MR. NICE STRAINS AND SEEDS

GOLDBERG71

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I've created this thread for the sole purpose of talking about MR NICE STRAINS AND SEEDS. I've been surprised since I became a member that there isn't more threads on these guys. I'm relatively new to this 3-4 years. I've either tried or possess more than half shanti's gear. Over the last couple of days I've come across a few other members who have MNS seeds to try and some as wide a selection as I have. So in creating this I hope we can create a thread for anyone interested in MNS or their gear. Here we can share information and hopefully help each other. All but one of my orders were direct from MNS. So i'm very familiar with them. Simone has taken care of all my orders and done a great job. Each order came quickly and was shipped standard mail. The one thing I would suggest is to be clear and brief when ordering. The only complaint I've seen about them always seems to be the same thing. A new person either wants to become a member for the auctions or has sent an email communication and they're not happy because they don't get an immediate reply. You have to remember when dealing with them they aren't wal mart or any major online store. Their auctions are there to help us. They lose on each and everyone unless there is an uninformed bidder who chooses to pay more than full price. I've been dealing with them for years and I would tell anyone to use them. If you have any questions about buying from them just ask here. Before I placed my 1st order I inquired about G13. Not only did shanti reply himself with a week but he offered to send me a free pack to try for myself. Any G13 strain I wanted he would send me to try. Ever since he's the only guy I've dealt with. I had 2 strains with smaller seeds both had poor germination rates. One of them still gave me 10 girls to choose from the other only had 7. But since I expect half the seeds to be male over all these weren't bad results. But I private messages shanti just to see if it was common. Only because I noticed a correlation between the seed size and germination rates. I didn't expect anything or want anything I was just curious. A few days later I get my reply and he wants my address to replace both packs! So all I can tell the impatient people who are on their forum is relax I'm certain that you will be happy in the end because it impossible to stand behind your gear any more than shanti does his. So enjoy the read and I hope we can help each other.
 

GUN1

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Did the shark shock a few years ago. The f1s were crap, loose, average, but when I took it to f2 I got some fire. heavy chemical smells tight compact heads and some threw patchy purple through the buds. Nevilles haze was nice.
 

GOLDBERG71

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How did you like the critical skunk? I have three in veg right now.
So far I've only run 1/2 pack of most. So anything I say is based on a small sample size. I've run full packs of SSH SPICE BLACK WIDOW AND MED MAN. Med man finishes the fastest of the widow family. It also had the tightest flowers. The one I chose to keep finished in 8 weeks and the frosting was very nice. My patients loved it. It was one of the 1st strains I ran and I just removed it along with most of my strains. At the same time I was running SSH and it was better so I didn't use much med man. I think I save a small jar of the last batch so I could judge it down the road and see if I want to replace the seeds after I break down and clean all my work areas upon completion of what's flowering now. Until now I've always popped 6-10 beans at a time. So I could test more strains. The critical skunk was good but I didn't get anything special in the 6 beans I popped. I've got a spring cleaning pack of them so I have plenty left to try but it's not on the top of my list. When I get everything out back together I'm changing that. I'm going to pop full packs only and do a selection from the whole pack. So I don't get turned off to a strain because I wasn't blessed with a diamond so quickly. Mango haze for example I popped 6 and got 5 females. They all happened to be the same pheno with smaller tighter buds. They did smell like mangos and they were tall and "viney". So they needed to be bent over and the side branches took a good bit of supporting. Now I played a part in them getting so tall.

When I start new seeds I allow them to grow without topping. That is until I can take a cutting of the main stem to root and quickly flip to sex my plants. During this time they are in 1 gallon pots. I'm topping and or tieing down down the seed plants. Once the sex is determined I cull the males and transplant the females to 5 gallon squat pot. That's to much time for mango haze. I learned that and don't get me wrong my patients LOVED it. But I didn't like the taste at all. Personally I couldn't take more than 3 tokes without putting it down. Now I've still got 12 beans to try and I'm sure there are phenos that I would love. But knowing what I know I keep choosing to try another strain.
 
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GOLDBERG71

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What's your favorite so far?

