People asking him to creat a blueberry linage due to some comlombian and mexican would bleed red and this purple afghani bleed purple.. and ge said that he is working on it...Red + puple = blue?
Hi bons89, those are some excellent observations that you make. Thanks for bringing them to my attention. Not sure how I missed, or overlooked that part of the interview; but after listening to it again, I have to agree with you that there was more than one Blueberry strain.
Based on this interview, Cheeba claims he created 2 versions of the Blueberry; the first one in 1982, and the re-created version of it, during his work with polyhybrids, for the Alaskan Blueberry Festival.
He talk about a Blueberry festival and a linage that had blue beautifull lavender blood when cutting it....
Yes, you are correct, but I also got the impression he was referring to the flower color as well, though I could be wrong about that. Based on what he said, it sounds like the new version was a cross between Sunset Sherbet and his Purple Afghani.
I'm unfamiliar with Sunset Sherbet, so I have no idea about its flower color. He says the Sunset Sherbet had a blue "tint" to its color, which was enhanced by crossing it with the Purple Afghani, but he doesn't get too detailed about it. If the Sunset Sherbet has a blue tint to its flower, then I suspect Cheeba's Purple Afghani enhanced that.
Im now thinking that Blueberry its an original name for a cannabis strain. They may had 2 differents strains with the same name (short was targeting the blueberry fruit, and cheeba more about the blue blood linage)
I don't recall Cheeba saying what he named this new polyhybrid creation, but I can't imagine him naming it just "Blueberry", as it seems unethical, or at least disrespectful to DJ Short, for him to do that; and we know Cheeba was very respectful of other people's hard work.
You are correct to observe, though, that Cheeba seems focused entirely on the blueberry color and not the terpene & taste profile(s). He never once said it smelled or tasted like blueberry.
inspired by the name of the festival or maybe the festival got that name from the blueberry he got 30-40 years ago as he said (for market reason or to give a shot to that festival) this is an idea that come in my mind when i hear that.
That would be a real "long shot", in my opinion. I really don't think the Festival was named after Cheeba's 1982 Blueberry strain. Alaska is well known for its blueberries. I'm pretty certain the Festival was named after the real berry grown in Alaska.
1;15:00 Purple afghani... we have blueberry 30-40 years ago ... we have a blueberry festival here... Some colombian and mexican would bleed red will this purple afghani bleed purple....
At 1:14:34, Cheeba says the Purple Afghani was one of the first strains he sourced in Afghanistan, himself. He doesn't state the exact year, but it certainly sounds like it was in the 1970s.
At 1:15:15, Cheeba says: "I bred a blueberry years and years ago, here," in Alaska, "40 years ago."
At 1:15:19, he says "40 years ago" exactly. That dates it to 1982, which is certainly earlier than DJ Short's 'Blueberry'.
Some questions that come to my mind are:
1. What happened to Cheeba's 1982 Blueberry strain, though, isn't made clear but it sounds like he lost it, somehow, because at 1:15:20, he talks about re-creating a new "Blueberry" strain for the Alaskan Blueberry Festival. That seems to imply he no longer had the "original" 1982 Blueberry.
2. Did he share the 1982 Blueberry seeds with anyone, back in the early '80s?
3. Did any of those seeds ever find their way over to Amsterdam, in the '80s?
It's interesting that DJ Short's name never came up in this conversation, in relation to Blueberry genetics. It would be great if The PotCast could get DJ Short on the Show soon, to ask him if had any contact with Cheeba, or somehow acquire the Purple Afghani from him, for breeding stock.