Brett Feldman is one of the few survivors in the legacy Los Angeles cannabis market, and now he’s giving some of the genetics that helped fuel Wonderbrett to the world.
We ran into Feldman by chance last weekend at Storz and Bickel’s launch party for the Venty. In front of Feldman sat a collection of his newest heaters and a few classics. The first thing that caught my eye was the BrydSeed sticker on the side of the black jars.
Feldman dove in on the new company where he is currently a one-man show with support from his wife shucking seeds into the wee hours of the morning after he’s already spent 10 hours of the day working on Wonderbrett stuff.
“All right, so, I've been wanting to put out a seed line for like, several years now. But with the way Wonderbrett set up,” Feldman said, “I wasn't gonna get what I felt was fair out of it.”
Feldman explains ByrdSeed to Leafly Senior Editor David Downs.
Essentially when Feldman expanded Wonderbrett, the tracks were laid in a certain way that made it difficult to do the seeds. The Wonderbrett seedline isn’t off the table either. It’s just Feldman has been doing a lot of personal work on these lines over the years that doesn’t have anything to do with that.
“But like all the dopest crazy shit I've been making for like the past like five years, I got a deep well that I can't get to fast enough,” Feldman said. “I need more space to pheno hunt. It's just frustrating. So I just wanted to make the seed line and put out the seeds and just share like all these things I've created over the past few years with the world really, and let other people run with it.”
Feldman hopes his efforts will find their way into crosses with all the most exciting gear of the moment once they’re out there. He noted all the crazy genetics that helped put him on the map, the Pink Picasso cut, the OZ Kush he hunted from the original Dying Breed drop, none of those have ever been given out.
Feldman emphasized how tight they kept everything. Now he is excited to be able to share everything, “and just give out like a whole like lane of things that we had to ourselves for a long time.”
Feldman went on to speak to how the selections for the line are being made. He isn’t really holding anything back, it’s just more of a timing thing, as Wonderbrett will of course continue to drop his newest heaters, too.
“Wherever it fits, it goes,” Feldman explained. “It’s not like I'm holding it back for something else, right? If it's time for Wonderbrett to drop a new strain it is going into that like the cush cola did.”
We asked Feldman if he ever gets a kick out of the Jekyll and Hyde aspect of it all. When you see him or hear his name, you think of one of the survivors that’s lucky enough to still own a piece of his efforts, efforts that took off obviously. But ByrdSeed is a home-based startup and one-man operation. He laughed, noting it all just goes back to Prop 215 days.
Wonderbrett started with the ethos that they wanted to grow fire, consistently, without bullshitting people after seeing so many OG renamed in pill bottles during the early years of legal medical cannabis access in California. That ethos carries on to ByrdSeed.
We asked Feldman when he expects to hit the circuit growers have to be on to really be considered “doing it” and not just some random Two-Light Terry tossing pollen all over his mom’s basement.
“I'll probably do like a few events this year. Like that's my plan this year. I'm not really a big traveler,” Feldman said before speaking on Spannabis in Barcelona next March, “but I really need to because everybody's asked me to come out there.”
Expect nine strains in the first ByrdSeed drop.
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Feldman explains ByrdSeed to Leafly Senior Editor David Downs.