Seed information

I was just wondering why seeds are so expensive? Dont the plants produce loads of these things??? Is it as simple as putting a male and female together in the same grow room?? And will all the seeds produce the same plant it came from if they grow at all? thanks

there is a lot to the breeding though. go to http://greenhouseseeds.nl/shop/index.php to see a little about what they do, but from what I've heard they grow 2000 males and 2000 females and pick the best ones, dozens of times before the strain is stabilised. They have to recoup theses costs, so its kinda like selling medicine really expensive when it doesn't cost anything to produce, but billions in research.

It basically comes down to supply and demand. Seeds would be a lot cheaper if a lot of growers would fertilize at least one female per grow. The problem I think is that most people dont have the room to grow a female to full maturity and seed her in her own grow area.

So if "Bob" is the only one harvesting seeds then "Bob" can charge what ever the fuck he wants.

Privateaero is right about the cost of breeding different strains. I dont know about "billions" but I know it takes a tremendous amount of time and resources to stabilize a new strain or improve upon an existing strain.

Yeah, good question, I had the same one a few months ago... which is why I bought some cheap seeds from a random site... big mistake.

Yes, any idiot can throw a male and female together and produce lots of seeds... the trick comes from producing seeds of strains that are stable and consistent.

mismos00 said:

Yeah, good question, I had the same one a few months ago... which is why I bought some cheap seeds from a random site... big mistake.

Yes, any idiot can throw a male and female together and produce lots of seeds... the trick comes from producing seeds of strains that are stable and consistent.

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very well said mismos.. so to anwer the op's ?, so long as the breeder has done all of the hardwork with backcrossing and such on their strains, then each seed should grow relatively the same.. there are different phenotypes for each strain though, and some plants can have some variances in them.. since most seeds nowadays are a hybrid of both indica and sativa strains, some plants can either display traits from either the indica parent or the sativa parent, although the breeders do the best that they can to stablize the strains..
and the peson who said about supply and demand is right about that.. seeds are worth whatever someone is willing to pay for them is what it boils down to..

i figure why not grow ur own, you can find beaners for a good price and some freebies too. look at what fuckin dealers charge for a sack of weed. this way i knw what im smokin too

So if i let my plant seed would the seeds be any good to grow??? thanks for the information great help!!!

mcbonez said:

So if i let my plant seed would the seeds be any good to grow??? thanks for the information great help!!!

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Hard to say... in most likelihood you would get a mix of good and bad. The best thing to do, is if you have a good strain, is to clone it.

I've bred before, and its hard to get a plant with both parents genes. Like I had two very good strains, a male and a female, so I cross pollinated them and I only got two seeds that were a mix of both of the plants. It takes a lot of practice.

connorbrown said:

I've bred before, and its hard to get a plant with both parents genes. Like I had two very good strains, a male and a female, so I cross pollinated them and I only got two seeds that were a mix of both of the plants. It takes a lot of practice.

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But were the other seeds more like one or other of the parents or were they like neither?

Do you need a stable strain to start out with?

Typically though if you have two plants from a strain that has been stabilized, you can polinate the female and she will produce good stable seeds.

However, if you cross-polinate two strains you can end up with all kinds of different variants. that is why growers cross-polinate, then grow the offspring seeds, find an offspring plant that has the traits they want and then they pollinate it with which ever one of the parent plants that has the traits that they want their final plant to end up with. Then they breed the resulting offspring with each other until further generations of seeds are consistant. That is what stabilizing a strain means.

Hope that made sense....

So say i had a male and female lowryder and left them in same grow room wud the female produce lowryder seeds on its own which i would beable to plant and grow me another lowryder plant? Also could you make a female plant seed without having a male??? sorry if its a stupid question im new lol thanks