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Breeder's Description - 'California Orange Bud'
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Our California Orange Bud is selected for its orange candy aroma and taste. California Orange Bud is one of the easier varieties to clone and cultivate under a variety of conditions. With good care it will produce a heavy crop of good quality. Buds are covered with long orange and deep pink hairs. California Orange Bud is a wise selection for experienced and novice growers as well.
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| Grower reports: 5 |
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Grower Report: l kiz l |
California Orange Bud from Nirvana |
| Overall Rating: |
7 |
Effect: |
Nicely balanced |
| Potency: |
8 |
Stature: |
Somewhat tall and lanky |
| Yield: |
6 |
Phenotype: |
Mixed, primarily Sativa |
| Ease: |
9 |
Indoor: |
- |
| Appearance: |
6 |
Outdoor: |
Oct 1 to Oct 15 |
| Odor Level: |
5 |
Odor: |
Orange like |
| Taste Level: |
7 |
Taste: |
Sweet... Very pungent taste |
| Grower's Tils: |
7 |
Sexes: |
Standard (M/F) |
| SI Rating: |
Not Listed |
Vintage: |
- |
Very very easy to grow. It was my first plant ever outdoors and I just let it do it's thing while feeding with pure blend. Very nice plant. Grew into typical christmas tree formation. Worth a lot more than the $15 I paid.
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| Garden Information for this report |
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| Bloom Wattage Used: |
- |
| Average Plant Height: |
- |
| Average Yield per Plant: |
- |
| Pruning or Plant Style: |
- |
| Fertilization: |
- |
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Grower Report: PhatGanjaMan |
California Orange Bud from Nirvana |
| Overall Rating: |
9 |
Effect: |
Somewhat heady |
| Potency: |
9 |
Stature: |
Somewhat tall and lanky |
| Yield: |
8 |
Phenotype: |
Mixed, Indica / Sativa |
| Ease: |
10 |
Indoor: |
55 to 60 days |
| Appearance: |
9 |
Outdoor: |
- |
| Odor Level: |
8 |
Odor: |
Orange citrus cleaner. Very overpowering... |
| Taste Level: |
10 |
Taste: |
Smoooth & hashy. Will not make you cough |
| Grower's Tils: |
10 |
Sexes: |
Feminized (mostly female) |
| SI Rating: |
Not Listed |
Vintage: |
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California Orange is some excellent stuff. She looks beautiful, and smells just like an orange citrus cleaner. She grew to about 3' tall, with 1' of that being pure thick cola. It's incredibly dense with trichs all over.
The stone is not creeper. After a nice hit you suddenly realize that you are completley stoned. Although this is an indica, major couch-lock is not present. This strain makes you think, and is an excellent day smoke. You will remain fully functional while feeling great.
Appearance is excellent. Yield is great. Odor is AMAZING. Taste is lovely. I really couldn't ask for more out of a strain.
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| Garden Information for this report |
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| Bloom Wattage Used: |
260w to 400w |
| Average Plant Height: |
- |
| Average Yield per Plant: |
- |
| Pruning or Plant Style: |
Sea of Green SOG |
| Fertilization: |
Chemically fed |
400w HPS. 15-30-15 nutes. Last 20 days of flower she was fed only water. This made the taste incredible.
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Grower Report: Calyxander |
California Orange Bud from Nirvana |
| Overall Rating: |
6 |
Effect: |
Somewhat couchlock |
| Potency: |
7 |
Stature: |
Somewhat tall and lanky |
| Yield: |
4 |
Phenotype: |
Mixed, primarily Sativa |
| Ease: |
8 |
Indoor: |
55 to 60 days |
| Appearance: |
7 |
Outdoor: |
Oct 1 to Oct 15 |
| Odor Level: |
5 |
Odor: |
Not much odor. Slight orange aroma. |
| Taste Level: |
6 |
Taste: |
Very slight mellow orange citrusy flavor. |
| Grower's Tils: |
7 |
Sexes: |
Standard (M/F) |
| SI Rating: |
Not Listed |
Vintage: |
August, 2004 |
Started 5 seeds. 100% germinated within 30 hours.
3 females.
These were grown outdoors
Plants in 3 gal containers.
Moved in and out to induce flowering.
Kept in full sun for most of day, put inside darkroom for 12 hrs every evening.
Trichomes became cloudy at apx 48-50 days
Largest plant was 5' tall.
Poor yield with sativa like feathery buds....very light in weight.
Good smoke with orange overtones and more indica type high.
Harvest at 52 days... quite ripe.
This is an easy plant to grow, nice buds.
Not my favorite Nirvana strain but better than average quality
smoke.
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| Garden Information for this report |
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| Bloom Wattage Used: |
5000w+ |
| Average Plant Height: |
55 |
| Average Yield per Plant: |
4.00 |
| Pruning or Plant Style: |
Tree |
| Fertilization: |
Chemically fed |
On this grow the sun provided the light
Plants in 3 gallon ctrs.
ProMixBX w/perlite and vermiculite and dolomite lime,
Used Miracle Grow tomato and MG 15-30-15 for veg and thru 1st week of flowering.
Peters Super Blossom Booster for Flowering
Flushed with pure water for last 10 days before harvest.
