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Good cannabis seeds: how to choose?
Even experienced growers are not immune from buying low quality cannabis seeds. Like any other product, marijuana is good, with pronounced properties, and it is bad, absolutely not meeting the characteristics declared by Sidibank. The reason may be different: ranging from improper storage of seeds and ending with outright falsification. Our experts will help you figure out how to choose good cannabis seeds so that they fully meet your expectations.
Why is it so important?
Marijuana seeds are far from being a ready-to-eat product. The grower has to go through a difficult path to obtain the required material. And it’s a long journey. Autoflowers will require 3 months of waiting, and photoperiods will take 4-6 months. It’s hard to even imagine the degree of disappointment when instead of expensive cannabis you get an incomprehensible homemade strain or butor. And low-quality hemp seeds can cause many problems when growing:
- low germination;
- plant death;
- poor seedling health;
- small harvest;
- low cone effect;
- mutations.
These are far from all the troubles that bad seeds can bring. But most importantly, you will lose your valuable time for growing it is not clear what, if not completely disappointed in growing.
Where do fake cannabis seeds come from and how can you tell them apart?
New varieties of cannabis are being developed by breeders and, on a larger scale, by sidibanks. There are the legendary Dutch Passion or Green House Seeds , two of the largest seed banks that have been separating cannabis for a very long time. And there are relatively newcomers to this industry who have become no less popular due to the high quality of their products. For example, these are Bob Marley Seeds or Divine Seeds.
Each breeder and sidibank has its own seed selection technology and its own price. But, like any other field, there are especially enterprising individuals who want to capitalize on someone else’s reputation. They open their underground concerns for packaging ordinary marijuana seeds in beautiful bags and boxes with hyped names. By reducing the cost of a “branded” product, they get a lot of customers who like to find “where it’s cheaper.” You get frank bullshit, but the grower will not complain to the police.
By choosing original seeds on trusted sites, you get 100% confidence that exactly the variety for which the money was paid will grow from the seed. The fact is that Sidibanks work according to proven technologies, test each batch of goods and control the quality at all stages of harvesting cannabis seeds.
But here another problem arises: how do you know that it is the original that is in front of you? Many shops try to protect their seeds from fakes by inventing verification elements on the packages. For example, GHS has implemented a mini-lottery with a code. The numbers under the protective layer are entered on the official website of the company – and you are convinced of the authenticity of the product.
In any case, before buying a famous variety, find out who and where brought it out, whether the packaging matches the original one, how adequate the price is.
Where to find good cannabis seeds and how to choose them?
Looking at the seeds, it’s hard to understand how good they are. It will be possible to evaluate this only after the full cycle of maturation of the plant. But experienced growers know a few simple secrets that help them choose quality cannabis.
Secret 1. Find a decent seller
Today, this is not difficult to do, since there are a lot of grower forums, where even representatives of large online stores like Zamnesia are present. They advise on certain varieties, help to choose marijuana with specific properties. You can safely trust such sellers, they value their reputation, and they definitely will not sell low-quality goods.
Secret 2. Trust well-known shop and trusted breeders
Even beginners can quickly find popular marijuana seed preparation companies. They are called sidibanks. The best are breeders from Holland, USA and Spain.
Secret 3. Study the packaging
We have already said that it is better to choose the products of companies that are trying to protect the goods from counterfeiting with complex packaging. Pay attention to the quality of the printing of the packaging, the information indicated there and the expiration date. We recommend that you keep the seed packages even after they are planted in order to compare them in the future, and be able to check whether the original is in front of you or falsification.
Secret 4. Features of storage of seeds and delivery
Competent online stores pay great attention to the storage conditions of hemp seeds. If the room is too cold or hot, even branded seeds can get sick or show low germination in the future. No less significant are the terms of delivery. The product must be carefully packaged so that it is not damaged during transportation.
Secret 5. Preference for stabilized varieties
If you want to grow a healthy plant with a good yield and the expected effect, choose varieties with the purest genetics. The fact is that today there are a lot of hybrids, sometimes quite incomprehensible, with genetic instability and a large spread in phenotypes. They usually have difficulty pronouncing names and are not in good health.