What are your rarest or oldest seeds/clones in the collection?

[GregOG]

The great thing the movie spotlights is we learned our lesson on collecting wild hemp. We all did the exact same thing, we cut down veg plants and thought it would form into buds lol

1975 I was learning to grow, 77 I had it mastered using rabbit manure, eggshells, bone meal and wood ashes.

Great movie for sure, we loved being sneaky both young and old back in them days. Farmers were feared by stoners. They would use salt shotgun shells and they had no problem shooting stoners with it.

I’ve got Coots The One x Greengeens 1979 Maui. I’m actually going to grow them outdoors this year.

Thinking about adding a Nevil strain to it. 3 legacy in one strain.

[sdf]

Hello,
no rare seeds here
but some old clones around :

uk cheese
ecsd / sour diesel ibl (riri)
bubba kush (katsu)
amnesia
chronic (abonney)
bubblegum (slard/hydrotechnik)
critical mass bilbo
bandaid haze7
happy bro
sage n sour (söze)
cerise (exo-plank)

sadly i had to throw a lot into garbage last years because of that horrible hplvd thing,
like spg, sweet skunk, chocolope (one of my all time fav :/), gsc and many many others…
i noticed that maybe some people here use tissue culture, i wonder if that can help restore genetics hit by viroïd nightmare or not, i’ve heard that meristem culture may work, but i’m not competent and don’t have a lab to do this ^^

[yardgrazer]

Wow, a lot of crazy stuff in people’s collections. I can’t say I have anything that compares, mostly just limited release Bodhi stuff from the last few years, and packs that people talk about like they’re rare, but maybe aren’t all that rare? I was pretty late to the game so nothing all that crazy. I’ve been trying to repro things but am limited to about two per year, maybe by the time I’m done some of these packs will be crazy rare.

[PhilCuisine]

Vietnam Black from the early 70’s or late 60’s…got the seeds from my Vietnam veteran buddy…also have these.

Skunk #1
NYCD
C99
Etc…

[Guitarzan]

@sdf

i’ve heard that meristem culture may work

You heard right, it works. That’s the only way I know of to remove a virus from a plant, but it’s tricky, and to have to done isn’t cheap. I’ve dabbled with TC a bit, and I wouldn’t even attempt a meristem culture. BUT, if you’re interested in that, or any other TC options, our own @SCJedi is the man to talk to about it. He’s got the training, and he’s got a lab.

TC can also restore vigor to an old cut/line. I admit, I’m not clear on what’s actually happening behind the scenes, but it’s a documented effect of the process.

[ElMasSabroso]

@Upstate has a thread about Jamaican longtime. I think he is even doing a preservation run. Sorry I’m half awake and having trouble linking.

F.B.S.C. 1960 Lambsbread Preservation

Lambsbread, a Jamaican landrace, is one of the most famous landraces on earth, known to be the favorite smoke of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. With the disappearance of Slavery in Jamaica in the 1830’s, and the concurrent rise in sugarcane production, a labor force that could handle the tropical heat was needed to work the fields. The solution was the Indian( from India) “Coolie”, an indentured worker that owed from one to five years work to his or her temporary “owner” . Similar to the system use…

[Dirt_Wizard]

@yardgrazer

I’ve been trying to repro things but am limited to about two per year

Two per year is nothing to sniff at! I’d be very proud of that, it sounds like you’re already doing good work with what you’ve been able to get. For reference, two seed runs a year is the sweat equity requirement for membership in the FBSC, one per year if it’s a long-flowering variety. So I’d say you’re doing pretty great, what have you reproduced/preserved so far?

[GrownAtHighAltitude]

Tahoe area OG Kush cut that I am almost certain is the original OG Kush, and different than pretty much everything else people have claimed is Tahoe OG. Big golf ball sized rock hard minty gassy nugs on a neverending sativa growth pattern. Extreme frost and mold resistance. Killer high that has couch locked me before and that always works. I have given it to others going through opioid treatment and it works for them. Highly medicinal. I have had it since 2011.

A pack of Malana Cream I procured on the original Silk Road at about the same time, 2011. I also scored a pack of Alien Kush from Obsoul33t then too.

I have had other things but I lost my original seed collection at the 2008 Wyoming Rainbow Gathering. I had original BOG gear from the early 00s as well as some Nirvana stuff, etc.

[Heritagefarms]

That’s more then double what they were charging for beans when I went threw them , I wonder if there charging more for specific strains, either way that’s just to much to ask for beans.

[Upstate]

@Dirt_Wizard

For reference, two seed runs a year is the sweat equity requirement for membership in the FBSC, one per year if it’s a long-flowering variety.

