Seed Hoarders Anonymous

Hi, my name is Dank Budz and it's been about 35 days since I've purchased seeds. You know it's hard, sometimes I find myself browsing JBC for no specific reason at all, just to see the new drops. The constant emails about sales and IG posts on 'one time only drops" has given me some serious fomo. But I've held strong, no more will I buy untested F1 chucks or reversed clone on clone S1s. Thanks for listening to my story

Edit: until the 420 sales that is..

Hi Dank Budz,

I purchased a pack of Bloom’s Black Maple today…. I have thousands of seeds, but I didn’t have those exact seeds soooo……

It was a 24hr flash sale price hahahahaha

Dank Budz said:

Hi, my name is Dank Budz and it's been about 35 days since I've purchased seeds. You know it's hard, sometimes I find myself browsing JBC for no specific reason at all, just to see the new drops. The constant emails about sales and IG posts on 'one time only drops" has given me some serious fomo. But I've held strong, no more will I buy untested F1 chucks or reversed clone on clone S1s. Thanks for listening to my story

Edit: until the 420 sales that is..

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I gave up and started making my own.

curious2garden said:

I gave up and started making my own.

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That's what made me stop, doing my first serious chuck and seeing how much seeds I got from a single small bud

Dank Budz said:

That's what made me stop, doing my first serious chuck and seeing how much seeds I got from a single small bud

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Most of my tables are seed tables. I spend my life sifting seeds LOL

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Seeds do not reduce potency, only yield.

Man if I knew someone who had Dante’s Inferno x maximum carnage seeds I would hit the black maple to it and share back this fall

What's the $$ amount everyone spent on seeds thus far?

bodhipop said:

What's the $$ amount everyone spent on seeds thus far?

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It’s almost impossible to quantify after 25 years of collecting.
It’s way more than I’m willing to admit

I made a few large orders years ago. Several thousand dollars worth. I'm kicking myself now for the selections I made. I bought a bunch of the typical polyhybrids people grow and a few landraces. I realized later that I don't want to grow that polyhybrid stuff anymore and then went back and bought a ton of landraces and those are what I grow these days while making more seeds and my own crosses. I gave most of the polyhybrid packs of seeds away as I'll never grow them. Well over $1000 worth. I have no interest in growing anything with a lineage that takes up 2 pages. I still have packs of fem seeds I bought that I'll start and give away this season to a few good friends for their outdoor grows as I'll never grow them.

I've never bought the same strain twice yet I have more seeds of almost every strain I've grown than I originally purchased because I make seeds of everything I grow. Buy once grow forever. That's how I roll.

Last run I started with 5 Sinai seeds. I have way more than that now. That's because of my buy once grow forever philosophy. I actual enjoy growing more now than I ever have now that I'm not growing the same old boring cookie cutter strains. Each grow is something new and surprising. I'm currently salivating in anticipation of harvesting my current grow of a Landrace Thai and and African Malawi. I find these primitive strains to be more unique in taste and effect than any of the Purpleberry Chocolate Punch Cookies stuff out there. My only regret is that I wasted so many years growing all the cool named strains. Oh well. Better late than never I guess.

bodhipop said:

What's the $$ amount everyone spent on seeds thus far?

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It probably hurt to imagine lol

I'm honestly really lucky that I:

1) did a pretty good job of educating myself on what's what before making any seed purchases. I've only once bought something due to a name & got pretty lucky with that one.

2) have a wife who will legit kill me if I spend more than a few bucks behind her back lol! To her credit though she's really reigned us in financially, we do quite a bit with very little.

This does not stop me from surfing the web and seedbanks often. I just window-shop.

All i know is i been collecting seeds since before i was buying em and at this point im set for life yet theres always the next one you like that got away that becomes available i imagine most people here have a similiar issue lol

Living in a secluded area with restrictive laws, I haven't held back in buying any and all strains I want to try, cause simply put its like a kid in a candystore. I have more than enough but still find myself buying, lol! I need to put an end to my hoarding addiction. Have several lifetimes worth of beans to grow. Anywho, glad I'm not alone

Dank Budz said:

Edit: until the 420 sales that is..

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i find Black Friday sales to be better. but both 420 and BF is the best time to buy seeds. lol

Im not ready to talk yet. It hurts too much, gonna try to open up more on next meeting.

Kalkwerk said:

Im not ready to talk yet. It hurts too much, gonna try to open up more on next meeting.

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That's where I'm at man.

I've been putting in the work and have done my best to avoid unnecessary purchases. Now if I only people would stop releasing packs I need.

Been doing good not buying seeds lately. I'm waiting on 420 sales although the packs I want atm already cost $50 lol. Chucking more making my own seeds so I won't have a lot of space for other breeders gear while I test my own crosses. I feel like my current line up is the best herb ive had in awhile so I will play around with the genetics ive got running now vs chasing the unicorn buying more seeds. I'll play the lotto with my own seeds it's cheaper.

Only bought two packs this year the C&C Red Leb and I couldn't pass up the two fer on AG's NL2.

I guess that's three packs but I only paid for two?