INTERVIEW
Breeder Series: The Melty Interview BY M R . RO O T S
P H O T O G R A P H Y C O U R T E S Y O F M E LT I N G P O T FA R M
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On a sunny, yet very windy, day, I met with Sean from Melting Pot Farm to have a proper sit down and discuss his approach to growing and breeding cannabis. We met at the great Watersong Recording Studio in Bowdoinham to record some audio. Since we agreed to meet mid-morning, I stopped by Wild Oats in Brunswick and picked up some coffee and bran muffins. When we both got to the studio and settled in, we had a mid-morning breakfast together and jumped into some great conversation. Sean and I both started cultivating cannabis well before the medical program took off here in Maine, in the former times of prohibition. We knew this about each other, and it served as a good icebreaker. We had also both worked tables at the Indoor Cannabis Farmers’ Market that IPK held in 2016, right after adult use was voted in, so we had a good idea of the circle of people we mutually knew. Other than that, we had never previously had an opportunity to sit and talk with each other.
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Talking with Sean that day felt very much like talking with a friend that I had known for years, since the way back days. The fact that we could reminisce about strains from the midto-late 90s/early 00s that we had both grown, as well as our mutual respect for each other as long-time Maine cannabis gardeners, served as a positive foundation for the interview you are about to read. I started the interview by asking Sean about his origins with growing the herb. Melting Pot: “I got started growing cannabis as a late teen, based on my want for cheaper access to better cannabis. I didn’t want to have to continually be dealing with the people I was dealing with to obtain my cannabis. I was lucky enough to find some seeds inside of some pretty good cannabis that I had sourced. From there, it made sense for me to try to put them in the ground and see what would come of it.” Mr. Roots: “Do you think those were S1s, or you think someone maybe didn’t clip a male? Hard to tell, huh?”
