
In addition to the 100 bag seed cultivars that were started in my first medical garden over 20 years ago, we craved some of the delicious and exotic varieties from afar.
This month we are going to go back in time to the original seeds I started growing with in 2002-2003.
My partners brother smuggled a half dozen packs of seeds from Vancouver, Canada in 2002 that he acquired “upstairs from the coffee shop.” This was off of Hastings street in Gastown, BC which was widely considered to be the worst alleyway in all of Canada.
Regardless of the atmosphere they had good marijuana seeds, mostly from Amsterdam.
We started with these original cultivars:
Bubblegum
Mr.NiceG13HashPlant
Sensi Seeds Hash Plant
Nice Seeds Shit
Medicine Man/White Rhino
Mikado
Northern Lights #5
Each seed packet was 10 and they were all regular male/ female seeds with some being in
original packaging and others repacked in cardboard with matchsticks separating the varieties.
At least all the pertinent information was there and actually typed out (not handwritten). It was close to a thousand dollars for these early import cultivars.
There was great genetics in those early beans and some truly spectacular and devastatingly
strong flowers came out of that grow. The details are slightly fuzzzy but here’s what was
remembered. They were all F1 generation crosses mostly female and fairly consistent from
plant to plant. There was very little topping or training in organic media with nutes under both MH and HPS lights.
Bubblegum was just delicious with sweet slinky terpenes and a few lighter phenos. It expressed mostly sativa hybrid characteristics but was finished in a couple of months. They produced well with big spears of gummy goodness.
The MrNiceG13HP and the Sensi Hash Plant were similar and we liked the Hash Plant better
with super dark leaves and deep old forest taste. It was devastatingly strong and ended many projects because of naps. Compact growth with blocky buds and almost dark chocolate smell it was solid.
Nice Shit was probably as close to a true landrace IBL as I will ever have, a true spicy red
Afghan cultivar. I can still taste the exotic and interesting flavors of this plant and l want to try
them again. Not a huge producer but each seed was identical with spear shape and spicy smell and flavor. Delicious.
Medicine Man/ White Rhino was the most challenging plant to grow of these originals because the flowers were enormous and dense, and it was the only plant to ever have botrysis. Big open branches with conical clusters of flowers bigger than anything we had encountered. This plant smelled and tasted exactly of Frankincense with a uplifting and enjoyable high that then mellowed.
Mikado was a BC strain that was dark green and smallish with medium production. It had a
sheen of silver crystals all up and down the dark leaves though and its flowers were greasy. It
tasted hashy and was going to lead to the fridge and couch. It was one of the faster flowering with a cycle of about 45 days.
The epic and legendary NL5 was just that and kinda hard to believe it was in the stable. It grew dark big flowers with a unmistakable flavor and high. Our pheno did not have a lot of side branches but a single cola that grew with enough open structure there were never mold
concerns. It was also a strain that would end your day regardless of the time or place.
These original seed cultivars are the building blocks of our cannabis culture and truly gave
medical relief to many people in the Portland community. I wish I could revisit this amazing
strains but I’m thankful to have such vivid memories of the experiences they provided.
These were the seeds planted that have grown into CPPNW
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