The history of Blueberry

Timeline

1. Early 1970sAllBud says DJ Short began working with landrace strains in the early 1970s, an earlier account than the late-1970s dates other sources give Blueberry or its development.^1,2,3,5
2. 1978DJ Short Seeds presents its award-winning strains as dating from 1978; this company timeline is not a specific Blueberry release date.²
3. Late 1970sDJ Short Seeds, SeedFinder and Leafly date Blueberry or its development to the late 1970s.^1,2,3
4. Around 1979JD Short told Willamette Week that the Blueberry phenotype people prize appeared in his father’s work around 1979.⁴
5. 1980JD Short estimated in a Willamette Week interview that Blueberry had been around since around 1980, while qualifying the date as an estimate.⁴
6. 1998Dutch Passion says it introduced its adopted Blueberry seed line to the Dutch market in 1998 with other DJ Short-bred Blue Family lines.⁸
7. 2000Blueberry from the Noon is listed as the overall winner of the 13th Cannabis Cup; Leafly calls the result Best Indica, Weedmaps records both Best Indica and best overall, and Dutch Passion lists first prize for its Blueberry line without a category.^1,6,7,8
8. 2001/2002Dutch Passion lists third prize at the 2001 High Times Cannabis Cup, while Weedmaps records a Dutch Passion Blueberry taking third place in the 2002 Indica Cup; the sources do not establish that these describe the same event or entry.^6,8
9. 2017Willamette Week published an interview with JD Short documenting his account of the breeding work, parent materials and Eugene-era spread.⁴
10. 2014–2024The 411 exact-name Blueberry flower tests in the state-lab dataset date across these years; label matching does not establish genetic identity.⁹

How the line spread

JD Short told Willamette Week that Blueberry’s stabilized color and berry-forward traits stood apart from the material then common in the United States, and that Eugene visitors carried genetics toward Northern California.⁴ Leafly says that decades of cultivation through multiple seed banks and breeders contributed to variation in the genetics passed under the name.¹

What remains disputed or version-specific

• Parents: Leafly gives Purple Thai × Thai; Weedmaps gives an Afghani male with two Thai females; JD Short’s son names four starting strains; AllBud calls the true parentage unknown but suggests Purple Thai × Afghan; and Dutch Passion describes Afghani, Thai and Oaxacan components.^1,4,5,6,8
• Era: Leafly, DJ Short Seeds and SeedFinder date Blueberry or its development to the late 1970s, while AllBud says DJ Short began working with landraces in the early 1970s.^1,2,3,5
• Award wording: the Cannabis Cup winners list names Blueberry from the Noon as overall winner in 2000, while Leafly calls its award Best Indica, Weedmaps says both Best Indica and best overall, and Dutch Passion lists a first prize without a category.^1,6,7,8
• Later Dutch Passion award: Dutch Passion lists third prize in 2001; Weedmaps reports third in the 2002 Indica Cup.^6,8
• Seed lines: SeedFinder’s DJ Short record says the original was never feminized, while Dutch Passion and ILGM market their own feminized versions.^3,8,10