Seeds
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MrMayhem1134
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Are you stateside or overseas?
Lightgreen2k
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It does Matter!
People can guide you to stateside banks or overseas ones...
people have give reviews on a few of the stateside banks
HazednConfused
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Too late for outdoor
RIPE
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I can't get past Seedman's processing my credit card payment. I authorized payment for two days only for Europe. Should probably cancel this with Seedman. It should not take this much work to buy a seed. I am getting a bad feeling about this transaction. Wondering if the seeds will even germinate.
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MrMayhem1134
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Jamesbeancompany.com
Greenpointseeds.com
Oregoneliteseeds.com
Neptune seed bank
Attitude seed bank
To name a few. Most of those are stateside except attitude which is across the pond
. Hope this helps!
Greenpointseeds.com
Oregoneliteseeds.com
Neptune seed bank
Attitude seed bank
To name a few. Most of those are stateside except attitude which is across the pond
. Hope this helps!
RIPE
Active Member
Seedman operation alerted my credit card company, my wife, and anyone else. I'm getting fitted for my orange jump suit today. Don't know why Seedman could not seek payment from VISA during the window when the card was open to sale to Europe. Must be nice doing business online. Don't know if our card has been charged or not - Seedman site says they are paid and preparing shipment lol.
Lordhooha
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Seedsherenow.com is my preferred but James bean is a stellar company too. My most recent was Thur fires tax which has good stuff too.
Daniel Lawton
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I bought autoflowers from ilovegrowing guy. Had to enable the credit card. The bank didn't like the foreign location the first time around.
All seeds I bought from them sprouted amazingly fast (1.5 to 3 days). Great genetics! See how beautiful and dense they are when using a 19W E26/27 LED light from Levin. A 2 month old Northern Lights pic is attached.
The plants I grew outdoors, in full California sunlight, got all spindly and tall. So tall that they needed wind support stakes. The yield was similiar to indoors, but they ended up riddled with caterpillars. A dozen per plant! Trying to take out the caterpillars inevitably leads to crushed caterpillars dumping green ooze into the buds. The caterpillar poop is unremovable. There's also very pretty little colored fruit flies and such, completely stuck to the trichomes. No way to find all those. Washing in water does not remove most of them.
Indoors, use some mosquito dunk and you won't have bug problems. Mice will bit the heads off sprouts and spit them out, watch for mice till the plants get bigger. When they're bigger, mice only bite a chunk from a big leaf, and spit it out and leave.
All seeds I bought from them sprouted amazingly fast (1.5 to 3 days). Great genetics! See how beautiful and dense they are when using a 19W E26/27 LED light from Levin. A 2 month old Northern Lights pic is attached.
The plants I grew outdoors, in full California sunlight, got all spindly and tall. So tall that they needed wind support stakes. The yield was similiar to indoors, but they ended up riddled with caterpillars. A dozen per plant! Trying to take out the caterpillars inevitably leads to crushed caterpillars dumping green ooze into the buds. The caterpillar poop is unremovable. There's also very pretty little colored fruit flies and such, completely stuck to the trichomes. No way to find all those. Washing in water does not remove most of them.
Indoors, use some mosquito dunk and you won't have bug problems. Mice will bit the heads off sprouts and spit them out, watch for mice till the plants get bigger. When they're bigger, mice only bite a chunk from a big leaf, and spit it out and leave.
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Daniel Lawton
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I get my Levin's on amazon. $12 each (had to buy 10 to get that deal).
Be SURE it says 36W Levin brand. Just being E26/27 isn't enough, and DON'T believe the ratings. I bought 6 to 8 different kinds. One claimed 54W; it was only 12W. The ones that claim 24W are mostly 12W or less, with an occasional 14W.
I'm an engineer and can measure the actual wattage. The only reliable one I found was Levin brand. It claims 36W, but in fact they are universally 19W. That makes sense if you understand LED ratings from an engineering point of view.
But the 24W being actually 12 doesn't make sense, they're fibbing big time.
Also, do you need 2 of them to get max yield on a dwarf autoflower? I'm not sure yet. I've grown a bunch of plants to maturity, but just can't say if 2 bulbs gives better yield. So probably not. If something isn't obvious, it's probably not significant. Besides, if you have 2 bulbs, grow 2 plants!
When the plant is a baby, and until it's nearly a month and a half, the LED light makes it VERY DENSE. It's wonderful! The full brightness shines on the leaves, nothing is wasted until it starts to stretch. If you grow one with a Levin, and a different plant outside, the outside one will be wimpy by comparison.
Eventually however, they both seem to make relatively the same yield.
How much darkness do you need for an autoflower? None for the 7 varieties I have, except for blueberry.
LowRyder, Amnesia Haze, Northern Lights, White Widow, Super Skunk, and AK47 are absolutely happy with 24/7 lighting. That's why the 19W bulb is better than sunlight. 24 hour light. For blueberrry, maybe 20/4 would be enough darkness to trigger flowering. I got paranoid and did 12/12 when it was clear she wasn't going to flower without darkness.
