Our Goal
Our goal at Bless Coast Seeds is to always continue the quest for Dank. We use every tool at our disposal to hit specific goals with our crosses—whether it’s creating our perfect version of Sour and OG, or creating completely new flavors entirely.
Creating truly unique experiences through Cannabis takes patience, and many times it takes multiple attempts to accomplish a single change. In today’s seed industry, “strains” are created with very little intention. We create lines, and we test those lines to see if our intentions breed true. That’s how we know the seeds we offer do what we say they will: produce vigorous plants that deliver unique—and most of all—Dank flowers.
Titan’s Story
My first experience with Cannabis was early in life, around the age of 16. My friends and I quickly learned of its amazing abilities to improve our jam sessions and our pocketbooks. Growing up in WA and OR, there were so many amazing growers—I didn’t realize until later how lucky I was to be there during that time, circa 2005.
Cannabis changed from those simple utilities to something much greater for me in 2007. That year I was struck, taking a turn on my CBR600, by a city transit and became a T5 paraplegic. Unfortunately, the accident was deemed my fault, and I didn’t get any financial compensation. My first year, I simply had to fight for survival—the reaper wanted me, but I just didn’t want to go. I thought about giving up many times, for sure.
One day, some old friends from high school came to visit me. I lived in a small mountain town in the middle of nowhere, so it was a big deal for me. They brought me some weed, and I can remember hitting it for the first time since my accident—and the joy it brought me in that moment. That changed a lot for me that day, and also many others.
**2007—**After that experience, I pretty much found life again through growing Cannabis. I converted my whole bedroom in my parents’ house into tents, and eventually built—at the time, for me—a spaceship in my small “roll-in” closet. It was around this time I also got on the forums and began really learning. My parents had never approved of weed before I was hurt, but after seeing how much it gave me, they supported it. My dad ended up driving me to a Cannabis “Church” in Seattle where I got my first underground cut. I still remember the priest handing it to me, and reading the side of the pot where, scribbled, it had the name “Killer Queen.”
Later, I would meet two very important people who brought me into the world of underground Cannabis that was not just moving packs like I did in the early days. These dudes went by the forum names OHSOGREEN and SUBCOOL.
“Ohso” was an old-time grower, and he shared many of the basics with me. We would send burned CDs of our favorite guitar players—with seeds inside the case—back and forth through the years. He was the one who gave me my first Skunk #1, which he had continued to breed from 1978 Sacred Seeds stock. Ohso was an amazing rebel for Cannabis and helped a lot of people learn how to grow medicine before it was so commonplace.
Around this time, I started talking with Subcool on an old forum called Breedbay. I would meet many of the first real Cannabis breeders on this forum. Subcool was different. He had flavors of weed that didn’t even seem real back then—all the fruits and citrus, with many that created smells that could only come from weed. I grew out many seeds from him back then, and eventually was able to meet him around 2010 at an event called Hempfest in Seattle.
We exchanged some flowers, and I remember when he told me the Pandora’s Box I gave him was some of the best weed he had gotten all year. That meant something to me, as Cannabis was really all I had. From that meeting, we became close friends and began trading cuts like Killer Queen. I also ended up working for him selling seeds, and he would take me to Cannabis cups with him as part of the Dank Crew.
I learned a lot by watching him—both the good and the bad. I also massively expanded my experience within the Cannabis gene pool with the variety of cultivars I had access to.
After I stopped working with Subcool, I met a good number of old-school breeders and gained a lot of growing experience myself. 2012 is when I really started breeding on my own, and I made some things using both Ohso’s Skunk #1 and some of Sub’s lines. Later, I would branch off and work a lot of Exodus Cheese and Chem/OG stuff.
Eventually, I would carry most of this work into my first legal grow in 2016. My first grow was called West Coast Herbs, and I used every penny I had—which was not much—to start it. I remember I didn’t even have reflectors on my bulbs, and I simply hooked bare bulbs to pulleys I could raise and lower myself. I really had to rig up the whole grow to work for me in my wheelchair, and I did not have many resources.
Luckily, my grow was located in Bellingham, WA, and there were many amazing people there willing to help me. I ran that entire grow—only 30 or so lights—by myself. In the end, having to process and package all that herb while trying to navigate running my first business in that political climate was too much. So, after five years, I decided to grow for the largest grows I could find to gain more experience while continuing to breed my lines. This did one very important thing for me: it let me lay the foundation crosses for what I called Atom Splitter, which later became what is now known as Samurai Sour.
I did that for a few years before it hit me that the only way to go higher was to get my degree in plant breeding from a good school. I applied to Oregon State as they had the perfect degree and also worked with hemp. College was a great experience for me, and I graduated with honors in 2024. I gained many skills including tissue culture which gave me even more tools to breed with. Learning how real plant breeders work changed many of the ways I thought about breeding Cannabis. I needed to use all the experience with the different plants I have grown—and my education—to breed more tactically than ever. I decided: if I really wanted to test my skills as a breeder, what would be the best way to do so? That’s when I really started working hard on Samurai Sour. My goal was simple: how do I capture what makes Sour D so good, but fix the things that I don’t like? For that story, check my write-up on Samurai Sour.
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