Coastal Blueberry… @shade
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so cool to see one blown up outside like that 
I remember someone also posting about the resistance to late season threats as well.
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Hey man that sounds so frigging good.
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I have some coastal BB germinating right now along with Blue Kush…I m praying for a solid male to breed of of my special Blueberry muffins
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Are u talking about the BB Diesel??
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You want it?? I still have your envelope waiting to get sent out
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No , I made the Coastal Blueberry (strawberry hill). I’ve shared a pile of packs here in the various giveaways and am sending a pile more in for the OG Veterans giveaway. Might have donated those last year too… I can’t remember. Lots out there though and I dropped them for 4:20 back i april at @Great_lakes_Genetics and growingupganja.com
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Blueberry x White Rhino circa 2000. It was my first exposure to a proper grow op. It was really cool. Blueberry dank. Both phenos were great.
That guy also had some Blueberry x Dutch Treat. That was super stoney, but the blueberry didn’t carry over at all. no resemblence.
The best straight blueberry i had was from this girl grower. around 2007/8. It was super strong and gassy. Super frosty and blueberry. I don’t know who made it though. She also had a killer bubblegum. Amazing.
When i first had it, most people’s blueberry came out mint. I remember a guy running a whole pack and giving up since it was all mint phenos with the blueberry buzz.
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I ve heard tons of great things about the coastal BB ,I was lucky enough to get sum from an awesome member here …I have them germinating …This dude hooked me up with a few different BBstrains…My favorite strain all time is the 90s blueberry by dj short and I ve been chasing that awesome high … Euphoric,uplifting blissful and socialable high that u can t build a tolerance too…
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Oh hell yeah, I can send u out some beans brother …I got Rmulan seeds I won and some other beans I think you ll like… I ll put together an envolope for u tonight…
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I grew out some 90’s blues that I traded Josh Blue for, but didn’t find anything really hitting the full on blueberry. It was in the stem rubs and they were nice plants but no keepers in the seeds I went through. I have a few more to sift through though. I grew a lot of DJ’s work back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s so it was a good trip down nostalgia lane for me .
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What makes your Coastal BB different? Same old school high as DJ’s old stock?
The Fraser Valley Blueberry Hashplant is a clone only born sometime in the late 90’s to early 2000’s . I used to grow the original BC Blueberry that the bikers and affiliates grew in those years. It was very potent and nothing like anything I found in DJ’s 1998 Blueberry release.
Very strong and god’s honest truth that BC Blueberry smelled so strong during trimming that I wore a respirator or I would get a migraine. I use to run trim crews in Langley and Surrey back then and it was always a large part of the grows I would trim at.
I think the Fraser Valley Blueberry Hashplant is not the orginal Biker blueberry but potentially a cross made in the early 2000’;s but I haven’t verified that. I am still trying to get the Fraser Valley Blueberry HP back in the garden and have avenues for that. I do know that it is either “the clone” or a very well bred cross. The Biker Blueberry is a seperate Blueberry line, not derived from DJ’s genetics.
The other part of the equation and what I feel builds some structure , flower quality and potency in the equation is Dr Atomics Blueberry Northern Lights. This one was quite well known in it’s day and Dr atomic’s work in general with northern lights especially has always been highly regarded. The bringing of these two lines together and then further BX and Fgen selections has refined the line and I selected for 1) strong blueberry stem rubs and smells throughout the grows, 2) structure and bud quality , 3) sticky stem rubs and 4) raw potency.
I’m not one to try and talk things up as more than they are and I tend to let the beans speak for themselves. So far so good
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SHSCs Coastal Blueberry is definitely one of, if not the best blueberry I’ve grown. I open jars just for the whiff. 
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Sounds great, I’ll have to track some down.
In the last 4 years I’ve grown blueberry muffin and multiple clones of her, the most recent version which I believe is higher potency and yield than the old one. She clones easier than 99% of plants. Just give her some tap water or any sort of putrid water in a cup and she’ll usually root. Honestly, props to HSC for selecting well along the way… She’s also pretty beastly outdoors.
