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Why Amsterdam Genetics Seeds Are The Right Choice

If you want to know just what makes Amsterdam Genetics seeds so unique in the world of premium weed strains, you need to know just how deep our roots dig into the fertile soils of the Dutch capital’s world-famous cannabis culture.

Amsterdam Genetics Seeds, Growing Strong Since 1985

We are, and always have been, all about developing the best cannabis genetics that any grower or gourmet connoisseur could ask for. Amsterdam Genetics seeds sprouted from the heartfelt desire to cultivate the finest cannabis seeds, to give the whole world a genuine taste of the city that we love.

Back in 1985, the Dutch were taking the lead in a global race to develop ever more potent cannabis strains. At the time, a select group of expert breeders and veterans embedded in the now legendary coffeeshop scene decided to join forces.

This Amsterdam-based allegiance proved to be a unique and highly effective force that has been shaping the Dutch breeding, growing, and consumer scenes for decades.

Breeding takes time; and we have been investing our time in developing premium genetics for decades. That explains why all the most sought-after classic strains grow from Amsterdam Genetics seeds. Just have a look at our legendary Super Silver Haze, Lemon Haze, and Amnesia Haze genetics to see exactly what we consider weed with World Heritage status.

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The secret to our success? Simple. Until this very day, we never accepted anything less than the finest cannabis genetics the world can offer. Our unique collection of exquisite Amsterdam Genetics seeds helps rookie growers and veteran gardeners to raise, harvest, and enjoy the most delicious buds imaginable – with love, from Amsterdam.

Decades Of Dutch Breeding Experience

Together, our team of experts comprises decades, if not centuries, of first-hand experience in growing, breeding, selecting, and tasting cannabis of mind-blowing quality. This treasure trove of knowledge and savoir-faire dovetails nicely with our centuries-old Dutch tradition of methodical plant breeding and greenhouse farming.

Add to this the entirely unique touch we share by our intricate connection to Amsterdam’s cannabis history, and you start to appreciate why we say that Quality is in our Genes.

White Choco best cannabis seeds 2023

If you need proof of the pudding, just get a whiff of our flagship White Choco strain. No Amsterdam visit is complete without a taste of this celebrity chocolate delight. In the years after its release, we launched entire generations of hallmark Choco genetics, blending our pride and joy with new flavours and international innovations.

This resulted in novel delights such as Choco Cheesecake (White Choco x Cheetos), Chocolato (White Choco x Gelato), and autoflower smash hits like Choco Kush Auto (White Choco x AK-OG Kush x ruderalis) – the list just keeps on growing…

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Amsterdam Genetics Seeds: Shaping Modern Cannabis Culture

The world of weed is developing fast. All around the globe, legalisation initiatives are picking up speed, resulting in explosions of wonderful new genetics that promise unprecedented new flavours and highs.

Here in Amsterdam, we celebrate these developments as we watch global cannabis communities embrace the joys of gardening by raising their own crops. Progressive liberalisation and legalisation efforts make our job easier as we continue to sow original Amsterdam Genetics seeds all over the world.

The roots of Amsterdam cannabis culture define the taste and quality contained in every single cannabis seed we cultivate and ship out to ever more destinations around the planet. Our established and acclaimed long-time partners, domestic and abroad, will gladly testify to our lasting impact on the world of weed.

Simultaneously, our breeders select the tastiest, strongest genetics created in emerging new marijuana epicentres to crossbreed them with our own domestic marvels.

These ventures culminate in our Homegrown strains, including Lit Hits like Fatkid’s Cake (GSC x Cherry Pie) and Chunky Cookies (Tropicanna Cookies x Kosher Choco Kush)

Chunky Cookies

So as the world of weed keeps expanding, the roots of Amsterdam cannabis culture spread and extend into new soil, resulting in powerful new strains for the globalising grower community to embrace.

True Passion For The Home Grower Lifestyle

Above all else, however, we create every single one of our Amsterdam Genetics seeds out of true passion for the home grower lifestyle. We have been leading the way for decades, convincing hobby gardeners that there’s no business like grow business as we help them cultivate their own home-grown stash of premium flower.

Why depend on dispensaries or, worse, shady black market operatives, when you can order the world’s finest cannabis genetics straight from Amsterdam and enjoy the process of watching the grass grow at home?

We stay true to our grassroots origins. As our community of fans and green ambassadors keeps on expanding, we continue to direct our efforts at the small-time, dedicated gourmet gardeners who started it all. That explains why we see tiny offshoots of that unmistakable Amsterdam weed culture sprout in ever more gardens worldwide.

Our reputation precedes our Amsterdam Genetics seeds wherever we ship them. If you need evidence, just check our resounding 4.7/5 score based on literally hundreds of Google reviews by growers and connoisseurs from all around the planet.

We know full well that you are playing your part in this green revolution, so it’s two green thumbs up to you – thank you for helping us spread that Cannabis Capital Love with Amsterdam Genetics Seeds!

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A Menu Like A Michelin-Starred Restaurant

Our collection of premium Amsterdam Genetics seeds is like a Michelin-starred restaurant’s menu in every regard. Every pack of cannabis seeds you order from our online store embodies the full flavour, resilience, impact, and yield potential of top tier genetics.

This star chef’s menu comprises a select variety of fast, strong, easy autoflower seeds and photoperiod strains, most of them fully feminized, with a few exceptions for those who prefer non-feminized plants.

You will find all the diversity that modern weed can offer in the online catalogue of elite Amsterdam Genetics seeds, whether you prefer the classic indica and sativa dimension or select by specific botanical properties, yield potential, or terpene and cannabinoid profiles.

Just like that Michelin-starred restaurant, the Amsterdam Genetics seeds menu offers a compact selection of a few dozen unique and exquisite strains rather than a random mishmash of average quality seeds. Our strict selection criteria admit only the finest genetics to ensure you order only top-shelf material, no matter what your taste or preferences.

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Quality Is In Our Genes

Of course, regardless of what we tell you about our top-shelf genetics, the real test only comes after you’ve picked your favourite strain and get those genetics popping. We suggest you do exactly that: head over to the online store, order your best match, and find out for yourself why Amsterdam Genetics seeds are such a unique joy to grow.

Meanwhile, we’ll keep directing our passion and knowledge at bringing you more Green Love from Amsterdam. We just can’t help it: it’s part of our nature because Quality Is In Our Genes…

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Best Cannabis Seeds 2023 Collection

Even the most experienced indoor growers will find plenty of exciting, challenging, prime quality genetics to cultivate in our Amsterdam Genetics seeds catalogue. We’ve compiled a quick walkthrough of our top 10 strains for veteran connoisseurs. Take your pick and treat yourself to the best cannabis seeds 2023 Amsterdam cannabis culture has to offer!

Lots Of Premium Quality Genetics For You

If you’ve tried our genetics before, you have already experienced the premium quality of Amsterdam’s top marijuana seeds. If you haven’t, or if you’re just keen to grow some more of our best cannabis seeds, 2023 has plenty of supreme genetics in store for you…

Below, you will find a comprehensive selection of lightning-fast autoflower seeds, hard-hitting indica hybrids with renowned parentage and gourmet flavour, and singular sativas with amazingly short flowering times – all fully feminized of course.

We are 100% sure that you will find something to suit your taste and preferences here, so without further ado, please feast your eyes on our selection of top marijuana seeds and order your favourites straight away!

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Enjoy Our Top Cannabis Seeds For 2023

No matter whether you prefer sativa or indica genetics, autoflower convenience, exotic flavours or breath-taking highs, there’s something here for everyone. Every single one of our best cannabis seeds for 2023 is 100% feminized, so all you have to do is click and pick your favourites. We will ship your order within one office day so you can pop those seeds pronto.

1: Lemon Haze

First place of our best cannabis seeds 2023 ranking goes to this refreshing, uplifting, powerful citrus haze whopper with powerful pain relief potential yielding bright green and yellow buds weighing upwards of 550g/m² after 9 to 10 weeks of flowering.lemon haze top strains 2023

2: Banana Slush

Introduced as one of the newest strains within the Amsterdam Genetics assortment: this slushy mix of AK-OG Kush power and Banana Haze makes an amazing cross. A potent powerhouse with around 27% THC, but the terpenes definitely don’t lie!

