A quick primer on cannabis Seeds

Maybe you already have some seeds on hand. Chemdog has long been storied to be bag seed from a Grateful Dead concert so we’d totally pop those bag seeds if we were you, especially if you liked the flower it came from. If you don’t have seeds on hand, and you’re a medical patient, you can get them from a licensed producer in Washington. In other states, you might be able to buy them at a dispensary, but Google will know better than me. Otherwise, you’ll have to buy them online. You’ll have to check your local laws to make sure this is legal—we’re farmers not lawyers.

For beginning growers, we’d recommending buying feminized seeds. Cannabis is mainly a dioecious plant, which means there are separate male and female plants instead of one plant with both male and female sex organs.  Flower grows on unpollinated female plants and keeping male plants will pollinate the flower, filling it with seeds. On average, seedlings’ male to female ratio is around 50-50 but we’ve seen anywhere from 20-80 to 80-20, so you might get lucky or you might be growing a lot of males you’ll have to cull. Sexing or determining which plants are male and which plants are female can be difficult and is time and resource consuming. Depending on light conditions, the plant can be a few months old before sexing is possible, which wastes a lot of time and space; this is why we recommend feminized seed, which are guaranteed to be female.

If you also have a short summer season, you might also want to look into autoflowers. Autoflowers begin to flower after a certain number of weeks of growing, whereas regular cannabis seeds are photoperiod, meaning they won’t begin to flower until close to the fall equinox. We personally prefer the flower of a photoperiod strain, but if your season will end before the flower will finish, an autoflower is a better option.

It can be confusing and there’s a lot of lingo to go through so we’re happy to point y’all in the right direction if you get stuck.