not after flowering has started, at least usually. If it happens after flower has started most of the time it is because of a Potash Def.

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i have a 30x scope....see some amber trichs here and there...alot of them are clear so i think im going to hold off for a week or two!
i would have waited but i had to harvest a couple of my plants at 8 weeks, the smell was to strong...didnt want the neighbors to smell it.

But for sure im going to let my last two plants go full term.