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3:Exotic Purple Autoflower

Our all-new Exotic Purple Autoflower strain matches effortless, fast growing with the heady aroma of tropical fruit punch and excellent chances of purple, violet, and pinkish buds.

Exotic Purple Autoflower

4: Choco Cheesecake

Sweet, exotic, and phenotypes with amazing colours: Choco Cheesecake will not disappoint you! Check the diary of one of our favourite grower (MadeInGermany) if you haven’t been convinced yet.

Choco Cheescake

5: White Choco

We simply couldn’t skip our fast-flowering flagship strain with perfect 50/50 indica-sativa balance takes just 9 weeks to produce up to 600g/m²of dark green, frosty buds with subtle chocolate flavour and cheerfully relaxed highs.

White Choco best cannabis seeds 2023

6: Fatkid’s Cake

A hard-hitting, nearly 30% THC heavyweight Cherry Pie x Girl Scout Cookies feminized indica hybrid with just 8-9 weeks of flowering, resulting in a 500g/m² payload of huge buds that bring an extensive, deeply relaxing bodybuzz stone.

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7: Dynamighty Autoflower

Kush and diesel aromas meet in this feminized autoflower strain with just 10-11 weeks of flowering: pretty fast and highly resilient for a happily relaxing 60% sativa with 400-450g/m² harvest prospects!Dynamighty Autoflower

8: Super Silver Haze

Still our most in-demand haze strain, Super Silver Haze is a timeless feminized Amsterdam classic with 25% THC, 70% sativa genetics, 9 to 11 weeks of flowering, and copious harvests clocking in at 500-600g/m².

Super Silver Haze seeds

9: Chunky Cookies HG

Tropicanna Cookies meets Choco and Kush genetics to bring you 25% THC in a tough, compact, fast-flowering (9-10 weeks) plant with huge 700g/m² harvest prospects, excitingly spicy taste, and happy, stress-busting effects.

Chunky Cookies

10: Tangerine G13

Uniquely sweet tangerine citrus aromas spread after rapid growth precedes a 10-week flowering stage producing copious amounts of compact, fragrant, bright green buds with great stress relief and smile-boosting potential.

Tangerine G13

The Best Cannabis Seeds 2023 Can Offer Come From Amsterdam

So there you go: these are the best cannabis seeds 2023 has in store for you – barring any new strains we may release over the year of course…

We would never have developed such amazing genetics without the aid of our dedicated team of veteran breeders and the feedback from our community members. Our ongoing series of cannabis breeding blogs gives you an impression of just how much botanical expertise we put into our cannabis breeding programme every year.

Three decades of hands-on experience developing the finest seeds that Amsterdam can offer is a pretty impressive for a track record; especially when you stack that on top of our long and proud Dutch crop cultivation tradition. It’s a winning combination that most breeders and seed suppliers find hard to beat – and we make sure we stay in the lead by creating uniquely innovative strains every year!

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Your Perfect Cannabinoid And Terpene Profile

For decades, cannabis growers and breeders focused on high THC content as the main strain trait. Today, we know that a complex biochemical interplay involving dozens of different cannabinoids and hundreds of aromatic terpenes determines the every single cannabis high. Below, we help you find the best cannabinoid and terpene profile to match your personal taste.

The Rush For More THC

Until quite recently, producing, harvesting, and inhaling as much THC as possible was the sole objective of most marijuana lovers. Getting as high or as stoned as possible was the main goal, which seemed largely dependent on the percentages of tetrahydrocannabinol that buds contained.

Breeders recognised this market demand, and set about crossbreeding new strains with ever-higher THC concentrations. Sadly, their fevered THC goldrush caused considerable homogenization of the cannabis gene pool. Some claim that the global breeding and growing community is still recovering from the damage done over the past decades.

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Your Strain, Your High

Fortunately, scientific discoveries and passionate experimenting by amateur growers broadened our perspective on the nuances of cannabis effects. As more and more new cannabinoids were identified, including CBD (cannabidiol), CBG (cannabigerol), and CBN (cannabinol), we started to learn more about our own body’s ability to use these various compounds.

The discovery of the endocannabinoid system, an important regulatory mechanism shared by all humans, other mammals, birds, and even fish, opened up new levels of understanding cannabis effects. Plant-based phytocannabinoids are highly similar to the endocannabinoids produced by our own body.

Our endocannabinoid system recognises both types of cannabinoids: it can use either kind to help regulate our internal physiological balance called homeostasis.

The chemical receptors of the endocannabinoid system extend all throughout our body and our nervous system, including the brain. This explains why cannabis can have such diverse effects on our cerebral, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal systems.

Your Perfect Cannabinoid & Terpene Profile

The brief information listed below helps you find your perfect strain in terms of cannabinoids. Read on to pair these cannabinoids with a terpene profile that suits your taste, as these aromatic compounds define a strain’s flavour and codetermine its high in subtle ways.

THC

Tetrahydrocannabinol is the main psychotropic ingredient in cannabis. It is responsible for much the sedative, narcotic, and mildly hallucinogenic aspects of a high. If you are looking for an intensely ‘spaced-out’ experience, pick marijuana seeds with 20% THC or more.

High THC levels can cause unpleasant (temporary) effects like paranoia, nausea, and palpitations in inexperienced or sensitive consumers, so go easy on THC if you’re looking for a nice and mild high.

Fatkids Cake

CBD

In many ways, cannabidiol produces the opposite effects of THC. CBD can help curb a high that gets too intense. It can also help you relax and control anxiety, as well as providing pain and inflammation relief. Strains with over 1.5% CBD will produce a more modest high compared to THC-heavy strains, although much will depend on the overall cannabinoid and terpene profiles.

Blue Monkey

CBG

Cannabigerol has even greater soothing and relaxing potential than CBD. It does not add much to the psychotropic impact of a strain, although it is a useful cannabinoid to consider when you are looking to relax after a workout or sleep better in stressful times.

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CBN

Cannabinol has only modestly psychoactive properties by and of itself, but is able to reinforce the sense of euphoria produced by THC. CBN is also being studied for its sedative potential, culminating in a relaxed state of bliss when paired with higher THC levels.

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Cannabinoid Profiles

All cannabis strains have their own unique cannabinoid profiles, reflecting the relative proportions of the various cannabinoids found in their flower buds. Most strains contain traces of dozens of these compounds, although the profile tends to be dominated by a high THC percentage.

The recent surge in demand for CBD flower and extracts has led to widespread availability of CBD cannabis seeds alongside their THC relatives.

Since any type of weed conveys a unique mix of different cannabinoids with different effects, they all cause different effects when consumed. Some strains get you sleepy; others convey a more uplifting, energetic, stress-busting, or creativity-boosting effect.

Finding The Right Terpene Profile

If you’ve grown more than one type of weed, you will know that no two strains taste or smell exactly the same. The flavour and scent of cannabis strains is determined by a group of aromatic compounds called terpenes. Terpenes are found all throughout the plant kingdom. They are the main ingredient of etheric oils used in aromatherapy, alongside many modern applications in the food industry and perfumes, for instance.

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Some terpenes, such as refreshing linalool (also found in lavender for instance), are associated with uplifting effects. Others, including spicy caryophyllene also present in peppers, can improve mental focus and help counter inflammation.

Interestingly, these fragrant chemicals each add their own unique twist to our experience of a cannabis high. And as with cannabinoids, every single strain of weed has its own distinct terpene profile, culminating in sophisticated nuances that affect both aromatic and mental or physical effects.

Which Terpenes Should I Pick?

A strain’s terpene profile is even more complex and refined than cannabinoid profiles. It’s not easy to pick strains based on terpene content. Still, the flavour and terpene profile information in our seed descriptions will help you pick the ones you like best. The suggestions below help you make a quick selection to narrow down the search.

Limonene

Limonene is a terpene found in citrus fruits, pine trees, and many marijuana strains. It has cheerful, uplifting qualities that can help put a smile on any high. This is a common and welcome addition to many a famous terpene profile. In addition, limonene can help contain some of the less desirable side-effects of THC like CBD can – with great refreshing lemon zest fragrance as a nice bonus!

