Nirvana Seeds

Has anyone experienced slow girl scout cookies growth before? I feel like they grow quite slow compared to other strains. Literally doing every thing carefully and they just grow slow

Joncoh101 said:

Has anyone experienced slow girl scout cookies growth before? I feel like they grow quite slow compared to other strains. Literally doing every thing carefully and they just grow slow

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Everyone!

lol so its normal

A long time ago I read that Nirvana are just pollen chuckers and that's why they can sell seeds for so cheap. I have grown their Northern Lights in 2015 or so and it wasn't too bad. But it did have TMV...

I haven't seen too many people who have been very impressed with their genetics but they are great for new growers who just want a bunch of seeds for cheap.

Lol thats the thing they werent that cheap

ismann said:

A long time ago I read that Nirvana are just pollen chuckers and that's why they can sell seeds for so cheap. I have grown their Northern Lights in 2015 or so and it wasn't too bad. But it did have TMV...

I haven't seen too many people who have been very impressed with their genetics but they are great for new growers who just want a bunch of seeds for cheap.

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Their "old school" varieties that they've been selling forever are pretty decent. I liked their White Widow back in the day and have heard good about everything else. A little wary about their girl scout cookies/gg4/etc... new stuff. If I want cookie crosses there's definitley more reliable breeders here in the states with verified genetics. A lot of these dutch companies selling cookie crosses aren't using real cookies (looking at your Barney's farm).

The older I get though the less I'm worrying about strain names and hype stuff. Whether it's real GSC or not if it's good then it's good... all that matters

i've grown a few more of their strains now. i grew their original glue, candy kush, northern lights, nicole banana, aurora indica, and skywalker.
something that stuck out to me about them vs other breeders is that a lot of their strains were really similar. and they reminded me of old school white widow you'd get in amsterdam, kind of hairy spicy buds. they definitely aren't bad. i never had any problems with any of their plants and the results were always decent, above average in potency but kind of lack luster in bag appeal.

i don't keep any of their genetics anymore. but maybe i just didnt get any get phenos. who knows.

I've grown like 10+ nirvana strains from 2004-2009 and found 1 nice pheno from the following strains: top 44, Ice, snow white, PPP, ak47, k2 and maybe a couple others I cant remember. Seems you gotta pop the whole 10 of regulars to find one decent female.

All the ones I mentioned were dense top shelf flower with potency.

As I understand, originally they were just reproducing others' work with slightly different names. For example they dropped the 's' and called their version "northern light". Jack Herer/Jock Horror is another that comes to mind. The seeds were cheap because they weren't actually breeding, just making seeds. Good quality, and to some, questionable ethics. That's for you to decide.

I've read that the company changed hands some years back and the corporate vision changed. I haven't done business with them for at least 3 years, but I've seen complaints about the changes in their catalogue and their genetics.

The only thing from Nirvana I've run has been the Aurora. I've popped quite a few beans of this strain, consistency was good as was potency but it does have a tendency to get bud rot because of the flower structure.

Nirvana and Homegrown Fantaseeds both sprang from the old Positronics company in Amsterdam, when it closed down they either purchased or stole the genetic library, I forgot the whole gistory. Their old genetic stock was top notch because they had a bunch of original cuttings, over the years they were either lost or diluted into new hybrids. they've discontinued some great sativas they once offered like Full Moon(Thai landrace) and eldorado(Oaxacan landrace). If I were getting seeds by Nirvana, I wouldn't want to invest in something like a cookie replica, I'd buy their internal creations. I've got 40 Misty Kush seeds I'm waiting to germ around New year's to find something like a heavy yielding widow, their Medusa was basically that. They replaced it with this, so it's likely superior.

Misty was by far the best strain I have ever grown from Nirvana. Ran it for a few years around 2000 then got seeds around 2007 and found it to be the same as before and kept it around for while again.
No idea if they still sell it but it sure was a kickass strain.

Cheers

Gonna try to run a couple of these, snow white, ppp, mango skunk or papaya in a few months.

Gonna do small plants and just cut 1 clone from each. Trying to find some old school terps.

I will not shop with Nirvana again and honestly neither should you. I had a fine experience my first 2 purchases. I mean the price was higher than it was stated even when considering fees and it took forever to get to me. Also there was one time when my order was split in two. I asked them about it. They responded in a way that did not in any way answer my concern. However the product arrived a few weeks later, so no big deal.
On my third attempt thought everything changed. Nirvana requested credit card information thru the email and refused to accept any other information any other way. I was shocked, it is clear that they cared more about capturing customer information then the sale. This had all been approved by the credit card company using secure methods previously. Now they wanted Personally identifiable information sent over international lines. I brought this to their concern in another review. They stated that they have almost zero credit card fraud. Which doesn't answer my question. They then smugly concluded the conversation with "Peace"...
Personal identifiable information NEEDS PROTECTING. By the customer and the companies they shop with!
Nirvana made it clear to me they do not respect a customers information. I suggest shopping thru a store front that will respect your information enough that they will not ask you to risk it via unsafe methods. Credit card transactions that require a photograph of the card be sent to an email in order to shop with them?!?!?! In the year 2020?!?!?! Shop at your own risk!!!

I would recommend the Misty Kush. Caramel coffee/mocha smell and taste, very sturdy growth/squat and potent.