Ice Bomb

Ice Bomb Notes Week 1 I have patience problems and probably should have saved the grow space for a different project like I planned, but I’ve been dying to try growing and smoking Ice Bomb since I first started looking into what seeds I wanted to buy. I bought the seeds directly from the Bomb Seeds site back when Seedsman was overloaded with orders from my country and couldn’t take any more orders while it dealt with the backlog. I’ve actually been finding it’s cheaper to go straight to the seed producers themselves for the strains I go for, but many of them don’t throw in free seeds in their promotions or have quite the variety that large distributers like Seedsman are able to provide. Luckily for me Bomb Seeds is seriously the freakin bomb and provided me quick shipping, a few extra free seeds with purchase (I’m growing one of them now – Berry Bomb Auto; diff. journal), and I was able to get the seeds I wanted at a reduced rate since the cost of the middleman had been cut out. Their website is pretty hilarious too, but I don’t know if that was on purpose or not so I’ll hold off on talking too much about it. Ice Bomb is currently only available as a feminized photoperiod, which is actually pretty nice for my needs right now. My other photoperiods are bag seed, so I’ve got a definite appreciation for not needing to worry about gender testing or figuring out whether I want to set up a space to keep the male for pollen or toss him. Plus factoring in how long the pollen is ideally viable for, and matching that to the week that the female flower will be most receptive to the pollen. Whatever lol, it’s all much more specific than I ever expected and not necessary for this journal – so moving on. A quick rundown on this strain – she’s an indica dominant hybrid that grows short and bushy, only reaching about 3ft-4ft (about 91cm-121cm, approx.) in height. Flower is pretty average at about 7-9 weeks with a high yield, dope resin production, and moderate THC percentage in the late teens to early twenties. I’m only planning to grow one seed from this strain right now and depending on how the gender testing goes with my Ghost Train Haze seeds (different journal), I’ll probably be housing Ice Bomb in a grow tent with them since they’re close-ish in age. I’m definitely looking forward to the smell though lol, it’s supposed to smell intensely of vanilla and chocolate during flower and I’m so insanely curious to smell it for myself. 11/05 Chose one of the biggest seeds out of the five I bought from Bomb Seeds directly, and man am I excited. The seed itself is gorgeous, and I have a really good feeling about it. The outer shell looks strong, thick, and waxy – so I’m wondering if it may take a few days for the water in the paper towel to penetrate the shell and start the germination process. When I add the element of heat to seed germination it seems to happen quicker, however I’ve noticed with past germination experiments that high temp or too many fluctuations slows the taproot’s growth. I wet a paper towel with filtered water until it was soaked but not actively dripping and covered the seed with it. After that, I put the paper towel in a fresh Ziploc bag and then put that on a seed heating mat set to 72 degrees F (about 22.2 deg. C). I find the mat traps heat easily though and gets a little too toasty for my liking, so I put a folded pillowcase between the mat and the bag. I’ll leave it overnight and check on it in the morning; I’m not expecting any progress so soon but it’s always exciting to stumble on a marijuana miracle like overnight germination lol. 11/06 Alright, so after getting insanely stoned late last night I apparently decided to pull the trigger on the Ice Bomb grow I’ve been planning in the back of my head for a few weeks. Kind of fun to wake up to it all already set up though actually lol, I was really thorough and even set up my grow journal and grow space all nice; even setting up the germination process perfectly. Stoned me is amazing. Anyways lmao I woke up about nine hours later, checked in on the seed, and guys – We got the marijuana miracle lol. That shell is cracked wide open and the lil taproot is sticking out already after just a few hours! Extremely dope and a fantastic start to an already fun morning. I feel like I got a dope holiday present from myself lmao, I’m pretty tickled pink right now to be honest. Since the seed is doing well so far, I’ll probably leave it alone with the seed heating mat till the afternoon or evening before deciding when to move it to a dirt pot. I want the tap root just a little bigger first because I’m finding it’s just easier to get the seed how and where I want from the get-go when they have a larger taproot. I have terrible luck with seeds otherwise and they like to push out of the dirt instead of digging in or rotate and move in weird ways lol. 11/07 I ended up leaving the seed alone till this morning, and it’ so dope – Ice Bomb’s taproot came out like a complete champion when I checked it this morning. Anyway, I filled an approximately 1 gallon pot with Fox Farm soil that I moistened with PH’d filtered water. I fluffed up the op a bit, poked a hole in the dirt, and used a pair of tweezers to gently slide the root into the ground with the other end of the shell facing up out of the dirt. The shell was split pretty deeply and I can see the cotyledons inside the shell casing pushing out and making it look a little more swollen, so it may even shed the casing as early as tomorrow. Crazy. To keep up humidity I put a wet paper towel over the pot and popped it with some Ghost Train Haze seedlings I’ve got going under an LED full spectrum board. 11/08 Pushed off shell casing and cotyledons are a cute light green. There’s like no height on Ice Bomb though, maybe I put her under light a tad too soon. 11/09 Cotyledons are opened and the first set of secondary leaves are peeking out. No increase in height though, so I’m debating on putting her in a few extra hours of darkness tonight to get the stem a bit longer. I’m finding that if I keep the stem too short the first few set of leaves tend to brush the dirt more. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m wondering if it might help improve airflow in the future too. 11/10 – End of Week The curling’s pretty prominent right now so I’m keeping misting light until the dirt dries out from my initial watering a bit more. The stem got a bit longer, but the secondary leaves coming in are getting bigger too so I’m not worried about Ice Bomb getting leggy yet. It could admittedly be a sign of stress from too much water, but the purpling in Ice Bomb’s leaves looks really cool. She looks gorgeous in some of the flowering photos I’ve seen, but I wouldn’t think some of that coloration would come through so soon. I’ll just keep an eye on it for now. Honestly it’s kind of fun that Ice Bomb not only germinated and sprouted so quickly, but has been powering through and launching into the veg stage so strongly too. I can’t wait to see how she grows up in the coming months too.