Why Breeders Still Buy Regular Seeds

Walk through most seed shops today and the regular section is a shelf at the back: smaller every year, priced cheaper than the feminized packs beside it, and picked up by a shrinking group of people who know exactly what they are after. It is tempting to see that as...

Feminized Seeds From the Inside

Open a pack of feminized seeds and you are holding the result of a quiet biological trick that needed breeders most of the 1990s to get right. Every one of those seeds has two parents, and both of them were female. No male plant was involved in the cross....

Eleven Weeks on the Autoflower Clock

Somewhere in central Siberia there is a scrappy little cannabis plant that nobody thought to cultivate for most of history. It flowers whether the days are long or short, because where it lives the summer is too brief to wait for a signal from the sun. That plant is...

Cannabis Seeds Decoded

Every cannabis plant starts as a seed, and the seed decides more than most people realise: the sex of the plant, how it responds to light, how large it grows, and the balance of cannabinoids and terpenes it can produce. Choosing well at this stage saves months of lost...