Roots
I began breeding cannabis out of necessity. When I began growing my headstash it was in a less enlightened time in Canada, and the conservation of favourite finds was essential to have them again, as there wasn't the availability of genetics available to the home grower that there is today. Growing my own was a passion, and while I couldn't grow enough bud for everybody who wanted it, I could at least give them twenty seeds and instructions for putting out successful plantings, guerilla style, mainly. I was always happy to get friends growing, and I got more than a few onto that path! Later, while living in Vancouver I ended up donating a jar of the seeds to a prominent activist after he was busted for selling seeds in his shop. Months later, after many positive grower reviews, he asked me to produce "as many as I could". At the time he was the only person willing to sell seeds worldwide, and I knew it was important for that distribution to continue. The allure of turning a hobby into both a profession and a spearhead of activism was great and I decided to go all in. I knew that legalization would be largely inevitable by the time that the number of people growing cannabis reached a critical mass. The prohibitionists would have to cave as normalization occured. When the people lead the leaders would have to follow. I believed that legalization was inevitable, but that if I was wrong, I'd have issues. I can't wait to see the rest of the world liberated and not hassled for their herb gardens.
Chronology of Chronic
1994 - produced Medway Madness seeds1995 - conceived of Spice of Life Seeds, released Medway Madness in the early Vancouver springtime as The Jolly Rancher, the first release.- second releases in the autumn (each produced with The Jolly Rancher pollen.) include: - Sweet Pink Grapefruit (a clone-only I'd selected and named the same.)- Hashmaster - --1996 - third releases (from a crop that was pollinated in the early winter of 1995), released early in the winter of 1996:- Tropical Treat #1 (Dutch Treat female X Santa Marta Gold pollen)- Tropical Treat #2 (Santa Marta Gold female X 1995 NL x Haze pollen)- Sweet Skunk (original name, Big Fruit) (SPG X 1995 NL x Haze pollen)- Tight Skunk (original name, Berserker)- Big Treat (Dutch Treat X 1995 NL x Haze pollen)- Five Alive (NL x Haze x Hawaiian X 1995 NL x Haze pollen)
- Heavy Hammer (a one-off adopted from a friend, I forget the cross)
August 1996 (4th releases) (all pollinated by an exceptional 1995 Blueberry Indica Male (BB)- Sweet Tooth (SPG X BB male)- Shishkaberry (2 Afghan dom lines for mothers, Red (M39) and Yellow (unknown) X BB male)- Blue Domino (Dutch Treat X BB male)- Plum Bud (Kerala x BB male)
Winter of 1997 releases- Sweet Tooth f2 and BX 1- Shishkaberry f2
late 2000 releases - (I had moved to Switzerland in 1999)- Sweet Tooth f3 and BX2- Shishkaberry f3- Tropicanna #1 (Tropical Treat X Sweet Tooth)- Tropicanna #2 (Tropical Treat X Shishkaberry)
2001- Sweet Tooth #3 (BX3) (SPG X BX2P1)- Sweet Tooth #4 (BX2M1 and BX2P1, inbred from these 2 mildew resistant m/f selections.- Shishkaberry f3 (repeat) (Shishkaberry #4 produced as a special hash line, but unreleased.)- Blockhead f1 (Project 19 X SwT BX2P1)- Legend's Ultimate Indica (Ortega X SwT BX2P1)- The Joint Project lines:- Blue Satellite #1 (Blueberry Sativa X SwT BX2P1)- Blue Satellite #2 Blueberry Sativa X Shishkaberry)- Moonshine Rocket Fuel (Blue Moonshine X Shishkaberry)- Rosebud (flo X Shishkaberry)-
2002 - mainly focused on reproducing top sellers and breeding unreleased generations.- Sweet Tooth #3 (BX3) (SPG X BX2P1)- Sweet Tooth #4 (BX2M1 and BX2P1, inbred from these 2 mildew resistant m/f selections.- Legend's Ultimate Indica (Ortega X SwT BX2P1)- Shishkaberry f3 (repeat) (Shishkaberry #4 produced as a special hash line, but unreleased.)- Blockhead f1 (Project 19 X SwT BX2P1)- The Joint Project lines:- Blue Satellite #2 Blueberry Sativa X Shishkaberry)- Moonshine Rocket Fuel- Rosebud
2005 - a few outsourced seeds that an acquaintance really wanted to collab on.- Donk- Bubonic- OG Kush x Blue Satelliteand another collab I was sort of tricked into... long story- SwT 1.1- Sweet Blue
2025- Adventure Mix (I can't remember when I first released an Adventure Mix, but it's been for a long time!)
- Sweet Tooth #3 (BX3) (SPG X BX2P1)
- Sweet Tooth #4 (BX2M1 and BX2P1, inbred from these 2 mildew resistant m/f selections.
- Legend's Ultimate Indica (Ortega X SwT BX2P1)
- Shishkaberry f3 (repeat) (Shishkaberry #4 produced as a special hash line, but unreleased.)
- Blockhead f1 (Project 19 X SwT BX2P1)
- The Joint Project lines:
- Blue Satellite #2 Blueberry Sativa X Shishkaberry)
- Moonshine Rocket Fuel
- Rosebud