A Breeder Steve Thread

lunchpale · April 17, 2023, 7:08pm

It’s already been done so do we sit and say “oh god big agriculture is here” when cannabis activists pushed hemp to open the door as a road to legalization ?

BudWhisperer · April 17, 2023, 7:47pm

We vote for sensible leaders, who will hopefully do the right thing. By changing draconian anti-drug laws.

lunchpale · April 17, 2023, 7:52pm

Yes we do but they sensibly get a lot more in their pocket from giant agriculture than from the millions of home growers around the planet , the days of the Jimmy Stewart roll up his sleeves for the people politician is long gone and billionaires rule

SHSC-1 · April 17, 2023, 8:35pm

you raise good points @lunchpale
In the end, as long as a person has a good seed stash and a few solid connections for sharing and preserving lines… there’s not much big agriculture or the government can do.

BudWhisperer · April 17, 2023, 9:02pm

In the meantime, i bought some Sweet Tooth 4 by @Baudelaire at Fleur Du Mal Seeds.
I can’t wait to grow these plants!
I got an 1/8th of Sweet Tooth maybe 15? years ago and i still remember how pleasant the high was.

Dirt_Wizard · January 27, 2024, 8:43pm

Here’s the best deal on Blockhead hybrids I’ve seen, $1/seed from 707 Shabud:

Best genetics on a budget?

Love Candy is Shabud’s improved Blockhead line that was an exclusive Speakeasy drop for the pure line:

“ Name: Love Candy
Genetics: Blockhead BC2 F3
Breeder: 707 Seedbank
Type: 10 Regular Seeds
Note: The yield of any crop, including hemp, can vary depending on factors such as the variety of the plant, growing conditions, farming practices, and weather conditions.

STRAIN NOTES

Love Candy is a unique and rare strain available exclusively at SpeakeasySeedbank.com . It is a heavily worked cut of Blockhead that has undergone backcrossing 2 times and then further breeding to reach the F3 stage. When grown outdoors, Love Candy produces large, light green flowers covered in trichomes that give them an indoor-like appearance. Despite its sturdy structure and short, bushy branches, Love Candy’s massive colas require support due to their rock-hard size. Growers with over 30 years of experience report encountering only a few cultivars with this appearance when grown outdoors. Love Candy typically finishes around the first week of October in northern California, but it may be prone to mold if exposed to early rain or grown in a humid environment.

Indoors, Love Candy is a beautiful and trichome-covered strain that’s sure to impress even the most experienced growers. The strain can be harvested after eight weeks of flowering, but many growers prefer to let it mature for nine weeks to fully develop its potent and delicious flavors. When grown in a greenhouse setting, Love Candy grows taller and less bushy than it does indoors or outdoors, making it easily mistaken for indoor-grown strains.

Overall, Love Candy is a one-of-a-kind strain that’s a result of Blockhead being worked to backcross 2 and then further breeding to reach the F3 stage. It has a complex and alluring flavor profile that’s sure to impress. If you’re looking for a top-quality strain, look no further than Love Candy!”

amumayuk · January 29, 2024, 11:12am

Swampthing · January 31, 2024, 9:35am

I suggest getting your blockhead crosses via

Chimera
Chimeras genetics are imho some of the finest on the planet. Hands down. Flavor through the wazoo and killer effects. They just don’t breed cannabis like this anymore
or
BeanHoarder aka “BeanHo” at Hemp Depot. Though ordering can be an arduous process, the genetics are FIRE and they are absurdly affordable.

Swampthing · January 31, 2024, 9:37am

I’ve got a few packs of old Spice of Life gear. The Donk is one I’ve got a couple packs of. Breeder Steve himself said the strain is ok but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to dig into them someday

Kushking902 · February 1, 2024, 8:48pm

Is blubonic one of them?