Blueberry is disappointing under a single LED light. Too stretchy, lives 5 months+. Super Skunk and Amnesia Haze can completely finish in 2.5 months.
Soil: Very important. I didn't believe it at first. But marijuana REALLY needs the nutrients. I cooked up a formula based on all the advice I found in here and on the net, and it makes perfectly dark green plants until the budding, and the budding is very dense. No change in nutrients the whole time, no need to switch from grow to bloom.
Watch out for getting anxious and picking buds too early. They'll be less dense than what you can buy. Just let those buds mature until most of the hairs turn brown, and the trichomes have some amber ones. Otherwise people tend to pick too early at first, and then complain the buds don't get dense and hard.
Read up if you need to make soil, but pay attention to: Edna's best or Fox farms soil. Worm castings. Bat guano (get one that is low in nitrogen, so it's for the flowering stages). Epsom salts, Kelp Meal, and osmocote (1TB per pot).
Results of that: no need to change nutrients, plants are green and dense till flowering, and the buds are so filled in, you'd have a hard time crushing one with your hand. Might not be the mellowest smoke however, people like to flush nutrients at the end, this soil combo won't flush so well. Frankly, I don't care if the smoke is mellow or not. In the 70s, they put jet fuel in there, and it seemed better to me back then.
If you don't like having hundreds of gnats, break a mosquito dunk onto the top of the soil. Takes 2 weeks to fix an existing infestation, but it does work well.
Be SURE it says 36W Levin brand. Just being E26/27 isn't enough, and DON'T believe the ratings. I bought 6 to 8 different kinds. One claimed 54W; it was only 12W. The ones that claim 24W are mostly 12W or less, with an occasional 14W.
I'm an engineer and can measure the actual wattage. The only reliable one I found was Levin brand. It claims 36W, but in fact they are universally 19W. That makes sense if you understand LED ratings from an engineering point of view.
But the 24W being actually 12 doesn't make sense, they're fibbing big time.
Also, do you need 2 of them to get max yield on a dwarf autoflower? I'm not sure yet. I've grown a bunch of plants to maturity, but just can't say if 2 bulbs gives better yield. So probably not. If something isn't obvious, it's probably not significant. Besides, if you have 2 bulbs, grow 2 plants!
When the plant is a baby, and until it's nearly a month and a half, the LED light makes it VERY DENSE. It's wonderful! The full brightness shines on the leaves, nothing is wasted until it starts to stretch. If you grow one with a Levin, and a different plant outside, the outside one will be wimpy by comparison.
Eventually however, they both seem to make relatively the same yield.
How much darkness do you need for an autoflower? None for the 7 varieties I have, except for blueberry.
LowRyder, Amnesia Haze, Northern Lights, White Widow, Super Skunk, and AK47 are absolutely happy with 24/7 lighting. That's why the 19W bulb is better than sunlight. 24 hour light. For blueberrry, maybe 20/4 would be enough darkness to trigger flowering. I got paranoid and did 12/12 when it was clear she wasn't going to flower without darkness.
Blueberry is disappointing under a single LED light. Too stretchy, lives 5 months+. Super Skunk and Amnesia Haze can completely finish in 2.5 months.
Soil: Very important. I didn't believe it at first. But marijuana REALLY needs the nutrients. I cooked up a formula based on all the advice I found in here and on the net, and it makes perfectly dark green plants until the budding, and the budding is very dense. No change in nutrients the whole time, no need to switch from grow to bloom.
Watch out for getting anxious and picking buds too early. They'll be less dense than what you can buy. Just let those buds mature until most of the hairs turn brown, and the trichomes have some amber ones. Otherwise people tend to pick too early at first, and then complain the buds don't get dense and hard.
Read up if you need to make soil, but pay attention to: Edna's best or Fox farms soil. Worm castings. Bat guano (get one that is low in nitrogen, so it's for the flowering stages). Epsom salts, Kelp Meal, and osmocote (1TB per pot).
Results of that: no need to change nutrients, plants are green and dense till flowering, and the buds are so filled in, you'd have a hard time crushing one with your hand. Might not be the mellowest smoke however, people like to flush nutrients at the end, this soil combo won't flush so well. Frankly, I don't care if the smoke is mellow or not. In the 70s, they put jet fuel in there, and it seemed better to me back then.
If you don't like having hundreds of gnats, break a mosquito dunk onto the top of the soil. Takes 2 weeks to fix an existing infestation, but it does work well.
I'mBatman
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I had the same problem so I found another seed bank, n got crap seeds from Canada.
Daniel Lawton
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Where you guys located? It's legal to give seeds away in California. I went nuts making clone seeds from the ones I bought, and now I've got 3000 seeds in the fridge. I'd give both of you some if it was easy and legal.
I'mBatman
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I really appreciate it, I live in Texas and everything is on the hush hush. Thanks though, you're awesome for offering. Don't get me wrong, I would love to have some. I'm down to four seeds.