Strain
We chose the strain for it's dense trichrome production and hash making qualities.
The Nirvana ICE automatic strain did not dissapoint. Germination and initial development, were within expected parameters.
Due to slight timing issues on my behalf, the plants got put outside a little late for their stage of development at that point. The pots were a little to small and I did not acclimate them to the sun slowly, instead just put them out. So the strain definitely has some stress resistance, 3 of 4 plants did not show any signs of stress as far as I could tell. Then there was the bud rotting. Usually our June/July is not that wet. I only had to water them 3 or 4 times total. So I guess this strain would have difficulties ripening in a wet fall. We will see, we put 4 more seeds to germinate.
The plants started to produce trichromes a little later, compared to other auto strains, but yielded much better. They also more than compensated for their late start by producing loads of trichcromes.
I probably harvested a little early, but the wet weather already made me loose 10% to bud rot.
All in all a nice plant, which I did not max out. Pretty easy to grow, but then again almost all automatics are...
Will update, when we made the hash.