Bog was interviewed by Gooey Rabinski for Skunk mag..In this interview Bog answers questions about the linage of his strains..He mentions a Bubblegum Kush cross..I found this interesting, thought I'd share..
GR: What was the first strain you developed?
BOG: It was a pure Bubblegum called BOG Bubble.It's yummy stuff and quiet a large yielder. And, you know, a lot of people had kind of put Bubblegum behind them. Bubblegum had been a really big thing in Holland. It was like the number one commercial clone in Holland for a long time. When I did my breeding and all my work back at the start, I didn't work with other people's clones, like a lot of breeders do. I didn't have access to them. I was off on the fringes, you know? Up in my cave, in the mountains. The best I could do was get some seeds.
In the case of BOG bubble, I took clones of the first group of seeds that I got. There were two different kinds of plants in them. The results were kind of varible, like a lot of people's seeds are[laughs]. What I was calling pure Bubblegum may have been a Bubblegum/Kush cross. It's hard to really know the history of everything that's done in the breeding world. It took me awhile to figure that out. But my Bubblegum was a pretty pure Bubblegum because the clones that I had selected tasted like Bubblegum and produced good, reliable Bubblegum seeds. Whereas the other clones seemed more potent and rare. The rare one is what eventually became Sour Bubble. It was a selection out of this....probably a Kush Bubblegum cross..
Bogglegum was the second strain I created, which was Bubblegum crossed to an NL5[Northern Lights#5] in the form of a really hardy plant that came down from Canada. So that was a cross between one of Amsterdam's best strains and one that's very well known from British Columbia. Bogglegum is really easy to grow and matures pretty fast.
GR: What did you create next?
BOG: Most of the time, in my breeding, my best friends and people who later turned out to be good breeders themselves would send me thier best strains and I would end up crossing it to my Bubblegum. That's what happened with Subcool's JCB that I brought in and crossed with my Bog Bubble. That was a great combination that produced Lifesaver. Lifesaver was touted as a medical strain by a lot of people becauce it has a numbing effect..your teeth get a little numb.
GR: The Sour Bubble is really a standout strain. Tell me more about it.
BOG: We've maintained the same clone for about six and a half years now. That clone is my elite clone mom. Most breeders claim that they have a few. But this one I actually came up with myself from my own breeding and I have to say that anybody who has ever tried it loves it and that's pretty much all I'm gonna grow. I've decided that the whole evolution of the BOG strains is getting right back to the start. Sour Bubble is really the side of the BUbblegum Kush that I liked the most all along. So that's what we're doing right now and everybody's real happy with it..
Bubblegum Kush?? That's the first time I've heard that..It would explain why my mom looks so much like a Kush..She came from the 2.5 bx and looks more Kushish than some of the other SB's that I've seen...Smaller yielding but man what flavor and potency!! One day I'll get to doing my BOG Bubble, Bogglegum and Lifesaver..For now I'm super happy with my pheno of Sour Bubble...My mom's got babies on the way..Fun fun fun !!!....mitsu
GR: What was the first strain you developed?
BOG: It was a pure Bubblegum called BOG Bubble.It's yummy stuff and quiet a large yielder. And, you know, a lot of people had kind of put Bubblegum behind them. Bubblegum had been a really big thing in Holland. It was like the number one commercial clone in Holland for a long time. When I did my breeding and all my work back at the start, I didn't work with other people's clones, like a lot of breeders do. I didn't have access to them. I was off on the fringes, you know? Up in my cave, in the mountains. The best I could do was get some seeds.
In the case of BOG bubble, I took clones of the first group of seeds that I got. There were two different kinds of plants in them. The results were kind of varible, like a lot of people's seeds are[laughs]. What I was calling pure Bubblegum may have been a Bubblegum/Kush cross. It's hard to really know the history of everything that's done in the breeding world. It took me awhile to figure that out. But my Bubblegum was a pretty pure Bubblegum because the clones that I had selected tasted like Bubblegum and produced good, reliable Bubblegum seeds. Whereas the other clones seemed more potent and rare. The rare one is what eventually became Sour Bubble. It was a selection out of this....probably a Kush Bubblegum cross..
Bogglegum was the second strain I created, which was Bubblegum crossed to an NL5[Northern Lights#5] in the form of a really hardy plant that came down from Canada. So that was a cross between one of Amsterdam's best strains and one that's very well known from British Columbia. Bogglegum is really easy to grow and matures pretty fast.
GR: What did you create next?
BOG: Most of the time, in my breeding, my best friends and people who later turned out to be good breeders themselves would send me thier best strains and I would end up crossing it to my Bubblegum. That's what happened with Subcool's JCB that I brought in and crossed with my Bog Bubble. That was a great combination that produced Lifesaver. Lifesaver was touted as a medical strain by a lot of people becauce it has a numbing effect..your teeth get a little numb.
GR: The Sour Bubble is really a standout strain. Tell me more about it.
BOG: We've maintained the same clone for about six and a half years now. That clone is my elite clone mom. Most breeders claim that they have a few. But this one I actually came up with myself from my own breeding and I have to say that anybody who has ever tried it loves it and that's pretty much all I'm gonna grow. I've decided that the whole evolution of the BOG strains is getting right back to the start. Sour Bubble is really the side of the BUbblegum Kush that I liked the most all along. So that's what we're doing right now and everybody's real happy with it..
Bubblegum Kush?? That's the first time I've heard that..It would explain why my mom looks so much like a Kush..She came from the 2.5 bx and looks more Kushish than some of the other SB's that I've seen...Smaller yielding but man what flavor and potency!! One day I'll get to doing my BOG Bubble, Bogglegum and Lifesaver..For now I'm super happy with my pheno of Sour Bubble...My mom's got babies on the way..Fun fun fun !!!....mitsu