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Grower Report: sicklittlemonkey |
California Orange Bud from Nirvana |
| Overall Rating: |
6 |
Effect: |
Somewhat heady |
| Potency: |
7 |
Stature: |
Somewhat tall and lanky |
| Yield: |
6 |
Phenotype: |
Mixed, primarily Sativa |
| Ease: |
5 |
Indoor: |
75 to 80 days |
| Appearance: |
7 |
Outdoor: |
- |
| Odor Level: |
6 |
Odor: |
lives up to its name--orangy/citrusy...especially when you squeeze a bud |
| Taste Level: |
7 |
Taste: |
tastes like orange candy. A fresh rolled joint was oh so yummy |
| Grower's Tils: |
7 |
Sexes: |
Standard (M/F) |
| SI Rating: |
Not Listed |
Vintage: |
- |
Germed 3 seeds by soaking them in a cup of water for 12 hours then placing them into 16 oz cups filled with miracle grow soil. All 3 popped within 2 days and were placed in a 2' x 2' cab under a vertical 150 HPS. Due to a lack of proper ventilation these plants grew slowly at first in the high heat environment.
After transplanting to 8 inch pots all three plants started to take off. Flowering was initiated 30 days after germination and none of the three had reached sexual maturity (alternating nodes). It took over 2 weeks for the first plant to show it's sex..a male. Second plant showed 2 days later, a female! Third plant showed a few days after that and it was male. Just as I was ready to throw out the male plants about a week after showing I noticed that the first male had started shooting out female flowers, it had hermied on me. I attributed this 100% to the high heat environment and I believe it would not have hermied under normal conditions.
Finally I was able to place the one female under a 430 HPS with excellent ventilation. I also did a final transplant into a 5 gal. bucket. This is when the plant started to really take off. It stretched...and stretched...and stretched some more. I think it went through 3 separate stretch periods when it was all said and done. Bud production was slow to keep up to the stretch at first and the leaf/calyx ratio was poor. Trich production was also slow in the beginning but both caught up after the plant finished stretching. Unfortunatly I had to harvest this plant at day 70, I felt it could have gone another 10-14 days to reach it's full potential.
I was initally pissed because this plant did stretch so much and it took forever and I couldn't wait any longer to harvest it, however after smoking the buds and giving some to friends I am very pleased with the final results. It gives a wonderful high that lasts your typical 2 hours or so and I was slow to build a tolerance to this strain. Taste is fantastic. I find myself opening the jar daily to catch a whiff of it's aroma. Yielded over 2 ounces from this plant, buds were so heavy at the end on branch snapped, other were bent over from the weight. I will definetly grow this one again but knowing that I need at least 15 weeks from seed to harvest if I get the same pheno.
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| Garden Information for this report |
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| Bloom Wattage Used: |
410w to 1000w |
| Average Plant Height: |
- |
| Average Yield per Plant: |
2.00 |
| Pruning or Plant Style: |
- |
| Fertilization: |
Chemically fed |
Vegged under a vertical 150 HPS with poor ventilation (not recommended).
Flowered under a 430 HPS with excellent ventilation (highly recommended). LST to attempt to keep the plant managable.
Fed with 20-6-16 in veg, switched to 15-30-15 in flower as needed, then down to 0-5-4 and watered with tap water the final 10 days. Bud burns to a nice white/light grey ash.
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Grower Report: shack_grows |
California Orange Bud from Nirvana |
| Overall Rating: |
7 |
Effect: |
Somewhat heady |
| Potency: |
8 |
Stature: |
Somewhat tall and lanky |
| Yield: |
6 |
Phenotype: |
Mixed, primarily Sativa |
| Ease: |
8 |
Indoor: |
55 to 60 days |
| Appearance: |
9 |
Outdoor: |
- |
| Odor Level: |
7 |
Odor: |
A real noticeable citrus smell springs up during the later periods of flowering |
| Taste Level: |
6 |
Taste: |
somewhat like the smell, smooth citrus flavor! |
| Grower's Tils: |
8 |
Sexes: |
Standard (M/F) |
| SI Rating: |
Not Listed |
Vintage: |
- |
As my first attempt at growing, I found that orange bud cooperates well in that it takes transplants easy and is what I would recommend as a good strain for a first timer to grow.
Germination- threw the seed in an altoid's container filled with water. after a day the seed cracked, so I tossed (her) in some soil and let her veg indoors.
I vegged this plant indoors for a while, then threw her outside in the garden and left her to do her own thing. After 2 weeks I visited the plant again, and found out that she was a girl! I quickly transplanted her from the outside soil into a pot, and flowered her indoors. By this time she had grown into somewhat round shape because of all the sun she got outdoors, but still "tall and lanky" like any sativa phenotype.
I vegged for 53 days, until the onset of a spider mite invasion. I chopped her down (she was looking real ready) before the spider mites could spread, and I was REAL happy for a first time grower. You'll see the results.
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| Garden Information for this report |
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| Bloom Wattage Used: |
260w to 400w |
| Average Plant Height: |
24 |
| Average Yield per Plant: |
1.00 |
| Pruning or Plant Style: |
Bush |
| Fertilization: |
Organically fed |
For my indoor flowering room, i used
5 x 25 watt cool white compact flouros
3 x 25 watt warm compact flouros
4 x 35 watt flouros
Yes. This was a Flouro grow !
The growing medium was soil, I used H2o2 alot to clean the soil from time to time for impurities. Superthrive was used also during the transplants from indoors -> outdoors -> indoors.
For the flowering cycle I used the common 12/12 lighting. I had to tie the main stalk to the pot itself, because it got sort of top heavy during its flowering period. I watered whenever the pot felt light (no water) and when it was visible that the top 2 inches of soil were dry. For ferts I used normal fert pellets (wouldnt recommend this if you want to know EXACTLY what your plant is eating).
For the drying process, I dried in an empty computer case with 2 fans installed for air circulation. Pretty silent and inconspicuous, and dried the buds well (no mold). Took about 9 days to dry an ounce.
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