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Myrcene

Strains with high myrcene levels in their terpene profile are known to amplify the sedative quality of THC, partly by making it easier for cannabinoids to cross the blood-brain barrier. Myrcene is also a powerful antioxidant with additional anti-inflammatory and pain relief potential. It extends a pleasantly earthy, herbal scent to your buds that is sure to get any connoisseur’s appetite going.

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Caryophyllene

If you like your weed spicy, look for caryophyllene in its terpene profile. This compound is common in black pepper, oregano, and cinnamon as well as in many types of weed. It adds a slightly woody and distinctly zippy taste to weed, while adding calming qualities and a distinctively refreshing cheer to your high. This terpene can help counter THC-induced paranoia and anxiety, just like black peppercorns can.

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Finding The Perfect Cannabinoid & Terpene Profile

As you can see, finding a strain with perfect cannabinoid and terpene profile is a complicated affair. There are many aspects to consider, and in the end, picking one remains an educated guess as well as a matter of taste.

Still, the information we provide in our blogs and strain descriptions can help you pick a strain that satisfies your personal taste and preferences. Consider these strain suggestions your first step down a winding path leading to ever better grows with the genetics, flavours and highs that suit you best!

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Fast Flowering Cannabis Seeds Save Time, Energy & Money

Have a quick look at our strongest and best fast flowering cannabis seeds to help you save time while you cut back on your energy bills for super-efficient next-level indoor growing!

High Speed Weed

Experienced indoor cannabis growers are always on the lookout for new ways to improve their growing efficiency. Fast growing is one way to achieve this. The flowering phase of the cannabis cycle is usually the most time-consuming part of the overall growing process.

That is why smart gardeners try to keep flowering times down to the bare minimum to make the most out of every hour they spend on their efforts. Besides, speeding up your cannabis cycles means more potential harvests each year if you want to improve your turnover.

While time is always a precious resource, these days energy costs are a major factor to consider, too. After all, faster flowering means less time bathing in expensive light. Saving money is always nice, and you get the added benefit of reducing your carbon footprint while you reduce the waiting time for your next harvest to the bare minimum – how sweet is that?

Our Best Fast Flowering Cannabis Seeds

If you are looking for high-speed marijuana strains, you’re sure to find them here. Don’t forget, however, to pair speed with your other preferences. Speeding your way through the flowering phase will not do much good if you end up with a stash of bud you don’t like that much. Try to combine fast flower properties with your favourite genetics, flavours, fragrances, and cerebral or bodily effects.

Although you have plenty of fast growing options available, we will make a rough distinction between our fastest indica, sativa, and ruderalis autoflowering strains below.

Quick Indica Seeds

Cannabis indica genetics evolved in areas and weather types that favoured rapid growth and flowering times. That makes indica hybrids an obvious choice when ordering fast flowering cannabis seeds.

Don’t assume that anything even remotely indica will automatically race its way through the cycle, though. If speed is what you need, try these high velocity seeds for your indoor grows:

Skyrocket

As the name suggests, Skyrocket is our prime indica candidate for fast growing and flowering results. Promising delicious spicy diesel flavour and intense body stone effects at 20% THC and just 7 to 8 weeks of flowering, she offers copious harvest potential at 750 g/m² indoors.

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Magic OG Kush

Our breeders managed to turbocharge the legendary OG Kush genetics with Green Magic X Hindu Kush creating a 19% THC fully feminized indica hybrid that takes only 8 or 9 weeks to form rich, resinous flower buds that could land you 500 g/m².

Magic OG Kush

Swift Sativa Strains

Experienced growers generally associate sativa strains with extended flowering times. The year-round warmth and humidity of their native habitat favoured extended flowering times, and even continued growth after the onset of the flowering phase.

Sativa genetics do add unique and highly prized effects to the high. This accounts for today’s modern sativa hybrid marijuana strains, some of which have excellent track records when it comes to quick flowering.

Try your hand at growing these sativa-dominated fast flowering cannabis strains and you’ll find out exactly what we mean!

Lemon Ice

There’s nothing glacial about Lemon Ice, our refreshingly upbeat feminized sativa classic with creativity-sparking brainbuzz highs. She finishes flowering in just 8 weeks, bursting into a forest of highly aromatic yellow-green buds as your reward.

Lemon Ice

Candyfloss

Candyfloss cannabis seeds bring intensely sweet flavour and 70% sativa heritage to the mix. If you want to please your brain and taste buds pronto, she will get you up to 600 g/m² of prime quality sativa flower in just 9 weeks.

Candyfloss

White Choco Haze

No matter whether you’re a true haze fanatic or a connoisseur with a predilection for chocolate, our  80% sativa, 100% feminized White Choco Haze seeds will not let you down. She takes only 9 weeks to finish flowering, producing fragrant harvests that could net you 550 g/m² of first-class Amsterdam haze happiness.

White Choco Haze

Our Fastest Autoflower Cannabis Seeds

Modern autoflower strains offer a convenient and powerful combination of resilience, impact, and incredible ease of growing. The ruderalis genetics we’ve bred into our full range of feminized autoflowers boost both vegetative and flowering speed by default.

Autoflower strains tend to race through the growth phase in a matter of weeks before automatically switching to flower mode at breakneck speed. Combining these ruderalis perks with fast-paced indica properties in an indica auto hybrid seems the obvious choice for fast growing.

Choco Kush Autoflower

White Choco fragrance, solid kush indica quality, and high-velocity ruderalis genes make Choco Kush Auto a fine choice for fast flowering cannabis seeds with maximum ease of growing. This feminized auto strain yields up to 600 g/m² after only 8 to 9 weeks of fast-paced bud formation preceded by lightning-quick vegging.

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AK-020 Autoflower

AK-020 Autoflowering seeds are the feminized autoflower variant of a robust and potent Amsterdam classic with a delicate indica-sativa balance. That makes for strong growth at a great pace and loads of fat colas glittering with ripe trichomes by the time her 8 or 9 weeks of flowering are over.

AK 020 Autoflower

Fast Flowering Cannabis Seeds, Delivered Fast

Obviously, ordering fast marijuana seeds should be a quick delivery priority. Luckily, if you order yours before noon Amsterdam Time, we’ll ship them out on the very same day. That’s just another way to make sure your fast flowering cannabis seeds help you save time and money while still getting the finest quality seeds from the Dutch cannabis capital!

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How Do I Know Which Cannabis Strains To Grow?

These days, there’s just so many different types of weed to grow that it becomes difficult to see the forest for the ganja trees. This blog helps you determine which cannabis strain to grow if you’re looking for rich harvests with easy and fast results that suit your taste.

Deciding Which Cannabis Strain To Grow

Knowing which cannabis seeds to grow is one of the cornerstones of successful weed gardening. All seeds carry different genetics in their DNA that determine the properties of the plant contained within, including the flower buds it will produce. Today’s market offers a bewildering variety of weed strains that leave most growers struggling to pick their best match.

Even experienced cannabis growers often find it hard to decide what new or time-tested genetics to choose for their next run. At any rate, with so many flashy new names hitting the scene every season, there is never enough time to try every strain that sparks your interest. That’s a real problem, as every grow takes several months. You don’t want to wait that long, investing time, money, and TLC in a crop that turns out to be a huge disappointment.

So what should you do to figure out which cannabis seeds to grow before spending your hard-earned budget on new genetics? Well, we’re here to help you grow with maximum joy, convenience, and efficiency, so we’ve compiled a list of seed and bud qualities for you to consider. Read on and find out just what type of weed is the best match for your personal preferences when it comes to fast, easy, or high-output cannabis growing.

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Speed, Yield, Or Convenience?

There are many ways to categorise the bewildering variety of strains available today. Here, we start by focussing on the ultimate aim of the grower. We can distinguish different plants by the speed at which they grow, by the harvest prospects of their flower buds, or by how easy they are to grow into mature, flowering specimens.

Which Weed Strain Is The Fastest?

As a species, Cannabis sativa L. (the official name that includes all indica, sativa, ruderalis, and hybrid variants) is a fast-growing annual plant, able to colonise large swathes of new territory in just a few generations.

