I recently ordered a bunch of single seeds from Herbies and from the single seed centre, in the orders were a few of RD. I've always been abig fan of RD and always had great success with them but I have been reading a lot fo shit recently, figured it was all just people talking shit and hating. Turns out, not so much. People have been saying their seed quality has taken a nose-dive. I'm here to confirm, they have indeed.
It's weird that Mrs RD has also been MIA.
And even more odd, I called River Rock last week to ask what kind of RD seeds they were currently carrying, because River Rock and RD are always working together. Anyway, River Rock doesn't have any RD clones or seeds at either location which is out of the ordinary. River Rock has always been sort of the goto place in Denver for RD seeds.
I have no idea what's going on with RD but this isn't the Rare Dankness I became a fan of. Until they get their shit together I am probably not going to be ordering anymore of their seeds. I'll definetly buy clones of RD because their genetics are undeniable, but no more Russian Roulette for me with their beans.
By comparison, I just dropped 8 x 303 Seeds. 3 pipe dream, 3 Sasquatch, and 2 jabberwocky. All of them popped within 12 hours. It's not like I am changing how I germ from seed to seed. It's always the same method, same water, same kind of tissue paper, same warm place I put the seeds.
My FLO-OG looked decent, small, but decent. It popped and is currently a very small seedling and not showing the typical vigor I am used to seeing from seeds, especially RD seeds. I don't remember if the FLO was from Herbies or SSC.
My cornbread and grape OX seeds were both majorly deformed, neither popped. The cornbread actually had a large chunk missing out of the seed. I feel like Herbies and Single Seed Centre are partly to blame for this, whoever is selling single seeds and repacking their stuff is either blind or simply doesn't give a shit. Both of these seeds had very obvious deformations that both Herbies and SSC should have noticed. The cornbread was from SSC and the Grape OX was from Herbies. They both looked like they had the identical deformation which was kind of odd.
My two venom OG seeds look like shit, super light brown, no spots or tiger stripes whatsoever. They were huge seeds, but the color was awful. Not sure if they are going to make it yet, not looking great. These were from SSC.
My Blue OX wasn't deformed, but it didn't look like a good seed. Looked similar to the Venom OG seeds only instead of being large, it was tiny. Not sure if she is going to make it or not, it's had a small tab root for a couple days but the thing isn't getting bigger and the shell isn't even thinking about opening up yet. This was from Herbies.
I haven't grown in like a year, just recently started my grow back up. The last time I grew RD from seed was last Fall, I bought a 10 pack of RD 4 Corners and germed 6 of the 10 @ 100% ratio. Gave the other 4 to a friend, he got 100% ratio on his 4. Anyway, I don't know WTF they are doing over there, but it's disappointing.
It could be that the seed banks take all the shit seeds and sell them as singles, I have no idea. I have never run into any issues with any breeders before this. This was also my first time ordering single seeds. Could be coincidence, could be something to it.
