Ice Cool wird mittlerweile als NYC Diesel verkauft. Damit hat diese Sorte allerdings nicht viel gemeinsam. Es ist qualitativ eher im unteren Bereich einzuordnen. Langweiliges Terpenprofil, nicht besonders starke Wirkung. Manche Pflanzen bilden Bananen. Der Anbau ist dennoch leicht und die Blütezeit beträgt in etwa 10 Wochen. Empfehlen würde ich diesen Strain natürlich nicht und ich hoffe, dass Interessenten sich vor dem Kauf bei Seedfinder informieren und sich für einen anderen Diesel Strain entscheiden. White Diesel von White Label ist die wesentlich bessere Alternative, ansonsten das original von Soma.
The pheno I’m currently running is a mainly indica-looking one with dark-green, almost ‘leathery’ leaves that tends to grow rather stretchy, but has very tight internodal spacing and strong branches of medium length. The branches tend to grow close to the stem so the plant doesn’t really ‘bush-out' too much. Her vegging speed is average; clones tend to take some time, but root reliably nonetheless. She needs lots of nitrogen and phosphorus but is easy to handle over all.
Her stretch during the first weeks of flowering is significant – the plant at least doubles in size even in lower-light conditions.
For the most part of the flowering cycle the buds seem to solely consist of a shit-ton of pistils that wrap around the branches; only during the last three weeks they develop into dense, frosty spears of silver-reddish colour. Once she nears her end, her leaves tend to colour up nicely, even in moderate temps. She yields solidly and the bud-to-leaf-ratio is very good.
Now, what makes this plant special （at least to me） is her aroma and flavour. Right from the beginning of trichome development she starts emitting a poisonous super loud lemon and diesel smell, that's accompanied by some earthy and woody notes and that gets more and more intense, the riper she gets. Once you’ve touched her, you can’t smell anything else in your tent. It’s really extreme!
The flavour holds up to what the smell promises: on the inhale, you get a lip-smacking load of danky diesel and citrus tones. On the exhale, intense sweet lemon notes take over and leave your mouth coated for minutes. The taste lasts from the first to the very last puff – another reason why she’s a real winner in my books!
After a couple of months of curing, the aroma and flavor become a little sweeter, giving the buds a nice and zesty tangerine/diesel twang, mixed with hints of sweet lemons.
Depending on how long you let her go the high is either a very balanced mix of cerebral and body effects or a full-blown couch-lock. She’s perfect at 70 days, but can be taken down at 65 days without much loss in the yield department. The high is certainly not the strongest, but she’s definitely potent and provides a very, very nice high that has a medium duration.
As of yet, definitely a 10/10 strain!