Strain: Tropic Orange [Tropicana Cookies♀️x Sour Orange (Sour Diesel x African Orange)♂️] Sativa Dominant
Breeder: Equilibrium Genetics
Location Grown: Los Angeles, California
Latitude: 34°03′00.00″ North
Started: May 9, 2024
DAY 1
Starting new seed variant from Equilibrium Genetics on May 09, 2024. Tropic Orange. A cross between Tropicanna Cookies and Sour Orange (Sour Diesel x African Orange)
The seed pack brought 24 regular seeds. I'm growing 8 this time around. I placed the seeds in water for 14 hours and then transferred to moist paper towel. I used the water that I placed the seeds in to moisten the paper towels thoroughly and covered the moist towel with a plastic zip-lock bag to hold in the moisture. I will be keeping track of total seedlings (T.O.1, T.O.2,...) and identifying the females later in the season.
DAY 2
These seeds really want to grow - they popped open and rooted in a little over 24 hours. I transferred 6 roots to Fox Farms Happy Frog soil in 4" containers on Day 2.
DAY 3
The last 2 beans popped open. 8/8 seeds successfully germinated and placed in 4" plastic containers with Fox Farms Happy Frog soil. I recommend the water to paper towel technique for germinating Equilibrium Genetics seeds. I will start the vegetative weeks once I see the first set of leaves or at least some above ground action for all the plants. I am tracking the grow days for the plants starting from when I placed the seeds in the water.
DAY 4
First plants to break ground labeled T.O.2, T.O.3, T.O.4, T.O.5, and T.O.6
DAY 5
Seed labeled T.O.1 sprouted overnight. Still waiting on the last 2 (T.O.7, T.O.8) to break ground.
DAY 6
Everything good. I think an insect or bug of some sort was eating the seedling labeled T.O.3 . I propped it up and placed some soil around the base, but I think this one might have already met it's end. I will place some metal around the pots tonight to ward off possible predators. The seeds are good -- Just things that happen when growing outdoors.
DAY 7
Slugs are the culprits. They ate 2 of the seedlings. Will pop 6 more next week to make up the difference. Grow Diary will continue to veg week 1. Still early in the grow season.
DAY 9
Finished germinating 7 more seeds. Did not plan on staggering, but the season called for it
Results 15/15 seeds germinated
Thanks EQ genetics! These seeds are Poppin!
I think you might want to start planning out how to do some LST on your 4 plants in the 30gl pot. 1 plant can become a monster and you have 4 that are sativa dominant. Good luck!
@Big_Rade_SCLA, I'd wait till they show their sex before doing anything drastic. That way you can really go all out on what type of training you do. My 2¢
@Kritkl, my guess is that they won't all be girls and I'll end up pulling one or two out, but LST has been on my mind. I'll take your advice for these four.
@Kritkl, you can smell it from like 15 to 20 feet away. Real sweet dank smell. Close up you smell citrus-mint-orange or mandarin. The tallest one has a hint of purple on the nugs and smells a little like mango. Bomb stuff from Equilibrium.
