Blueberry: The 80s Strain That Started The Entire Blue Family

Blueberry is the legendary cannabis strain bred by DJ Short in the 1980s, and this video tells the story of how one obsessive breeder chasing a fruit-flavored plant kicked off the entire era of sweet, dessert-flavored weed. It covers what weed tasted like before Blueberry, how DJ Short built it from Thai and Afghani landrace genetics, the science behind its flavor and purple color, its Cannabis Cup win, and how it became the parent of a massive family of strains including Blue Dream. It is honest throughout about the myth that purple color means potency, and about how DJ Short lost control of his own genetics. What's covered in this video: What cannabis flavors were like before Blueberry, when weed mostly just tasted skunky, earthy, piney, or like hash. Who DJ Short is, the secretive and legendary Oregon breeder whose name is a pseudonym, and the irony that he is actually around six foot three. How DJ Short's philosophy of chasing flavor and quality of high over raw potency and yield set him apart from other breeders. How he worked at tiny scale, breeding and selecting plants by smell in a roughly sixteen-square-foot closet. The genetics behind Blueberry, built from Thai sativas including one he nicknamed Juicy Fruit and a purple Thai, crossed with an Afghani indica. Why DJ Short used the sativas as mothers and the Afghani as the father, based on his theory of flavor versus body. The years of phenotype selection and re-crossing it took to lock in the blueberry flavor and purple color, finished around 1980 to 1981. The terpenes behind the aroma, including myrcene for the earthy-fruity base and caryophyllene for a spicy undertone. Blueberry's revolutionary flavor and how it was one of the first strains with a real, consistent fruit taste. The truth about the anthocyanin pigments that turn Blueberry blue and purple in the cold, and why purple color does not mean higher potency. Blueberry's indica-leaning effects and its THC range of roughly seventeen to twenty percent. Blueberry's first-place Best Indica win at the year two thousand High Times Cannabis Cup and its place on High Times' greatest strains list. The huge Blue family tree, including Blue Dream, Blueberry Kush, Blue Cheese, Blue Cookies, Blueberry Headband, and the sibling strain Flo. How Blue Dream, a Blueberry and Haze cross from Santa Cruz, became the best-selling flower strain in California. How DJ Short's genetics were commercialized through the Dutch seed company Dutch Passion, and how the Dutch Passion version won the Cannabis Cup. Why DJ Short never got rich, since cannabis plants can't really be patented and he lost control of his genetics. Why there is no single true original Blueberry anymore due to decades of genetic drift. Mentioned in this video: Blueberry, DJ Short, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Thai, Juicy Fruit, purple Thai, Afghani, myrcene, caryophyllene, anthocyanins, THC, High Times Cannabis Cup, Blue Dream, Haze, Santa Cruz, California, Blueberry Kush, OG Kush, Blue Cheese, Blue Cookies, Blueberry Headband, Flo, Dutch Passion, Netherlands.