Some breeders have been cultivating hybrid strains of cannabis to grow even faster. This can be achieved either by selecting genetics from the fastest plants available and then crossbreeding these with existing high-speed strains, or by introducing DNA from ruderalis variants to the breeding programme.

The Speed Of Indica Weed

Efforts to speed up new generations of hybrids tend to focus on either the flowering stage in which the buds take shape, or on the preceding vegetative stage marked by explosive growth spurts of roots, stems, and fan leaves.

Throughout both stages, strains with predominantly indica genetics tend to develop faster than their sativa-dominant relatives. This tendency can be traced to native indica habitats located on the high plains of Central Asia, where harsh winters make way for brief summers that favour shorter growth and flowering cycles. As a result, evolutionarily successful indica strains evolved into ever faster plants, usually sacrificing a proportion of size and yield capacity in the bargain.

If you’re looking for strong indica effects with superior growing speed and serious harvests, try growing Skyrocket seeds and prepare for a fast takeoff to extraterrestrial altitudes.

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Superior Sativas

Sativa variants evolved in warm, humid areas closer to the equator instead. These conditions allowed for slower growth and extended flowering phases that we can still recognise in today’s many sativa-heavy strains. Sativas tend to grow into tall ‘ganja trees’ outdoors: a spectacular sight for sure, often with superior prospects in terms of harvest volume; but not very practical in indoor settings with limited space available.

Deciding which strain to grow may well lead you to the sativa side of the spectrum, and that could still result in an easy, productive, and hugely enjoyable grow if you know what you’re doing.

If you want strong cerebral sativa highs with minimal hassle – especially when growing indoors – you should try our Grapefruit Superstar. She packs lovely citrus flavour, hefty brainbuzz vibes, and a pleasantly brief flowering time of just 8-9 weeks.

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Rapid Ruderalis Autoflowers

Thirdly, ruderalis genetics discovered in inhospitable Russian and Eastern European climes provide an alternative to rapid indica genes. Ruderalis genes are the foundation of all autoflowering cannabis plants.

Ruderalis strains will not wait for spring to fade into summer before flowering; instead, they ‘decide’ for themselves when to produce buds. In addition, they tend to grow even faster than their indica relatives. That makes perfect sense, as the harsh conditions of their original biotope forced them to make the most of every ray of sunlight they can catch.

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As you may expect, combining indica and ruderalis genetics tends to produce the autoflower strains that are fastest to grow. Looking for multiple harvests per outdoor season, or as many indoor runs as you can manage in one year? Indica-leaning autoflowers are the best candidates for you. We would suggest trying our Choco Kush Auto or the new Exotic Purple Autoflower seeds if speed is of the essence!

Exotic Purple Autoflower

Which Cannabis Strain Is The Easiest To Grow?

You could also opt for maximum growing convenience instead of speed. In that case, you should look for resilient, robust cannabis characteristics that should see your plant through the successive stages of its life cycle with the minimum amount of trouble. Resistance to mould, disease, and pests are your main objectives here.

When comparing indica and sativa (dominant) strains, the former kind tend to be the easiest to grow. Indica strains evolved to cope with brief flowering seasons and to resist negative influences of unpredictable weather. That means seeds with high percentages of indica genetics are usually easier to manage even for experienced indoor growers.

Sativa genetics generally require more moisture and warmth to really thrive, calling for careful monitoring of environmental factors. On the other hand, indica buds tend to be more compact than sativa flowers, making them more susceptible to mould problems due to moisture trapped inside the bud structure. Overall, though, sticking with an easy indica sweetie like Choco Cheesecake is your safest route to grow convenience.

Choco Cheescake

Growers often claim that autoflowering weed is easiest to grow due to its non-photoperiod growth properties. This is true to some extent: autoflowers give indoor growers more freedom to time their runs as they see fit. They also make outdoor grows easier, as they pick their own optimal moment to transition from veg to flower mode, making them less vulnerable to late-season weather conditions.

All in all, then, you should go for indica-heavy strains if you are looking for easy non-autoflower plants. Autoflowers are an easier category overall due to their hardy origins and their abitlity to determine when to flower independently of the environment. That makes indica autoflower genetics some of the easiest to grow strains overall. Our prime candidate? Go for Milkshake Kush Autoflower seeds – if their ease of growing can’t convince you, we’re sure the exquisite taste will.

Milkshake Kush Autoflower

Which Cannabis Strain Yields The Biggest Harvest?

Many efficiency-oriented growers tend to look for strains that will produce the largest amounts of harvestable flower buds at the end of the run. That makes sense from a practical point of view: after all, most hobbyists invest their valuable time and money in raising plants that produce a large stash of cannabinoid-containing nugs, whether intended for recreational or medical purposes.

Understandable as this maximum harvest approach may be, however, there are a few factors to consider if stash size is your main criterion.

Firstly, remember that a big harvest is a less efficient result if it takes longer to produce. In other words: huge bud yields tend to take longer to develop, making faster strains with moderate productivity a viable alternative. Squeezing in one or two extra grows each year may leave you with a bigger stash on an annual basis.

Secondly, if the potential for huge harvests is offset by other less favourable cannabis properties, such as high stress sensitivity or vulnerability to mould issues, you may end up with a big harvest that’s wholly unfit for consumption. That’s a very inefficient way to spend four months growing cannabis!

Finally, always remember that harvest volume depends on much more than genetics alone. Your grow climate parameters such as humidity and temperature, plus soil type, watering habits, and nutrient strategy are all significant factors when it comes to bud quantity. That makes deciding which cannabis strain to grow based on harvest prospects alone a tricky affair.

Still, if you want to get the best shot to max out on bud yields, try our amazing 30% THC whopper Fatkid’s Cake: even if it’s just an indication, harvesting up to 800 grams of prime weed per square metre is certainly nothing to sneeze at!

Fatkid's Cake

Summing Up: Knowing Which Cannabis Strain To Grow

As you can see, deciding which cannabis strain to grow depends on your own preferences. Choosing speed or yield over convenience and reliability is just one way to decide which genetics best suit your purposes.

Keep in mind, however, that finding your all-time favourite weed depends on other factors, too. We all have our preferences when it comes to flavour and scent, for instance. Then there’s the specific effect we may be after: some strains come with uplifting, energizing ‘headbuzz’ highs while others trigger a more stoned ‘bodybuzz’  instead.

These cannabis characteristics depend on terpene and cannabinoid profiles, which represent an entire subdiscipline of cannabis science by themselves. Moreover, various cannabis compounds can interact to subtly alter each other’s effects. Such ‘entourage effects’ make every strain unique in its mental and physical effects, both from a recreational and a medical consumer perspective. This is the subject for a separate dedicated blog, however: check it out if you want to dig a little deeper.

Another complicating factor is the speed at which new strains keep entering the market. There’s simply too many of them to try and grow everything you find attractive. You can work your way around this problem, at least in part, by choosing only premium quality seed suppliers.

The Amsterdam Genetics seeds range offers quality over quantity. You won’t find hundreds of near-identical strains here: only the very best genetics are allowed into our catalogue of unique, hand-picked cannabis seeds.

If you still find it hard to decide which cannabis strain to grow, here’s our best, tried and tested Amsterdam champion White Choco seeds that offer a balanced mix of fast, easy, and high-yield genetics for you to try:

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Whatever you decide, we wish you happy growing – may you find the genetics that best suit your personal needs!

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Plant Breeding 3: Crossbreeding Basics

In the third part of our blog series on plant breeding, we take a closer look at crossing different plants. Crossbreeding has been used for centuries in agriculture, horticulture, and animal farming, in an ongoing quest to create ever better species. But how exactly does crossing work, and what are its theoretical foundations? You’ll read all about it here.

What Is Crossbreeding?

In the first part of this series, we have seen what plant breeding entails, and for which purposes it is used. Summarised briefly, these purposes are:

  • Better yields;
  • Improved taste;
  • Better external appearance (colour, size, leaf shape, etc.);
  • Higher nutritional value (or stronger effects in case of cannabis);
  • Stronger plants with higher resilience against disease and weather influences.

