Green House Seed Company
The name “Alaskan Ice” brings to mind a crisp purity of an unblemished winter landscape. This variety’s parentage combines the frosty White Widow mother with the equatorial sativa qualities of the haze father. White Widow has gained its infamous reputation as a compact plant that delivers
impressive resin and a memorably warm and balanced high,
while the American West Coast Haze, a lanky cross of Mexican,
Thai, and Columbian, has become a highly desirable plant due
to its signature flavorfulness and its enjoyable head effects.
Fans of White Widow and Haze will be pleased with this
satisfying marriage of their flavor and qualities.
Alaskan Ice blends its parental qualities to deliver a balanced
mix of sativa and indica. This variety creeps up gently like a
glacier and delivers an alert, euphoric mental feeling that
balances relaxation and energy, resonating throughout the
body. Gardeners will find this plant is good for indoor or
outdoor environments. Indoors, it is better suited to a screen of
green rather than a sea of green setup since the haze
parentage comes through, encouraging a branchy plant that
grows quickly during vegetation and requires some
management to keep the branches orderly and focused on
flower power. This plant prefers a strong EC, up to 2.0, and will
grow to be about 5 feet (150 cm) indoors. It can reach heights
of 9–10 feet (300 cm) when grown outdoors under natural light.
The 9-week flowering phase makes this plant suitable to
outdoor grows only in regions where a long season of
temperate daylight is a reasonable expectation—at least until
late October in the western hemisphere. Mature plants will
have a frost of Alaskan ice coating the branches in a resinous
tundra-like sparkle.
This variety has a very spicy aroma, leading with black
pepper and cedar flavors, and followed by an aftertaste of
incense and forest moss. On first puff, it can be slightly acrid
but soon mellows into a fresh herbal-sandalwood flavor that is
pleasant to the palate. This is a variety to share at parties and
on joyous occasions. It is not well suited for a daytime or
solitary smoke, or for intense focus and in-the-zone
productivity. As medicine, Alaskan Ice has been promising for
treating pain, glaucoma, and depression, and stimulating
appetite.
