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Cherokey
- 20
- 28
Greetings fellow breeders,
I'm a long time lurker, first time poster. Normally I shy away from cannabis forums. I'm old school enough to remember when that was sketchy. I've been growing a long time and THCFarmer has helped me a lot through the years. What a tremendous knowledge base this place can be if you take the time to learn. My sincerest respect to the master growers in here that I have learned from over the years. Thank you guys, so much. Good stuff comes from the time you dudes take to educate the masses.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to receive a 1st place award for Best Sativa Flower in the 2017 High Times Socal Harvest Cup. The strain is called LemonAid, and I am its breeder. It comes from an ultra rare heirloom cut of Super Lemon Haze x Gorilla Glue 4. Respectfully, it is NOT the Lemonaid OG from Dank Genetics. When I named the strain, I checked to see if anyone was using the name LemonAid and I saw nothing. I think it's maybe a coincidence that our names are similar. Maybe I didn't research the name enough first but my LemonAid has been around for over a year now. Dank's strain has totally different lineage (and sounds super dank, but isn't what won the cup). My cut of LemonAid is totally uncirculated and clone-only. See any cuts out there in the scene? They're not my genetics. Flowers are found in three spots in Socal and that's it. Comes from a brand called House of Charras. Which is a nod to our breeding hero and Strainhunter Franco Loja, who recently passed away.
It feels very humbling to be recognized by the scene after working so hard in the shadows. The runners up were all breeders that I heavily respect to say the least. I didn't win with someone else's genetics. I took the time over the years and learned how to breed. I bred the winning strain myself from scratch. A lot of hard work and love went into its creation. There were other breeding projects that I had less success with before this one. All of it is a labor of love to create effective medicine. To smile as we show the world an alternative to big pharma's expensive monopoly on "healthcare". As a Native American farmer, I am very connected to the healing aspects of nature and believe the purest medicine can be found quite literally in our roots.
My reason for posting this is not to gloat, because I don't care. I never actually enter the cups I win because it's not about competition for me. A shop does it to get credit for their shop. In this case, a shop in Point Loma. For me, it's more personal and artistic. It's about taking the scene past where you found it. Creating something original that is valid. I'm posting because after one day of this cup win, I am already seeing people copying my work and trying to take credit for it. I work in LA and SD, and in LA after less than a day I watched growers renaming their strains to LemonAid. Trying to pass them off as my genetics at higher tickets because of my work. Part of that is flattering really. There are so many people in this scene that dilute the true craftsmanship that happens in the industry, and so I want to set the record straight from the original breeder's perspective.
Here's the story of LemonAid:
It's a feminized cross. I don't care what the big seed guys say about feminized breeding, it's a great way to get what you want in stable form, if you know what you're doing. I've done the work, tried breeding both ways, both ways work great. LemonAid is 100% stable feminized genetics. The real magic comes from the Super Lemon Haze mom. My mentor who is a master grower and breeder, is obsessive with phenotyping. When the SLH won the HT Amsterdam cup around 2011, he bought over 120 seeds and ran all of them. It took about 2 years of serious hard work and lost money finding the keeper pheno. The one we kept was very rare and not like the others. It's short, stocky, finishes fast like an indica, yet it's more sativa when you smoke it. I won a different cannabis cup with just this SLH strain, years back before I bred the LemonAid. I won first place in the 2013 SD-Medi Cup for Best Flower. I've won every cup I've entered actually. The SLH was my bread and butter for years after the first cup win. But it didn't yield like a boss and wasn't very commercial. And later I found the gorilla glue. I loved smoking the strain, but hated how lanky and annoying it is to grow. Started thinking about terpenes and flavor profiles of the two strains together. Seemed like a really nice mix in my head. I don't just cross anything together. I started thinking about how the two genetics could compliment each other. And then I reversed the glue and pollinated the SLH. Got an elite keeper pheno that is SLH dom, but has the gassiness of the glue mixed in. Gives it a lemon candy smell and taste. Tastes like a dream. I honestly haven't cound anything better in the scene right now. I'm a proud papa.
Just wanted to get this up here so the origins of our strains can be traced back. It was really cool reading about the origin of the glue, for example, on the forums. So I'm doing the same with this humble offering to the cannabis universe.
The grow that produced the LemonAid is going down as I type this, so it will be hard to find this strain soon. I have another breeding project that is finished now, but we didn't finish in time for the cup, but it's just as good as the LemonAid. Frostiest cookies I've seen in a while. I'm calling it One Tough Cookie (forum x Ogre). Maybe a shop will enter it next year.
I want to give a shout out to all the breeders I've learned from. Especially my mentor in the industry. Who taught me so much, and changed my life forever. I used to wear a suit and tie in the software industry. Hating my existence. Now I've helped epileptic kids stop their seizures with non-psychoactive CBD products of our own creation. I've been a part of grassroots political, legal, and social change much like my hippy parents before me. Thanks for reading.
