ACSB.co - Aficionado's Seed Bank

DesertPlants

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I know a few others have asked about them, so I figured I would do a review.... Aficionado's Seed Bank from Colorado is AWESOME. Their customer service and shipping are more than I expected by far. I placed my order Sunday February 11th, 2018 at 14:49:25 (Colorado time). I received the order already today (the 13th). I had even screwed up part of my order and accidently ordered Blue Pine instead of Sugar Cookies. I emailed them at 14:52 PM and asked if they could change the order. Neil responded two minutes later and let me know they would fix it. Less than 48 hours later I have my order and it is the fixed one. Amazing service and amazing speed.

The only down side is their ordering system on their website. It definitely leaves something to be desired, but I may see if they are interested in a trade... a re-write of their site in exchange for some seeds. Don't know if they care to change it, but regardless, I will definitely be a customer again.
 

Medigator

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So this was a review on their shipping and seed quality. good infos, what about their strains? Did it grow well? Was it accorded to the description? How was the end product? Weight, terpene profile, potency? Because i ordered from them and i agree on the shipping and seed quality but i think there is enough hypes in their description as i was sold on the description of their Pakistani hash plant (another heirloom got out of the vault, she is landrace) thinking that is finally the real pakistani hashplant that they use in pakistan to make their hashish but guess what? It is exactly the same pakistan valley strain from world of seeds. So what vault this heirloom came from is what im still thinking about. It says you need to be an experienced grower to grow their php but infact it was the easiest plant i ever grown, i even grew the pakistan ryder auto from world of seed which turned to be exactly like their reg/fem version with toughness and aggressive growing traits of an autoflower so the auto version is even easier than photo version. I was born and raised in neighbouring country of Afghanistan and pakistan, smoked their hashish from 80' to 2002 when i moved to USA, i am yet to see any strain on the internet that would make hashish that comes close to the real thing, i dont know where they get their "landrace" strains from but i tell you what by no means it was an easy task to get a hold of those hashish smuglers or those who grow/process it and sell them to the smuggler people unless you have some serious local connection otherwise yes you can walk around those rural areas and see cannabis plants by the road, walkways or in the field but those are not the ones they cultivated for hundreds of years to be processed for hashish making. If you smoke real afghan hashish for the first time at first you will find yourself laughing for an hour to the point that you feel you can't breath anymore then after that you will feel like you weight 500 pounds as it knocks you down by its indica powers while you are most likely trying to figure out where the hell are you (you were at the city park where you hanged out for the past 10 years with your buddies) the hashish itself was dark green almost black, very sticky greasy and soft when the weather was warm in winter time it became a rock for the amount of resin it held. Once you lit the cigerett tobaco mixed with heated hasgish usually by lighting it on the tip of your keys and loaded it back in there and even smoking that with the cigerrete filter still intact, it would emit a strong burning tires/strong skunky smoke you could smell it a couple hundred feet away. Pakistani hashish was less dark in appearance and once you cut it the inside was yellow phosphoric/lime green, same potency but much more uplifting than afghan, a good choice for the morning before breakfast smoke.
Hell i smoked grass (dried leaves of cannabis plant thats been cut before flowering and hung upside down to dry) and it was stronger than hashish, very heavy thats all i can say. There are still landrace strains in Iran that nobody knows anything about them. Those strains has been collected from the vast territory of Persia from far east to europe by ancient king of persia who was into gardening, his gardening area was called "Pardis" which now became the word "Paradise" as it was the heaven on earth i think it was located in the "richest city under the sun" as they called it that at the time. There are lots of fruit, veggies and exotic plants in that country that has been brought there and acclimatized to the region. Its been a long time since i smoked something like those red/gold lable, habibollah cultivar, mazar hashish, 555 and al sabah or sabah alkheir after trying a whole lot of strains in search for something close to those stuff.
 

