Info on buying good seeds???

I am looking to buy some good seeds. I have been growing for a long time but never bought any seeds. Any advice would be appreciated. Also what does the auto flower mean(besides meaning automatically flowers lol) and would you recommend it?

carter651 said:

I am looking to buy some good seeds. I have been growing for a long time but never bought any seeds. Any advice would be appreciated. Also what does the auto flower mean(besides meaning automatically flowers lol) and would you recommend it?

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Here is a link to a site to find various businesses that sell beans. The sites are rated and for the most part my experience has taught me that the ratings can pretty well be trusted. Some businesses with equal or near equal ratings can still be as good or better than some others due to things like much wider selection, better pricing, better customer support and of course the all important shipment, that I am in part making fun of because people who do not receive placed orders so often claim to have been ripped off even if they receive the dreaded letter from the Customs Department. Many claim an empty parcel was actually shipped or that it was such shoddy packaging/poor stealth that is was the fault of the seed bank so they should replace the order ..... because some Customs worker actually succeeded for once in doing their job. Anyway a number of seed banks, including ones to stay away from, can be found using the following link. More exist but it is a good starting point. http://www.seedbankupdate.com/su.html I hope it helps.

Autoflower means a strain that does not need a light cycle change to 12 hours or more of darkness to begin flowering and will instead flower by a genetically coded period of time, as in months/days, regardless of length of the light cycle it is under.

Should you consider one? I don't know, should you? Myself I have never read about one or sampled one that lit me up enough to want to grow it, but that's just me. I am old school, emphasis on OLD. I am a traditionalist. I resisted feminized seeds for years and while I have learned to become rather fond of them I just find myself unable to warm up to the idea of autoflowering strains.

I know that some people swear by some autoflowering strain or strains and that many people cannot all be wrong, or at least I like to think they could not all be wrong. But to me I think it is because they, autoflowering strains, rely on Ruderalis to autoflower and since Ruderalis is only slightly more potent than industrial hemp, a slight over exaggeration there but not a massive one, to me anything with Ruderalis in it, especially enough of it to make it autoflower, means losing some degree of potency that existed in whatever strain was crossed with the Ruderalis. You cannot genetically water down levels and potency of THC and retain a previously existing full potency at the same time.

Through multiple crossing, sometimes a triple cross or more, potency can be increased while still retaining the autoflower capability but it will never match what it could be minus the Ruderalis. At best it can only be better than the worst it could possibly be.

I am sure that some autoflowering fans will not agree with that in the least, but that is how it is. You cannot pour one gallon of aircraft aviation fuel in with a gallon of 87 octane and expect to have two gallons of aviation fuel. Though put very basically, breeding is very much the same.

If you set your sights on something you may find it but there likely will be unwanted flaws or differences than what you set out to create that need to be tweaked and sometimes enough tweaking is needed that a must exist portion/capability of what you set out to create can be lost and then its back to the drawing board, or at least back a step or three in what was done. Then a different route is attempted starting at that point to see if the needed fine tuning can be accomplished without another unacceptable loss always occurring before the last of the needed fine tuning is accomplished or is at least close enough to accomplished and still retaining the must have capability/function so you figure you got all there was to get and that is all she wrote.

There is a definite give and take in breeding and no matter how diligently one might try they will never be able to take more from something than there is to be taken just through normal breeding. That would take genetic engineering, the splicing of certain sequences of plant DNA into specific locations in the chain to increase only specific things without any unwanted losses occurring.

That means at some point if someone faces a must have situation, such as say an autoflowering strain, they will then be compromising in some manner or to some degree in relation to other possible options.

Depending on setup/skill (including of course the maintaining of a constant or near constant set of growing conditions), strain grown and if Venus is in alignment with Uranus the very same thing could be said by or about any grower sooner or later in their growing career about a or a few choices of what to grow and how to grow it and why to grow it and when to grow it.

It is just greatly compounded in my mind by the inclusion of Ruderalis in autoflowering strains so I do have a definite aversion to them.

If you choose the higher quality autoflowering plants, the breeders have gotten the plants up to very high thc levels.. the diesel ryder by lowryder is supposed to be 17-19%. Mine have always been very strong, so i would believe that number. I personally like them for a few reasons.. they are very consistent, they are very fast, and you can flower them with plants that are vegging on a 24hr light schedule. I get about 35-40g a plant with the diesel, but I've seen people with 2oz or more with some other of the autoflowers.