I took my resiliency winner from last years outdoors hunt of about 200+ beans and crossed her to my boy winner of the BBM x VB from this year outdoor. Two of those were among my outdoor champs this year, one boy and one girl. They survived some weather that BBM did not. There’s a chance I created the hardiest strain ever with this one! 
Seriously though, if they’re not tough as hell and full of purple and blue perfumey blueberry buds, I’ll be shocked.
The old DJ Short Clone (more sativa) and the blueberry muffin clone closely resemble one another appearance wise and the way they grow. The blueberry clone is also very hardy, but does not like higher nutrient levels. It wouldn’t surprise me if this blueberry is the clone that was used originally in the BBM. I’d imagine there were a few different blueberry clones floating around Cali when HSC started work, so hard to say…
One other weird tidbit, BBM x (BBM x Vintage Blueberry) yielded the tiniest seeds I’ve ever harvested… I’ve never grown or seen BBM from seed, anyone that can comment on what the seeds look like size wise? Right of them , a med Z cake seed that looked like a pistachio. Second largest half half seed pictured is what I’d call a med hybrid seed.
Blueberry Boy
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This Fleur Du Mal “Janis” which is Silver Pearl x Blue Widow F3 is curing into an excellent blueberry, right up there with the Blue Tara that knocked my socks off but darker, juicier than the bright candy blue that one had. In researching Silver Pearl I found some people saying that it had great blueberry phenos, and I can see now that Baudelaire was making a blueberry line of his own here by going back and dialing it down to 1/4 DJ genetics and then the White Widow for power, line working that, and then taking it to a known source of pre-DJ Blueberry genetics:
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From an RIU Blueberry thread, posted 2012 and copied from the Seedsman website, here’s a gigantic copy-paste of the DJ Blueberry lineage:
The Blueberry strain is without a doubt one of the most exquisite and colorful cannabis hybrids available in seed form today. The history of the strain takes us back to the West Coast of the United States sometime during the 1970’s, where a breeder named DJ Short was working on a multitude of exotic landrace sativas from places like Colombia, Panama, Mexico and Thailand. He was growing up to 100 plants at the time, both indoors and outdoors, on constant lookout for desirable traits in the individuals. Needless to say, he sampled a great number of plants until he found what he was looking for. In his own words, one plant out of one hundred grown carried the traits that he was looking for and then there was still the complicated matter of working with plants that are naturally prone to hermaphroditism, like most pure sativas are to some degree. His efforts would eventually yield fruit and give birth to some of the most highly regarded strains in the world today.
His extensive research led him to the discovery of two very special sativas. According to the master breeder himself, the first plant was a highly potent all-around champion, “Juicy Fruit” Highland Thai female. It packed a very sweet tropical punch and an intense high that lasted for many hours. The second plant was a Purple Thai out of Oregon, Ohio. This plant was a cross between an outstanding Highland Oaxaca Gold and a very freaky Chocolate Thai. The hybrid was very dark colored and would express a deep royal purple color at the slightest exposure to cold. The finished product was equally tasty and strong as the Juicy Fruit female. Although both plants were equally matched when it came to potency, the Purple Thai became DJ Short’s personal favorite. It was emotionally kinder than the Juicy Fruit Thai, which was so strong that it could in large doses evoke terror in the smoker. These two old school “Thai Stick” sativas make up the female pedigree of all the DJ Short strains.
The male that DJ Short used was an Afghani indica that was brought to his attention in 1979 by some growers from California. Although the indica plant was something of a novelty at that time when sativas ruled the grow rooms, it soon became apparent that the plant was here to stay. Growers could grow more herb that finished faster than before by combining the indica genes with old school sativas. In a way this also meant the end of the sativa dominant era that eventually lead to the disappearance of many pure sativa lines that either became hybridized or lost all together. The indica plants were very uniform, short and symmetrical, with thick hairy stems and wide leaf. They were dark green in color with tight, compact nodes and very dense floral clusters that packed an earthy and skunky aroma. The novelty soon wore off as the indica by itself was powerful but lacked the sophistication and complexity of the pure sativas. The indica plant did however contribute to the genetic diversity of modern cannabis plants, which allowed growers more control.