How was the Medicine Man? I've got a pack of those
Look above for med man.
So far SSH and LA NIÑA. My biggest regret so far is throwing away one pheno I had of SSH. I was just starting and I thought I should be looking for what is described on the website. So when expected time is 8-10 weeks I didn't know what to do with a pheno that wasn't quit done at week 13. I had plants ready to fill that space and I culled it. Since it wasn't finished I didn't smoke it. I used it to make hash instead. It was killer and I knew right away I fucked up and I had tossed the cutting. All because I was so afraid of long flowering times when I started. Now it seems I'm always drawn to the phenols that take longer. So after I get my area cleaned I've got some spider mites I have kill. I've got them under control but I want to irradiacate them completely. Plus I have to have the HVAC tech come in the house. So it's a great time to start over.
I've saved some cuttings of the faster flowering strains to keep the patients happy. But my agenda is changing. I just finished sexing g13/haze and afghan/haze. I took cutting from those females and culled the seed plants. So while I'm checking those for a diamond. I'm no longer keeping a strain just to keep it. I've got so many seeds I'm going to continue going threw them until I either run through them all or find that jem everyone is after. I'm going to start with SSH and LA NIÑA. I have roughly 100 seeds of each. So I'll be rotating between those 2 searching for the best haze pheno. The mullumbimny madness parent intrugues me. There's just something special about the aroma and taste. So I contacted shanti hoping for other crosses with it because I wanted to find a hazey pheno of another strain to cross with La Niña. Turns out there is none. But he suggested for hazey phenos I should look into the rock n roll series specifically the doors. Lucky me I have 4 females of them ready to go when I get set back up. As you can see I've got new females to fill all my space for an entire run. I'm going to use that time to sex as many of the seeds I can to make sure the following cycle are all new females.
 

GOLDBERG71

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I have nothing to base this on but at this moment with my selection I can say the ones I'm least inclined to start are the critical mass or the crosses with it. The reason for the is because I've noticed that the phenos that seem to get my attention come in smaller slower packages. And that just doesn't jive with that strain.
 

GOLDBERG71

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My favorite quicker flowering strain at this point is the shit. Better have the air filters on what an aroma and taste. But I also think introducing this strain might have brought on my spider mite issue. I read a post from Neville on the MNS FORUM where he was getting ready to work with skunk and the final line of the post said bring on the mites. I haven't been able to find it since they arrived in my garden. But it stuck in my head. There's also a couple of phenos one has nice tight indica flowers. Others lean more towards the sativa side. Both are great but one feature of the sativa leaning pheno is more leafy. But both are great with good amounts of crystals coating them.
 
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bluntmassa1

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I have nothing to base this on but at this moment with my selection I can say the ones I'm least inclined to start are the critical mass or the crosses with it. The reason for the is because I've noticed that the phenos that seem to get my attention come in smaller slower packages. And that just doesn't jive with that strain.
Yeah Critical Mass is great but you need selection that's why I'm running 2 packs of Critical Skunk. :bigjoint:

Medicine Man kicks Shark Shocks ass too.:bigjoint:

Shit is really good, NL5xAfghan was decent ASH is nice but didn't find nothing too special same with Nordle and Ortega I know I did others but CM, Shit and Med Man are the only lines I got a mother of did love that Mango Haze but my favorite took too damn long like 14 weeks so I didn't keep her still got half a pack probably run them with the SSH.

And of course that Early Queen x Afghan Skunk she is smelling so good some crazy fruity smells coming off like all them girls can't wait till harvest probably still 4 weeks to go though.:( Makes you want to hand rub some leaves. :bigjoint:

Even got an outdoor MNS pollen chuck going down they gonna fuck like wild beasts in the cold ass mountain may get some of my sensi girls but might as well do some breeding I bury enough used Pro-Mix in the mountains got to do something with it. :bigjoint:
 

GOLDBERG71

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Yeah Critical Mass is great but you need selection that's why I'm running 2 packs of Critical Skunk. :bigjoint:

Medicine Man kicks Shark Shocks ass too.:bigjoint:

Shit is really good, NL5xAfghan was decent ASH is nice but didn't find nothing too special same with Nordle and Ortega I know I did others but CM, Shit and Med Man are the only lines I got a mother of did love that Mango Haze but my favorite took too damn long like 14 weeks so I didn't keep her still got half a pack probably run them with the SSH.

And of course that Early Queen x Afghan Skunk she is smelling so good some crazy fruity smells coming off like all them girls can't wait till harvest probably still 4 weeks to go though.:( Makes you want to hand rub some leaves. :bigjoint:

Even got an outdoor MNS pollen chuck going down they gonna fuck like wild beasts in the cold ass mountain may get some of my sensi girls but might as well do some breeding I bury enough used Pro-Mix in the mountains got to do something with it. :bigjoint:
I've always steered clear of "early" strains. It just seems to me like the pheno I like best of ANY strain is never the early ones. I think when it comes to growing good things come to those who wait! Not to say I won't keep a good one. I will it would be the one I pass on to the patients. I'm a quality guy over everything else. However everyone loves the phenos I keep for myself. But they don't want to pay any extra for something that takes me 30-45% longer to flower. So they get what they pay for. And every cycle I put a favorite of mine that I keep for myself.
 

