orient express

[TexasTea]

If I wasn't so in love with her progeny Snow Moon, I would have to say OE is running a close second as far as my favorite Ace strains right now. I just had to pop another fem seed back in August and she's moving along well on her growing journey. Gorgeous plant that can survive even my many newbie mistakes. She had started showing a little bit of yellowing a couple weeks ago that I attribute to a Cal-Mag problem or possibly pH trouble, but I have taken steps to correct that and I think she is sailing smoothly again. Here she is roughly a month into flower under Cree 3500k cobs.

 

[pussitee]

I got one orient express also. It will be a long flowering pheno I think.

It is around 50days now.

 

[rlsmooth]

Well not that long I think? Mayby 2-3 weeks more max?

 

[TexasTea]

The last one I had really developed some nice aromas in the final week or two. Reminded me off an old lady's mothball closet...kind of a sweet spice funk.

 

[Satyros]

Here's an outdoor organic I did at the end of the season, to try to keep it small. Grown from regular seed. It's not small. It flowered out the wazoo, and I let it go 10 1/2 weeks from the time pistils appeared. By the end, it's too heavy and floppy to stand straight.

 

[TexasTea]

Nice one Satyros!

Here's my girl...about two weeks from finish I would guess. Getting much more frosty than the last one I did. I think boosting soil life and feeding compost tea is having a nice effect. Lovely aromas but not any stronger than last time.

 

[dubi]

If I wasn't so in love with her progeny Snow Moon, I would have to say OE is running a close second as far as my favorite Ace strains right now. I just had to pop another fem seed back in August and she's moving along well on her growing journey. Gorgeous plant that can survive even my many newbie mistakes. She had started showing a little bit of yellowing a couple weeks ago that I attribute to a Cal-Mag problem or possibly pH trouble, but I have taken steps to correct that and I think she is sailing smoothly again. Here she is roughly a month into flower under Cree 3500k cobs.

Hi TexasTea,

A pleasure to know you are a fan of Orient Express and her hybrids
Your Orient Express is the more indica China Yunnan pheno.
As i commented a few times in this thread, Orient Express is a very hungry strain, especially in flowering, she yellows easily if she doesn't receive enough EC and NPK in late veg until mid flowering.

Wish you are starting to enjoy her flowers now!
If you really like our China Yunnan strains then i think you will love Kali China the most

 

[dubi]

I got one orient express also. It will be a long flowering pheno I think.

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It is around 50days now.

Welcome pussitee

Thanks for joining our room here at ICMag and for sharing your nice Orient Express sativa cola The flowering time is quite short for a vietnamese sativa expression of this kind.

Hope you are enjoying with your harvest!

 

[dubi]

Here's an outdoor organic I did at the end of the season, to try to keep it small. Grown from regular seed. It's not small. It flowered out the wazoo, and I let it go 10 1/2 weeks from the time pistils appeared. By the end, it's too heavy and floppy to stand straight.

Yeah nice one Satyros!

Your Orient Express is also the high yielding vietnamese sativa pheno like the one from pussitee. Glad to see she overyielded your tent Please, let us know your opinion after a bit of curing!

 

[SierraPadre]

Thanks for this strain Dubi. It outgrew a potpourri of other strains in my garden. The smoke is a real day brightener.

 

[Satyros]

Yeah nice one Satyros!

Your Orient Express is also the high yielding vietnamese sativa pheno like the one from pussitee. Glad to see she overyielded your tent Please, let us know your opinion after a bit of curing!

Haha, well, it wasn't in a tent...it was in something a bit more dangerous than that.

As an organic, with a little N during flowering, it did not yellow too fast or anything like that. I found it went well according to what I took to be the basic formula: a little drier and less nutes than most plants at first. Then when it gets going, feed it generously. Then don't stop N when it flowers, until near the end.

It took about this long to dry properly. Smelled orange-y at first. Seems to be a pretty good effect; not stoney or sedative at all, so it's a nice daytime thing you can puff on a few times without getting swamped. And it's not racey, speedy, or anything like that; pretty mellow and cheerful.

This one came from regular seeds; had 2/3 fems from those. Fortunately, the male did his job perfectly, where I failed manually--he pollinated just a few of the buds. I've gathered about 12 or 15 seeds so far. We are thinking about taking them to the wilderness to let them grow for a full season.

Both parents were identical sativa doms--is there likely to be enough Yunnan to keep a full season plant under two meters, or is there a good chance of them getting bigger than that?

 

[TexasTea]

Hi TexasTea,

A pleasure to know you are a fan of Orient Express and her hybrids
Your Orient Express is the more indica China Yunnan pheno.
As i commented a few times in this thread, Orient Express is a very hungry strain, especially in flowering, she yellows easily if she doesn't receive enough EC and NPK in late veg until mid flowering.

Wish you are starting to enjoy her flowers now!
If you really like our China Yunnan strains then i think you will love Kali China the most

Indeed dubi! I have a KC and also a couple of KC hybrids in the jars now which I've been enjoying heartily. And Zam x KC is about two weeks away from harvest with lovely aromas, frosty leaves and tight indica looking expression to the buds. Looking forward to trying the Thai Chiang Mai x KC and several others this winter as well.

 

[dubi]

Hi Satyros,

Orient Express sativa phenos indeed produce mood enhancer, cheerful, social, positive effects .... the regular version has been bred mainly for the sativa phenos, if you are looking for more compact early flowering Yunnan phenos then Orient Express fem version is a better choice, or Kali China which is our best and most refined stabilized China Yunnan hybrid.

Hope it helps. dubi

 

[ULMW]

My OE coming along nicely.

 

[Neiko]

My Orient Express, can anyone tell me what phenotype I have?
https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=75967&pictureid=1821864
https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=75967&pictureid=1821863

 

[deepwaterdude]

My Orient Express, can anyone tell me what phenotype I have?
https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=75967&pictureid=1821864
https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=75967&pictureid=1821863

It looks like the very healthy, prolific pheno Looking great. COuldn't tell you which it is

 

[dubi]

Hi ULMW,

Nice to see you are exploring Orient Express nowadays, it's another ACE classic that hopefully is of your taste too

 

[dubi]

My Orient Express, can anyone tell me what phenotype I have?
https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=75967&pictureid=1821864
https://www.icmag.com/ic/album.php?albumid=75967&pictureid=1821863

Beautiful Neiko

It's a quite balanced 50/50 sativa/indica pheno, it's not so high yielding like the more sativa phenos but this 50/50 pheno has better resin production and denser flowers.

Thanks for share it and best wishes for the final weeks of flowering.
Please, keep us updated!

 

[ULMW]

Thanks Dubi !This OE is super healthy and a joy to work with in the garden. I am sure given a much larger pot she will go absolutely crazy!! Will up pot her in the coming week or two.

 

[TexasTea]

My last one had a distinct aroma right from the start. You could smell a spicy incensey type of smell starting at about two weeks old. In the jar now she's even stronger and aging well.