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Notes from Liverpool: germ tests, regular seed, backcrosses, terpenes, Jamaica versus Durban. Horticultural writing for collectors and licensed growers. Souvenir seed. 18+.
The pack
30 Aug 2026 · 5 min
Troubleshooting the pack
Will not pop, bag vanished, waitlist quiet, checkout did not charge. The boring list, not a tent manual.
30 Aug 2026 · 5 min
Germ tests, not a grow guide
Why we pop a sample of every batch, what paper-towel actually proves, and what the replacement covers.
30 Aug 2026 · 5 min
Soil life, not a recipe
The rhizosphere is the root’s neighbours. It is horticulture. It is not a bottle, and it is not a licence.
9 Jan 2026 · 4 min
Keep seed like you mean it
A paper envelope in a warm kitchen is how good genetics go quiet. Storage is unglamorous and it is most of germination.
Genetics
30 Aug 2026 · 6 min
Landrace genetics, said plainly
A population that sat in a place long enough to look like that place. Not a brand. Not a flavour name.
30 Aug 2026 · 6 min
What regular genetics actually means
Males and females in the pack. The library, not a shortcut. Why every strain on this site is regular photoperiod.
30 Aug 2026 · 6 min
Feminized strains — and why we do not pack them
A female used as a father. Convenient. Not the house method. What the word actually means.
30 Aug 2026 · 5 min
Regular seed. We do not feminize.
Males and females in the pack, on purpose. Why the house will not run feminized.
30 Aug 2026 · 6 min
Bx1 and Bx2: returning to a parent
A backcross is not a remix. It is a keeper walked back to the cut you actually wanted.
30 Aug 2026 · 5 min
F1 is a hypothesis, not a product
The first generation of a cross is where we look. It is rarely what we pack.
30 Aug 2026 · 5 min
Inbreeding depression, said plainly
Lock the line too hard and the pack goes quiet. Why we stop a Bx before the vigour drops out.
30 Aug 2026 · 5 min
Recessive is not rare. It is hidden.
A trait can sit in a pack for a generation and only show when two copies meet.
30 Aug 2026 · 5 min
Most of what you want is polygenic
Flowering time, mould, yield, the whole nose — not one gene, not one bar on the chart.
30 Aug 2026 · 4 min
Di Frutti, twice
Strawberry Truffle Bx1 is Di Frutti × Di Frutti. Why that sentence is on every description of the plant.
28 Mar 2026 · 5 min
How we phenohunt (and why most packs lie)
We pop large numbers and throw most of them away. That is the unglamorous half of a seed company.
The nose
30 Aug 2026 · 6 min
How a lab sees terpenes — not a kitchen method
Steam, solvent, CO₂, headspace. Why our gold bars are a map of the nose, not a recipe for an extract.
30 Aug 2026 · 5 min
Nerolidol: the quiet bar
Tea, bark, a calm dessert note. Why it sits low on the chart and still matters in the jar.
30 Aug 2026 · 4 min
Myrcene and ocimene
Earth-mango versus sweet-herbal tropical. Two bars that sit on almost every keeper, for different jobs.
21 Jun 2026 · 5 min
Reading a terpene chart without the folklore
Terpinolene is not a personality. It is a molecule. Here is how we use the numbers on each strain page.
The island
30 Aug 2026 · 7 min
Lambs Bread vs Durban Poison Bx2
Same word — sativa — two different suns. The island incense line still in test, and the liquorice keeper we already locked.
30 Aug 2026 · 6 min
Jamaica and Durban, said as plants
Lambs Bread is not Durban Poison. Equatorial flower versus a South African sativa we already locked as a Bx2.
The weather