My 2024 Seed Run: A Progress Report

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share an update on a project I embarked on back in 2024. This was a particular breeding effort focused on preserving some of the older, perhaps less common (or no longer in stock), seed strains that I've had stored in less-than-ideal conditions, specifically from purchases made around the 2018 timeframe. 

2024 Season Strains:
AK x WW
Jelly Pie (Grape Pie x Stardawg - GreenPointSeeds)
Dream Catcher (Blue Dream x Stardawg - GreenPointSeeds)
Sky Dweller (Skywalker OG Kush x Stardawg - GreenPointSeeds)
Butch Cassidy (Girlscout cookies x Trainwreck x Chem 4 x Chem D - GreenPointSeeds)

These seeds endured extreme temperatures during storage, so getting them to germinate was certainly a challenge. I've recently had a chance to check on their progress, and I wanted to share what I found.

You can see the initial results in a short video I put together, which is linked here:

In the video, you'll see three newly emerged seedlings. After the work put into that 2024 seed run, seeing these young plants begin to grow is a welcome sight and suggests that the project has achieved some success in terms of germination. 

For those interested in the intricacies of cannabis genetics, this kind of work is quite significant. The goal of this particular project was to ensure the continuation of certain genetic lines as best as can be done. I wouldn't go so far as to make claims about these strains possessing unique chacteristics, like a specific terpene profile, a particular growth habit, or a distinctive effect. These were just strains that we liked and didn't want to lose them to age. 

Undertaking a breeding project of this nature involves considerable time and careful planning. But in actuality it really just came down to luck. Luck with which plants grew, and luck with which plants became male and female. This was especially true given the condition of these older seeds. From selecting the parent plants to managing environmental conditions for pollination and seed development, each stage requires attention. Then comes the period of waiting to see if the seeds will germinate. So, observing these seedlings successfully emerge, particularly from seeds that faced such challenges, is a positive step in the process.

We're backlogged on posting anything about the 2024 season and the seed preservation run, but this is at least a little update to note our excitement seeing the seedlings.

And to everyone cultivating this season: I wish you all successful growing in 2025.

I'd be interested to hear any thoughts you have on the video or the topic of genetic preservation in the comments.

Thanks for reading, please leave a comment or check us out at:

YouTube <--- please subscribe to our channel!!!

Happy Growing!!!

MM's

Quick & Easy Guide: Sugar Cookie Edibles Recipe

How to Make Homemade Sugar Cookie Edibles

This is a quick and easy recipe for making delicious cannabis sugar cookies. The recipe includes only 8 ingredients, and also is completed in just a little over 10 simple steps. This recipe will make 48 sugar cookies, and should take 60 minutes or less, start to finish.

What Ingredients you will need:

• 1/8 cup (~2 tablespoons) cannabis coconut oil (~26 grams)
• 1 & 3/4 sticks of unsalted butter (regular, non-canna butter 😆)
• 2 & 3/4 cups of flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 & 1/2 cups of white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

What supplies you will need:

• measuring cups and spoons (cup, 1/4 cup, 1 teaspoon, 1/2 teaspoon)
• solid wooden spoon (strong for enough to mix the dough)
• spatula
• digital scale
• mixing bowls
• cooking tray
• oven mitten

Optional items:

• parchment paper
• whisk
• silicone baking mats

Total time: ~ 30-60 minutes

Total cookies: ~ 4 dozen

Directions:

While the video does break the process down into over 10 steps, don't be fooled, this is a very easy to do recipe.

Start by adding the dry ingredients together. So that's the flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar. I whisk this all together for a bit, but that isn't a required step. 

Next add the egg, vanilla and butter and cannabutter. Make sure the butter has been given time to soften to room temperature. This makes the mixing step a whole lot easier. 

How much Cannabutter to use???

This recipe called for 2 sticks of butter, which also 1 cup or 16 tablespoons. So the amount of canna-butter you add is up to you. Just remember the more you add the stronger each cookie will be.

Coconut Canna oil conversion

1 tablespoon (1/16 cup), weighs about 14 grams or 15 ml

2 tablespoons (1/8 cup), weighs about 27 grams or 30ml

4 tablespoons (1/4 cup), weighs about 54 grams or 60ml

After you have mixed the cookie dough, you can go right into cutting the dough into cookies to cook, or you can put the dough into the refrigerator to cool and firm up. This step is optional and will increase the overall cooking time. However I find this process to make the dough easier to work with, and you can also clean the kitchen and pre-heat the oven while the dough cools. Your choice!

Now you're ready to make the dough into cookies. First lightly grease the cookie tray, but this isn't needed if you have a silicone baking mat. Pre-heat the oven to 350-375. Next begin cutting the dough into equal sizes. The goal here is to make 4 dozen cookies of equal weight. That way each will have the same amount of cannabutter. If you really want to be exact a cooking scale will help you with this step. 

Once you have them cut and on the cookie tray, in the pre-heated oven your cookies go! They will need around 10 minutes depending on your oven. The goal is to get them to bake until just before they turn golden brown. Remember - golden good, Golden brown ok, brown not so good! Over cooking or burning them will not just ruin the sugar cookie, but also burn away the THC.

Once they are cooked to your desired amount. The sugar cookies just need about 15 minutes to sit in the cookie tray and then can be served, stored and even frozen for later. 

Enjoy!!!

Thanks for reading, please leave a comment or check us out at:

YouTube <--- please subscribe to our channel!!!

Happy Growing!!!

MM's

TSL 2000 MarsHydro Light Unboxing & Review

We are in the process of trying out a new light. Switching the MH/HPS 600w system out for a TSL 2000 LED Quantum Light from MarsHydro (approximately the equivalent of a 450w MH/HPS system.

This video is just the unboxing and reveal in one of the tents. Though very excited to start putting this light to actual work and not just looking pretty on display.

Thanks for reading, please leave a comment or check us out at:

YouTube <--- please subscribe to our channel!!!

Happy Growing!!!

MM's