The story with the 1968 Saipan Sativa:

**In 1968, Chamorro (US Citizen) soldiers were returning home to the island of Saipan from the Vietnam War. These soldiers were my dad’s friends and classmates from school. They brought with them seeds that they collected from the fields in Vietnam. The seeds were germinated on Saipan by US Army Corps Engineers (Nam Vets)… NOT visiting Peace Corps). Flower containing seeds of the next generation of the original strain quickly spread throughout the South Pacific & Micronesia and those seeds were germinated in Chuuck, Palau, Rota, and other neighboring islands.**

If you look into the history of cannabis in all of those places (doing a quick google search of “marijuana in Chuuck” and finding the document from the “Micronesian Seminar”), you’ll see that the original strain in Micronesia can be traced back to a “Late 60’s Saipan strain” (aka the seeds that my dad’s friends brought back from Vietnam). According to the Micronesian Seminar seeds from Saipan were brought into Chuuck as early as 1973. Palau (one of the biggest pot producing islands) has the same exact story… “late 60s Saipan seeds brought into Palau early 70s”.


The original seeds from Vietnam have never been outcrossed, only line bred into different Heirloom Selections (expressions of the original landrace) in different places.

I currently hold my Uncle Joe’s selections of the line (a licorice & a mango), San Roque Village (which was a neighboring village to my own… in the North Side / Mountain Foothills… terps are Over-Ripe Lemon/Guava/Pineapple) and I also hold some of the Rota selections as well.

I’ll also be going back to Saipan next year to grab some of the other 1968 landrace lines that I don’t have yet as well as my personal collection of seeds from 1999-2002 (F2s of the original release DJ Short Blue Velvet is in there… since that was the first hybrid introduced on Saipan… we all just called it “Rodney” though . Fun fact: the 1st hydro flower on island was from Tinian in the early 2000s… and IT WAS BOMB AF)
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Flowering time for the 1968 Saipan Sativas = 24 weeks minimum (sex WON’T show prior to being in bloom for 28 days)
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I was just sexing them so I can take clones and run the clones (keep the original from seed plants as parent stock), but now I think I’ll keep the clones as P1 moms/dads and keep running the from seed plants to harvest (to expedite showing the finished nugs).

Running them: Natural Light, PNW Outdoor, Light Dep.

Currently in 1 gallon pots at 30 days bloom.

I JUST gave them their 1st feeding 2 days ago (I have experience with this strain as this was the first strain that I ever grew, growing up. So I waited until the root systems filled the pot and were strong enough to take on full nutes before introduced them that)
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[1968 Saipan Sativa: San Roque Village; “Red Stem”] Day 30 of flower.

Only found 1 “red stem” phenotype in the 1968 Saipan San Roque that I got from the family back home. It’s a FROSTY ASS female too!!!

This is ZERO generations removed from the acclimated source (where it’s been grown untouched for 56 years)


Other phenotypes from the same seed lot


Will update in another 2 weeks.
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I plan to cross my selected female of Saipan San Roque to my selected (for high frost) “SR71 Purple Kush BX1 F5 male”

(SR71 PK) x (SR71 PK x Pre 98 Bubba/ Sour Diesel IBL)

Found 2 keeper SR71 PK BX1 F5 males in seed packs gifted to me from the homeboy from the next island over, GMG (Guam Maineian Gardens)

This is the one that I selected for its extreme frost