Quote Originally Posted by elskeetro
Hey all,


Do any of you more experienced growers find that descriptions on seed sites/catalogs tend to hold true?
thanks all
Skeet.
Well, there's a reason the call it the " seedy" business...

With the established houses (Sensi, Greenhouse, Flying Dutchmen) seed is usually as advertised- unless they screw up ( we are talking live product, it happens). The older houses are usually good about working with you if seed doesn't perform at least sorta as advertised. They've been in biz for 20,30, in at least one case 40 years- they aren't gonna trash their rep over a couple euro in seed.

With the knock-off houses ( Nirvana, Resiviour Seeds, etc,) they're selling F1 and F2 gens of unstablized hybrids ( of unstabilized hybrids)- No one on earth could say with any real certainty what those seeds are gonna do. They will mostly trend twoard the center of a bell curve representing each characteristic of each parent- but you don't know anything about the parents as a stable gene pool, so it's a crap shoot.

Don't get me wrong- I've grown lots of Nirvana stock in my time, and some of it's been very good, but yer lucky to get one classic pheno out of multiple packs. However, that one special individual can be extra special- yer looking at F2s of what was very good dutch stock. If I had the space, and wanted to find me a mom that nobody else on earth had- I'd consider looking thru the Nirvana stock. If I needed several hundred identical seed starts- no way. Just not consistant enough. Fine for smaller ops, but no way for anything large. About the same goes for Rez's stuff, though the really crazy phenos are closer to the surface. His stuff, you'll probabley find a plant you like in every pack. May or may not resemble the description- though he's gotten a lot better as he's stabilized his stuff.

And let me state my great respect for anyone who's growing for seed- it ain't easy, and it ain't quick.