Paradise Seeds

Moflow said:

6 x Malawi x Sensi Star

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Lou66 said:

I guess this is as good a place go ask as any. Are the 9 weeks counted from flip or from onset of buds (which occurs 1-3 weeks after the flip)?

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Lou66 said:

I guess this is as good a place go ask as any. Are the 9 weeks counted from flip or from onset of buds (which occurs 1-3 weeks after the flip)?

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Prawn Connery said:

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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CCGNZ said:

I'm a long time outdoor guy,in the early days when there were no US options and we had Europe(most people through Attitude) and some Canadian banks I tried Sensi Star and it was way too vulnerable to Botrytis, in fact so were Serious's AK-47,Wh. Russian, and Chronic,I had high hopes for all of these as at the time they were rockstar strains. The weather here in SE MA. usually allows for a 1st/2nd week of Oct. pull plug date,anything after is gravy as a cold rain is virtually always in store.I'm sure they are fine indoors however,and I'm certainly not intending to trash the breeders.

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Prawn Connery said:

Unfortunately you're going to get that with a lot of indicas due to their structure.

If you want to grow outdoors you either need a hardier (mould-resistant ) variety or you need to find one that finishes flowering early, before the wet weather and humidity sets in. That includes auto-flowers.

The strongest photoperiod I've grown is Wappa: https://www.paradise-seeds.com/feminized-cannabis-seeds/wappa/

I can't guarantee you won't get botrytis but it has been more resiliant than other strains I've grown. I always recommend it as a commercial strain because it is easy to grow and produces big yields. It also has a nice sativa-dominant high.

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CCGNZ said:

Thanks,I'm at it almost 40 yrs. now,I grow multiple strains so success is guaranteed,I grow in pots and shelter from bad weather,autos have never impressed me much(glueberry og D. Passion one of the better ones I've done),seem designed for inside where you can bomb them w/ light,have done more strains and breeders than I can list here,main regret (for outdoor grows) is genetics die every year,I've had some phenos that I'd have preserved if I was inside for sure. One thing I've noticed since it's 100% Breeder seeds now is seedling vigor,I've had bagweed seeds when I was a kid that exploded after germination,now not so much and the fact that we are now into poly-hybrid crossing is making the variation of a what a seedpack produces a crap shoot in many instances.I usually do pretty big time/labor consuming grows and am getting up there in yrs/energy when taking having a pys. job along w/exercising regularly.But the habit of doing it all these yrs. make scaling back hard,if I plan to do 10 strains before you know it I'm germinating 15 strains,HAPPY HOLIDAYS

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Prawn Connery said:

Thanks mate. I don't have much trouble germinating seeds, even with the modern strains. I just germinated 7 out of 7 Caramba seeds and one of them was so vigorous it actually vbusrt out of the seed casing whilst it was soaking and I found the little embryo floating on the surface when I checked after 24 hours. I hope to get ome photos of that "seedling" soon as it is already about 3 weeks into flower and being grown by a friend and it is the standout plants amongst the 7. Caramba is a Wappa cross. Wappa was derived from an older Skunk variety. It is very vigorous.

I wish I had more to offer but I only grow 1 or 2 plants outside each year and I live in a pretty hot and dry climate, so botrytis isn't a big problem for me when I do.

P.S. If you are interested you could always email Paradise Seeds and ask. They are usually pretty helpful if you ask for an outdoor variety that is mould-resistant.

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CCGNZ said:

Germination, I don't mean popping,I'm talking the slow,meandering seedling stage where they make SLOW progress for a couple weeks.
Mate?,guess your Aussie or N. Z.,maybe S Africa,cool,can't understand Rugby(chaotic) and damn the poisonous snakes (SCARY),I
m in New England USA and no wildlife here can kill me,take care.

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