Cali-orange growers, which one is best?

[aeric]

You`ll have to come by the cemetery, dig me up, bring me to the store, pay for it, then grow it, cut and dry it, and then help me smoke it. Because by then I`ll be worm food.

Damn I hope that doesn't turn out to be true IJ...but fear it may be. I hear there's a slight chance for a democratically controlled congress this year (as if that might help).

TML16: must admit I was pleasantly surprised with a willyjack strain from a few years ago, a calio cross, definate hybrid vigor as it was double or even triple the yield of everything around it, so good it still survives in homemade F2 form. Another willyjack cross with kush and some other stuff was a dud however, looked like feral hemp. If they still have the same calio they used before it should be good IMVHO.

 

[schrooomy420]

Hate to say it but aericc77 cali-O did'nt really impress me at all. peace

 

[kabulbaba]

I hear the best from the Homegrow Fantaseeds Orange. Very Strong extremly resin production fantastic smell and Yield 50 /50 Indica sativa, but needs up to 10 weeks to be finish

 

[aeric]

It would be cool if someone with money to burn could get most of the "oranges" available now and do a side by side, have always wanted to do that with several strains infact.

s420: it's not for everyone, not the most potent stuff around, more about type and quality of high than quantity, like blueberry, and others.

 

[gras_macht_spaß]

I´ve once grown Sensi´s Cali Indica. It´s many years ago, so I may not remember all details, and the strain could have changed a bit in the meantime. I was very green, it was my second grow, so I killed some already germinated seedlings. At the end I had 3 females representing 3 phenos.
#1 had the highest yield but had EXTREMELY leafy buds (but fortunately the leaves were VERY resinous) one could really search for hairs. It also had the most horizontal branching, and the most indica-type stone. Smell and taste were mainly sweet, not real orangy. Had the shortest flowering-time 7 1/2 weeks. Not a keeper.
#2 was the shortest plant, with really dense buds, medium/good flower/leaf ratio, only slightly less yield than #1 (and these were real buds, not these leaf-balls of #1). It was a typical compact indica christmas-tree, with a veeery good resin coverage on the whole buds. It built 2 bananas, one I found before opening, the other one was already open, but later I only found 3 or 5 seeds. so it didn´t matter. It needed 8 weeks to get ready, the smell was very citrusy and sweet, taste more sweet/hashy. The effect was a pleasant stone with a little bit sativa-influence, which made that it wasn´t a heavy couch-locker. Definetely good enough for a keeper.
#3 This was my favourite, it had the lowest yield (but not a big difference to the others) and it took the longest time (9 1/2 weeks, and could have even taken a half week more!) to get ready, but it was a real resin monster and it had a high flower/leaf-ratio (Fine, sativa-type calyxes). Furthermore it had a fantastic orangy smell, extremely sweet, and also the sweetest taste, hashy/fruity.
The best beside of the outstanding resin production, was the effect, it was nicely-balanced with a good stony component but surely some sativa-overweight, you were stoned but fully able to do amusing things, great party-weed with an euphorizing component. It showed not a single banana, and was perfectly healthy, when i harvested it all leaves were still fresh green!
All three phenos were easy to grow, and had a good, high potency.
At this seedling grow I had rather lousy yield, but not because of the strain, I was to unexperienced and beside of some smaller mistakes I used far to little pots!
I tried to make clones before I put them into flower, unfortunately my favourite pheno #3 clone didn´t survive, but #2 which was also very good did and so I later had a clone-grow from #2. This time I did it better and used a 35-liter-pot with good organic soil mix, using additionally Bio-Bizz Vis-Mix and Groei in veg and Bloei in flower in the water.
I cut the plant several times and let it grow really long, until it nearly filled my 0.7m x 0,7 m grow-space, before I put it into flower, it looked like a scrog and gave me 47 grams dried, manicured nuggets (weight without the central bud-stems), not so bad for a beginner with only a 150 W/14.500 lumen HPS-lamp. (Today I know, that I would have better bought a 250 W lamp, but when I started didn´t know it). This proved that it is a variety that grows rather good also with a low light level.
CONCLUSION: This strain has some inhomogenity (maybe Sensi stabilized it further in the meantime) but none of the plants will be really bad, and the best are very delicately smelling and tasting, have a high potency and a fairly good yield and a very pleasant kind of high. I think I will grow it again some time. I wouldn´t try it outdoors in temperate climates, I suppose that the dense buds will easily get mold before they are ready.
Nevertheless I´ve seen a very positive outdoor-report at the overgrow strainguide, but this grow took place in california !
http://www.hanflexikon.de/Sensi_Seeds/California_Indica/index.html
To kabulbaba: I would like to know more of Homegrown Fantaseeds Californian Orange (I have more trust in theirs than in Dutch Passion´s), a selected best-female of this strain should give easily a fine hybrid with a male "The Pure" (Skunk #1) from Flying Dutchmen.

 

[aeric]

nice review gms i enjoyed it.