CANNALIB · STRAIN DOSSIER · SOUR TSUNAMI

Sour Tsunami

3 independent sources put THC at 10%; 417 flower lab samples give a 10th to 90th percentile band of 0.4 to 9.4%; 3 recorded parents; 55 recorded descendants. It placed in results from WSIA Sun Cup / WSCA Craft Cannabis Cup (Washington Sun & Craft Growers Association), High Times Cannabis Cup (United States) and NECANN Cup.

Sour Tsunami is a hybrid cannabis strain bred by Lawrence Ringo. Lab tests put its THC between 0.4 and 9.4% (the middle 80% of 417 flower samples), with CBD around 11.9%. The terpenes most often reported are myrcene, terpinolene, pinene. Recorded parents: Ac Dc × Nyc Diesel × Sour Diesel. Stated flowering time 63 to 70 days. 11 cup placings on record, 2 verified against published results.

●   frozen 2026-09-29 · API 0.7.1-stdlib

●   evidence bar: thc 3 independent sources

●   type: hybrid

10%
THC, most-agreed claim
3 independent sources

0.4–9.4%
Flower lab range
10th to 90th percentile of 417 samples

3
Recorded parents
with sources, never guessed

55
Recorded descendants
through stated parent links

2/11
Cup results, verified/total
placings found in published results

8
Pictures on record
shown with source and credit

CHEMISTRY, CLAIM BY CLAIM

Every THC claim, and who made it.

THC Independent sources Who states it
10% 3 allbud, cannaconnection, master, bank_blim-burn-seeds
0.7% 2 cannlytics_expand, replication_data
0.9% 2 cannlytics_expand, replication_data
0.4% 2 cannlytics_expand, replication_data
0.7% 2 replication_data, steep_hill_chemotypes_zenodo_3986252
0.7% 2 maxvalue_terpenes, wa_wslcb_leaf_new
0.8% 2 replication_data, wa_wslcb_leaf_new
0.5% 2 maxvalue_terpenes, geno_open_cannabis_project_ocp_zenodo_node_17
0.6% 2 or_prr00150, maxvalue_terpenes_csv
0.6% 2 or_prr00150, maxvalue_terpenes
0.8% 2 replication_data, wa_wslcb_leaf_new
1.5% 2 replication_data, smith_phytochem_sample

Lab range 0.4 to 9.4% THC is the 10th to 90th percentile of 417 flower lab samples, median 0.7%; CBD 0.7 to 16.4% over 392 samples.

top terpenes by stated value: myrcene, terpinolene, pinene, linalool, β-caryophyllene, β-ocimene

1,147 chemistry rows on record. Flagged rows never used as potency: 359 non flower, 84 quality flagged, 0 percent outliers.

GROW CLAIMS

Height and flowering, as stated.

Height Independent sources Who states it
80 to 120 cm 2 seedcity, seedcity_local
152 to 244 cm 1 cropking
Flowering Independent sources Who states it
63 to 70 days 3 truenorth, cannaconnection, bank_blim-burn-seeds
63 days 2 cropking, seedfinder
56 to 63 days 2 seedcity, seedcity_local
56 to 70 days 1 hytiva
LINEAGE

Recorded parents, and how many sources agree.

Parent Sources Who states it
Ac Dc 1 seedfinder
Nyc Diesel 1 strain_fact:allbud
Sour Diesel 1 strain_fact:allbud,bank_blim-burn-seeds

55 descendants through recorded links, including 13Th Warrior, 4 Times Sour, Auto Eter Express, Balanced Breakfast, Blunami, Canna So Hard, Canna Tsu, Cannaboom Cbd.

COMPETITIONS AND AWARD CLAIMS

Cup results with sources; claims with verdicts.

Year Competition Category Place Checked
2023 Mid-Mo Canna Cup Sativa 2nd unverified
2021 NECANN Cup CBD FLOWER 1ST PLACE unverified
2021 WSIA Sun Cup / WSCA Craft Cannabis Cup (Washington Sun & Craft Growers Association) Best CBD flower runner-up unverified
2020 WSIA Sun Cup / WSCA Craft Cannabis Cup (Washington Sun & Craft Growers Association) Best CBD Flower runner-up verified
2018 THC Classic (Rooster Magazine) CBD:THC 2nd unverified
2018 Dope Cup Best CBD Distillate runner-up unverified
2018 Dope Cup Best CBD Shatter/Taffy runner-up unverified
2017 Dope Cup Best CBD Flower 2nd unverified
2015 Dope Cup Best BHO – CBD winner unverified
2015 Dope Cup Best BHO – CBD runner-up unverified
2014 High Times Cannabis Cup (United States) HIGH CBD AWARD – Flower winner verified

Award claims checked 1 confirmed  ·  0 unchecked. Only confirmed claims count as results.

Claim Year Source Verdict
Cannabis Cup not stated · matched 2020, 2021 hytiva confirmed
PICTURES, WITH CREDIT

8 pictures on record. Three shown, each with its source.

Sour Tsunami strain picture, credit seedfinder.eu

credit: seedfinder.eu · shown with credit, copyright unverified

Sour Tsunami strain picture, credit allbud.s3.amazonaws.com

credit: allbud.s3.amazonaws.com · shown with credit, copyright unverified

Sour Tsunami strain picture, credit cropkingseeds.com

credit: cropkingseeds.com · shown with credit, copyright unverified

How to read this page
Every value is a stated claim with its sources. Where sources disagree all claims are listed. The lab range is the 10th to 90th percentile of flower lab samples and is never blended with seed-bank claims. Parents are recorded links, never guessed. Pictures are shown with their source and credit; copyright is unverified. Nothing on this page was invented, averaged across sources or merged from another name.

Aliases on record: Sour Tsunami, sour tsunami feminized seeds bulk seeds, sour tsunami feminized seeds canuk seeds, sourtsunami, 018NY6XC00VTXEG3ERETKYXNYE

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dossier sour-tsunami · frozen 2026-09-29 · published by CannaLib, a Plausible Deniability project · Cite as: CannaLib (2026). Sour Tsunami strain dossier. https://cannalib.org/strains/sour-tsunami/

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