Now with these plants in his repertoire, DJ Short applied his knowledge of breeding and created new floral lines using the three plants that he had discovered. Soon enough he established his two best known strains; namely Blueberry and Flo. Flo was discovered within the initial floral lines where the Oregon Purple Thai was crossed to the indica male. Working further along those lines, DJ Short created the Blueberry by crossing the earlier lines to Juicy Fruit/Afghani hybrids. This means that there is a little of both the sativa mothers in the Blueberry while there is only Purple Thai in the Flo. DJ Short himself explained that some traits were more accessible through the Purple Thai, while others could be found by further crossing the plant to the Juicy Fruit Thai hybrid. The Original Blueberry was bred towards an indica expression although a more sativa dominant plant was also worked on and later refined into what we today know as the Blueberry Sativa.
During the 1980’s and early 1990’s, DJ Short continued to perfect his already highly refined strains. Around 1993 he travelled to Europe to work for the Sagarmatha Seed Company. By 1995 he was supplying this company with seed stock both for sale and for breeding purposes. He was little involved in the selection process but had contracted this company to produce Blueberry, Flo and Blue Velvet; a cousin to the Blueberry that was an even expression of both the indica and sativa parents. Although Blue Velvet is no longer available, Sagarmatha still offer DJ Short’s creations under the names Blueberry Bud and Flow, as well as some more recent hybrids. The relationship with the company was brief and DJ Short moved on to work for another company, Dutch Passion.
DJ Short supplied Dutch Passion with seeds although he was for some reason left out of the selection process once again. On top of the older and established strains, he also created several new ones like Blue Heaven, Blue Moonshine and Purple Passion. Now out of stock, Blue Heaven was a very consistent purple variety, mostly sativa in its expression and with prominent medicinal qualities. Purple Passion was an indica/sativa hybrid that displayed beautiful blue and purple shades, with buds that turned lavender blue to aubergine in color during flowering. The beautiful colours of all DJ Short’s strains have become trademarks but also remind us of the exotic origin of all his strains. Today Dutch Passion still offer some of DJ Short’s masterful creations; namely Blueberry , Original Flo and Blue Moonshine , which is a wonderfully resinous and potent, mostly indica cousin to the Blueberry plant.
Around the same time as DJ Short was working with Dutch Passion he also got to know a Swiss breeder named Steve, who is also the owner of the Spice of Life seed bank. During the following years in 1999-2001 DJ Short started working together with Breeder Steve, selecting plants from a large pool and several new strains were born; namely Moonshine Rocket Fuel, Rosebud and Blue Satellite. Moonshine Rocket Fuel was a very potent hybrid, containing the best of Blue Moonshine and Blue Velvet. Rosebud on the other hand was a truly exceptional plant that was mainly grown for its wonderful aesthetic value but also for its amazing floral scent. This unique phenotype of Flo had tops that actually formed a rose bloom shape from leaves that turned bright red and then faded to yellow. There was very little harvestable bud on this plant, so it never made any commercial success although it was breathtakingly beautiful and highly exotic. Equally exotic was the Flodica, a rare and pure indica expression of Flo, found by chance in the true floral line. However intriguing these exotic varieties might have been, the best known strain to come from skilled hands of these two master breeders was, and is still, the Blue Satellite.
This is where the Blueberry Sativa comes into play. It was developed sometime in the early to late 1980’s and purely bred by DJ Short until he shared some seeds with Breeder Steve from the Spice of Life seed bank. Numerous mothers and fathers were selected and kept for breeding purposes and were eventually used to make the Blue Satellite strains by combining Breeder Steve’s Shishkeberry male to the Blueberry Sativa mother for the first version of the plant and his Sweet Tooth indica for the final versions. Breeder Steve also combined a variety of Blueberry plants that was given to him by DJ Short to some of his own strains, including his famous Sweet Pink Grapefruit and Sweet Skunk. He created many new strains that he still offers in seed form today. All of their joint projects have yielded wonderful plants that testify to the skill of these two breeders.
