Tropical Tangie

Nice and easy grow, good strain.

I will update in 3 weeks when they are cured Tropical Tangie grows easy, I recommend doing a clone selection of 2-3 plants and pick the "hairy pheno" (more sativa). That one does not have the orange peel smell, but fantastic yield, flower to leaf ratio and a similar stretch and flowering time to the Amnesia Haze. If you want to see the leafy compact pheno, check my older grow. Aroma of the fresh plant is musky, sweet, pungent and spicy. Plants are easy going, but need lots of defoliation. Zero mold issues, branches are a bit too thin in the end to support heavy buds. 190 from 4 plants, very nice mature dense bud. Of course not the kind of rock solid nuggets from indica, still very nice for a sativa. Great flower to leaf ratio. Dont be confused, the effect is mostly Sativa. They just messed up the display.

Dry trimming the Tropical Tangie worked great for bigger buds which were nice and firm. There was a lot of fluffy bud below the screen that was no fun to trim that way. The leafy pheno was not so bad after all. The leaves can be easily removed by hand during the dry trim. The overall harvest was nice in terms of amount, resin and smell. The Tangie is very strong, uplifting still, but qith a bit of a punch. The smell is nice, but mine do not really have a citric or orange peel smell. More like an interesting spicy, sweet and somewhat musky aroma. Kind of like really fresh homemade hash. It was the first grow in this setup and with this strain, so I will not blame the genetics or the setup for the fluffy buds. They could probably have used at least one more week, even though they are supposed to be ready after 9-10. But it was too cold in the grow room and that slowed things down. I also did not defoliate enough and trim the small crap under the screen. Effect 9/10 Aroma 8/10 Yield 8/10 Bud appeal 7/10 I made clones from the good pheno, which are growing in a SOG, see next report. Then we see if I can squeeze out better bud.

FYI: The plant was her prettiest in Week11. So don't miss this if you (like me) most of the time mainly check the harvest page! :) I had a lot of fun growing Tropical Tangie. It's almost too vigorous, but if you get over the constant defoliation and watering needs, it rewards you with very dense very smelly nugs. A LOT of nugs! I initially bought this strain because I wanted something straightforward orange-y fruity. And while at the start of flowering it smelled exactly like that - towards the end the smell shifted. To the orange peel smell there joined a very pungent dark roast coffee smell (to my nose). A good friend of mine even called it "burnt rubber". Now as that smell has permeated through the "airtight" polypropylene containers like no strain before, i have kind of fallen in love with it! To me, the high is strong and relaxing. Almost sedating - first time i tried a larger amount I caught myself after a while staring at my PC monitor doing (and thinking) nothing. Nothing at all. Very serene.

I was so excited about this strain: I love tropical strains, I love tangerine strains. So this must be the culmination of strains right? It didn't quite live up to the expectations. She grew quite nicely, a very compact structure but was very sensitive to nutrients. Near the end of the flowering phase, she developed botrytis... The structure of the plant had too little airflow and the buds were very dense. Managed to save quite a bit of the flowers. The dried flowers are compact, quite sticky but do not have a fruity flavour.