The Real Seed Company (RSC)

yesum said:

I still use the towel but you have to change the towel about every 2 days to avoid the rot. I also use a seed cracker but not sure if it helps really. Thinking of using tomato seeds soaked and then use the water to germinate the pot seeds. Heard that works good and I have tomato seeds

h202 I use for a few minutes at the start. Had not thought to let it set for hours but I use undiluted h202. I have seen no improvement with it but not doing scientific type stuff, just did not notice any help from anything to be honest.

I have ordered the Malawi Gold from RSC on the word of a guy that had mind blowing Michoacan pot in '69. I had mind blowing pot from most likely Mexico in '74, so I tend to listen to people that have had similar experiences. He said this pot is the best he has at this time.

Have a pack of RSC Highland Laos 2 -supposed to be like Thai stick- and will pop them next grow. Had heard poor germination rates on those from someone. Angus comes thru if you email him about seeds not popping. The one Laos Gold I grew was a male and the top which I smoked was not a high I am after, but that was a top of one male so....
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GreenestBasterd said:

Out of the 6 Sinai I had 3 males and 3 females. 2 of the females have already started to flower under 18 hours of light and the male I was keeping under 18 hours has turned completely female above 6 or 7 nodes of male flowers.

My guess is as they have semi auto flowering tendencies, the tap root hit the bottom of the pot and initiated flowering.
More than likely my error for not potting up quicker but just a hunch...

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emanO said:

@conor c yes thats it ,,it had room to branch out but remained pole like,,spot on between 6and 7 foot, the seeds were started mid June,, very sticky to the touch, really liked this plant !! Does not seem to have seeds maybe is sterile.?not sure other plants that were nearby are seeded,,hopefully find a few,
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MrRabbit said:

Some of them are fussy to germinate-depending on what part of the Kingdom they were sourced. Even living here, I occasionally have issues. As someone pointed out earlier, some of the farmers here aren't the sharpest when it comes to seed storage. I've spent four years working with farmers over here; the professionals generally breed a next season's seed crop from a set of selected, seed-only phenotypes each cycle (the season here is perpetual), so several crops are run a year, often overlapping one another. These are the guys I source from.
Finding a good source can be very difficult, as many of the farmers have no literacy & virtually no specific knowledge pertaining to Cannabis- to them it's just like rice or Cassava, except they get paid more for it. I've even been paid to teach some of them the difference between male & female plants- after informing them that's how come their crops get seeded. There are pretty backward people in many places here, who have no understanding of genetics or Cannabis growing trade-craft- they plant it & pull it a few weeks into flower, then sell it for $200USD/kg. Pol Pot totally destroyed education in this country, by the time the Vietnamese deposed him in 1979 there were only 48 teachers left alive for 8 million people & half of them immediately sought asylum elsewhere in the world.
There are farmers however, who only grow Cannabis; usually the skills of the trade have been passed down to them through family oral tradition. Finding these guys isn't easy however, for obvious reasons. All I can suggest is patience & keeping a warm, balanced soil humidity- it pays to remember that a teeth chatterringly cold day over here is 26C. One reason that Cambodian seeds occasionally have issues germinating is due to the extremes between 'Rainy season' where it pours every day, and 'High season' where we don't get a drop for months. If your soil dries out, the seeds hibernate until enough water passes over them regularly.
Use a very porous medium that drains within hours & water every day, that'll usually fool them into popping because they think the rains have begun. Don't leave them sitting in soggy organic matter-rich seed raising mix, soil here is particulate clay; fine & in the space of a single hot dry, windy day, can turn from mud to dust. If seeds sit in soggy soil, they'll just molder; it's far better to pass water over them regularly & let the soil begin to dry a little in between- that's the closest equivalent to the start of our rainy season, when the biggest crops are grown & germination rates will be at their peak.
Ironically, the best success I've had growing Cambodian Cannabis from seed was in NZ, where the springtime temps are only around 20C daytime & drop to below 10C at night. I found the best method was simply a clear plastic mini-tunnel house sitting on a heat pad & just used 50/50 pumice grit & garden loam as a seed raising mix.
All that said, for the record, these plants like the people who live here, are incredibly resilient & if your seeds are fresh, they should pop like lawnseed in all but the worst conditions. The genetics of the well preserved strains are absolutely unique in my experience & well worth persevering with, but they definitely are- in many ways- a steep learning curve to work with.

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xtsho said:

A couple RSC Highland Thai. I've gone extremely meager on feeding them as I've never grown it and it's better to bump it up rather than to need to bump it down. Some of these strains can be finicky and I don't want to overfeed. They're in straight coco. I'm going to bump up the feed slightly and get them in the flower tent because I know they're going to get a lot bigger.

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GreenestBasterd said:

Very interested to see these develop, they seem like a bit of a challenge inside to me.
I’m currently waiting on the mango Thai, and if I’m correct, the website says 6 months seeds to flower. Is that drastically reduced inside?
Thanks for any help mate.

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xtsho said:

I'm sure the Highland Thai is going to be a challenge but that's what makes this all so fun. You can't really reduce the actual flowering time but you can initiate it sooner indoors with smaller plants and using 11/13.

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MrRabbit said:

I trade almost exclusively in Cambodian genetics & have lived here for four years, I also married into 'connections' here. Some strains can be tricky to germinate, but zero is pretty poor, most of them germinate like Rabbit sperm. I can give you pointers & also have the rarest & best strains available in the Kingdom because I'm actively involved with the local farmers. Not mentioning anyone in particular, but I'd suggest to all & anyone being offered 'Cambodian' seeds, to be bloody skeptical; lately there's a lot of fly-by-night cowboys popping up offering them. It's five minutes work to score a $15 fifth on the street & it'll be schwag that's full of seeds. You can buy a kilo of the same crap for $200-300 & get 5000 seeds out of it, so even a brokeass tourist can fund his travel behind selling those rubbish beans. Wannabees buy this crud & sell it as landrace. It may well be technically landrace- landrace hemp that is though. Trust me, it's a long, hard road that requires good connections & commitment, to access Cambodia's real gems, but if & when you can, you'll never look back. Some of the purest & unique landrace lines in the world are to be found here. I've collected a lot of them & have a limited line of the best ones available on enquiry at <[email protected]> . As far as I know, I'm the only Cambodian based source of quality seed. That's not a brag, it's a simple fact; to get even close to the gems, you have to be well known & respected by a tight knit mafia that the growers & farmers all belong to. They generally see foreign carpetbaggers coming miles away & will only sell them shit, if anything at all- there's nothing they love more than taking foreign bucks behind a dodgy return- they can hardly be blamed after how badly they've been mistreated historically by Western powers. Cambodians may be uneducated but they aren't stupid & when it comes to their genetics, they're as protective of them as an Ozark hillbilly is over his 'shine still. Beware of cheap imitations is the best advice I can offer. Find my I.G page (@steve.mrrabbit); you'll see what this Kingdom quietly keeps to itself, there. Really bummed you got such a shit strike though- the way I see it, there's nothing wrong with the money people invest in seeds & it pisses me off to see a nation with the genetic diversity Cambodia has, get a bad rep due to even more foreign exploitation.

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