This process of breeding has been going on for ages, right from the moment our distant ancestors left behind their hunter-gatherer lives to become sedentary farmers to grow their own food, as well as that of others. This kicked off a centuries-long race to develop ever-better, tastier, and stronger crops to feed the expanding world population.

In the second part of the series, we took a closer look at DNA, the genetic code describing all the properties of plants and animals. We saw how every cell is capable of copying its DNA content to pass it on to new cells. This is how the science of genetics works at the cellular level.

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Mendel was studying crossbreeding long before anyone had ever heard of genetics.

Why Use Crossbreeding?

Breeders make clever use of genetics by selecting the individuals and properties they find most interesting. They then proceed by crossbreeding the biggest, most beautiful, and most delicious plants with other prime individuals, to make sure that the parents’ properties are featured even more prominently in the next generation.

Crossbreeding happens everywhere in nature. They are the driving force behind the staggering diversity of species, races, strains, and individuals that populate our planet, be they cannabis, peas, cows, or cauliflowers. Plant breeding, and therefore crossing, represent time-honoured traditions that were basically discovered accidentally. Still, one scientist is still regarded as the founding father of crossbreeding (no pun intended).

The Austrian monk Gregor Mendel (1822 – 1864) spent years conducting experiments using pea plants to figure out how heredity works when crossbreeding them. It should be noted that he did his work long before anyone even suspected the existence of DNA, genes, or genetics in the first place.

Mendel, King Of Crossbreeding

Mendel set up his experiments somewhere around 1850, planting his first and now famous pea plants. It’s not as if he was fascinated by peas as such; he was intrigued by the overall mechanisms of heredity. How is it possible that two parent plants, animals, or even humans keep producing offspring with the same properties as their ancestors? And why does this keep happening in new combinations and proportions? If you have no idea about the existence of genetics (not yet discovered at the time) that’s a pretty crucial question. After all, people had been tinkering with crossbreeding for ages, without actually knowing what on earth we were doing.

The peas used by Mendel proved to be a smart move. This is a rapidly reproducing species, making for nice and fast experimental continuity; and pea plants have clearly identifiable properties to observe while crossbreeding different specimens.

Mendel started out simply by observing one plant trait and then documenting how that trait re-emerged in subsequent generations. Once he started to understand the process, he expanded his experiments by observing two traits simultaneously. This added new layers of complexity to his research, and he soon started to discern patterns in his findings.

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Mendel’s Principles

Prior to the publication of Mendel’s work, scientists thought that heredity was all about mixing and blending traits. If, for example, a pea plant with yellow peas is crossbred with a green-pea specimen, they assumed, the next generation will tend to show light green or yellow-green peas as a result. This may sound like common sense, but Mendel soon concluded that this is not how crossbreeding works.

The Uniformity Principle

Whenever Mendel crossed green and yellow pea plants, all he found was offspring with green and yellow peas, without any sign of mixed or blended colours. What did strike him as odd, though, was the repeating pattern of distribution between the number of green and yellow specimens. As he pondered these findings, however, Mendel soon realised he had stumbled upon the first law of heredity: the principle of uniformity.

The uniformity principle states that offspring produced by crossbreeds between different parents will always look the same: green or yellow in this case, not light or yellowish green.

Crossbreeding Generations: P1, F1 & F2

Mendel continued his experiments; only this time, he started to observe several properties simultaneously while crossbreeding. He would, for instance, look at colours (yellow/green)  as well as pod shape (smooth/wrinkled). He noticed how properties kept returning in set proportions over subsequent generations. He soon realised that he was on the verge of discovering another principle of heredity.

Mendel called the parent plants of the first generation ‘P1’ (using P for parentes, Latin for parents). The offspring resulting from his crossbreeding were called ‘F1’ (F stands for filias, literally ‘son’ in Latin). Whenever he used F1 specimens to crossbreed new generations, he labelled them F2, and so on. This notation enables anyone to always trace the generation of their crossbred specimens, no matter whether they’re cannabis seeds or pea plants.

The Segregation Principle

The second principle discovered by Mendel is the Segregation Principle. Like we said, our stubborn monk refused to believe in contemporary theories on ‘blending’ of properties. Instead, he figured that all parent plants contribute their own specific ‘elementen’, or elements, to crossbreeds. These elements, which we now call ‘alleles’ since the discovery of genetics, were sometimes passed on from P1 to F1 generations without expressing themselves in the appearance of the plant. In the F2 generation that followed, however, these P1 properties did surface in the appearance of the plants. This expressed appearance, consisting of the sum of genotype and environmental influences, we call phenotype.

Phenotype = Genotype x Environment

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Dominant And Recessive Traits

Mendel managed to explain this invisible transfer of properties from P1 to F2 by inventing the concept of dominant and recessive traits. If parents contribute only dominant elements or genes in crossbreeding, all offspring will also have these genes, and therefore appear the same. If either parent also contributes recessive traits, these will only reappear in a crossbreed where both parents contributed a recessive element (gene).

Mendel had the genius to come up with a fitting code for these  properties: capital letters for dominant traits, and lower case letters for recessive ones. These letters are still in use today, a century and a half after they were first conceived.

Let’s use an example to illustrate the concept. Suppose that pea plants can carry either green or yellow peas, and green is the dominant trait. According to the segregation principle, only a parent with two recessive alleles (noted aa) will have yellow peas. When crossbreeding a green parent (AA or Aa) with a yellow parent (aa), F1 plants will always become green (AA, or Aa, aA) or yellow (aa) by equal proportions. Since green (A) is dominant, one quarter of the F1 generation will be AA, one quarter will be aa, and the remaining half will be Aa (or aA, which amounts to the same).

Now, AA plants will have green pods and aa plants will have yellow ones; but since green is dominant over yellow, any Aa or aA combination will appear green as well.

Still, in the subsequent F2 generation, two green parents (Aa x aA) can produce yellow (aa) offspring if these receive the ‘lower case’ a alleles from both parents, resulting in a new recessive aa genotype.

Hybrid Crossings: Monohybrid And Dihybrids

In Mendel’s theory of heredity, individuals are called ‘hybrids’ if they carry both a dominant capital letter allele and a recessive lower case letter allele: Aa, that is. If just a single trait is involved, we call it a ‘monohybrid’ crossbreed. If plant breeding involves two traits (colour + shape, for instance), we are dealing with ‘dihybrid’ crossings instead.

Mendel used his peas to conduct ever more complex experiments. He had already discovered that the ratio of traits within a monohybrid crossbreed F1 generation always approaches 1:3. One quarter of all offspring will have recessive aa alleles and yellow peas, while the remaining three quarters have either AA or Aa/aA and therefore display green pea genotypes. The very fact that they always reproduce in these relative proportions is proof of Mendel’s first two principles.

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The Independence Principle

Once Mendel started his work on dihybrid crossings, i.e., plant breeding based on two distinctive traits, he discovered a new pattern: the independence principle. The outcomes of his experiments with crossbreeds between plants he selected for pod shape and colour – dihybrid crossing – he noticed how the distribution of traits in the F1 generation occurred independently of each other. In other words: pea colour did not affect the ratio by which pod shape occurred.

This mutual independence of different traits, ‘elements’, or genes was one of Mendel’s main contributions to our understanding of heredity in plant breeding. In professional breeding, crossbreeding usually involves large numbers of plants. A large scale crossbreed usually involves multiple traits, as the quest to breed the ultimate tomato, pea, or cannabis plant is a complicated affair touching on various qualities of the specific crop involved.

Thanks to Mendel’s experiments, contemporary breeders know roughly what to expect when searching for new crossbreed options. That is very convenient, since the number of possible outcomes increases exponentially as breeding programmes involve more individual traits.

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Crossbreeding For Growers

This blog contains a load of theoretical information that most regular cannabis growers are unlikely to find anywhere else. Still, Mendel’s peas and crossbreeding experiments have contributed more to the development of your favourite cannabis seeds than you may suspect.

Find The Best Crossbreeds Here

Today’s huge diversity of available strains is entirely due to crossbreeding efforts of the past. Just like Mendel in his day, modern specialist cannabis breeders also select their plants for the best genetic traits. Our pea-planting monk has laid the foundation for their work by mapping just how they can put these properties to good use In the crossbreed selections of their own breeding programmes.

