Trainwreck

Trainwreck: Experience Legendary Mind-Crushing Sativa High

Trainwreck is a legendary West Coast powerhouse respected for its zapping effects and extraordinary yields. The vigorously growing strain comes from a potent three-way cross between Thai, Mexican, and Afghani. This classic trifecta fuses the high-energy buzz of two Sativa’s with a sturdy and resilient Indica growth.

Trainwreck’s taste initiates with a rush of refreshing and grounding earthiness. Its mid-palate sensation is spearheaded by a flirty citrus hint with a background of mint toying with your senses. On the aftertaste, you are serenaded with a subtle sweetness.

Powerful Cerebral High

As the name suggests, this strain hits fast and unexpectedly like a runaway locomotive. Its sudden jolt to the mind leads to a collision of thoughts and energy that awakens your creative side. 

This typical sativa experience derails into a field of pure joy. It is known to take conversations to a whole new level. That is why it is best enjoyed with friends hopping aboard.

Subtle Physical Relaxation

A gentle coasting like that of a train easing into a station takes over as you take more and more puffs. It softens into a mellow body high to smoothen the otherwise dominant wrecking cerebral effects. Your body finds comfort and harnesses the continuously flowing energy into meaningful chores and tasks.

Therapeutic Use

Trainwreck is a highly regarded medical strain. While the quick-hitting high offers a fast track to relief, its high potency makes it last long enough without sudden crashing. 

Its uplifting effects wreck stress and ease the weight of stress, depression, and anxiety. Its subdued body high helps smooth mild pain and inflammation but goes hard on chronic fatigue.

Getting the Best Out of Trainwreck’s Vigorous Growth

Trainwreck’s vigorous growth is a blessing with high yields and a sweet challenge for experienced growers. When left unattended, it can grow too difficult to manage heights, drain all nutrients, or use up its energy in foliage rather than bud development. 

Smart growing techniques help to keep it on track, racing towards exceptional yield potential.

Optimizing Nutrients

During the vegetative stage, you should give the plants a balanced mix that is high in nitrogen. When fed consistently, the plants produce adequate foliage for maximum photosynthesis and stem strengthening.

A phosphorus and potassium-rich nutrient mix fuels the flowering stage. These two nutrients ensure your flowers keep pumping out as much resin and trichomes. Going low on nitrogen helps to prevent excessive stretching and focus on bud production.

A key factor in nutrient optimization is an extensive and healthy root system. A well-aerated and moisturized growing medium absorbs nutrients optimally. In addition, you should also keep track of the pH levels so as not to lock out nutrients.

Lighting for Faster Yields

Trainwreck needs high-intensity lights to thrive best. Full-spectrum light-emitting diodes (LEDs) lights can help to mirror the natural sunlight outdoors. Apart from the intensity, you will also need an 18/6 timing schedule during the vegetative stage.

As a photoperiod strain, flipping the schedule into longer dark hours, ideally, 12/12, helps trigger early flowering. This way the flowers have more time to fatten up with cannabinoids and terpenes. Plus, you get to harvest faster. 

With the powerful lights, you should beware of stressing your plants. Too much heat from the lights can scorch the plants or dehydrate them. Ensure the right distance between the lights and plants while checking for temperature changes in the grow room regularly.

Cultivation Techniques for Managing Height and Support

Trainwreck’s sky-high ambitions not only create weak branches but also become hard to deal with in tight spaces. Training them keeps the stretch in control while supporting any weak branches.

Here are some techniques that work well with this sativa hybrid.

1. LST (Low Stress Training) spreads the growth horizontally as the longer vertical branches are gently bent and tied. This way there is better light exposure to all bud sites. The secret to doing it well is making regular adjustments as early as possible as the plant grows.
2. While topping involves cutting the top stem entirely to stop the plant from further upward growth. FIMming cuts about 75% of the top and leaves the rest intact to push the plant into growing more shoots. Both methods help manage the vertical stretch while encouraging a denser canopy.
3. Pruning helps remove excess foliage to maintain proper airflow and proper ventilation for temperature and moisture control. In addition, it removes lower branches that often have smaller bud sites.

Growing Trainwreck

Trainwreck is the perfect smooth ride for novices and seasoned cultivators. It germinates easily with stable genetics and a tough growth that laughs in the face of minor rookie mistakes, pests, and diseases.

A Mediterranean climate dream, this strain thrives best in a warm environment with moderate humidity. It boasts an incredible versatility that does well in controlled setups indoors and under the open sky.

Plant Size & Structure

Thanks to its almost pure sativa genetics, Trainwreck grows vigorously tall. Its sprawling, slender branches will certainly require some tender love and care.

Indoors, the plants stand at a height of 100 cm. With abundant space, they can go all the way up to 150 cm. Outdoors, their lineage pops with monstrous heights of up to 200 cm.

Flowering Time

Trainwreck is never in a hurry to finish flowering. You will need a little bit of patience as it finishes blooming in 9-10 weeks indoors. A late October harvest awaits when the plants are grown outdoors.

With its photoperiod trait, you can speed up the flowering with a tweak in its lighting cycle.

Yield Potential

Expect a generously rewarding harvest. Each square meter indoors can offer upwards of 550 grams up to 600 grams. A solid return of between 600 and 700 grams outdoors makes Trainwreck a mainstay in commercial cannabis cultivation.

Origin and History

Trainwreck comes from the heart of cannabis country in Northern Carolina. It is said to have been created around the 1980s within the Emerald Triangle.

Some cannabis enthusiasts believe its name speaks of its sprawling growth that looks like a metal wreckage A second group believes its name stems from its mind-crushing potency and high-energy effects. There is a third folktale that says it was first grown in an area of a train wreckage in Arcata.

Trainwreck’s landrace genetic rail line runs from a Mexican sativa to a quick stop for some Thai sativa influence before arriving at an Afghani Indica station. These three classic strains blend to give Trainwreck’s signature flavor, bag appeal, potency, and effects.