Breeder steve will be on talking shit with eagle this sunday the 16th. Though iut maight be cool to get a list of questions to ask the guy. I will come up with some of my own but if youve got a question, ask it!
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Does anyone know of Blubonic still in circulation? Iād like to get my hand on some of those beans
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I was just thinking about Blubonic today. It was an older Canadian Blueberry x with Blue Satellite if I recall. I crossed it to a Joey Weeds Blue Cindy back in 2009 or so. Iāve been thinking about seeing if the seeds are still viable.
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Thatās the one 
. Iāve been looking but havenāt had any luck
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Please do. Those vars havenāt done the rounds for at least a decade.
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Iāve seen a few companies have something called that but the genetics are wrong. If they are found it will be a co op for sure lol
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If anyone would like the seeds to document on here Iād be happy to pass them along.
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@Neversleeps I will start them asap! My wife has been talking about this strain for years and could never find lol
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Cool, we can move this to the DM. I just pulled them out and it is a cross of Joey Weeds AK99 to his Blueberry. Then pollinated with Bluebonic. If that works for you. Interestingly I also have (AK99xBB)x (C99xA11).
C99XA11 is another Joey Weed strain, FYI.
And also JWās Bluebery x (C99xA11)
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hey thanx for the tag @shag
Breeder Steve and Spice of Life topics are of great interest to me.
Mainly for the Shishkaberry as I kinda dropped out of the scene in 05 and didnāt follow anything online till 2015. I got my original Shishkaberry seeds from the man himself after literally being dragged by my roommate at the timeā¦ to the marc emery seed bank store in Vancouver. I was and still am a very private, some would say reclusive, grower and individual, always prefering to keep a low profile. So this was why it ws so hard for my roomate to get me out of my growing bubble and take a trip to that heat bag marc emeryās store LOL I grew up less than an hour drive from downtown Van in the suburbs of North Delta but Iāve lived all over the lowermainland from downtown to rosedale and everything inbetween LOL
I grew shiskaberry from 98 when it was released , right up to 2005 when I was forced to leave the game for a while. I didnāt really crush that hard on other spice of life strains but did get vials of seed of each of his offerings and we also bought the entire āDJ Short Collectionā as his release of strains was called/marketted as.
Anyhowā¦ since late 2015 when I came out of the shadows and finally joined the online community, I have quested for legit Shiskaberry , both the original and the Shiskaberry 3 that came later and was created in switzerland I think??? probably mentioned in those podcasts and articles.
anyhow before I write a book hereā¦ I am embarking on a Shishkaberry revival. The thread is right here if anyone wants to follow along. Germination of seeds starts at post 35.SHSC-1 Grows Shiskaberry 3f2 - Overgrow.com
Will be starting with shiskaberry 3f2 seeds released by Ustad seeds in 2016.
I also sourced a quanitity of DJ Shorts 90ās blues on the premise that I would be using material from those seeds to bring the blueberry back into the Shishka 3 line.
I also have my own cross of 1998 spice of life female x 2016 ustad shiska 3f2
Some other folks have also offered to contribute shishkaberry seeds they hold and the quest is ongoing for genuine shishkaberry female cuts in Canadaā¦
so there it is for the shiska lovers. I really want to honor Breeder Steve with this project and I hope I do it justice. 
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Does anyone still carry any of spice of life seeds or is the company shut down completely now?
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Steve no longer sells seeds to the public, heās doing development for large farms now, and has abandoned/passed on all of his SoL work to the best of my knowledge. On his personal website he says in the header āSpice of Life Seeds 1994-2003ā so I think you can count on anything after 2003 packs not being breeder originals, exactly. Someone going by Kootenay on ICMag and other forums took over SoL at that point and Iām not sure yet how recommended those seeds are. He was running a forum and company named Deluxe Seeds at the time.
Fleur Du Mal/ @Baudelaire were given permission to be the preservationist of the Sweet Tooth line and heās continued working Sweet Tooth #4 toward an eventual ST #5 release in the future.
Heās also just released a Ortega preservation, which Steve worked with to make his last release, Legends Ultimate Indica/LUI:
And LUI is kept in preservation as an F6 IBL by @KropDuster , I donāt see the seeds up on his site at the moment but he might be in the middle of doing a repopulation:
@SHSC-1 is starting a big Shishkaberry project soon, thatās his forever strain and heās been growing it for decades, Iād look to his posts to find out whoās got the good Shishkaberry nowadays.
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Very cool breakdown there
I actually traded some of the Shiskaberry seeds I made with @Baudelaire a couple years ago for a nice sack of those Sweet Tooth he was working on. I had hoped to remain in contact but that was on a smaller site that lost a lot of members a couple or so years ago.
as for finding legit Shishkaberry seeds.nowadays? Iām not aware of anyone working the legit gear that is dropping seeds anywhere.
if anyone has contact with Breeder Steve they can let him know that I plan to bring the Shishkaberry back to the people I hope he can give his blessing but he is a hard fellow to track down. LOL
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You can try sending a message through his website, IDK if itās checked often but it seems to be his professional forward facing web presence:
Your best bet is probably Instagram though, heās still active on there, posted on December 12:
As for @Baudelaire , just send him a DM here or post in the Fleur Du Mal topic, heās in here every week or two for posts and DMs as far as I can tell. Heās still super smart and helpful with sharing knowledge about older genetics and breeder history, and I just did a trade with him the other week, so I think heās still gathering beans for many years of breeding and preservation, Iām sure heād be stoked to talk to you about Shishkaberry, he probably knows a lot about it.
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I have both of those. The legands ultimate indica and the sweet tooth 4.
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I sent him a Message on his site yesterday. I will see if I can find him on instagram
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Barneyās farm offers a shiskaberry, it was just released to get in on the hype, so itās legitimacy is up for debate. i would avoid.
I have had a lot of issues trying to message him with some questions. I think the best way to get a hold of him would be twitter or something like that., its what a previous poster did with some success.
on his most recent podcast episodes he mentions trying to get something organized to sell seeds to individuals and to larger companies, but that will be for 2023. Additionally, he doesnāt really talk about bringing back to many sol selections and is looking at more modern strains, flavours, profiles, etc.
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