Subs fam should sue Az/Prop 203. Tried to warn him about getting involved with that nasty shit. Sorry but I've seen too much lung disease to believe he just up and died one day with no steady signs of decline preceding it.
RiP Sub, Fuck Arizona. Piss on em from above for us bud
After several years of battling a rare condition, well-known grower/breeder Subcool has died. He suffered from Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (AAT) and COPD.
Little is known about Subcool's personal life before he became a hot cannabis cultivator, famous for breeding such strains as Vortex and Jack the Ripper. He sold them and other strains via his companies TGA Genetics and Subcool Seeds.
Born Montgomery Ball, he eventually moved from Oregon to California in 2013 after buildng up his reputation there and being inducted into the High Times Seed Bank Hall of Fame in 2009.
Subcool wrote several books, including Dank: The Quest for the Very Best Marijuana, and hosted the Weed Nerd show on YouTube.
In 2017, the wildfire that tore through parts of Santa Rosa burned down he and his wife's grow facility. He and MzJill subsequently separated and divorced. She kept TGA Genetics and he started his new Dank line.
About his condition, Subcool told Big Buds in 2016:
"I’m having a really hard time dealing with Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. It’s passed from parents to their children through their genes, and creates serious lung disease in adults. It can cause liver disease at any age. This disease creates serious shortness of breath, but it’s also a liver disease, and mine has progressed pretty rapidly. The bottom line is I’m slowly choking to death, but there’s little I can do about it.
"There’s no cure for this genetic condition, but I get weekly infusions that prolong my life. Problem is, the infusions are incredibly expensive. My health insurance cost more than my mortgage.
"Ironically, given how much I love to inhale cannabis, this damned disease makes it unhealthy for me to smoke weed or even be around people that do. Because of this I’ve become somewhat isolated. People used to love to visit and get high with me. But these days, people rarely visit, because they can’t smoke or dab around me. I also have to watch out for contact with people, because I’m very susceptible to colds and flu. I tend to do most of my work via e-mail and social media. It’s a lonely disease."
As far as how he developed his strains, Subcool explained:
"My primary original goal was to create a line of marijuana seeds that grew out to be high-yielding, fruit-flavored hybrids. The first fruit taste and scent we perfected was lemon. Then came grape, cherry, and orange. Pretty soon, we were working with chocolate tastes and scents. I was so excited about these cultivars and I gave them out to other professional growers to see what they said. People told me they loved these strains. Not just the taste and scent, but also their new kinds of highs."
No one would come around just bc they couldn’t smoke that shows how the world is 90% of people are users and they only fool with u if they get something in return should have just told them fuck you an go smoke some wood.
Dam, I'm really late to this. But just wanted to thank the man for all his hard work. I've ran alot of his gear over the times and loved them all. Sadly I've never had the opportunity to meet the man. His Plushberry was fire. The Chernobyl was super delicious and potent. And the Conspiracy kush is absolute fire. My ConPie is the offspring from his work. He may be gone but, apart of him never really left us. As alot of his work can be found in form of a seed and is all over the world. RIP bro.
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New,Gwan the keeper of the trees...available soon.
R.i.P subcool thank you for the pure energy you brought to the game .tga was 1 of my favorite breeders when i started out i would go on treasure hunts tracking down his genetics at high time events or expos it was 1 that took me on an adventure and that was pink lady aka plushberry it sold out on web every time they posted it up for sale ..im going to run something i made with his genetics and give it a name to remember as tribute to 1 of my favorite breeders and mentors..help with with a name ppl so i got these crosses and it gots to be right one this is for sub ..here goes
Pink lady x chernobyl
Ghost train haze x quantum kush
Pink lady x 98 bubba
Pink lady x cali o
Jack skellington x lvbk
9lb hammer x northern lights
Jack skellington x nightmare cookies
Or i got pure pink lady and can cross to a flav x starfighter from exotic genetics the flav was 1 of my favs from tga or i have flubber from la plata labs and it has the flav x bubba berry ...anyone have any suggestions?