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Well, I just fell into it. Smoking weed required buying bag weed with lots of seeds in them in the 1970s. The growers seeded them for more weight, as weed was sold by the pound/ounce. Also that was how weed was grown then; males and females together like hemp in fields. Sinsemillia did not come until the later 1970s. I planted seeds and whallah! Plants grew form them. Like tomatoes, only with more kick. From 1973 to 1979 I would drive up to Berkeley and hang out on Telegraph Ave with a group of long haired hippie friends from up state New York that owed a leather shop. One day while I was roaming around the book stores there shopping for underground comix, I found a book on Marijuana. The book was called Marijuana Potency by Michael Starks (And/Or Press, Berkeley, CA. 1977). It was more involved and detailed than the other thin Marijuana booklets that I had by Mary Jane Super Weed (which are good and I still have them). In that book Michael talks about freezing seeds and them likely lasting virtually for centuries being frozen. I took that to heart, and I froze my existing seed stash and added to them over the years.
He was right, at least in my case, where some of the earliest frozen seeds from 1977 have lasted for over 40 years now, and I (and others) have gotten between 60%-100% germination rates with these seeds. If sinsemilia had become common a decade earlier, say by the later 1960s, I would not have had many (if any) seeds to freeze. I was also at the right place at the right time in central coastal California, roaming between places like Big Sur, Carmel Valley, Arroyo Seco, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Salinas, Prunedale, Hollister, San Juan Batista, Capitola, Santa Cruz, Gilroy, San Jose, San Francisco, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Marin Co, Tomales Bay, Eugene and Portland, and several long motorcycle treks all over the US west from BC to BC and out to Colorado. I partied non-stop from 1971 through about 1986 when I went back to university to get my engineering degrees in Sandy Eggo. I did not stop partying there, I just did less. And the seeds went with me wherever I lived stashed in freezers.
He was right, at least in my case, where some of the earliest frozen seeds from 1977 have lasted for over 40 years now, and I (and others) have gotten between 60%-100% germination rates with these seeds. If sinsemilia had become common a decade earlier, say by the later 1960s, I would not have had many (if any) seeds to freeze. I was also at the right place at the right time in central coastal California, roaming between places like Big Sur, Carmel Valley, Arroyo Seco, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Salinas, Prunedale, Hollister, San Juan Batista, Capitola, Santa Cruz, Gilroy, San Jose, San Francisco, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Marin Co, Tomales Bay, Eugene and Portland, and several long motorcycle treks all over the US west from BC to BC and out to Colorado. I partied non-stop from 1971 through about 1986 when I went back to university to get my engineering degrees in Sandy Eggo. I did not stop partying there, I just did less. And the seeds went with me wherever I lived stashed in freezers.