INTERVIEW BY MATT MERNAGH WITH POT SEED BREEDER DAN KONSTANTIN

My original quest to speak with Konstantin amongst cannabis community
contacts turned up all the wrong leads. His lawyer hooked me up.

Yet cannabis aficionados drool over his creation of a plant he called
God Bud-a High Times Cannabis Cup winner, featured in Time Magazine
that packs a couch lock punch that med users love.

In a legal world Konstantin would be credited like musicians, with
with a five N album.

Until his case cleared the courts, he couldn"t say, ""I created God
Bud."'

M: How many seeds does a plant produce?

D: A great big one will yield a couple thousand.

M: How did you make seeds?

D: You take a male God Bud plant and you cut the branches. You whack
the branches inside the bucket to bust up the pollen. People will
apply the pollen with Q-Tips. I just shake the bucket over the female
God Bud plant.

M: How did you make seeds?

D: You take a male God Bud plant and you cut the branches. You whack
the branches inside the bucket to bust up the pollen. People will
apply the pollen with Q-Tips. I just shake the bucket over the female
God Bud plant.

M: What's God Bud lineage?

D: It's a Hawaiin Kush strain. I just chased the strain. I've been
growing since I"m sixteen. I'm really good. I like a good skunky
flavor. When I hurt, God Bud is the shit. When I first got it right,
she took five months to fucking grow. It was really slow. You can"t
wait five fucking months for a plant to bud. So I kept finding
something [another strain] to speed it up. Making it faster, faster,
and even faster. They come up early and mature faster than average.
When I got popped I was down to a God Bud strain that finished in
twenty eight days.

M: Twenty eight days for budding?

D: Four fucking weeks there's bud. Three weeks for veg. God Bud males
are hard to find. They just don"t grow male. And if they do they"re
still really really slow. I don"t even think BC Bud Depot has the
original. I was working on the fastest growing plants. Two feet in
veg, by the time the plant finished the buds were touching the
ceiling. It grew another two thirds. The police got that shit.

M: Were you just born to grow?

D: Breeding experiments are fun. I like playing with everything, like
Barney Farm's Sweet Tooth with Timewarp. That's really fucking fast
plant. Grapefruit is great male to work with. When you cross a sativa
with an indica it could be anything. You'll get some that are all of
the father, some all of the mother and then maybe something new. You
want stable seeds that will smoke and smell the same.