Every trait that sells an indica seed has been bred there by a mountain. The squat stature, the fast flowering, the hard resinous buds, the broad blue-green leaf, the purple that comes in as the nights turn cold: none of them is a breeder’s invention. They are the answers a population found over many thousands […]
Sativa seeds come with more vocabulary attached than any other category of cannabis seed, and a good deal of it means a certain thing to a botanist, something else to a seed company and something different again to the grower standing in front of the listing. The failed sativa grow nearly always goes back to […]
Put two packs of CBD seeds beside each other, one marked 1:1 and the other 20:1, and they look the same: the same brand packaging, same seed count, seeds that nobody’s eye can tell apart. Run them in the same tent and they part ways at the very first stage and never meet again. The […]
Pick up any pack of high-THC seeds and there on the listing is a number: twenty-five percent, twenty-eight, 30. It is printed with as much certainty as the seed count, and it is not remotely as reliable. The seed does not contain a percentage; it carries a ceiling, while the number on the pack is […]
Walk through most seed shops today and the regular section is a shelf at the back: smaller every year, marked cheaper than the feminized packs beside it, and picked up by a dwindling number of people who understand exactly what they are looking for. It is tempting to read that as the end of a […]
Open a pack of feminized seeds and you are holding the result of a quiet biological sleight of hand that took breeders the better part of the 1990s to perfect. Each one of those seeds has two parents, and both of them were female. No male plant touched the cross. Understanding how that is possible, […]