So whenever you find yourself leafing through our catalogue looking for the best cannabis seeds for your next project, remember that you could never have ordered those premium quality strains without the hard work of our stubborn monk and his pea plants!

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Ordering Cannabis Seeds: 7 Hot Tips

Anyone looking to buy quality marijuana seeds online easily winds up stuck in a labyrinth of countless seed banks. Ideal as this may sound with a new grow season up ahead, but with so much to choose from, how do you know which is your best choice? This blog sees you off to a good start with some handy tips that allow any grower for ordering cannabis seeds online that get you the best quality and the best match for your personal taste and preferences.

Ordering Cannabis Seeds Online

There are plenty of seeds suppliers out there. In fact, the internet seems rife with them, but some seed banks are simply better than others. You’ll stumble upon businesses that only remain active for a year before vanishing without a trace. Other suppliers have been active for years, with lots of satisfied customers and great, stable genetics that keep even veteran growers coming back for more.

We cannot overstate the importance of ordering cannabis seeds that meet the highest quality standards. Only the finest genetics can get you premium harvest results; and all the quality DNA is contained in the tiny natural miracles we call cannabis seeds.

But how do you pick the best seeds supplier where ordering cannabis seeds is most likely to bear those premium fruits? If you keep the tips you’ll find below in mind while ordering, you’re on your way to find your best personal match.

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1. The Main Concern: Finding A Reliable Seed Supplier

First off, the most important step is finding a good, reliable supplier. It’s the only way growers can get their hands on the finest strains that live up to expectations. Since the sector is dominated by online stores that sometimes operate almost anonymously, this is an attractive market for online scammers and other dodgy subjects.

Even though it may seem attractive to get your seeds at the lowest prices, there are other important factors to consider. You can verify the reliability of your chosen seeds suppliers by checking review sites such as Google Reviews. The reviews you’ll find will show you whether they are a wise choice for buying cannabis seeds online.

2. Check Out The Customer Service

Shipping organic materials is always tricky business, especially for seed banks that operate on an international level. Shipments can get lost in the mail, or become damaged to the point where the seeds are no longer fit for use. That’s why good seed banks invest in proper customer service, taking care to work with their clients to find fitting solutions in case anything goes wrong – even if the company isn’t to blame.

Here again, reviews are your go-to check. Pay specific attention to reviews starting with a dissatisfied customer and ending with a smile. These can tell you a lot about an online store’s customer service. Also check websites for reliable shipping options and safe payment methods. Taken together, these factors determine the stature of online seed banks where satisfied grower customers happily order their cannabis seeds.

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Check out customer reviews!

 

3. Read Product Information

Another important criterion to look out for is the quality of information provided. Does a seedbank only give a summary of seeds and a simple order page, or do they have a lovingly created and stylish website? Any serious enterprise will invest in a great user experience. The site ought to appear well-tended, with its own characteristic look and feel.

Be sure to pick a company that is not afraid to share information, too. This includes information on all the strains as well as blogs with tips and info on growing cannabis, useful for novice growers and experts alike. Good images instead of stock photos are an indicator, too, as is the number of recent blogs. This is another substantial investment for any serious seedbank that serves as an indicator of their sincere business approach.

4. Regular, Feminized, Or Autoflower?

To make growing as easy as can be, a whole army of experts have been working hard to develop a dizzying range of cannabis varieties. The regular cannabis plants represent the original stock, which were then used to develop feminized and autoflower cannabis strains tailored to the needs of regular growers. We’ll explain the differences below.

Ordering Feminized Cannabis Seeds

Only female or feminized cannabis plants produce the much-coveted flower buds loaded with THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids. Females develop these for males to pollinate, in order to raise new generations of plants. Most growers have no use for male cannabis plants, as these contain little or no active cannabis compounds. Chances of new plants being male or female are about fifty/fifty. If you want to avoid having to discard half of all your plants, feminized cannabis seeds are your best option. This ensures your plants are females almost 100% of the time.

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Buying Regular Seeds

In contrast to feminized seeds, regular cannabis seeds contain both male and female specimens at about equal rates. Statistically, that would make 50% of all seedlings males – and why would anyone want that considering their lack of harvestable flowers?

Well, thing is, you need males for crossbreeding. That makes growing regular seeds a creative connoisseur’s choice, most suited for those already familiar with the art of cannabis growing. Any grower looking for a new challenge or anxious to add their own unique strain to their name: feel free to give them a try!

Autoflowers

Unless stated otherwise, the seeds you are considering will yield photoperiod plants after germination. This means the plant switches from growth to flowering as soon as it receives fewer hours of light; a natural sign that summer is past its peak. This property makes it tricky to find the right time for planting seeds outdoors, particularly so in countries where the weather can turn in early autumn.

Autoflower cannabis plants, however, will start flowering once they have reached a certain point in their vegetative stage. They obviously still need light to thrive, but the light does not determine when they start flowering. They also tend to require less time before being ready to harvest; this could be as soon as after nine weeks. Some photoperiod plants, by contrast, can take four to six months before the growth and flowering stages are complete.

On the other hand, most autoflower plants don’t grow as big as the average photoperiod plant. Then again, this property of autoflower marijuana seeds may in fact be an advantage for hobby growers. Smaller plants are easier to squeeze in on a tight balcony, grow tent, or vegetable plot.

5. Check The Parent Strains

Most seed suppleirs give an overview of their strains’ effects. However, trustworthy suppliers also reveal the parent strains used to produce their seeds. That gives growers an indication of any celeb genetics used, genetic stability, and steady grow results.

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Our Fatkid’s Cake packs some hot parent genetics – we’re happy to share them!

That’s always good to know: not just in view of future effects and harvest yields, but also for estimating reliability of germination, growth, and flowering prospects. This type of strain info really helps increase any grower’s chances of a well-deserved prime homegrown harvest!

6. More Isn’t Always Better

When it comes to weed seed genetics, more isn’t necessarily better. That means an online seed bank offering two hundred different strains is by no means ten times as good as a supplier listing twenty different cannabis strains to order. Strain strength, stability, taste and effects are the key criteria.

Compare it to restaurants. Even though a menu with over a hundred different dishes may be impressive to see, wouldn’t you prefer a chef with ten amazing recipes that are cooked to perfection, because the whole kitchen crew knows exactly how to prepare them just right?

7. Stay True To Your Own Taste

As a final tip, always remember to stay true to your own personal taste as you order cannabis seeds. If you like a strong haze high that hits you right in the head, pick seeds to match. If you’re looking for a bodybuzz that focuses on your body, you should have plenty of options, too.

Perhaps you’re looking for seeds that help you keep stress, pain, or bleak moods under control? Pay attention to those strain descriptions to find out about specific medicinal qualities. When it comes to that, high CBD strains can be worth a try as well.

Obviously though, your personal preference in ordering cannabis seeds is a matter of taste first and foremost. Why not go for a nice refreshing fruity flavour, for instance? Or how about treating yourself by ordering cannabis seeds with a touch of chocolate in their bouquet? Diesel fumes, earthy tones, and even cheesy aromas are out there too. Take a few moments to think about what you like best: it will make ordering cannabis seeds a true matter of your own good taste!

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Ordering Cannabis Seeds: Find That Perfect Match

As you can see, even after you find the finest quality seeds, all growers should pick the strain that is the best match for their personal taste! We all have our preferences for specific highs; and fortunately, cannabis plants offer ample variation to meet any individual need. From a medicinal point of view, you have plenty of options to choose from. For recreational consumers, the range of options is even more extensive, from happy effect strains to relaxing genetics, and from an uplifting buzz to creative highs.

With these tips handy, even rookie growers can succeed at ordering the best cannabis seeds online. Well alright, here’s one more tip to see you off: your most convenient next step is to simply click the button below – success guaranteed!

Straight To The Best Seeds!

As soon as you’re done ordering cannabis seeds, you’re all set to kick off that grow. Amsterdam genetics will ship your seeds on the day you order if you place it before midday Amsterdam time. Before you know it, you’ll be germinating your own cannabis seeds to get cracking. That means you’re all set to rifle through our blogs and gather the Grow Know-How you’ll need to put those premium seeds to use!

