The history of Agent Orange

Timeline

1. 2003MzJill and Subcool co-found TGA Genetics, which she describes as the first well-known, above-ground US cannabis-genetics company.^1,2
2. 2006High Times names Jack the Ripper, Agent Orange’s father line, one of its Top 10 strains of the year.³
3. 2011The oldest user comment on SeedFinder’s Agent Orange page is posted, the earliest dated mention of the strain we found.⁴
4. 2012–2013Agent Orange places third in the sativa category at the IC 420 Growers Cup two years running, according to SeedFinder’s awards list.⁴
5. 2014Seventh place, sativa, at the Karma Cup.⁴
6. Dec 19, 2014The earliest state lab test of Agent Orange flower in our dataset.⁵
7. 2017Oregon Genetics Cannabis lists an Agent Orange clone in its catalogue at “20+%” THC and 8–9 weeks of flowering.⁶
8. Oct 8, 2017A wildfire burns MzJill and Subcool’s Santa Rosa home, destroying almost four million seeds and all their breeding plants; MzJill later recovers genetics from mother plants shared with friends.^2,3,7
9. 2018–2021130 of the 140 state lab tests in our dataset date from these years.⁵
10. Feb 20, 2019In mediation, Subcool surrenders TGA Genetics’ intellectual property to MzJill and gives up the rights to Agent Orange, Jillybean, Orange Velvet and five other strains; Space Queen is shared.³
11. Feb 1, 2020Subcool dies, according to Cannabis Business Times’ obituary; Leaf Magazines later gives January 2020.^7,8
12. Mar 2022Leaf Magazines profiles MzJill Genetics, which retains the TGA name and many of its strains.²
13. 2026MzJill Genetics lists Agent Orange F2 and S1 feminized seeds and Agent Cherry Bomb, a cross with Cherry Pie OG; Leafly lists Orange Z and Orange Fanta as offspring.^9,10,11,12
14. Oct 3, 2026Weedmaps shows Agent Orange flower at 85 store listings in 9 of 27 US markets, 59 of them near Los Angeles.¹³

Why it spread

It fit the TGA catalogue. Cannabis Business Times describes Subcool’s mission as high-yielding, fruit-flavored hybrids, lemon first, then grape, cherry and orange, and Agent Orange is the orange: a heavy yielder with a flavor the TGA-era description compared to a whiskey sour.^4,7 It placed in grower competitions in 2012, 2013 and 2014, gathered 1,213 ratings on Leafly, and became a parent in its own right, with 71 direct crosses on SeedFinder.^4,12

It never reached the sales charts: it is absent from Leafly’s 2025 best sellers and from The Marijuana Herald’s September 2026 state-by-state list.^14,15

The name

MzJill says she created the strain in honor of her father, a US Army Special Forces Green Beret who served in Vietnam and, like many veterans, was exposed to the herbicide Agent Orange; her seed pages add that the name is meant to bring awareness to those affected by the chemical, and she says proceeds from the strain support veterans’ causes.^1,9,10 That is the only account of the name in the sources we opened; AllBud notes only that the strain is “not the Vietnam-era pesticide”.¹⁶

The disputed parts of the story

• Release year: none published. The earliest dated evidence is a 2011 SeedFinder comment, then the 2012 cup placing.⁴
• Who bred it: MzJill says she created it, Leafly credits MzJill Genetics and Weedmaps says it was developed in the TGA era by MzJill, while Wikileaf calls it the idea of TGA Subcool Seeds; the breeder description SeedFinder quotes is written in the first person about yields. Since 2019 the rights are MzJill’s.^{1,3,4,12,17,18}
• What TGA stands for: Team Green Avenger (Leaf Magazines, Cannabis Business Times) or The Green Avengers (High Times).^2,3,7
• Subcool’s death: February 1, 2020 in Cannabis Business Times’ obituary; January 2020 in Leaf Magazines.^7,8
• Lineage and label: two ways of writing the cross and a spread of indica/sativa labels (see genetics).^4,16