DesertPlants

Well-Known Member
So this was a review on their shipping and seed quality. good infos, what about their strains? Did it grow well? Was it accorded to the description? How was the end product? Weight, terpene profile, potency? Because i ordered from them and i agree on the shipping and seed quality but i think there is enough hypes in their description as i was sold on the description of their Pakistani hash plant (another heirloom got out of the vault, she is landrace) thinking that is finally the real pakistani hashplant that they use in pakistan to make their hashish but guess what? It is exactly the same pakistan valley strain from world of seeds. So what vault this heirloom came from is what im still thinking about. It says you need to be an experienced grower to grow their php but infact it was the easiest plant i ever grown, i even grew the pakistan ryder auto from world of seed which turned to be exactly like their reg/fem version with toughness and aggressive growing traits of an autoflower so the auto version is even easier than photo version. I was born and raised in neighbouring country of Afghanistan and pakistan, smoked their hashish from 80' to 2002 when i moved to USA, i am yet to see any strain on the internet that would make hashish that comes close to the real thing, i dont know where they get their "landrace" strains from but i tell you what by no means it was an easy task to get a hold of those hashish smuglers or those who grow/process it and sell them to the smuggler people unless you have some serious local connection otherwise yes you can walk around those rural areas and see cannabis plants by the road, walkways or in the field but those are not the ones they cultivated for hundreds of years to be processed for hashish making. If you smoke real afghan hashish for the first time at first you will find yourself laughing for an hour to the point that you feel you can't breath anymore then after that you will feel like you weight 500 pounds as it knocks you down by its indica powers while you are most likely trying to figure out where the hell are you (you were at the city park where you hanged out for the past 10 years with your buddies) the hashish itself was dark green almost black, very sticky greasy and soft when the weather was warm in winter time it became a rock for the amount of resin it held. Once you lit the cigerett tobaco mixed with heated hasgish usually by lighting it on the tip of your keys and loaded it back in there and even smoking that with the cigerrete filter still intact, it would emit a strong burning tires/strong skunky smoke you could smell it a couple hundred feet away. Pakistani hashish was less dark in appearance and once you cut it the inside was yellow phosphoric/lime green, same potency but much more uplifting than afghan, a good choice for the morning before breakfast smoke.
Hell i smoked grass (dried leaves of cannabis plant thats been cut before flowering and hung upside down to dry) and it was stronger than hashish, very heavy thats all i can say. There are still landrace strains in Iran that nobody knows anything about them. Those strains has been collected from the vast territory of Persia from far east to europe by ancient king of persia who was into gardening, his gardening area was called "Pardis" which now became the word "Paradise" as it was the heaven on earth i think it was located in the "richest city under the sun" as they called it that at the time. There are lots of fruit, veggies and exotic plants in that country that has been brought there and acclimatized to the region. Its been a long time since i smoked something like those red/gold lable, habibollah cultivar, mazar hashish, 555 and al sabah or sabah alkheir after trying a whole lot of strains in search for something close to those stuff.
Sugar Cookies and The Void were both great... super frosty and strong. Since they are custom bread, I don't really have another of the same cross to compare them to. Both were super easy to grow. I did smaller grows for a competition being run on this site. I am growing some others right now, but next run I will likely be doing a full 4-site 12gal per site RDWC grow of Sugar Cookies. The Void was tall, but dense. Neither of them was super stretchy, but just big overall. The Sugar Cookies had a lemon/gas smell and tasted earthy. The results were a very strong body buzz, but not a ton of head impact. The Void had some serious tacoing of the leaves, but after checking humidity, PH, etc... I came to the conclusion that is must be a genetic trait. Not the largest yield in the world, but definitely not the worst and it was super dense.

As for their Heirloom, the only company I know of that actually collects true heirloom genetics is Strain Hunters / Green House Seed Co. The others mostly just buy seeds online and breed them out. I am wanting to get some true historical heirlooms, but it is SUPER difficult to tell if you're going to get true heirlooms or just something they call the same name.
 

Medigator

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Thanks for the great review. I by no means judging acsb's strain performance as i still have more of their strain to grow, as i said before i am 100% agreed with shipping and seed quality plus communication. As a personal breeder i guaranteed germination of their seeds at first glance once i saw them and had 100% germination rate with their seeds. The only thing is that i was so excited that i find a somewhat different pakistani genetic other than the ones from a couple other landrace seedbanks which ended up being the common pakistan valley strain so you are right my friend most likely they improve the landrace seeds that are around nowadays but i beleive what strain hunters were doing is still the best way to get some landrace plants which would work best if you have real serious connections in those countries that have access to the real thing. All i can say is that acsb does care about customers, from seed quality to shipping to communication to quality free seed gift. Time will tell how the other strains i got from them will turn.
Have you heard of a strain called "key lime" from Oregon? Not to be confused with keylime pie that is different, the keylime is from secret society breeder from Oregon.
 

dizdaddy

New Member
ive been waiting for seeds since december 1st its now feb 8th. horrible customer service. i have to keep emailing and most the time no answer. i did grow the void, birthday cake, and wedding cake last year and they all came out real good. but i dont think i will be ordering here again.
 

growgory

New Member
ive been waiting for seeds since december 1st its now feb 8th. horrible customer service. i have to keep emailing and most the time no answer. i did grow the void, birthday cake, and wedding cake last year and they all came out real good. but i dont think i will be ordering here again.
What's that 2 and a half months and still waiting? Did Neil from ACSB even fulfill the order? I'm two weeks post ordering from ACSB and have already submitted a chargeback with my bank since the guy hasn't responded to a single one of my phone calls or emails. But he charged my card the day after the order, of course.

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