It's been so long since I've grown any fresh strains with hybrid vigor like the Orient express has shown. I had forgotten what vigorous plants should look like! So I'm thrilled to be growing your stuff out finally.
Thank you dubi. I am very excited to finally work with Ace genetics after all these years of keeping my eye on you guys.
My plan has been to start with PCK to get a good, calm, relaxing indica into my selection. After that I'm going to find some sativas to keep around, because we found out those work better for my wife's menstrual cramps. So I have Bangi haze, Panama, and Golden tiger to sift through. I'm super excited.
The Orient express feminized seeds were freebies, so those were the first ones I planted after moving into my new house. I just wanted to hurry up and get more medicine without having to do all the pheno selecting, and those were feminized so I just planted those first, not expecting to keep any of them... But now that I'm seeing the plants it just blows me away! I'm going to harvest a few of them next weekend so I'll try to take pictures and show you. I have this one pheno that appears to be the frostiest, isn't as short as the fast-growing Yunnan leaning pheno, but isn't as tall as the Vietnamese leaning ones either. Has a long, solid, spear-shaped central cola with sativa-looking flowers, but very short internodes, and the side branches from that one are bigger than some of the main tops of all the strains I've grown in recent memory. I'm absolutely floored by this pheno.
And the tall Vietnamese ones are really beautiful, too! They aren't only tall, but they have very large clusters of flowers, with large calyxes, and even large pistils! It just seems like a cannabis plant on steroids or something. And the buds are very thick, like hybrid style, and not wispy sativa buds. I'm going to let those mature an extra week or so. I'll probably end up trying to revegetate one of these phenos as well.
There will, of course, be separate journals for each of those previously mentioned strains. This one will focus on just the PCK for now.
Chances are I'll be growing the Panama before I get to the GT, because I've really been wanting to grow out the Panama for a long time. In fact, that's the strain that brought Ace to my attention all those years ago. It's one that I romanticize about. But all of them will be grown in due time, and I hope to find a keeper mother plant for all of them.
I can't wait to grow those out either!
