Old Genetics Have Been Found by Non-Grower!!

What should be done with these 14+ year old well preserved seeds?

  • Throw them away?

  • Give them away? If so, to who?

  • Float them all in a bunch of helium ballons?

  • Roast them and use in my salads?

  • Grow them? (Won't Happen)

  • Drive to a legal state and give to a dispensary? Is this Legal? (Not Likely to happen)

  • Mail them to legal state dispensary? Is this legal?

  • Other?

  • Other? Other?


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Plutonium

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Hello Everyone,

I would like to introduce myself. I been lurking around these forums since around 2012. Married, Mother of 4 and full-time homemaker. My primary hobby, other then my children, is breeding Bearded Dragons. For this reason my green thumb has become very green over the years, as Bearded Dragons eat tons of fresh greens, fruits and other vegetables. I have learned that growing hydroponically will yield me much better quality then what you can find at the local super markets. I have NEVER grown cannabis and have NO desire to, besides the fact it is completely illegal around here. The reason that I signed up to Rollitup, is simply because whenever I am doing a online search for my hydroponic garden, I always seem to end up on this site for the answers. The RIU community is a wealth of information for all kinds of gardens, regardless of the type of plant you are growing. I have nothing against people using Marijuana medically or for recreation but with my kids, life style and various other reasons, its just not something I partake in at this time but I have in the past.

With that being said, I think I may have stumbled onto something that would be considered quite amazing on RIU. Although what I have found might or might not be amazing, the circumstances to how I come upon these is a very sad subject for me but I will share anyway.

Early in 2006 I get a call from my brother telling me my Father has just been rushed to the hospital from a heart attack. I rush to the hospital to find my Father stabilized but very weak in ICU. After a very extended stay in the hospital he was released but no longer the man I knew. Upon seeing me for the 1st time after he woke up he didn't know who I was, where he was or even why he was there. Amazingly though he knew who every one of his grandchildren were but it was more then obvious at the time that Dad was going to need additional care. Because of his heart attack he had severe oxygen depletion to his brain that caused irreversible brain damage. After discussing the options with my brother, we decided that he was going to have to be placed in a nursing home because of the need for 24/7 medical care.

My father continued to decline over the next decade and earlier this year a severe heart attack took my Father away from us. Being a DaddysGirl I took it pretty hard. The Will was quite simple, my brother got the "Mint" 1967 Corvette, the guns and 50% of the money. I got the house along with the furnishings. During the time in witch my Father stayed in the Nursing Home, the utilities were automatically paid from his Social Security and Military Pension, witch in turn kept the appliances in the home powered, including the refrigerator, in hopes that my Father may recover enough to go home. He wanted it this way and we didn't see any reason to have the utilities shut off while the house set vacant for a decade.

Well it has been three months since we had to bury my Father and I finally got up the nerve to start going through his belongings. Most of the food in the refrigerator was cleared out years ago but as I opened up one of the compartments in the door of the refrigerator, I came across this metal tin box. I look inside the box and there is another tin that was vacuum sealed, I tear open the vacuum seal and remove the tin and find a little piece of paper with a list of weird labels, some I recognize most I don't. Under the list it was filled with dissent packs and little packages of seeds, along with one large zip-lock bag that has at least 800 seeds in it that I assume are probably just bag seeds. I took one seed out of the zip-lock bag and pitched it into a glass of tap water to see if it would germinate. About 4 days later it cracked open and a tiny tap root popped out, I threw it away but it served its purpose. They all appear to be in perfect condition. I layed them all out on the floor and snapped some pictures, then put them back in the tin(s) and double bagged them with zip-lock bags and placed them back in the refrigerator.

The funny thing is, I had no idea that my Father had anything to do with Marijuana. I was quite shocked in fact to find this in his refrigerator. I asked my Brother about them and he did not know anything about them or that Dad was ever involved in Marijuana. My brother didn't want them and his suggestion is to throw them away.

Now for my questions.

What do I do with them?

How much is something like this worth as a complete package or individual?

I would like to get them into the hands of reputable growers/breeders that could use these genetics. I don't know much about these seeds. I can not find information online for a couple of them.

Anyone have information on the more exotic ones? (Graperella for example)

Is there even any genetics in the list that is worth preserving?

What I do know for sure about them is that they have been sealed, in the refrigerator since at least late 2006. A couple of the packages are dated with the year 2003, so I am assuming they all are at least 14 years old, with many probably being much older then that.

I don't want to just throw away potentially hard to acquire or lost genetics. I haven't brought them home and I don't want to get in trouble for selling them.

So, what do I do? Any and all recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you.

Each contains 5-15 seeds, 29 packs total, a few are not pictured because my husband had a few in his hand looking them up online when I was taking photos. This is the list as it was printed. I have no idea how accurate the list is, it is printed in my Fathers hand writing but it appears to match the labels on the packages.

Black Berry
Blue Creeper
Chronic
DNA Lemon Skunk
Early Skunk
Graperella
Happy Skunk
Hash Plant X Jack Herer (Femenised)
Hex
Hindu Kush
Ice Queen
Jack Herer
Malawi Gold
New York City Diesel
Northern Bright
Oxacan Sativa
Panama Red
Poke Kush X Amsterdamn Flame
Pok Kush X Citral 3
Pok Kush X Black Domina
Pok Kush X Nebula
Redman Skunk
Skunk #1
Skunk
Snow Queen Thank You
South African Skunk X Durban
Super Impact
Very Berry X G13
White Widow (Arjan)
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Stealthstyle

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You could start a raffle with people guessing numbers you wrote down, then they pay for postage? something along those lines
 

SSHZ

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First off, it's important to know probably 50% or way more won't pop.........generally you have to figure you'll lose around 10% a year germination wise even when kept in the fridge.

