Some history and background on me so some of the madness that’s to follow makes sense. I promise to not continue on such long rambles after this. For those with short attention spends. I grow a lot of plants. I’ll be showing my breeding with them here.
4 years ago I set out on a journey to become a professional breeder of sorts, I planned for it to be a thing I do as a small supplemental income. To dedicate no more than a quarter of my working hours, to not NEED to make a dime from it. I wanted to do it right, and three years seemed like enough time to develop my own auto reg strains and photo reg strains. Fems TBD.
I’d only made fems photos until this point, as well as some fast photos and played around with basically selective pollen chucking. But, I wanted to be serious about this, do it right, so my plan was to only make fems when compelled to, when necessary, after I’d worked a line for a while, or as preservation.
My background in growing is with gardening since I could walk, then starting in the mid 80’s, coral and reef aquariums and then a few decades later, cannabis. I grew and farmed coral as a serious hobby, and would do a sale a couple times a year to generate 5-10k a year. Basically, paid the water and electric bills.
I didn’t want to rely upon coral because of the reliance on keeping something fragile alive, for decades. Such value and such fragility… Considering a tiny 1” fragment can go for hundreds of dollars, there can be a lot riding on each colony. It’s a lot like the clone game on extra hard mode, if the clones tried to kill one another by physical and chemical attacks. Supply and demand, rarity, and what the flavor of the month is. Far more risk, far more difficult environments and mothers to maintain. Oh, and hundreds of gallons of saltwater mixed with gobs of heat and electricty. Not for the faint of heart.
This decision to breed came about after a power outage that was only supposed to last a few hours wiped out all my flowering plants and all of my coral collection. Don’t ever do the financial math after the fact on these things. But it wasn’t the value that was most crushing, it was losing some corals that may be lost forever, rare color morphs, famous corals, held for decades in some cases.
The first time I grew cannabis, ILGM white widow 
It was a lightbulb moment. My profession was/is in the wine, food, beverage, coffee and tea. I’ve been lucky to travel around the world and taste extraordinary things in extraordinary places, I became a big nerd about food, wine, bourbon, all things that smell and taste good. And being a taster, taster product developer, buyer for wine, herb, coffee, and tea. I was simply blown away by how satisfying of a plant it is to grow in every regard. I seem to have a good nose, good sense for the plant, and breeding and growing it felt like my calling the more I did it.
I found myself studying genetic backgrounds and the stories of strains. Learning all I could by reading various forums and sites. Everything from ILGM, to Z labs, AFN, RIU, etc. Just from being a lurker I spent most of my time on afn and here. Here more and more as I advanced in knowledge and became interested in breeding as trading.
I’ve grown appreciation for all types of plants. I like autos, photos, prefer regs, but won’t scoff at a fem. I love some of the latest hype as well as the classics. Still dipping my toes in landraces. The last few years I’ve sorted through well over 1000 beans from other breeders and worked on a proper seed collection.
I caught the seed bug here a while back, but that quickly turned into me buying gobs of packs from a variety of breeders. My arsenal is pretty heavy on Bodhi, 3rd coast, Thug Pug, Dynasty, Capulator, EG, Cannarado, Clearwater, Top Dawg… I like to hunt, I usually have 100-400 plants going at once in various stages and depending on the season.
This is what it usually looks like every 2-3 months. I probably miss some really good and great plants along the way, but I enjoy finding new ways that torture and test them and seeing who continues to shine.
I’ve also put well over 100 elites through their paces. Many being culled or meeting an early demise before seeing flower. I’m still narrowing down, but this is what I’m down to…
Here’s what I’m holding at least a small plant of these days… Also to help me keep track…
Blueberry Muffin
BBM x Vintage Blueberry (my cut)
Zkittles
Macdaddy
Zkittles Cake
Strawberry Guava
Stardawg Guava
MOB
Irene OG
Original Diesel
Giesel
Dream Axis (Congo x Ghash) x SSDDUV (my cut)
Cuban Black Haze
Papaya
Cereal Milk S1 (my cut)
Donnie Burger #10
SLH Franco’s
Chem Chillz
Sour D x SSH F3 (my cut)
Blueberry (old pnw Sativa cut)
Wellness OG
Peach Chemo (chem91 x TK) x Peach Oz (my cut)
Purple Widow Freak (my cut)
GTR (my cut)
Now n Later
Plus a few boys…
Papaya, Cereal Milk, and Donnie Burger have recently been sent into flower. 8-10 others will follow soon. I’ll be updating here with pics.
Haven’t flowered all of them yet, but all have been tested in a wide variety of ways for 1-3 years. At the very least I grew a large mother of each, sometimes flowered out just clones. I’ve tested many outdoors in soil, coco, and indoors in coco, hydro, Kratky. Here’s macdaddy and a Kratky blueberry muffin in veg
I haven’t kept a ton of what I’ve popped long term. I’ve bred with a lot that I didn’t hold due to space and variety. I also have yet to properly test a crazy amount of my own work. I spent a year sorting through and making blueberry autos regs. And testing different F gens as a learning exercise.
Now I’m starting to really dig into F1 photos I’ve made, with plans of hunting through them and exploring different directions and expressions. I will work some lines over the years, but I ultimately will get bored looking at similar plants too much. I love the variety and creating something new. I’ll likely make a lot of F1 and F2 and move on as a breeder.
The plan for this thread is to show all sides of my growing and breeding. Even the ugly sides and the struggles. I’ve found that the breeders I truly appreciate are the ones without ego, and that have transparency. I’ll do my best to be that wherever my journey takes me.
Life has thrown some curveballs. My daughter has health stuff and my wife’s work is letting people go. These days I’m considering going back to my career and dialing things back to hobby level. I’ve even considered trying to get into the cannabis industry not of my own venture.
I don’t know where I’ll end up, if I’ll ever sell a seed pack. For now, just going to enjoy growing and breeding and having lots of plants and beans to share.
Anyone who’s made it this far, thank you, and bravo! Feel free to ask questions. If you see something I post that you you’d like to grow I’m always looking for help testing. Feel free to send a message.
Some purple widow freak holding some beans. More to come from her in the future 
. Also excited to see how your crosses pan out for you, I’ll be pulling up a chair and following along.