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Plant Breeding 2: DNA & Evolution

In the second part of our blog series on plant breeding, we zoom in on DNA, the genetic code contained in every cell of all living plants. DNA is the key that unlocks all plant traits. Whenever breeders aim to develop better, stronger plants, they select the best DNA for crossbreeding, creating a new generation that carries the desirable traits this DNA represents.

Plant Breeding And DNA

Plant breeding is a respectable profession carried out by specialists, but its basic principles are fairly easy to understand. Plant breeding revolves around the selection of specific traits. These traits are genetic traits they are encoded in the DNA stored in every cell of each living plant.

In essence, DNA is a biochemical code: a kind of recipe used by cells to produce certain proteins. These proteins allow the organism (i.e., the plant) to grow, to change colour or shape, to protect itself from disease, or to produce more fruits and flowers. The essence of plant breeding, therefore, is selecting the DNA of an outstanding plant, and then reproducing it to ensure that both the DNA and the outstanding traits it represents return in the next generation of plants.

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The structure of DNA.

DNA, or desoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule of an exceptional length. You can find DNA in the nucleus of every cell of all plant and animal species. Basically, DNA molecules are like cookbooks containing thousands of recipes, each written using four ‘letters’: A, T, C, and G. Of course, these are not actual letters, but four different chemical structures called nucleotides. These four nucleotides are adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and guanine (G).

A DNA molecule looks like a twin spiral, also know as a double helix. You will recognise the shape of DNA in the Amsterdam Genetics logo, blended with the triple crosses of the Amsterdam city emblem.  That makes perfect sense, because we have grown famous by the cannabis seeds we have developed. That development is all about decades of careful plant breeding using the finest DNA in existence.

The Evolution Of DNA

DNA molecules are found in the core of the cells of every plant. There other forms of DNA that reside in less central parts of plant cells, too, such as mitochondrial DNA and certain particles in the cell’s plasma. We will not go into these types of DNA here, however, since that would needlessly complicate matters.

Most of the time, the long-winded, outstretched molecules of DNA’s double helix structure reside in the cell’s nucleus in a compact, rolled-up form. We call this contracted, robust form of DNA molecules ‘chromosomes’. The only moment when these chromosomes ‘stretch out’ into the winding strings of DNA is during cell division, which science usually refers to as mitosis.

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The plant, its cells, the nucleus containing chromosomes, and the DNA in the plant’s genes.

After chromosomes unfold into double DNA helices, their code of ATCG molecules can be copied. This simple fact is key to understanding the secret of the evolution of all life on earth. During mitosis, cells are able to replicate and split into two new cells, each carrying inside the exact DNA of the original cell. To do so, the cell unwinds its DNA string, after which the entire molecule splits open like a microscopic zipper.

These two halves expose their parts of the genetic ATCG code to a ‘copier molecule’ called messenger RNA, which is similar in structure to DNA. Each A locks onto a T, while every C connects with a G, and vice versa.  This results in two identical copies of what used to be one double helix; each with the exact identical DNA cookbook full of recipes on board. That means both new cells will display the same traits displayed by the original cell. This process is known as heredity. It is the basis of modern genetics, a sub-discipline of biology that constitutes the scientific foundation of plant breeding.

Heredity

Heredity is a continuous process seen in all living organisms. It is how plants and animals replace old, dead cells by new copies. It is also how your cannabis plant (or your cactus or cat) grows: by turning one cell into two new cells the organism increases in size, from the very first cells originating from conception down to the gigantic clumps of cells that make up a giant sequoia tree or blue whale.

Cell division heredity also explain why you resemble your parents, and why people who live in the same part of the world for a long time are more like each other. Moreover, it account for the principles that underpin plant breeding, and therefore also why you get to order cannabis seeds that grow into the carefully bred strains you like to grow.

Reproduction And Copying DNA

Alright. So now we know that every cell of a plant contains the same DNA; and that these DNA cookbooks can copy themselves to create new cells. You may wonder at this point how this mechanism is so essential to plant breeding.

Well, in fact, there is one crucial aspect that we have not mentioned so far. In addition to the mitosis process described above, there is another type of cell division called meiosis. In the case of mitosis, the DNA contained in the chromosomes splits in half, too, but after that, the process changes. The cells divides itself into two reproductive cells, each carrying only half of the original double helix DNA in its nucleus.

These ‘half DNA cells’ are capable of merging with the reproductive cells of other plants. In the case of cannabis plants, male pollen cells can merge with reproductive cells found in the flowers of female plants. This happens during pollination: something that growers usually try to prevent at all costs, while breeders actively promote it as an essential step in creating new crossbreeds!

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A DNA molecule splits into two strands of genetic code.

When two different reproductive cells merge together, something extraordinary happens. A new cell is formed, containing a spontaneous combination of bits of DNA from both the mother and father plants. This is a bit like throwing lots and lots of dice: the number of possible outcomes is astronomical because there are so many different genes available to form new combinations.

These new DNA combinations determine the genetic content of the seeds formed by pollinated mother plants (and which growers usually don’t want to find in their harvest). Once mitosis is complete, the parent plants have successfully managed to reproduce.

This new and wholly unique DNA code forms the basis for a new individual: the seed representing the next generation as the ‘baby’ or offspring of its parent plants. If that seed manages to germinate and grow up to become a new plant, it will display traits inherited from both parents. It has no choice in the matter; after all, every single cell of this new organism contains the same mix of genetic recipes provided by the mother and father plants. The predictability of this outcome is what breeders use to their advantage in plant breeding.

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How Breeders Guide Plant Evolution

After this in-depth explanation of how DNA, cell division, and heredity work, we finally arrive in the domain of actual plant breeding. The following applies equally to breeding tomato plants, apple trees, or cannabis. Breeders of all plant species use the same insights into genetics to guide the evolution of the apple, tomato, or cannabis varieties they work with.

Out in the wild, among landrace populations, evolution is powered by reproduction and spontaneous DNA mutations (due to random changes or copying errors). Sometimes, recipes from the genetic cookbook are copied with a few mistakes. Most of the time, these copying errors change nothing: these mutations happen all the time in all organisms, consisting of billions of cells that keep on dividing. With so much copying going on, mistakes are bound to happen. In most of these cases, the error has no effect: nothing changes for the cell or the organism.

However, on very rare occasions, these copying errors do produce new DNA combinations that do  change the cell. Usually, such mutated cells need to replicate many times over before they can have an effect on the organism (the plant) as a whole. Such effects generally tend to have negative consequences, such as disease, flawed metabolism, or structural problems like misshapen leaves.

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Different DNA combinations are the key to new variants of apples, tomatoes, and cannabis…

Genius Genetics: Spontaneous Mutation

In certain exceptional cases, however, these spontaneous mutations happen to be improvements –random strokes of genetic genius. This occurs when the new trait offers the individual some kind of advantage over the ‘normal’ specimens of its generation. Suppose your cannabis seeds contains some spontaneously mutated DNA, turning it into a plant that is twice as resistant to bud rot as all other plants of that strain. There is a real chance that your plant and its buds will survive the mould infection, while the ‘normal’ plants don’t produce any useful harvest at all. The question is: would you throw this one plant away because apparently, it contains mutated DNA?

No, of course you wouldn’t. This is in fact the exact same decision that plant breeders try to make. Whenever the notice an exceptionally beautiful, large, strong, or tasty (i.e., ‘good’) specimen, they select that plant for crossbreeding into a new generation of plants that inherit the spontaneous mutation. This is how plant breeding can create new strains, such as the one with better resistance against bud rot in the example above.

Cannabis DNA And Plant Breeding

The evolution of every landrace of all plant species, and indeed, of all natural life, is based on these spontaneous mutations. Every new generation produces some mutants that differ from the normal specimens. Most of the time, they go unnoticed; other mutants are weaker, and some even die because of their mutations. Sometimes, though, these random mutations offer distinct advantages that improve a specimen’s chances of survival and reproduction compared to other individuals.