Secondly, many of those strains are still available. There doesn't seem to be anything OUTSTANDING in the stash.

Lastly, not many of them seem to be directly from breeders. Many could be just seeds he found in bought or grown bud, which would generally mean a decline in quality.

So, although it may be an interesting find, there is a lot of risk for a buyer and won't be worth as much as you might think. Now if you had some original genetics from The Seed Bank or Sacred Seeds or whoever else from the 1980's, it would be a way different story for sure.
 

WeedFreak78

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I think it's pretty sweet you're trying to save these even though you aren't involved with cannabis, most people woulda just dumped them.

I'll take the Malawi Gold, New York City Diesel, Oxacan Sativa, Panama Red and
SouthAfrican Skunk X Durban off your hands...:wink:
 

Budley Doright

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If some of those are the originals and viable then yup some gems, Panama red was a favourite at 17, 40 years ago lol.
 
obviously everyone wants these, since hemp seeds are available everywhere as animal feed i don't see why you can't ship them and at least try to pawn them off ass hemp seeds should you need to lol. hell i'd take em all !
 

greg nr

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There are a lot of seed auctions on instagram. If you have a favorite chariity, just start an auction and pledge proceeds to charity. It would be a nice conversion to a good purpose.

I get seeds frequently in the mail. Since seeds by themselves don't contain thc, the postal service doesn't seem to have a burning passion to find them.
 

Craigson

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Raffle on here would be cool??
This way multiple ppl can win. Do a pack each or whatever you feel.

Make some basic rules like entrants must have min 50 posts, only 1 entry each etc..
 

macsnax

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How cool of you too want to preserve these genetics even though you're not involved with marijuana. Very interesting story too.
 

WeedFreak78

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Seeing how you're in an illegal state, any way to find someone that actually needs them around you? Someone with a debilitating illness, maybe a cancer collaborative, something like that? You know any people that might know any people?

Another thought, maybe your father's friends would like them? They might have knew about it.
 

Plutonium

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You could start a raffle with people guessing numbers you wrote down, then they pay for postage? something along those lines
Start an auction. I'm sure someone from this community would want them
Raffle on here would be cool??
This way multiple ppl can win. Do a pack each or whatever you feel.

Make some basic rules like entrants must have min 50 posts, only 1 entry each etc..
I thought about that and checked the rules of this forum before I ever made the post, rules was pretty clear that it wasn't aloud.

I think it's pretty sweet you're trying to save these even though you aren't involved with cannabis, most people woulda just dumped them.
How cool of you too want to preserve these genetics even though you're not involved with marijuana.
Well of course, I am not a brain washed governmental sheeple, I fully believe that cannabis is probably the safest and one of the most effective medications on this earth. I have heard before that some crosses and strains have been lost, just wanted to make sure these were not any of those lost genetics and be the idiot to destroy the last of them.

.........generally you have to figure you'll lose around 10% a year germination wise even when kept in the fridge.
Well if this is the case, then there is a 140% chance that they won't germinate. Oddly enough, the one out of 800 I took out germinated in 4 days with a 24Hr soak in water then into a paper towel and a little heat. Thats like scratch off lottery ticket odds.

There doesn't seem to be anything OUTSTANDING in the stash.
Yeah nothing to outstanding about the seeds here.
This is good to know, this is mainly what I was worried about.

won't be worth much as you might think.
If they are not worth much or anything at all, I think my choices have been made quite clear. Considering these are illegal here, I will likely just throw them in the trash next time I am at my fathers. Otherwise there is just to much risk for absolutely no reason at all. I appreciate everyone taking the time to evaluate these and look forward to learning much more in the future from the wonderful people at RIU.
 
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Jimmy Sparkle

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I thought about that and checked the rules of this forum before I ever made the post, rules was pretty clear that it wasn't aloud.





Well of course, I am not a brain washed governmental sheeple, I fully believe that cannabis is probably the safest and one of the most effective medications on this earth. I have heard before that some crosses and strains have been lost, just wanted to make sure these were not any of those lost genetics and be the idiot to destroy the last of them.



Well if this is the case, then there is a 140% chance that they won't germinate. Oddly enough, the one out of 800 I took out germinated in 4 days with a 24Hr soak in water then into a paper towel and a little heat. Thats like scratch off lottery ticket odds.





This is good to know, this is mainly what I was worried about.



If they are not worth much or anything at all, I think my choices have been made quite clear. Considering these are illegal here, I will likely just throw them in the trash next time I am at my fathers. Otherwise there is just to much risk for absolutely no reason at all. I appreciate everyone taking the time to evaluate these and look forward to learning much more in the future from the wonderful people at RIU.
Trash them or give them to someone you know. Seeds if taken care of can be viable for decades and decades. The svalbaard global seed vault keeps the WORLDS seeds packed in sub zero permafrost almost indefinitely. Your water glass trick is all the proof you need. Ive been sprouting and growing bagseed from my uncle for the the last 20 years with the same germination statistics as fresh seed. Keep them for nostalgic purposes as it seems this is a facet about your father you never knew. AWESOME
 
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Moldy

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Your father was the man. Good for him! Too bad he couldn't have shared some of his stories before he left. Thanks for sharing your story though. Good luck and take care.
 
Ive been growing the new genetics here in Alaska lots of Hermaphroditic plants.i just trashed my whole grow .I really want to grow older seed strains before this decade and have for my private collection.
 
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