CBD "Keester" breeding lines and focus explanation.
I started out by just growing a couple bag seeds from a small collection of a close and dear friend who passed away. I also planted a couple seeds from some hemp flower I'd been testing for therapeutic relief of my Crohn's disease. The unknown plant grown from my friends seeds turned out to be a female plant. Bag seed of Cherry Cough ended up having a strong male and dropped pollen all over the female plant.
The female plant was one of the only seeds to germinate from my friends bag seed at the time and it had one of the most unique Raspberry Sweet Tea aromas and tastes like it came out of an ice cold cup on a summer afternoon outside. Just like my grandmother would make for me when I was about five or six years old.
The Cherry Cough had therapeutic qualities making me feel slightly better and had a soft cherry sweet wood smell that was nice to the nose. This hemp strain was found to have high quantities of CBD in testing and was known to be a stable genetic to pass compliance for harvest. I was excited to have a few seeds in a couple of tester bags I purchased.
Combining the two was not initially a thought because at the time breeding was not the focus, learning and improving my growing skills was priority. I took this as a learning experience. Creating a new strain, testing that new strain and finding something of value and continuing on. I only obtained about 20 seeds from the cross. I dropped 10 to test. I gave them all military name designations for testing and found that "Beta" was the closest to the original friend seed while having some of that cherry sweet wood back end in the flower aroma. It even had some therapeutic value. We ended up naming this strain Bare Cherry.
While I was learning, I made many mistakes. I lost the Bare Cherry female plant to something I could have probably fixed today. I really wanted to get that back and keep the genetics and try again to find something so special. I dropped half of the seeds and I sent the other half to a trusted breeder and grower The Funni Farm to sow and help me not kill the genetic. The ones I dropped either did not germinate or survive to vegetative state. However The Funni Farm came through finding a male that maintained the same structure the Bare Cherry plant had. Excited to have a stable male, I needed a stable female to cross with.
In my searches for therapeutic compliant hemp strains I found Suver Haze. I purchase lots of Suver Haze flower and was provided many bag seeds in the bags. I hunted through these seeds to find a female that provided the exact same flower I had been buying, a lemony citrus kettle corn smell and a sweet taste on the exhale. The impressive part of Suver Haze was how well it grew outside in the Virginia weather. Highly resilient to pests and powdery mildew. At the time we did not have a fence around the garden and the local herds of deer were uninterested in it. Many other strains I've tried outdoors have been victims to hungry deer, this one was ignored.
I took male Bare Cherry and crossed it with my female Suver Haze to create Beta Suver Haze. I hunted through Beta Suver Haze. I found multiple quality similarities to the parents. I chose a male from the selection and used him to cross to all the Keester lines.
I obtained many amazing therapeutic strains from multiple breeders that I tested myself to confirm help me deal with the Crohn's disease. I feel combining these highly impressive strains with high THC content and high CBD content that are both therapeutic to me would improve the chances for even better strains that can be worked or hunted.
The main reason this is my CBD focus line is because the lineage, Cherry Cough and Suver Haze, were both testing high in CBD and CBDA content. My hope is that transitions into all of its crosses.
Suver Haze Pink Cola Phenotype
Bare Cherry male
Bare Cherry male