I put Southern Star's 4 x Iron Duke & Super Deluxe regular up against QUALITYMEDICALBUDS' x 8 Super Lemon Haze x Bubba Kush Fem seeds.
Southern Star Seeds: $80-90 for 11, 4 free seeds given, claim top genetics developed over 30 years, etc, exact reason I purchased from them and didnt mind paying a bit extra.
QUALITYMEDICALBUDS Seeds: $50-70 for 10, 8 free seeds were given after I asked for a custom order. Gave very accurate descriptions of each strain and very detailed parentage and traits.
Keep in mind that I am giving SSS another chance by germinating more of their seeds and this time recording with pictures and journal entries. I am hoping that it was just my rotten luck that the seeds I got first time around werent the best, but they were both purchased at the same time, germinated the same time, cloned veged and flowered at the same time, side by side.
Southern Star Seeds - 2/5: Stealth was awesome, arrived in 2 days
The Iron Dukes stunted straight away, and looked so bad I thought they were diseased and removed them from my veg tent. I put them still inside but in natural light for 2 weeks, did not grown an inch. Put them into flower, all 4 males. But theyre free, what can you expect.
Then the Super Deluxe seeds also stunted straight away. I purchased these seeds. They stunted for 12 days, but I wanted this "energetic high" strain so badly that I nursed them and eventually they pulled through. Using wire I LSTd the tops of them down, then they wilt for a day. After I took clones, 1 off each plant, they looked horrible. After flowering the clones, 3 were males and it was the smallest one that was the female. Bud looked odd. It grew outward in a line instead of tight together in a bud. Wont lie, kind of disappointed. Feel like this plant isnt worth the space.
QUALITYMEDICALBUDS Seeds - 5/5: Stealth was amazing, arrived in 3 days.
The SLH x Bubbas fem seeds from QUALITYMEDICALBUDS (free seeds with order, like the Iron Dukes from SSS) were germinated the same time as SSS's. There was nothing that I did for the SSS seeds that I didnt do for QUALITYMEDICALBUDS's seeds. They didnt stunt. They exploded from day 1 and there were only desirable variation in the phenotypes. The 2 phenotypes I finally decided to keep were a sativa dominant pheno, larger and stronger with skinnier leaves, and an indica dominant pheno which was shorter but bushier. I LST'd with wire, they were unaffected by it. I took 2 clones off each, were unaffected by it. Clones rooted in 7 days, 1 clone had roots in 5. Used string to tie them down, uneffected by it. I never topped or FIM'd. LST was enough so I dont know how they would take to topping but im sure they would be fine. After flowering clones, both were female as advertised and both buds looked PRETTY MUCH the same but a little different in density. Same color and had the same scent, got more than others ive grown by a few ounces easily, will be keeping this strain.
In conclusion, QUALITYMEDICALBUDS prices are the fairest and the best quallity so far. The free seeds from QUALITYMEDICALBUDS out performed SSS's in every way.
I am currently doing another side by side comparison of the same 2 sources, both seeds purchased and not free, and I will post the results when theyre in.
Southern Star Seeds: $80-90 for 11, 4 free seeds given, claim top genetics developed over 30 years, etc, exact reason I purchased from them and didnt mind paying a bit extra.
QUALITYMEDICALBUDS Seeds: $50-70 for 10, 8 free seeds were given after I asked for a custom order. Gave very accurate descriptions of each strain and very detailed parentage and traits.
Keep in mind that I am giving SSS another chance by germinating more of their seeds and this time recording with pictures and journal entries. I am hoping that it was just my rotten luck that the seeds I got first time around werent the best, but they were both purchased at the same time, germinated the same time, cloned veged and flowered at the same time, side by side.
Southern Star Seeds - 2/5: Stealth was awesome, arrived in 2 days
The Iron Dukes stunted straight away, and looked so bad I thought they were diseased and removed them from my veg tent. I put them still inside but in natural light for 2 weeks, did not grown an inch. Put them into flower, all 4 males. But theyre free, what can you expect.
Then the Super Deluxe seeds also stunted straight away. I purchased these seeds. They stunted for 12 days, but I wanted this "energetic high" strain so badly that I nursed them and eventually they pulled through. Using wire I LSTd the tops of them down, then they wilt for a day. After I took clones, 1 off each plant, they looked horrible. After flowering the clones, 3 were males and it was the smallest one that was the female. Bud looked odd. It grew outward in a line instead of tight together in a bud. Wont lie, kind of disappointed. Feel like this plant isnt worth the space.
QUALITYMEDICALBUDS Seeds - 5/5: Stealth was amazing, arrived in 3 days.
The SLH x Bubbas fem seeds from QUALITYMEDICALBUDS (free seeds with order, like the Iron Dukes from SSS) were germinated the same time as SSS's. There was nothing that I did for the SSS seeds that I didnt do for QUALITYMEDICALBUDS's seeds. They didnt stunt. They exploded from day 1 and there were only desirable variation in the phenotypes. The 2 phenotypes I finally decided to keep were a sativa dominant pheno, larger and stronger with skinnier leaves, and an indica dominant pheno which was shorter but bushier. I LST'd with wire, they were unaffected by it. I took 2 clones off each, were unaffected by it. Clones rooted in 7 days, 1 clone had roots in 5. Used string to tie them down, uneffected by it. I never topped or FIM'd. LST was enough so I dont know how they would take to topping but im sure they would be fine. After flowering clones, both were female as advertised and both buds looked PRETTY MUCH the same but a little different in density. Same color and had the same scent, got more than others ive grown by a few ounces easily, will be keeping this strain.
In conclusion, QUALITYMEDICALBUDS prices are the fairest and the best quallity so far. The free seeds from QUALITYMEDICALBUDS out performed SSS's in every way.
I am currently doing another side by side comparison of the same 2 sources, both seeds purchased and not free, and I will post the results when theyre in.