The universe hauled my ass to some special seeds today. In point form:
-Woke up; first conscious thought was a melody; the song, “I love you, you love me, we’re a happy family”
-Wonder why I have Barney the Dinosaur song in my head; haven’t thought of or seen that cultural character for about a decade or more.
-See clock: 7:07am
-Reason to myself: “I guess that song popped into my head because I live on Barney Road.”
-Milliseconds later had spontaneous urge to run to the garden and cut heads of lettuce to give to neighbours. Had a ton of work to do in the garden, but went with the intuition anyway because the urge was so unusual and strong.
-Hummed song on and off while wheelbarrowing lettuce around to the neighbours (all on 5 acre lots in the country)
-Spoke with a neighbour I haven’t met before; had a creepy amount of things in common, almost like meeting an older version of myself
-After a good chat about spirituality and history, I’m about to leave and an external voice interjects upon my mind: “Ask him if he wants a plant!” (not a thought i willfully catalyzed)
-From down the driveway I turn and hollar back, “Hey you want a big weed plant right”?
-He smiles like Cheshire a big ‘Yes’ with wide eyes; so I bring him a 4’ female Lavender Jack x (White Lotus x Jack Herer) in a 5gal (from seed–thanks @Mestizo)
-Dropping the plant off, his wife pulls up in the driveway while he’s just finished telling me about his childhood in the 70’s seeing 14’ plants that made him trip like LSD; goes into his history of cultivating Oaxacan, Thai, and Afghanica genetics throughout 80s/90s
-She rolls down the window and sees the plant and grins
-Offers me $20 to show appreciation; I say sure; she has $15 I’m stoked, thank her
-She drives up to the house, runs inside and grabs her “11yr old seeds from Ontario”
-The couple Hugh and Jane describe an IBL they have saved seed from for over a decade, with entirely purple stems, leaves, petioles, and flowers from seedling emergence to harvest.
-I begin salivating
-They bring out the seeds and dump half into a cigarette tin for me; 18 seeds (a perfect flat of 3.5" pots; my fav seed starting container lol)
-“What’s it called?” I ask
-“Don’t know. We just call it Barney. Because it’s purple. You know, like Barney the Dinosaur.”
-We look at each other and feel mutual faint recognition, despite having never met before
-She asks where I live. I tell her I’m the big house on Barney Rd. by the local’s provincial park entrance.
-She laughs and waves at me familiarly. I realize that we have seen each other from a distance almost every day for the past 4 years I’ve lived here; she’s the woman walking the poodle (Robert) every morning. We have literally waved at each other hundreds of times.
Meanwhile in my garden I’m growing these genetics:
Blueberry Dragon Fire wk8 (7 East Genetics)
https://i.ibb.co/StGss2M/BBDFcloseupbud-wk8.jpg
Blueberry Dragon Fire leaf scan (7 East Genetics)
Sundae Driver (S1 of black sheep cup cut by Cannarado)
GDP Auto (F4):
Purple Mexican Heirloom (KropDuster)
GDP x Purple Mexican Heirloom (KropDuster)
To caboose this coincidence train, my Fern Frond FPJ ferment just finished… I arbitrarily made it because I thought it might be useful to have some natural source of gibberellic acid around in case I come into some old seeds.
So yeah,
I love you, you love me
We’re a happy family
With a great big hug
And a kiss from me to you
Won’t you say you love me too?
Looks like I’m breeding some “Barney(?)” until I can identify this.
If things go right, by the end of 2021 I should have these seeds available for testing:
Purple Photoperiods:
GDP x Purple Mexican Heirloom (F2) - seed increase
(GDP x Purple Mexican Heirloom (F1)) x GDP (F4) Auto – Photo x Auto poly.
(GDP x Purple Mexican Heirloom (F1)) x Barney - F1 poly
Barney x Barney – IBL preservation (potentially)
Purple Mexican Heirloom x Purple Mexican Heirloom – Heirloom preservation
Barney / Purple Mexican Heirloom (F1) – potentially a true F1
(Blueberry Dragon Fire x Sundae Driver) x Barney (F1 Complex Poly)
(Blueberry Dragon Fire x Sundae Driver) x PMH (F1 Complex Poly)
Maybe I can find a Barney and a PMH mom/dad combo to keep, and bang them together repeatedly for decades to pump out a decent true to type F1 hybrid.
Right now though, it’s just a piss in the wind story full of coinkydinks. Will surely scream from the mountain tops if anything special comes of it all.
Have a great week yall!
Oh right, last kicker is that today at 4:20am PST I woke up from a dead sleep to witness the Super Bloodmoon Lunar Eclipse.
Sometimes I wonder what the $@%^ is going on.
edit: I forgot to add the GDP x Purple Mexican Heirloom photos.
& the photos of your Purple Mexican Heirloom… & GDP 