Tangerine Dream Strain
If you love citrus-flavored cannabis strains, you’ll be excited once you read through this Tangerine Dream strain review. While Tangerine Dream may not be the most popular “dream” named strain (Blue Dream always wins this race), this wonderful strain deserves recognition just like other strains in the Haze lineage.
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Barney’s House gets the credit for bringing Tangerine Dream to the forefront of sativas available. There are two potential genetic makeups, and neither has been fully accepted as the real cross.
One variety is a 3-way cross of G13, Neville’s A5 Haze, and the Afghani landrace. The other version is a cross of G13 and Neville’s A5 Haze, with the resulting child strain backcrossed with G13 again.
G13 rose to popularity due to the urban legend that the CIA, FBI, and other government agencies collected the best cannabis strains in the 1960s to study and develop.
G13 was one of these strains, and a rogue worker took a cutting and spread it for the public to enjoy. While the backstory of this indica is almost certainly false, this ganja strain delivers a happy and relaxing euphoria.
It has spawned many other strains, like MK Ultra. Don’t you love the government-based names of these strains?!
This sativa-dominant strain is named after the cannabis influencer Nevil Shoemakers, the founder of the Seed Bank Of Holland. Green House Seeds bred this strain that is almost pure Haze with a touch of indica to deliver energizing highs and potent cerebral effects.
If you love the Haze linage, check out Hawaiian Snow, a 3-way cross of Neville’s A5 Haze, Pure Haze, and Hawaiian Haze for one of the best cerebral Haze-based highs you can find!
Whether Afghani plays a part in Tangerine Dream or not is up for debate, but we can look at what the strain offers just in case. This landrace offers a sweet earthy essence and buds that are absolutely soaked in resin. This resinous bud structure is often the reason for including it in breeding programs.
Plenty of marijuana strains owe a lot to Afghani. Classics like Northern Lights and Amnesia Haze strain wouldn’t be around with Afghani!
Tangerine Dream is available as feminized seeds from many online seed banks. Barney’s Farm still offers its genetics to the public, which makes them the obvious choice to ensure the proper genetic makeup when growing your own marijuana for personal or medicinal use.
Tangerine Dream is a hit, so it’s only right that it has been used to breed new strains to take advantage of what it has to offer.
Anesia Seeds crossed Tangerine Dream with AK-47 to create Mandarine 47. It offers a long-lasting high the boosts energy and beautiful citrus-based essence.
Purple Poison is a cross of 3 legends in Purple Urkle, Tangerine Dream, and Durban Poison. It offers a great cerebral experience with little physical sedation and a pleasant citrus essence with notes of floral and pine in the flavor.
This strain is labeled as difficult to grow, which is the only downfall of this strain. It can be grown indoors and outdoors and the plants typically reach 3-4 feet in height. They are stocky and bushy, much like an indica would grow.
The yields are great if you can nail down the growing environment and harvest process. Yields range between 1.6-3 ounces per square foot of plant.
The flowering period for Tangerine Dream is between 7-10 weeks. This is a much larger range than many other cannabis strains, alluding to differences between genetic makeups (Afghani vs no Afghani).
Harvest when the trichomes are milky-white and amber in color. Many growers aim for a 50/50 split between colors.
The green buds appear wispy and compact, featuring tan-colored hairs and a healthy coat of trichomes containing the bulk of the cannabinoid and terpene content of the Tangerine Dream buds.
With a few variations in the genetics and the given difficulty of growing Tangerine Dream to its full potential, batches of this bud strain test between 17-25%. Hitting those numbers in the high twenties requires optimal growing, harvesting, curing, and storage.
This energizing ganja is perfect for daytime use, and the citrus essence is perfect for a wake and bake, like a cup of fresh-squeezed orange juice!
The high is energizing, uplifting, and euphoric. The body feels relaxation without sedation and the cerebral effects do everything but cloud the mind. It’s quite an enjoyable experience!
The aromatic profile is sweet and citrusy and the flavor is much the same. If you like tangerines and oranges in general, Tangerine Dream is the best you can get!
The terpene data is scattered with Tangerine Dream, probably due to variations in genetic makeup. It has tested high in Myrcene, Caryophyllene, Terpinolene, Limonene, and Pinene. The only way to ensure the terpene data of the batch you have grown, or purchased, is to get lab work done, which can be costly.
Those who want to sample more like Tangerine Dream will enjoy Vortex, Peach Cobbler, and Pineapple Kush for similar effects and terpene profiles.
Tangerine Dream is quite a useful strain for medicinal use. It can be suitable for treating:
Tangerine Dream on average is $10-$15 per gram, $45-55 per 1/8th oz, $90-$110 per 1/4 ounce, and $190-$210 per 1/2 ounce.
Barney’s Farm hit the ball out of the park with Tangerine Dream. While genetics is a bit up for debate, there is no debating the blissful essence and experience that this ganja strain delivers. It’s potent, tasty, and can be grown from seeds purchased online!
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