Our friends over at North Atlantic Seed Co., Crystal and Mariah, recently smoked some of our best flower! Check out how these new releases smoke! I’m reaching for the Nuclear True Blood when I am ready to unwind for the night. It brings...

Breeding Cannabis from F1 to IBL with Dirty Bird Genetics By: Beth Mathieu First and foremost, I want to send a heartfelt Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers here at NASC + Dirty Bird Genetics, to our own mothers, grandmothers, and maternal...

It feels weird to me, at times, to shine a spotlight on my own womanhood, and yet I think International Women’s Day offers an opportunity to reflect on how that has defined my journey in the cannabis industry, and to celebrate the contributions that women...

Let’s agree: the Dirty Bird Genetics family are nerds (in the most endearing way…obviously), so of course we would overthink things like pricing when it comes to assigning value to our genetics. Because we recently threw a new menu at you...

Dirty Bird Genetics Celebrates the Launch of their first Autoflower By Beth Mathieu – owner of Dirty Bird Genetics Dirty Bird’s release of the Black Goliath Auto marks a very special occasion for our team as the proud launch of our first-ever...

Results: Seed Color/Shape Viability Test By Ben Morris / Head Breeder, Dirty Bird Genetics To test whether a seed’s size, color and/or shape influences its ability to germinate, we tested 50 seeds of various sizes, colors, and shapes. All seeds were...

By Beth Mathieu – December 30, 2025 As the Dirty Bird team sat down to reflect on 2025 and the growth of our breeding program, one thing we talked a lot about was how far the genetics have come. Our efforts have compounded in a very observable...

October 11, 2025 Dirty Bird Genetics is celebrating two years this October, and now more than ever, I am unbelievably proud of the work our team is doing. Our efforts have compounded in a very observable way this year, and with each new cultivar we...

Cannabis plants are dioecious which means they can be male or female. The bud/flower and extracts people consume comes from female cannabis plants which produce cannabinoid rich trichomes. These trichomes house THCA (the precursor to THC) and other cannabinoids...

Hop Latent Viroid (HLVd) is a highly infectious pathogen that consists of a single stranded loop of RNA.1 It is many times smaller than a typical virus and is actually a “Viroid.” It is also known as “dudding” or the “dudding disease.” HLVd was first...