I'm a long time lurker, first time poster. Normally I shy away from cannabis forums. I'm old school enough to remember when that was sketchy. I've been growing a long time and THCFarmer has helped me a lot through the years. What a tremendous knowledge base this place can be if you take the time to learn. My sincerest respect to the master growers in here that I have learned from over the years. Thank you guys, so much. Good stuff comes from the time you dudes take to educate the masses.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to receive a 1st place award for Best Sativa Flower in the 2017 High Times Socal Harvest Cup. The strain is called LemonAid, and I am its breeder. It comes from an ultra rare heirloom cut of Super Lemon Haze x Gorilla Glue 4. Respectfully, it is NOT the Lemonaid OG from Dank Genetics. When I named the strain, I checked to see if anyone was using the name LemonAid and I saw nothing. I think it's maybe a coincidence that our names are similar. Maybe I didn't research the name enough first but my LemonAid has been around for over a year now. Dank's strain has totally different lineage (and sounds super dank, but isn't what won the cup). My cut of LemonAid is totally uncirculated and clone-only. See any cuts out there in the scene? They're not my genetics. Flowers are found in three spots in Socal and that's it. Comes from a brand called House of Charras. Which is a nod to our breeding hero and Strainhunter Franco Loja, who recently passed away.
It feels very humbling to be recognized by the scene after working so hard in the shadows. The runners up were all breeders that I heavily respect to say the least. I didn't win with someone else's genetics. I took the time over the years and learned how to breed. I bred the winning strain myself from scratch. A lot of hard work and love went into its creation. There were other breeding projects that I had less success with before this one. All of it is a labor of love to create effective medicine. To smile as we show the world an alternative to big pharma's expensive monopoly on "healthcare". As a Native American farmer, I am very connected to the healing aspects of nature and believe the purest medicine can be found quite literally in our roots.
My reason for posting this is not to gloat, because I don't care. I never actually enter the cups I win because it's not about competition for me. A shop does it to get credit for their shop. In this case, a shop in Point Loma. For me, it's more personal and artistic. It's about taking the scene past where you found it. Creating something original that is valid. I'm posting because after one day of this cup win, I am already seeing people copying my work and trying to take credit for it. I work in LA and SD, and in LA after less than a day I watched growers renaming their strains to LemonAid. Trying to pass them off as my genetics at higher tickets because of my work. Part of that is flattering really. There are so many people in this scene that dilute the true craftsmanship that happens in the industry, and so I want to set the record straight from the original breeder's perspective.
Here's the story of LemonAid:
It's a feminized cross. I don't care what the big seed guys say about feminized breeding, it's a great way to get what you want in stable form, if you know what you're doing. I've done the work, tried breeding both ways, both ways work great. LemonAid is 100% stable feminized genetics. The real magic comes from the Super Lemon Haze mom. My mentor who is a master grower and breeder, is obsessive with phenotyping. When the SLH won the HT Amsterdam cup around 2011, he bought over 120 seeds and ran all of them. It took about 2 years of serious hard work and lost money finding the keeper pheno. The one we kept was very rare and not like the others. It's short, stocky, finishes fast like an indica, yet it's more sativa when you smoke it. I won a different cannabis cup with just this SLH strain, years back before I bred the LemonAid. I won first place in the 2013 SD-Medi Cup for Best Flower. I've won every cup I've entered actually. The SLH was my bread and butter for years after the first cup win. But it didn't yield like a boss and wasn't very commercial. And later I found the gorilla glue. I loved smoking the strain, but hated how lanky and annoying it is to grow. Started thinking about terpenes and flavor profiles of the two strains together. Seemed like a really nice mix in my head. I don't just cross anything together. I started thinking about how the two genetics could compliment each other. And then I reversed the glue and pollinated the SLH. Got an elite keeper pheno that is SLH dom, but has the gassiness of the glue mixed in. Gives it a lemon candy smell and taste. Tastes like a dream. I honestly haven't cound anything better in the scene right now. I'm a proud papa.
Just wanted to get this up here so the origins of our strains can be traced back. It was really cool reading about the origin of the glue, for example, on the forums. So I'm doing the same with this humble offering to the cannabis universe.
The grow that produced the LemonAid is going down as I type this, so it will be hard to find this strain soon. I have another breeding project that is finished now, but we didn't finish in time for the cup, but it's just as good as the LemonAid. Frostiest cookies I've seen in a while. I'm calling it One Tough Cookie (forum x Ogre). Maybe a shop will enter it next year.
I want to give a shout out to all the breeders I've learned from. Especially my mentor in the industry. Who taught me so much, and changed my life forever. I used to wear a suit and tie in the software industry. Hating my existence. Now I've helped epileptic kids stop their seizures with non-psychoactive CBD products of our own creation. I've been a part of grassroots political, legal, and social change much like my hippy parents before me. Thanks for reading.