Seed and Soil is the newest addition to NASC's breeder line-up, and one that we can vouch for first hand! Beth had the pleasure of visiting their farm last season, and just knew there was something special there.
A Note from Ben and Betsy:
"Providing Midcoast Maine and beyond with cannabis seeds, cannabis plants, herb/flower/vegetable plants & seeds, worms & worm compost, and whatever other farm goodies happen to be ripe at the time. Core ethics of ours are environmental sustainability and sharing. All of the domesticated organisms that support us humans have passed down through human generations and horizontally across ethnicities, traditions, and geographies. As we co-create our agroecosystem with the land and discover synergies, we are committed to support the generative will of all the organisms at play by providing offspring to anyone inspired to steward them. For cannabis and beyond, we favor plants and animals that delight us and don’t require too much pampering, which instead thrive by instinct in our environment. Here's to our wild gardens - Enjoy!"
Seed and Soil is the life's work of Ben and Betsy Samuelson. They are not just cannabis breeders, their integrated farm stewards many garden species. Seed production is core to their farm, but bees, sheep, and treefruit are also part of the system. They release a carefully crafted, story-rich seed catalog each winter. Find the 2025 digital version here.
Featured Strains:
Raspberry Parfait Quick
Sharp Fruit |
Cream |
Piercing Floral Tones |
Uniformity 7/10 |
Sept. 15th Harvest |
After putting in the work introgressing the sharp fruit and sweet cream aromas of Raspberry Parfait into an autoflower, the recipe for this "quick version" was a no-brainer! We used Raspberry Parfait Auto pollen [gritty trichome selection] on Raspberry Parfait Photo moms. Given the excellence and fidelity of aroma in our auto version, and the inconvenient lateness of the photo version, this Quick is a tidy option for the outdoor garden. You can bet that we’ll be packing our field with it. Our harvest goes to extraction, and terpene diversity of approximately 20 detectable terpenes makes this extract very lovely and complex. For washing live, there's a real chance of having acceptable yields, and a certainty of making some spectacular hash. However, it would be prudent to make a selective harvest and have uses for some of the plants who won't give up their heads so easily. Nobody agrees on effects, some report clean-the-house type energy while others are taught the oneness of all creation through the wisdom of the couch.
Tangie In the Sun
Sativa Effects |
Tropical Citrus |
Juicy |
This project began with our niche pursuit of "regularizing" some of our favorite fem-only strains. Blessed by Humboldt Seed Company with a few seeds from the original regular cross of Blueberry Muffin and a Tangie cut which gave rise to Squirt, we began using those males on the fem-only squirt line. Tangie in the Sun earned its name when that first backcross to the F1 male resulted in a plant that stood apart from the sparkling grapefruit vibe with a more juicy passionfruit aroma than its Squirt sisters, deadringers for the eponymous grapefruit soda. That mom deserved, and got, some sibling male pollen, and the next generation doubled down with another delightfully passionfruity mom, parent to our ‘23 release. Our ‘24 garden revealed this release to have the passionfruit note pretty dialed in. At long last, seed from a gorgeous passion-fruity mom from a feminized seed chamber will be released for you tangie sommeliers out there. Expect tropical fullness from the “Tangie in the Sun” that will turn a lot of heads. It's quite like the Squirt, but we've put in quite a bit of love under the Maine Sun with it and the resilience to septoria seems to have benefitted.
Omaha Jazz
Uplifting |
Legendary |
Complex Intoxicating Aroma |
Resistant |
Uniformity 7/10 |
October 20th Harvest |
The Omaha Jazz seed line is a dragon quest seeking the memory of the legendary “Sweet Jazz” clone-only strain. These layered complex flavors come to you from the jam band scene of Betsy’s homeland of Omaha, Nebraska circa 2010. It is the hands-down best smoke in the opinion of many seasoned revelers. One doob burning in a crowd of other doobies is said to have an unmistakable perfume begging the question “who’s got that Jazz?”. As a clone-only strain, it existed in only in the super secret indoor grows of Omaha Nebraska, not an early adopter of cannabis normalization! We offer it with humility and gratitude for the “traditional” market, people who took real risks to carry cannabis genetics forward when it was illegal. A Jamaican bag seed female (supposedly Lambs Bread) was crossed to Sweet Tooth and the Sweet Jazz unicorn was hunted from that cross. It has been said, “Sweet Jazz is like nothing else”. We agree that it cannot be described in much of a useful way... it has a floral note, and a camp-fuel lime-like twang. Even just a sniff is intoxicating. Terpinolene, Humulene and Bisabolol all appear in roughly equal concentration, together accounting for about 50% of total terpenes, while pungent Farnesene carries 10% of total terpenes. Farnesene while somewhat uncommon in cannabis, is the most abundant aroma compound in gardenias. Most eccentric of all, the Myrcene load in Omaha Jazz is a microscopic 3% of total. Effects are balanced - musical and dancey but without being too speedy. Omaha Jazz does quite well in our field. It grows very large plants without many inner branches, leaving plenty of airflow. It puts on weight and benefits from trellis. For the late finisher slot, there is no more reliable offering than this one. On average, later harvest means greater risk of mold or frost injury. But Omaha Jazz breaks this trend, reliably finishing thick colas with very little bud rot at the last minute in October. Mostly all green with some plants expressing light purple tips or, rarely, completely lavender colas. Septoria? Unquestionably our most resilient strain. One mustn't say resistant, because that's supposed to mean the plant can't get the disease, Omaha Jazz leaves any few pimples behind on the lower inner fans and doesn't miss a beat.
Etrog Auto (REGULAR)
Lemon Pez Candy |
Skunk|
Earth |
Uniformity 7/10 |
90 Days from Sprout Harvest |
Etrog Auto is a Seed and Soil original introgression. This means that we crossed an auto to a photo and selected for three subsequent generations from LOTS of plants, about 1000 in this case. These introgressions are our proudest work! Lemongrass is Etrog Auto’s photoperiod ancestor and its rounded lemony gas clearly shines through. Expect a narrow range of gassy lemon, to sour green apple, to shimmering lemon pez aroma. An etrog is a type of citron, a big ass lemon, used in the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. It has a wonderful citrus aroma – makes a martini special for the Fall season. A nod to the tribe, Kosher Kush will welcome a new friend to chief with.
The genetics offered by Seed and Soil are proven, tested strains, uniquely suitable to the Maine outdoor climate. All across the vast cannabis grower spectrum - from the beginner grower right through to commercial farmer - we are confident Seed and Soil has something to offer. I personally cannot wait to try them out!
Are you as intrigued as we are? Check out the current strains we carry below!
Photos:
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Caramel Headband (F)$50.00$42.50 -
Omaha Jazz (F)$50.00$42.50 -
Raspberry Parfait Quick (F)$50.00$42.50 -
Tangie in the Sun (F)$50.00$42.50
Autos:
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Raspberry Parfait Auto (R)$50.00$42.50 -
Etrog Auto (R)$50.00$42.50 -
Lemon Telescope Auto (F)$50.00$42.50
Are you a beginner looking for some tips toward a successful outdoor grow?
The Beginner's Guide: Lessons Learned for a Successful Outdoor Harvest in New England is the read for you!
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Contact our Wholesale Department for bulk special ordering today!
Additional Seed and Soil strains featured - more information to come!
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And, as always...
Happy Growing!