Colored / Dyed seeds? Have you seen these?

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Mr. Diamond

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Someone showed me some seeds they bought that were bright pink and blue etc. He told me he bought some mix pack. Does anybody know anything about them? Are they any different than their other seeds ... I think he said he got them from Greenhouse seeds.

Mr. Diamond
 
akula said:
Green House Seeds using a stupid gimmick to peddle their crap? Ya dunt say.
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Kind of like how they have currently resorted to giving away a grinder and a keychain with their seeds as incentive at the tude. Because on a marketing level they are admitting that that might be a better incentive than their seeds.
 
Its a coating with some minerals and shit. Its meant to hold moisture and help with Germination. You can call it a gimmick but its actually just utilizing current horticultural technology. You can buy lots of seed with a coating, I've gotten heirloom lettuce seeds with a coating. So no conspiracy here...
 
I wonder if the color coating could also be a way to hide less-than-desirable looking seeds. When I breed my own, I get dark, tiger-striped or spotted seeds. It's not often that seed companies put out that same quality where the seeds were allowed to fully develop inside the plant.
 
homebrewer said:
I wonder if the color coating could also be a way to hide less-than-desirable looking seeds.
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Wow thats not paranoid thinking at all, not in the least.
I hate to tell you kids this but there is not a conspiracy to rip you off here. You are talking about people who take making good seeds very seriously.
 
echlectica said:
Wow thats not paranoid thinking at all, not in the least.
I hate to tell you kids this but there is not a conspiracy to rip you off here. You are talking about people who take making good seeds very seriously.
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From what I know, Greenhouse, Arjan and Franco, couldn't give a fuck abouit the genetics they peddle as long as they're making money. Yeah, they're marketing genius', but there's reason no one serious about growing raves about their genetics.
 
echlectica said:
Wow thats not paranoid thinking at all, not in the least.
I hate to tell you kids this but there is not a conspiracy to rip you off here. You are talking about people who take making good seeds very seriously.
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Looks like someone is new to the hobby.
 
I've been growing pot since 1985 probably before you were born kid. And I be gettin 2 grams per watt off my P.Urkles, brah.
 
echlectica said:
Its a coating with some minerals and shit. Its meant to hold moisture and help with Germination. You can call it a gimmick but its actually just utilizing current horticultural technology. You can buy lots of seed with a coating, I've gotten heirloom lettuce seeds with a coating. So no conspiracy here...
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Typically commercial vegetable seeds are coated for a variety of reasons. Some coatings do help retain/repel moisture, but this isn't really necessary in the case of medical cannabis seeds which are invariably germinated in small quantity in controlled moist environments.

Some coatings contain fungicides. Some contain polymers to help the seeds "slip" through automated planting machines better, and prevent sticking together. In many cases, the coating is just to "bulk up" little tiny seeds (like lettuce ones) so they don't blow away with the wind and also to let them be fed through machines one at a time for planting. Colorants can be added both to make the seeds stand out (ie against soil) to verify where they are being deposited, but also to color code different types of seeds so they can be readily identified both from a distance, and one from another.

Its questionable how "necessary" coatings are for common hemp seeds, which preserve well and typically germinate relatively quickly under a wide variety of conditions. So far as I know commercial hemp seeds are NOT typically coated and and this is not the industry standard with medical cannabis either.

Now all that said, I don't think the coatings are going to hurt anything, but apart from color coding the particular strain for easier identification, in practice the benefit to a buyer of medical cannabis is probably minimal.

IE, its a gimmick.
 
Oh looks like we have a GreenHouse marketing warrior up in this thread. Howwa doin echlectica?

Jogro- thanks for the insight.

At first I thought a gimmick to trick the easily manipulated (in other words GHS clientele list). But now I may be leaning towards hiding their substandard product. Either way never again.
 
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