Thrilled to see the official sign-ups begin, @Gpaw! And it looks like the spots are filling up quickly! With that in mind…
I signed up our long lost friend, @misterbee, in hopes that he will show back up again soon. If anyone has a personal relationship with him (like, he lives near you…you speak on the phone or text…), please reach out to him if you have a chance. A lot of us would like to know that he’s OK.
After I signed up misterbee, I noticed his membership status is back down to Level 2 - Member. Of course, I know that this also makes him a “Regular Emeritus”, but I have a question about that, which I hope @Northern_Loki or another one of the @moderators can answer…
When signing up for a seed run, should a Level 2 (Member), who is also a “Regular Emeritus” sign up under Level 2 (Member) or Level 3 (Regular). I know one of the reasons the Emeritus status was created was to ensure those members who get moved “down” from Regular to Member after signing up for a seed run, still get the beans they signed up for, and in the spot they were in when they signed up.
If I need to move misterbee down to “Level 2”, I definitely want to do that ASAP.
EDIT: I think @Gpaw just added the Regular Emeritus status to the Level 3 Sign ups. I assume that’s site policy, but it really doesn’t matter because it’s @Gpaw’s policy, and that’s good enough for me!
Good question. I think in the past, folk have signed-up based on their current TL, whether they have emeritus or not. But, It’s really up to the OP to write the rules for a particular effort. Not really based on site rules, per se (as long as the effort rules do not violate the site guidelines, cause issues, et al).
The TL levels have been utilized to provide an advantage to those that have been able to build up into the higher TL by being considerably active OG contributors while also, hopefully, encouraging members at the lower TLs to further or to continue engaging the community in a substantial way.
Thanks, @Northern_Loki. I was initially under the impression that - as you said - sign ups were based on current status. But as you also said - it’s up to the OP - and the OP has spoken!
Very much so, ghost is alive and well and so is orgkid.
There is a guy in Washington who claims to be ghost but he is full of it. I will for sure say he is not in Washington and is older then that kid by far.
Josh d is currently busting out some new og crosses and origins is getting ready to release some genetics also. Should be some interesting plants coming down the pipeline.
I’m working on crossing these lines to some landraces , first being the paki chitral kush and then Kandahar.
There are so many origin stories and theories but there are several people who agree it came from Florida.
The first place it existed on the west coast was in los Angelas and you really had to be in some special circles to get your hands on it.
Orgnkid got the genetics and started making beans.
Suge knight was on breed bay selling his versions.!
By 2002 everybody was raging about it and all kinds of s1 cuts were being passed of as the kush.
It went from silver lake to the sfv valley , Las Vegas then Tahoe , Fuji took it to Colorado and the sour diesal crew in the Bay Area got it and renamed it headband, then they sold cuts of headband that was a sour d cross to the og from a room that got way to hot.
The few people who actually got it back then almost always renamed it per request of the original holders. There has always been a lot of incorrect information floating around about og kush based on how few people actually saw the real deal pre 2004.
I have some Lemon Thai that I’ve been waiting to grow them all at once to make seeds. I only have 2-f2s and 5-f3s (I think that’s right). Maybe we can try and reconstruct a a 21st century OG, heh.
okay we’ve gotta dig up the suge knight posts on breedbay, because that shit is TOO FUNNY!
that makes perfect sense now why bodhi and snowhigh had access to those seeds. (the “suge knight kush” you see in some of bodhi’s older hybrid lines and Uzbekistani hybrid)
what was his handle I gotta know!
Im pretty sure it wasent somebody just using the name it was the real suge , him and the guys from cypress hill had access to the genetics early on.
He had several crosses but the one I remember was leapord kush.
His pure kush was a cross of some of the Southern California kush lines , somebody should be able to dig this stuff up. Breed bay , cworld maybe some old icy rag posts idk the info is out there.
Maybe search pure kush company.
When I read it I was like did this mofo just drop a Kesey reference or did I miss something about some dude named Ken who did work breeding this line and it was just a coincidence? I have the most backdoor random introduction to Further too.
I remember the whole Suge Knight ordeal it intrigued the hell out of me because I’m a huge hip hop head and was like could this be the real SUGE. I went by DriftCanada WAY BACK. I’m still trying to get my hands on a pack of hazemans “Suge” pure Kush for a project I’ve had in mind for a couple years. The story of OG is so skewed because there’s so many versions . All I know is if you were in LA in the late 90’s there was some OG that was truly some of the best bud I’ve ever smoked! By far the best OG ever and I’ve grown and sampled probably hundreds as I’m a Kush-aholic. Would love to know the true verified story/lineage.
If you guys go back to episode 40 of the Potcast with Ghost of Always Be Flowering Genetics you will hear him speak of the OG cuts. Also, Cookies… some really interesting stories of a Californian who was really in the scene around that time.
It’s easy to see how these things can get convoluted. With all these growers swinging their dicks around, renaming the same cut and passing it around, etc… I bet most of the OG’s are the same plant ffs… Showing different phenotypic expressions in different environments.
I have the most backdoor random introduction to Further too.
thanks 
