I've never had anything bad from Paradise Seeds, and I've grown and smoked most of the company's original catalogue. I've even become friends with breeder Luc Kroll over the past 20 years and in that time have been a test grower for strains including Swiss Bliss, Atomical Haze, Ice Cream, Opium, Nebulaze and Super Sensi Star (the last two were never released to the public). I've also grown Sensi Star, Nebula, Dutch Dragon, Sweet Purple, Beladonna, Acid and Wappa – as well as a few of my own crosses made with these genetics.
So after a small break from growing I decided it was time to try some of Luc's newer strains. I will be documenting a few different Paradise Seeds strains that have recently been released and I will be starting all the seeds. However, some of these strains will be going to other homes to finish flowering, so this should be an interesting thread with different strains and growers all doing their thing.
If anyone wants to share their experiences with Paradise Seeds, please post them here! Anyone can join this thread – all welcome.
Initially I will document the following strains: Rainbow Road, Tangerine Sorbet, Wappa, Sunset Paradise – and maybe one or two others.
Rainbow Road
This is one I've been waiting to try for a while. It's described as Paradise Seeds' biggest yielding sativa. I like sativas
Strain description is in the link above, but this is a 60/40 sativa/indica that is a cross of Hindu Kush and Strawberry Sativa. Indoor yields are described as "monsterous", which you would expect for a 10-week strain.
I soaked 5 feminised seeds in a shot glass of water, and the next day they had all sunk to the bottom (unviable seeds usually float), after which I transferred them to some damp paper towel on top of my coffee machine (which keeps them warm and hastens propagation). Within 48 hours, all 5 seeds had sprouted and grown tails, and just two days later, all the seeds had popped out of their new coco homes and were doing well.
For the record, these seedings were started in straight coco with Hygen nutrients under a High Light 420 Gen2 3500K LED running at 100-150W in a small tent.
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After 10 days they looked like this. There was already a bit of variation showing, with the middle plant being a bit more stretchy-sativa than the others, whilst the bottom right plant mutated almost immediately, growing three main stems that became apparent only after it had grown a bit more. Unfortunately I gave them all a hot-shot of nutrient after this and a few leaves suffered and the plants slowed down for a few days until I had flushed and they had recovered. That's what you get for not growing for a while . . .
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A week later, they were back on track with only a slight amount of burn to some of the leaves, mainly on the more sativa pheno.
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And three days later all the plants were at about three weeks of veg since popping up. There isn't too much variation at this stage, but there are some sublte differences in growth, with one particular plant showing short, squat growth (the mutated plant, see post below this one), and another showing its legs (the sativa), whilst the remaining three plants are in-between. All the plants have nice thick main stems and the growth and leaf structure appear to lean a little more to the indica side than sativa, IMO. Under 18/6 these plants are pretty average feeders, although they really seem to have taken off in the past few days and there are no more signs of nutrient excess. They are getting a bit of extra Cal-Mag and I am setting the pH at about 5.8 going in and measuring up to 6.5 coming out – which is right where it should be. pH will slowly rise in a heathy system as the plants use up their nutrient. Allowing pH drift enables all nutrients to be available to the plant at different times.
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Mutant indica pheno top left.
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Sativa pheno top right.
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