Thought I'd post a little bit about my experience with this company as I have just completed germination of 115 seeds sourced from FastBuds. I selected a wide variety of strains, and most have done well. In particular: Lemon AK, C4, Blue Dream, and Green Crack all appear to be very vigorous so far (avg 1.5" tall and 2" wide one week in from seed). I would recommend staying away from the following strains: Pineapple Express, Girl Scout Cookies, and most of all Gorilla Glue.
Of the total 115 seeds put into germination, it looks like I will end up with a total of 88-90 viable producing plants. Most of the failures to launch were the Gorilla Glue strain. I purchased 15 of them. 9 failed to germinate at all, and of the six that did germinate four of them are severely stunted and I do not expect them to live despite being extremely well cared for. The remaining two are unlikely to produce much unless they really get their act in gear (currently less than one inch tall and no noticeable increase in leaf spread over the last two days). They are running side by side with a bunch of other strains close to optimum environmental parameters. I'm struggling a little bit with humidity (running about 10 points low) but that's nothing that should lead to this level of failure. It's obviously a genetic problem. I also had a 6 out of 15 failure rate on Pineapple Express. GSC seems to be weak across the board, but all five that I germinated are alive and growing, they just don't look very healthy.
All in all I expected a higher germination rate than I have gotten from this company so far. I will say that those that did germinate and are healthy are VERY healthy. In particular the Lemon AK looks to be a real winner at the end of week one. 10 out of 10 sprouted, and those 10 are among the largest 20 of the plants currently under my care. Time will tell on what productivity will be like. I'll update once I have more data.
Of the total 115 seeds put into germination, it looks like I will end up with a total of 88-90 viable producing plants. Most of the failures to launch were the Gorilla Glue strain. I purchased 15 of them. 9 failed to germinate at all, and of the six that did germinate four of them are severely stunted and I do not expect them to live despite being extremely well cared for. The remaining two are unlikely to produce much unless they really get their act in gear (currently less than one inch tall and no noticeable increase in leaf spread over the last two days). They are running side by side with a bunch of other strains close to optimum environmental parameters. I'm struggling a little bit with humidity (running about 10 points low) but that's nothing that should lead to this level of failure. It's obviously a genetic problem. I also had a 6 out of 15 failure rate on Pineapple Express. GSC seems to be weak across the board, but all five that I germinated are alive and growing, they just don't look very healthy.
All in all I expected a higher germination rate than I have gotten from this company so far. I will say that those that did germinate and are healthy are VERY healthy. In particular the Lemon AK looks to be a real winner at the end of week one. 10 out of 10 sprouted, and those 10 are among the largest 20 of the plants currently under my care. Time will tell on what productivity will be like. I'll update once I have more data.
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