Night Train Feminised

Days 1 to 14. Night Train cracks on damp paper towel inside about two days and is through the medium by day three, given warmth and patience rather than intervention. Seedlings want humidity near 70% and no nutrients at all — the seed carries everything for the first week. By the end of the fortnight you are looking for even node spacing rather than height; a stretched seedling is a light problem, not a vigour signal. New to this? The free seeds on offer are a low-stakes way to practise the germination step.

Weeks 3 to 6. Growth stops being tentative. This is when training earns its keep: bend rather than cut if you are unsure, because a bent branch recovers in a day and a topped one costs a week. Expect fairly even growth in both directions.

The transition. After the flip the plant may double. Whatever shape the canopy is at that point is roughly the shape you harvest.

Mid-flower. Bud sites fill and the aroma arrives — usually the point where extraction stops being optional. Feed heavier now, but watch the leaf rather than the schedule.

The last fortnight. Ease off nitrogen, drop the night temperature a little, and stop feeding before you think you should. Final height for this cultivar is published at 170–210 cm.

Harvest. Published window: 8–10 weeks. Trichomes decide. Cut in sections if ripening is uneven — most plants ripen top-down and there is no prize for taking it all at once.

Reported effects cluster around relaxed, happy, euphoric. At 18% THC that is a meaningful figure rather than a decorative one, and the sensible approach with anything in this range is to start lower than you think and wait longer than feels necessary.

The 54/46 balance shapes where it lands: even-handed, with the dominant direction shifting by dose more than by time of day. Tolerance moves this more than any other variable, which is why two people describe the same jar differently.

Prefer something gentler? The CBD-forward strains range trades peak potency for balance.

Caryophyllene leads, limonene sits behind it, and myrcene runs underneath.

Aroma is not fixed at harvest — it develops. Fresh flower leads hard with caryophyllene; three or four weeks in sealed glass at a stable 16 to 18 degrees lets limonene and myrcene come forward as the sharper volatiles clear. Jars opened at week one and week five smell like different plants.

Who does well with Night Train? Growers who want to control plant size and harvest date, and have the vegetative space to use that control. First-timers included — the genetics are forgiving.

Still deciding? The indoor-friendly genetics list is the narrower place to start.

• Finishes in 8–10 weeks
• Under lights: 150–250 g/m²
• Grown out: 300–500 g/plant
• Height: 170–210 cm
• Difficulty: easy