Sdd420 · February 7, 2024, 5:57am

That’s 10 dollars a seed lol but I got the sfv x kush cleaner at 1 dollar a seed and can’t wait to see how they turn out

Sdd420 · February 7, 2024, 5:58am

Basically a sfv back cross

Dirt_Wizard · February 7, 2024, 2:22pm

Yes, I posted those just above and posted that out of stock Love Candy to provide parental information on the seeds you bought.

jessethestoner · February 7, 2024, 7:27pm

Seems Breeder Steve is launching or involved with the launch of a new seedbank. Stars and Stripes Seed Co. (SSSC). Seems He will be launching several companies and continuing the Spice of Life Seeds company. Nothing is up on the site currently for SOL, but there are lisitngs elsewhere. Who knows, maybe we will be buying new blockhead bx’s soon.

https://www.instagram.com/starsandstripesseed
https://www.starsandstripesseed.com/
https://twitter.com/StarStripesSeed

SHSC-1 · February 7, 2024, 7:31pm

interesting… I was under the impression he was aiming to get into the Canadian licensed producer market but with a move like this … that’s obviously out of the cards for him.
Will see how this develops.
thx for posting this @jessethestoner

HolyAngel · February 7, 2024, 7:49pm

Interesting how he’d use a name with the same ‘sssc’ acronym. Super sativa seed club, the real sssc, has been around for almost a half century. Definitely gonna keep an eye out tho. Appreciate the heads up.

Dirt_Wizard · February 7, 2024, 8:07pm

Steve on the Future Cannabis Project vlog last year talking about his venture named Verosince, can’t find anything on the web about it yet.

Breeder Steve putting in work

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May 26, 2023

“Sterile” females? Talking parthenocarpy with one of the G.O.A.T.s. Get your notepad ready and be ready to learn something. apomixis is asexual reproduction without fertilization. parthenocarpy is the development of a fruit without prior fertilization. There are two kinds of parthenocarpy, namely, obligate and facultative parthenocarpy. The difference is that the former always produces seedless fruits, whereas the latter results in seedless fruits only when pollination is prevented, like when males are removed.

Transcript courtesy @mufafa and his transcription project:

github.com

muf4/canna-transcripts/blob/main/Future Cannabis Project/Future Cannabis Project_Breeder Steve - Breeding for Female Sterility_20200524.txt

to think the way I think of it is I've got this huge palette of colors to work from.
And it's the best palette of colors and I can draw on that to make any shade of anything. And
I don't feel limited to just pursuing two or three paths. I really like to keep the
keep the door wide open to what is required, what people want. And I think from a production point
of view, what people are going to want is going to be sterile versions of those plants. So
once you've got the plants you want, then you want to work on making sterile versions of them.
Because the sterile plants won't take seed. So if you want to grow a field with no seeds in it,
even if the neighbors have hemp all around, you need to have sterile plants. So that's going to be
the real one of the notable features of the current cannabis genetics renaissance. You're
seeing there's so many more people involved in cannabis genetics research now than ever was,
on a more professional level than there ever was. More academic level, let's say. You're going to
see a lot of advances from plants you don't need to trim, to plants that can't be seeded,
and plants that mites don't eat, plants that are very, very resistant to different fungal issues.
It's, I think we're going to see an enormous leap in cannabis genetics just in the next five years.
Like there's going to be more happening in cannabis genetics in the last five years than has ever
happened in cannabis genetics. You were talking sterile before, right?
The sterile plants that I'm referring to, that I've seen, and that I'm endeavoring to reliably
produce, right now I've only about 50% success rate, but I need them to be at 100. But those
plants have no pistils. They're female plants with no pistils. So you can smother them in pollen.
So they're barren, basically.

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HolyAngel · February 8, 2024, 3:00am

It’s actually ‘TrueSinse’ on his site:

but VeroSinse has a twitter ^^
https://twitter.com/VeroSinse

funkyfunk · February 8, 2024, 8:15am

Steve is talking about it a bit in the video posted by @amumayuk . Seems to be a procedure to apply to clones. I’m guessing chemical and/org hormonal reaction that prevent pistil formation. The recipe will probably leak eventually. Quite interesting for commercial crops of elite bagseed genetics

Kushking902 · February 8, 2024, 2:43pm

And we thought we seen genetic bottlenecking before wow. Set up with the lp’s in Canada I can only see that going one way