GOLDBERG71

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What's your favorite so far?

How was the Medicine Man? I've got a pack of those
I have high hopes for my Neville haze that all foxtails with large flowers. It's @ 15 weeks now and I don't think it's going to be done at 16 either. If I were to guess I'd say more like 18 weeks. I just took another 15 minutes off the day light time. So I'm down to 9.5 hours now. I started with 11/13 and at week 6 I took off 15 minutes. Then roughly every 2 week after I took off another 15. Talk about smell. I had 4 harvested the 3rd last night but if I bumped a branch when I watered it the whole room instantly smelled so sweet.
 

bluntmassa1

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I've always steered clear of "early" strains. It just seems to me like the pheno I like best of ANY strain is never the early ones. I think when it comes to growing good things come to those who wait! Not to say I won't keep a good one. I will it would be the one I pass on to the patients. I'm a quality guy over everything else. However everyone loves the phenos I keep for myself. But they don't want to pay any extra for something that takes me 30-45% longer to flower. So they get what they pay for. And every cycle I put a favorite of mine that I keep for myself.
Yeah pretty much why the most Sativa you hear about in CA is 9 week Blue Dream and shit you ain't getting much more if any for Nevilles Haze taking 16 weeks I just kept that 14 week Mango for my head yielded nice just don't pay any better than an 8-9 week plant that yields nice and tastes great. In a better climate though I'd grow a ton of Hazes and shit.
 

GOLDBERG71

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Yeah pretty much why the most Sativa you hear about in CA is 9 week Blue Dream and shit you ain't getting much more if any for Nevilles Haze taking 16 weeks I just kept that 14 week Mango for my head yielded nice just don't pay any better than an 8-9 week plant that yields nice and tastes great. In a better climate though I'd grow a ton of Hazes and shit.
I agree. But I just made a choice. I've noticed that I take way better care of my strains than I do the ones solely for the patients. I just lose interest in them because I know I have better in my library and could be working with them. They really don't care just give them something that looks good has a nice smell at a lower price and they'll take that every time. But when I light up one of my hog legs :joint: .. . . . all their noses perk right up. Talking about how great it smell and wow would you look at that. And I flat out tell them you aren't getting it unless you pay for it. So this is what I came up with. I'm going to worry less about the time and more on my quest for those diamonds. That will keep me way more interested than providing them with the same ole stuff because it takes 9 weeks. That isn't helping me find my trophies. So since all the plants that have caught my attention are in the 11-13 week range. I'm going to grow what I want and where I think I'll find what I'm looking for. And I'll just have to see how it works out cost wise later. I won't find what I'm looking for without doing some selection. I didn't buy all these spring cleanings auctions to hold them until I die! With that selection will be phenos that aren't great those will be the ones they get first. When I've found what I'm looking for I know which strains to go back to make the patients happy. But until last week I've maintained a keeper of every strain I had. I've still got seeds from most of those strains. Combine that with knowing now I can pick up seeds at 75% off or so from the auction coming back to a strain doesn't sound as bad to me as it did when I paid 150 for a pack of SSH. I just picked up a 100 of them at just over a buck a bean. How can you beat that? I guess by paying 40 euro for a spring cleaning of "shit" :clap:
 
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GOLDBERG71

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On May 19 I mailed out my payment for skunk haze and G13/widow and sent an email to Simone notifying her to expect it. She replied the next day letting me know she was going to be on vacation until the 27th so it might be delayed a bit.

This is the 1st time I sent cash. I just got a large order but a G13/widow was withheld from shipment due to insufficient funds. Western Union has a hidden tax deducted from the amount sent along with a transaction fee that is added to the amount sent. If anyone sends WU don't fill out the amount until you tell them what you want to be received. This way the hidden tax is accounted for. So when my payment was received it was less than my total. So it cost me about 66 dollars and the trouble of having to complete another order. So I won another auction to make it worth my while and decided I try sending cash. Because this order was much smaller I could not justify all the WU costs.
I received an email on the 29th that it was going to be shipped on the 30th. I received it today. Even with Simone on vacation it took 18 days total. All in all it was the fastest easiest and cheapest (no fees at all from WU) order.

I've always been against sending cash. But I think it's going to be my preferred payment method from now on with MNS! I could have won a couple of auctions for each order I've placed for all the WU fees I've paid. Just something I thought others might like to know. It's also untraceable. I started with WU to remove myself a little from the transaction but my info is still on file at WU.
 
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