Reality changed the rules on us. Many people don’t have the ability to do 2 runs and also provide their own headstash each year. One run is all you need. In order to keep the allure of choosing a more long flowering strain to preserve, there was talk of perhaps giving more seeds of all the Freakers reproductions to the people that do the long flowers…

[Upstate]

@CADMAN

@Heritagefarms

Jamaican long time weed from the landrace team , there was a big study done and it’s the only verifiable Jamaican landrace left and is not being grown by anybody

Challenge accepted

For a seedrun i have seeds for you.

[Upstate]

I Just spent over $400 for 20 seeds from them. Extremely expensive for landrace seed, much of it unworked and many of the others are typically acquired in a less than genuine manner. I don’t care who you are, at the very least it’s nice to be recognized.

@Heritagefarms

Jamaican long time weed from the landrace team

I think its related to Vibes Collective Lambsbread. Same high. Same smell.

@ElMasSabroso

has a thread about Jamaican longtime. I think he is even doing a preservation run. Sorry I’m half awake and having trouble linking.

It’s a Lambsbread preservation, but I did grow Jamaican Longtime at the same time. Managed to screw that grow up pretty badly.

[Heritagefarms]

It’s unfortunate that they are charging so much for something that most people will have a very hard time growing. I would expect true preservationists to want the genetics to reach as many people as possible and with those prices it’s rather limiting who can or would be willing to take a chance at growing them. I got the punto rojo and Vietnam strains from them but I’m almost sure I dident pay anything near that amount.
Some of there strains were acquired directly from members here like the png and cabeca. I’m wondering if they are just selling seeds they received or are actualy doing reproductions runs themselves.
If you want $200 a pack for something somebody sent you to get into the communities hands that just seems wrong, if they are doing reproductions that take four months or more to finish I could see charging more then a fast 8-10 week strain but not double the average cost of a seed pack.

[Mithridate]

Imagine dropping 3k for 100 seeds and then having to hunt through runts and hermies for 6 months on your dime to find a few good plants.

This can become a pricy hobby quick uh

[Heritagefarms]

Yeah even at $50 a pack it would be $400 for 80 seeds , when you think about it that way some of us have a lot invested into seeds that may or may not germinate by the time we get to them.
For me I’d rather gamble on seeds then the casino but it’s not something everybody has the time ,space or money to do.
Still the most I’ve paid for seeds was $75 for 3 pumpkin seeds from the prior years world record pumpkin, only two germinated and one died shortly after. The one that grew rotted before it could get to maturity
This year I will try again with equally expensive seeds and some that were gifted to me from county record holder.
Genetics can get realy expensive depending on what it is you decide you want to grow.

[Mithridate]

I don’t mind having to pay extra for something proven, be it tools, furniture or seeds. Going through long flowering landraces is a numbers game if you want to find something exceptional… but then charging big bucks hinders that for most…

Anyway, I bought 300 nepalese seeds, flower time 15-20 weeks. I’m a sucker for punishment LOL

[yardgrazer]

It was a bit of a stretch, fitting in two rounds, but I think I can continue to pull it off. This was the first year I tried doing two, the year prior I only did one round, and then felt a little silly for not doing a second. I did an old pack of Petrolia Headstash the first round, simply because it was getting old. The flower I’ve tried was kinda meh compared to other options, but whatever. Last year I ran Bodhi’s Black Lotus as it was one of my older Bodhi packs, and then Sour Boggle, which was also a few years old. The Sour Boggle vegged pretty slow and never really took off, but at least I got some seeds from it, though not nearly as many as I had hoped. I’m hoping to play with some of the Sour Boggle seeds outdoors this summer, last time I ran SB outdoors they were great.

[royal]

Pre 2000 DJ Short Blueberry - I am planning on crossing my fingers and getting some to pop and doing an open pollination outside this summer !

[Dirt_Wizard]

Got a pack of these, not as rare as many at 1/252, but for me this was a huge one to score, with the potential in there for so many possibilities from DJs lines:

[Upstate]

No doubt. Way too much in some cases. $16/ seed for Oaxaca. I can’t look at myself in the mirror for paying that. But I did. I gave away 2,500 + Oaxaca seeds and I’m buying Oaxaca seeds. Seems ironic. Well, what can I say. I’m a Oaxaca junkey. I need more. i sure hope its a new Oaxaca strain.
Maybe they are resellers in some cases? My Kalamata Red from them came in a Greco Seeds pack. The prices in that case would still be too high but resellers have to make something. I try as a landrace lover to support any and all venders, but overpriced is hard to justify. Like you said, it excludes a lot of people from getting to explore this stuff.
20 of us pooled in for one of the tlt strains. Thats a great option to spread the pain.