I'm working on this as we speak. I have a acrap ton of seeds that were frozen in 1989 an stayed in the deep freezer, in film canisters packed 100 to a canister with cotton wadding, taped with electrical tape and 5 canisters to each foodsaver bag. Grandpa was a farmer and not only did he enjoy vegetables in central IL. . .He did this with all of his heirloom seeds as well and had a deep freezer in the barn where he kept everything. My uncle used to chief on this stuff all the time and the first time he smoked it around my grandfather (who LOVED panama red and Thai stick), my grandfather decided they needed to to keep that one around. I was a kid back then but i remember them cutting the plants and sitting on the back porch with album covers separating seeds for a couple of days. I didn't know what they were doing but my uncle always had that bud up until my grandfather died. He moved to cincinatti and took all the seeds with him where they wound up in his deep freezer in the basement that he completely forgot about until one day it stopped running. He knows I cultivate so he hit me up and now they're in my deep freezer with me experimenting trying to get some fresh batches. There is more too it than that nut I'm trying to keep it short as possible. I'm mecahnically separating shells, germinating in sterile agar with biochar extract under a flow hood to avoid contamination as I know that the genetics are thought to be extinct. I know of a fella a couple towns over that still has it and he has been running clone mothers from the original mother for 30 plus years and hes where all the old school smokers go to get theirs becasue he has it and of course, he's stingy and won't come off so much as a seed, let alone a clone. Anyhoo. I've still got a year or so of work to do before I'm comfortable in saying that it is revived, but I am keeping the loop open while progress happens.
