Just potted my seeds. Below average germ rates in papertowels for 2 and a half days.
WR x AK - All 5 swollen, 1 tail, 1 looked like a tail was pokin. Planted in blue solo's.
JF - 8 sprouted, 3/4 throwin the seed shell. 1 looks like it's a lil dud. Planted 8 in red solo's, and 3 in seed tray.
#5 x Dude - All 6 popped in 48 hours, very vigorus, but were kept on the cable box vs the modem/router (warmer?) Planted in ~3.5" nursery sq's.
I'm sure you all could give a shit, but it's either write it here, or try to jam it all on today's date in my at-a-glance. And today's date already has something written - "Spice 4wks" ;^)
This is a Spice that I got from a pack of dreamtime back in the spring. I'm running her out with these 3. I vegged these 1 week in solo's, transplanted 1 week in 3.4l sq's, and ~10days into 12/12, I put them in bags. I should have vegged them 2+wks longer, or at least another week, and a HARD trim to encourage stretch. Love that Spice smell.
And here's the end of the EQ, a few days into the jar.
It really is a testament to the quality of the MrN plants, that no one even talks about these 2 strains. They are both delicious fire, but they fly under the radar because of the hazes/whites. I hit both of these cuts with the Shit male I had all spring/summer, so they aren't gone forever. Dec 10 drops the EQ x Shit. Drop Dec 10, Flip Jan 10, Sex Feb 1, Paint Mar 1, Outdoor seeds ready April 1.
Ok, lil story bout why I will look to MrN first for the rest of my seed purchasing life...
Oct 07, I spent my first ~200 on seeds from seedbay. I got Spice (80), GN's g13 x pine bud (60) sativa s.bank pakalolo (20) and mandala kalichakra (20). I had problems germing the 2 'expensive' strains. I started 2 threads at icmag just stating that I was having germ problems. Not whining, but I figgured that people may want to consider that when dropping $$$. DG closed the thread with the pinebud x g13 complaints (which ended up with 4 or 5 complaints just on the first page about the whole gn03 seedline) Someone told me to join over here, and hit up Shanti, which I did. I told Shanti that I went 1 for the first 11 beans, and he sent me a pack of SSH as a replacement. Ok... replaced an $80 pack (that I hadn't even popped all of as of yet) with a $160 pack. I got 2 plants from the last 6 Spices, both ladies. The SSH germed fine (I THINK 12 plants from the pack).
Well I stocked up ~Christmas 07, and bought a pack of Shit, Dreamtime, and 2 of seedbay's '2 fer 1 dreamtime' (5 packs of DT). The Shit germed fine, and the first pack of dreamtime germed fine before I added the remainder to an 'emeregency' stash. Well from 4 remaining packs of dreamtime, 2 plants. 1 shitty runt, and 1 male. I hit up Shanti again, told him I was only looking to replace the 2 packs that I paid for (not the free ones). It took a while, but shure as shit, I got the replacements. 2 packs of dreamtime @ $45/per = $90. I got the following as replacements - Shit (35), Devil (80), Lanina (80), and EQ (50). :dropsjaw:
I worked in sales in a previous life. I worked in the sort of sales that if a customer is unhappy with the company/product/service/manufacturer, he would come to see me. My cell was forwarded from my desk, and it was right there on a dozen different websites. I understand how to keep someone truly happy, and how to string them along, and how to make their head explode with dissatisfaction... Shanti sent out $400 retail worth of seeds to replace $170 spent on retail seeds. AND he did so with no stipulations other than 'lemmie know where you got the old ones; lemmie know where you want the new ones sent; lemmie know how they germ'. That's a real dood.
Add the fact that he gives away testers, answers customer service beefs DIRECTLY (huge to deal with an owner, not a pee-on), AND has every flavor under the sun available, and it doesn't make sense for me to spend $$ on seeds anywhere else.