(hope this was ok - fredster)

Well, I guess us BC boys showed Amsterdam the buds,” Reeferman told a stunned crowd at this year’s Cannabis Cup closing ceremonies after accepting the Seed Company Sativa Cup for his Love Potion #1 strain. A tall, bearded, burly Paul Bunyan look-alike, the young reefer revolutionary squinted into the limelight, clutching his bronze statue at the altar of the Church of Cannabis, and calmly overturned the tables of the moneychangers—charging the Dutch establishment with letting profits trump pot by crossbreeding their once-proud strains until they were as inbred as the “crowned heads” who ruled Europe’s royal families two centuries ago.

“Dutch bud has fallen from grace. And if we don’t start outcrossing and producing new elite genetics, we’re not going to have anything but bottlenecked, tired old shit in 10 years,” Reeferman told HIGH TIMES during an intimate sit-down prior to his big win, citing 1991 as the peak year for pot potency. “All the plants circulating now are based on genetic selections done by a few people in the mid-’70s and early ’80s. Much of the cannabis gene pool is in decline because of inbreeding and the fact is clones that have been passed down for 20 years are becoming very old.”

A hero to the marijuana-genetics underground, Reeferman arrived at the Cup all but unknown to the industry’s major players—just another upstart among the handful of Canadian seed merchants who entered this year’s competition, the first ever open to Maple Leaf marijuana. A former hog breeder with a degree in agriculture, the man at the center of Reeferman Inc. understands that maintaining a diversity of genetics is the best way to ensure the existence of a hearty lifeline as cannabis enters the 21st century. He’s part of a new generation—F2 growers, if you will—who respect and appreciate the accomplishments of the field’s pioneers long before they arrived but also understand the vast amount of work required to secure our smoke in a time of serious global prohibition. This new breed of breeders has been meeting on the Internet, trading seeds like the Dead tape collectors of old and logging the results of their experiments in public journals—forming an informal, organic, decentralized peer-based review system, as did the noble gentlemen who founded the great scientific societies at the dawn of the Enlightenment.

“We’re not going to achieve anything in cannabis genetics unless we actually get into the land races and discover new elites,” Reeferman explained, citing his experiments with several popular varieties from the ’70s previously feared to be lost forever, including Panama Red and Santa Marta. The land-race-based strains he works with were tracked down in their countries of origin—Colombia, Thailand, India, China, Vietnam—then improved through a series of parental selections before being crossed with other “purebred” plants to form new, unique strains. It’s the kind of work that takes tremendous time, land and resources, which explains why most growers choose to produce profitable pot plants instead of vital new genetics.

Reeferman knows all too well that despite having had the past two years in British Columbia to do his work without interruption, this window of opportunity could close at any moment, forcing him to pull up stakes and take his seed show on the road. And while this year’s Cup was a coming-out party for Canada’s cannabis community, with fellow BC boys BC Bud Depot taking home the Indica Cup for their God Bud, the seed sweep could also prove to be a swan song as America’s largest trading partner faces up to four more years of G.W. Bush, including the president’s aggressive opposition to Canada’s liberal pot laws.

“People think that the Drug War doesn’t exist in Canada, but we take the liberties that we have, we’re not afforded them,” Reeferman revealed, recalling his two years in a Canadian prison. “The pot pendulum north of the border,” he noted sourly, “is swinging hard in the wrong direction. I think Bush is as bad for Canada as he is for the United States. I don’t have anything against America or especially Americans, but I have to be really concerned about the consciousness of my neighbors. And that’s why I’m happy to flood that country with as much cannabis and [as many] seeds as possible, because I think they all need to smoke a doobie and take 10 paces back.”

https://www.reefermanseeds.com/rmstrains.php

All hail Reeferman!

I love this guy

Tex

[BenitoCereno]

I have got to get a couple packs of this guy's efforts. He clearly deserves the patronage.

I have grown or I am in the process of growin Nutcruncher, Herijuana, Blue Thunder, Charles' Kush, Romulan, Willie Nelson, Timewarp x Headstash, and The Crystal Ship with nothing but stellar results.

Reeferman IS the future and I am along for the ride and to benifit from his constant hard work.

Much respect Reeferman

Tex

[Gantz]

RM is one good breeder...wish he'd start selling those Love Potion #1 seeds...

[Okie grown]

Nice review rm.You ought to be proud buddy!!

Great article... props RM... I've got some Blue Thunder popping their cute lil heads as we type. I'm sure this won't be the last RM strain I'll run.

[Rellikbuzz]

I have to say that of the four strains I am growing right now, albeit very early on, Reeferman's Blue Thunder has blown the others away in terms of agressiveness early on. Further, all I have to hear is Texas Kid's glowing opinion of Reeferman's work to know that it is cutting edge in the world of new cannabis genetics.

My best regards to you, Reeferman, and here's hoping that you accomplish your mission to replenish some of the world's great genetics. In many ways, the future of the world's cannabis supply is in your hands. A heavy responsibility indeed but I can't think of anyone else we'd rather intrust with that duty. My hat is off to you, Reeferman.

[Hashmasta-Kut]

i tried to get him to meet me somewhere maybe and chill, get some stuff off him, as i heard he lives right in my neck of the woods... but he and lucifer stopped answering pms on two websites....


aloofness, or paranioa...?

[HerbWeedman]

Wow dude is a thinker and an action man. I like that. A Real "Grab the bull by the horns call it like you see it" kinda guy. Yeah bump the respect for RM. Overturned the $$$$ changing tables?? Bold move. Money has no place interfering with good genetics IMHO. I'm glad someone else sees that.