☀️Pheno Hunting, Heat Resistance, and Epigenetics, with Sun God Seeds

Jordan River58min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings, growers of the world. Jordan River here back with more. Grow cast on an island in the sun. Today we have a breeder feature. That's right, none other than sun god seeds is joining us today to talk about his amazing work down in the southwest of the United States, where it's hot and sunny and he's been doing breeding work, selecting for this environment, doing long, intensive Pheno hunts and a ton of breeding work down there. So I know you're gonna love that. Everything Sun God has to say today, before we jump into it, though, with sun god, shout out to AC infinity. That's right. AC infinity.com. Code grow, cast one five saves you on the best grow tents, fans, and just about everything you need in the Grow game. Acinity.com not only do they have complete grow kits, which are going to have your grow tent, your intake and exhaust fan, the best oscillating fans you can get your hands on, plus ratchets, pots, lights and so much more, they've also got a whole host of accessories for you, sunglasses for your tent trimming scissors. AC Infinity has just about everything. They've got an automatic trimming machine. Check it out at AC infinity.com code, grow, cast one, five, always. And make sure to grab those Grow Tent kits. It's about the cheapest and easiest way to get started growing or to expand your garden. Grab a three by three kit or a four by four kit. You're off and running. It has everything you need to get started. Just get some media, a little bit of rooted leaf nutrients and some grow cast seed, co seeds you are off and ripping so it's how I recommend people get started. Grab those AC infinity kits. Or if you need another veg tent, another flower tent, head on over AC infinity.com and use code grow. Cast one, five, always with those amazing grow kits and more. Thank you to AC infinity for making just about everything we need to grow our own at home. Alright, everyone, let's get into it with sun god seeds. Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners who are now listening to grow cast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today before we get started. As always, I urge you to share this show, take this episode, send a link to someone, or turn someone onto growing for the first time. It's the best way you can help us and our mission of overgrow. See everything we're doing at growcast podcast.com there you will find the seeds, the episodes, the classes, membership, everything's there. Thank you, especially to you supporting growcast members. Today, we have a breeder feature, classic breeder feature style episode with a breeder who we haven't had on grow cast podcast before. Actually have a few new guests lined up for you guys. But today we are diving into the breeding work of sun god seeds. We have none other than sun god seeds on the line right now. How's it going? My brother, it's

Speaker 1

02:41

great. Thanks for having me on the show. I really appreciate you taking the time to talk. Hell

Jordan River

02:45

yeah, brother, we've been following your work for a while. You've been a friend of grow cast for a while. I think we first met when you came out to the San Diego or Oceanside, I think Oceanside seed swap, and, yeah, that was a good time. Yeah, it was just a member. Actually, it wasn't a member meetup. It was just a listener. Just a listener free meet up, and seed swap. And Sun God came out there, and you brought so many packs to give out. Man, that was really cool to you. And I just remember chatting with you and talking about how you grow in the freaking desert, in the heat and dryness. And I was like, I gotta have you on the show one day. And then here we are, like, a couple years later, pretty amazing. But please, sun god, why don't you start for the audience with your story, like, what brought you into cannabis and what brought you into breeding?

Speaker 1

03:33

Totally, I would love to. So my story started back in oh eight, about 15 years ago now, I was living in Portland, Oregon, and I was going to school for landscape tech. I wanted to do landscape design work nice and, you know, having all that information at my fingertips and and I wanted to have a little side hustle. I decided to start doing, you know, growing I was in the old medical program, and I was a caretaker for three patients. And I had a, you know, the old school basement set up eight lighter, yes, and yeah, it was, it was great. Great way to get into it.

Jordan River

04:11

Life was good. The caretaker program was still alive.

Speaker 1

04:15

It was the good old days. I could offload the extra medicine at the clubs. No hassle, totally. So, yeah, I come to it from a place of as I've always had a medical license myself. I had a really bad back injury when I was a kid. I fell off of plague gym onto my neck and upper back, and so my spine has been destabilized for a long time. So I utilize it, you know, for my own anti inflammatory needs, pain med needs. I've, unfortunately, my mother has been through like, seven back surgeries, and I've seen her get addicted to opioids, and we've also used cannabis to get her off of that, which is great, but, you know, I've had a lot of cautionary tales in my life, and so it led me to cannabis as a medicine, and I've just been growing it ever since my Portland days. But when. When I moved, I moved from Portland down to San Francisco and then down to the desert. And nothing I was growing in Portland would survive, you know, I could bring it all to San Francisco, but when I came down to the desert, just nothing made it. Oh, no, it's a totally different climate. Yeah, nothing Exactly, exactly. So I was like, Okay, well, you know, I went to school for this stuff. I remember learning I loved my propagation class. That was the class that really got me in school. And, you know, we learned about agricultural breeding programs and epigenetics, and, you know, these things that the way that you get plants to acclimate to specific conditions is simply by applying those stressors to them. It's a lot of the like, see what sticks. You know, you're kind of trying to force evolution with these plants, right?

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