Feral's Journal Of Insanity & Some Growing

I just put an interview with shantibaba about all this down in another thread.. I'll get it for you..
 
When Freedom Seeds visited the Cannafest trade fair in Prague recently we had the opportunity to sit down and have a chat with Scott Blakey, aka Shantibaba. Scott is one of the most influential breeders and activists in the cannabis field.

I started by asking Scott to tell me about the CBD Crew.
CBD Crew is basically a joint venture between Mr Nice Seed Bank and Resin Seeds in Spain. We came together, along with Grassomatic who’s doing the autoflowering CBD, to try to bring a medical grade seed to the market.

Now we’ve evolved into being a medical grade seed producer. We have Dutch Passion, Paradise Seeds, Dinafem and about 11 others who are all now involved. Because we now have the tools to enrich everyone’s strains, instead of just keeping it for our own use and you know milk it, we actually went to everybody and asked them if they would like to join in.

For the medical patients we believe it should be correct that what’s written on the packet should be what the medical patient is getting. We feel it’s a little bit bigger than us and we need all the reputable companies to come on board and help us out and they have all been fantastic, very proud to be part of it all. It seems to be working as the feedback and the test results we are getting from growers and patients are even better than what we are recommending on our lists of CBD Crew seeds.

How does it work with the cooperation, do you approach them or do they approach you?
Well actually at the start I approached Hank at Dutch Passion as I didn’t know where to go with it. Hank came straight on board and he thoroughly thought it was the right idea like Derry from Barneys Farm he thinks it’s the future and Oier from Dinafem. They all approached us, of course we were going to approach them too and so it was a compliment.

We know we have done the work two or three years in front of everyone to have the right tools for this CBD enrichment, so rather than be exclusive we offer the exclusivity of their strains to be enriched in CBD and we become a production company. We are putting a hologram sticker on everyone’s packets, we can control that that was an authentic batch of seed made on that date for that company so we have tried to do it the best we can in kind of a seed union, kind of a medical seed union. It wasn’t intended initially like that but it’s evolved, we started something we have to keep it going.

I know that CBD is reputed to be an anti-inflammatory but a lot of this Scott is rumours. Are you going to get to the stage where you are published in a peer reviewed journal, as you would with any other mainstream medical product?
Well actually this year we presented a paper at the cannabinoid conference in Cologne on the autoflowering breeding, on how we bred in the CBD. So we are reaching that level now Martin, but the thing is we’re not doctors, were just giving the tools to the people like GW Pharmaceuticals are giving the Sativex to the people.

This is just an affordable plant that you can control all the facets of growing. So if you are organic or if you are super cropping or whatever you are, if it’s the medicine you want to give to your parents or people like that, that’s generally what’s happening at the moment. So young blokes are wanting to grow for their parents high CBD varieties, which are certainly helping with cancers and chemotherapy, but we aren’t doctors and we always try to tell that. We are giving the tools to the people.

What sort of reaction have you had from the straight medical/pharmaceutical establishment?
Well I actually can’t discuss that at the moment but they are knocking pretty heavily at our door from many countries from El Salvador to Uruguay. I have been sponsoring a lot of things with seed because we know we have got the right thing and if they start at least with the right thing then they are spreading the word as well you know.

You can’t control who uses a wheel but as long as it’s being used around the place it will reach enough people, and you know this industry is just too big for a couple of small guys like ourselves.

It would be nice to get some medical credibility, rather than just a bunch of hippies making, so far unsubstantiated, claims that it can cure cancer.
We’ve come from both camps, you know we’ve been scallywags at one stage and were trying to repay to the public what we have always kind of known but couldn’t prove. The major thing about this CBD breeding project is its science for us, we just bred from laboratory reports. With Mr Nice seeds I just bred from my own personal taste, there’s the difference. So I can prove everything we did with the CBD thing and it’s just factual. We have to play their game with our rules and that’s the reason we created this thing and hopefully were playing it better than them.

Thanks Scott
It’s been a pleasure.
 