More recently, DJ Short has also worked with other highly skillful breeders like Red from Legend Seeds and Chimera, combining several different lines of the Blueberry plant to already well established strains. Many of the strains have the same Blueberry Sativa father, known only as B130. The B130 male was a an exceptional father, a very Purple Thai dominant sativa that has since then passed on and no longer exists, making some of their joint releases limited editions. Many of these strains combine highly refined genetics to the Blueberry, ranging from Neville’s Haze to Sweet Skunk to the original 20 year old Cali-O orange bud. All of these hybrids deserve a second look.
The joint releases from Spice of Life, Legend Seeds and Chimera are far too many to mention here but some of the new strains require special attention. Like the Legends Ultimate Indica and DJ Short’s own True Blueberry and F-13. True Blueberry is a re-worked version of old Blueberry genes and the F-13 is considered the peak expression of the Blueberry Sativa and Flo. The Holy Grail of all DJ Short’s creations if you will and also his own personal favorite. Choosing between the Original and True Blueberry can be difficult but according to the master himself; both are equally potent and prone to color changes. The True Blueberry is called the ultimate hybrid of Blueberry expression, selected for its superior quality from a larger gene pool. Where the original Blueberry is mostly indica, this new hybrid contains the best from both worlds, and is both indica and sativa in expression. Although related, the True Blueberry was selected from different stock than the current Original Blueberry, and is slightly more productive. The Original Blueberry can be called a “Stretch-Indica”, in that she tends to stretch her nodes but her buds are very compact with larger calyx structure. The True Blueberry is more of a sativa bloomer on a indica looking plant. The bouquet of the original Blueberry is a more candy sweet and fruity smell while the True Blueberry has a higher nasal palate with anise undertones. Both plants are however exceptional in both scent and taste, thanks to the exotic stock used to create both strains. The high of the “True Blue” is also slightly more racy and cerebral than the narcotic, though not “couch-lock”, body stone of the original version. Naturally there is a range of plants to be found within either strain but one thing is certain; all of them will have long shelf life, improving with age like fine wine. The first version of the True Blueberry was also fathered by the now extinct B130 male and can therefore be considered a limited edition of this famous plant.
Some of DJ Short’s more recent creations are Grape Krush, Vanilluna (Vanilla Moon) and Cocoa Kush. The Cocoa Kush displays a structure, and other properties, familiar to Kush enthusiasts. Both Vanilluna and Cocoa Kush have the same Blueberry Sativa mother as the Blue Satellite and the father is the Original Blueberry “Stretch-Indica”. The difference being that Vanilluna resembles Blue Heaven while Cocoa Kush displays some of the traits of the Chocolate Thai from the initial floral line.
As you probably realize by now, all the work done by DJ Short on the initial floral lines as well as the Blueberry and Flo strains span over several decades and represent a great deal of expertise when it comes to selective breeding. Keeping track of the lineage of all the different strains quickly becomes difficult, if not impossible, since the parentage and genetic make up of certain strains have changed over the years. It is, however, certain that all the strains are of high quality and closely related to each other in one way or another. Some plants are siblings while others are distant cousins. Perhaps it is best to consider all of them as different representatives of the initial parental lines. Some lean towards the Purple Thai while other bear resemblance to the Juicy Fruit Thai, yet others express the indica heritage, sometimes in pure form or in combination with the sativas. Since different phenotypes can be discovered within each strain, it would take a lifetime to grow out all the possible plants that are waiting in the magical beans provided by DJ Short and the people that he has worked with. Close to 40 years of breeding experience speaks for itself.“
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I had popped an earlier version a few weeks back and then found your work you did. I’m compelled to destroy mine and pickup some of your work. It’s just shown female so might give it a go once to see. could be good. So far my only BB experience is a DJ short cut of unknown original that ended up being nearly what I wanted, but it’s gone. Thank you for your work and will be aquiring some soon. I’ll take whatever answer you give, friend or salesman, should I just ditch it. knowing I have little space and don’t feel like hunting and knowing I already want to buy some of your worked versions?
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if it is an earlier version of the same cross, I would be tempted to see what those seeds hold.
Coastal Blueberry will be around for a while yet. I have a lot of seed of the batch used for the drop so I will be able to restock the seedbanks should inventory run dry.
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