Thats some awesome info mate :) i have read and watched a lot of interviews with shanti but he mostly says "working with other companies" and doesnt go into who exactly he is working with hehe. Ive had this White Domina seed for about a year and a half now and only just realized :rofl: I was just glad to see that sticker on there because as soon as i saw it i know it means quality :) Problem is though, all companies are trying to up the cbd's in all strains now which counteracts with the effects of THC meaning they wear off quicker or have a lower potency, great for medical but not recreational as it would mean consuming more and more often to achieve the same high. Every strain doesnt have to be medical, a few here and there will be fine :rofl:
 
Good breeders will be continuing to grow cannabis for the recreational, it's why most of them are in it.. older dudes might be going to cbd as age determines things in life, but always kids wanting to get high.... this whole genetic mapping thing, that has something negative for growers in the future I feel.. I think that could be concerning. Feels like they can then do something with that info to own genetics or something..
 
Mns had most of their strains out to their forum members, cataloging every grow looking for cbd numbers in their strains to make new high cbd strains out of each one.. they still have their original breeding continuing for mns, that was for cbd crew, to breed and feminise..
 
Yeah its good to know MNS are always going to be to shanti's taste and not some number in a test, he has done the right thing and started a company dedicated to cbd so you have a choice. The thing im finding is its hard to find a reputable breeder (outside of shanti's creations) these days and the ones you do find are mostly upping the cbd's in all of their strains, still heaps out there without cbd alterations but its a matter of if you can trust them or not, there are a lot of shonky operators and copycats out there :thumb:
 
get the collection going with regs, find your keepers and make your own mate. With the amount of strains already to grow and clone, really getting to point where seeds shouldn't be bought unless and old stock comes back that could be used in a future project.. I'm sure your got beans to pop that put together would produce some awesome hybrids with 67 different phenos to work through :rofl:
 
:rofl: thats it mate :rofl: got so many different strains here, 84 not counting the ones in the bonza pucks :rofl: and thats not including the autos either ;) tbh i shouldnt need any new seeds but a lot of the ones i have are fems, Id like to do a lot more with regs if possible and there are a bunch of strains i really want from MNS, Bodhi, Brothers Grimm and some hazeman, i will wait for sales though. Speaking of Brothers Grimm, they have started producing a lot more of crosses with C99 :) stuff like SSH, G13 etc, I got a few of their Apollo 13 with my seeds today :thumb: Cindy Haze sounds interesting, C99 X (SSH x C99)
 
Yeah seen those new Grimm strains, sound really good..c99 x (ssh x c99) yes please.. Bohdi's silver mountain SSH (mns mother cut) x Appalachia (skunk x chemdog)
 
FeralA9X said:
:rofl: i do run timers, i was just trying to get my head around the longer light schedule and how i would achieve it on a 24hr timer or if id have to do it manually, impossible but a digital timer spread over a week i could work something out :thumb:
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OK I admit I am way behind here and trying to catch up. If this has already been answered pages ago I beg forgiveness :) If I read the specs correctly this TITAN timer can be set with seperate on and off durations that have nothing to do with a classic day. Limit for either appears to cap out at 24h, but for what you want to do that shouldnt be an issue. They should hve an option that works for you,

TITAN Controls Digital 734170 Ct-1 Short Cycle Timer

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cannoisseuras said:
I know one thing you aussies dont have....outback steakhouse and the blooming onion..lmao

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Wanna make a bet? :rofl: we have them here too, actually the first ever bloomin onion i ever ate was about 25 years ago at a place called "Lone Star Steakhouse" which im guessing is where the chain started as they disappeared the outback steakhouses opened ;)

Edit.. Just remembered there was a period of Chilli's there for a while, we even have hooters over here now, they are all making their way over :rofl:

mouser said:
OK I admit I am way behind here and trying to catch up. If this has already been answered pages ago I beg forgiveness :) If I read the specs correctly this TITAN timer can be set with seperate on and off durations that have nothing to do with a classic day. Limit for either appears to cap out at 24h, but for what you want to do that shouldnt be an issue. They should hve an option that works for you,

TITAN Controls Digital 734170 Ct-1 Short Cycle Timer

:peacetwo:
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Nice one Mouser :) I might look into that, although it probably wont happen in my garden anytime soon, need a bigger space to run proper tests :thumb:

Dogwash said:
Did you go for the 315s then Feral?
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Yep :) got 2 of the Hi-Par Sunstorm Pro Horizontal kits :thumb: cant wait to set them badboys up :)
 
FeralA9X said:
........Edit.. Just remembered there was a period of Chilli's there for a while, we even have hooters over here now, they are all making their way over :rofl:
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I am truly sorry. Chain restaurants are to be avoided like the plague.
 
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