This usually occurs when the evolutionary pressure or selection pressure in the environment shifts, for instance when climate conditions change, or when a new predator or disease enters the scene. Suddenly, the existing genetics are no longer ideal; and so the mutants get their chance to shine. This is the famous (and often misunderstood) principle of ‘survival of the fittest’: the individuals that are best suited to deal with the new circumstances have the best chances to survive and reproduce, thus passing on their DNA to the next generation.

When this happens, the chances of seeing the advantageous mutation return in more specimens of the next generation increases. If the new situation persists, this ‘mutant offspring’ then has better chances of spreading their DNA to the next generation in turn, and so on. This is how new traits spread across populations.

This is how Charles Darwin’s important principle of natural selection works: the environment randomly ‘selects’ which specimens are best suited to survive. The fittest individuals tend to survive and pass on their DNA to following generations.

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Natural Selection, Or Breeder’s Direction?

Now, don’t make the mistake of thinking that there is some kind of ‘plan’ behind this mighty evolutionary mechanism. And don’t think that ‘fitness’ is anything like what you do at the gym. Whoever is fittest, and therefore has better chances of survival, is determined in retrospect by the brute force to which they are exposed by the environment. There is no-one who ‘decided’ that cows with horns have better chances of survival than cows without. These horns are simply the outcome of a long sequence of random mutations, each of which happened to extend some minor advantage over the all other cows.

Ultimately, evolutionary pressure In the environment determines whether mutations ‘work’ or not, and whether they will return in future generations.

Beyond that, the randomness and whimsical spontaneity of natural selection is, unscientifically stated, quite a messy affair without any ‘intentional’ purpose to guide it. Sexual reproduction is very much like rolling the dice and hoping for the best.

This messy process does come with a number of advantages, though – otherwise, evolution probably wouldn’t have been the success story it appears to be. It leads to ever-greater diversity within species, as well as giving rise to new species with their own strong traits to help them survive in their specific habitats. Whenever new diseases come into play, there is a pretty good chance that some individuals happen to be resilient due to some random mutation that seemed useless up to that point.

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Our strains contain the most wonderful ancient genetics…

Plant Breeding And DNA: The Risks

On the other hand, a lack of diversity can prove disastrous for any species. If you take plant breeding too far, the consequences can be dire indeed. This has been proven time and again in the history of breeding. The danger comes from crating monocultures: species consisting of only near-identical specimens with the same DNA.

If such monocultures encounter new diseases and pests, climate change, or other evolutionary pressures, they run a real risk of total extinction. That means no more new generations, and the end of its carefully bred genetic line. If that happens to your favourite haze strain, you’re out of luck. If it affects major food crops, as is currently happening with bananas for instance, it can lead to famine and widespread human misery.

This is the main reason for the expeditions of so-called strain hunters: they search for the original resilience of landraces to try and avert disasters like these. These adventurers are as likely to be hunting for ancient potato variants as for original cannabis strains.

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Strain hunters are like the Indiana Joneses of plant breeding…

Although breeders are a plant-loving lot, they tend to be less fond of evolution’s capricious nature, for understandable reasons. Firstly, evolution is a sluggish process: it took billions of years for the first living cells to evolve into worthwhile haze strains or successful growers, after all.

In a more concrete sense, growers can’t afford to wait millions of years until random mutations produce the specific new trait they are after. That is why breeders exchange the robustness of natural selection for the technical efficiency of goal-directed plant breeding.

Plant Breeding & Amsterdam Genetics DNA

This explains why breeders prefer to help evolution along; and this is the process we call plant breeding. Centuries of breeding experience have taught farmers and breeders much: we have been watching our crops reproduce long before we even knew that cells, DNA, and evolution existed. That is how we invented clever techniques to progressively develop the best traits of our most important plant species.

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Quality is in our genes…

This also explains how we get to relish the taste of those gorgeously plump, sweet, and juicy red tomatoes with every evening meal. Moreover, after dinner, we get to enjoy the finest, strongest, tastiest cannabis strains that mankind managed to create. And best of all, you can find the finest examples of these carefully bred genetics in our online store: Amsterdam Genetics is at the apex of a long chain spanning millennia of evolution and professional cannabis breeding!

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Each of our strains is the result of careful crossbreeding between historically successful strains, derived from ancient landraces through years of well-considered selection.. This, then, is cannabis plant breeding in a nutshell.

If you want to find out how you can direct this process of crossbreeding and selection for yourself, be sure to continue reading the next parts in our plant breeding blog series!

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Cannabis Seeds Or Cuttings?

Anyone intending to grow cannabis has to decide whether to start with seeds or cuttings. Since both will develop into full-grown plants, you may wonder which is the best choice. Cannabis seeds can be stored for a long time, they’re strong, and they come in a wealth of strains to choose from. Cuttings, on the other hand, have a head start in the early growth stages, but they are more fragile than seeds. So which are best, cannabis seeds or cuttings? Read this blog to make a well-founded decision!

Cannabis Seeds Or Cuttings: The Differences

If you plan to grow weed, you will have to decide between working with either cannabis seeds or cuttings. Both will grow to become full-sized, mature plants with buds to harvest. They do, however, present two quite different ways to start your grow.

Cannabis seeds are the natural means by which pollinated female plants secure the species’ continued existence. Seeds contain the genetic information of both the male and female parent plant. If you plant a seed, it will germinate and eventually grow into a unique mature specimen.

That marks an important difference between cannabis seeds and cuttings. Cuttings are obtained by carefully removing a branch from the original plant. If you stick this cutting into the soil, it will develop roots and grow into a fully functional plant. Such cuttings, however, are genetically identical to the plant from which they were cut, so in fact, they are clones.

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What’s The Smart Move: Order Seeds Or Cuttings?

As you can see, cuttings and seeds provide growers with two option for starting their grow. So which is the smart choice, then, to order seeds or cutting? The big advantage of using cuttings is starting out with a plant that has already developed into a semi-mature specimen. That means they are a few steps ahead of seeds, which gives them a bit of a head start. However, there are a few considerable downsides to working with cuttings that you should know about before you begin.

First off, cuttings are harder to come by, and you generally have fewer strains to choose from compared to ordering seeds. Moreover, cuttings are often weaker than plants grown from seed. Shipping them safely is trickier too, plus you run a serious risk of inviting disease and other problems into your grow room along with any cuttings you receive.

Perhaps most importantly, though, seeds represent the natural start of a cannabis plant’s life cycle. Every single cannabis seed is a tiny miracle of nature, containing all that is needed to grow into a strong, nature plant full of flower buds loaded with THC, terpenes, and other natural compounds that growers love. This dedicated blog will teach you all there is to know about the world of wonder hidden inside cannabis seeds.

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Using cannabis seeds too start your grow, by contrast, comes with a number of distinct advantages that cuttings will not grant. Below, we list the most important benefits of growing cannabis seeds.

Cannabis Seeds Or Cuttings? The Main Benefits

1 Seeds are cheaper

It never hurts to make a few smart savings on your grow budget. That makes the fact that seeds are cheaper than cuttings a nice benefit to begin with. The difference in price is explained in part by the fact that in many countries, cannabis seeds are legal while cuttings are not. From a purely economic point of view, that makes seeds the better choice.

2 Better chance of strong, healthy plants

Plants grown from cuttings will not develop their own taproot. Since the plant started out as a branch cut from a full-grown plant, it will only form lateral roots after you plant it in the soil.

This is a very real difference compared to plants grown from seed. As soon as seeds germinate, the first radicle that emerges grows straight down into the soil to form the taproot, firmly anchoring the plant into the ground. This makes cannabis plants grown from seed stronger than cuttings.

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3 Plenty Of Choice

A quick glance at the seeds in our online store will show you that you are spoiled for choice using seed for grows. This is a major factor when deciding whether to use seeds or cuttings. Starting out with a cutting seriously limits your options. Generally speaking, vendors only sell their most popular strains as cuttings.

If you choose to work with seeds, you can choose between all the celebrity strains as well as the more specialist types, including specific scents, high CBD percentages, or particular effects. Examples include strains that can offer relief from pain, fatigue, or depression, as well as uplifting strains or genetics to spark creativity. Fans of a physical bodybuzz or a high that focuses on the brain will also enjoy the additional options that seeds provide.

4 A Pesticide-Free Start

One of the main disadvantages of cuttings is their tendency to introduce pathogens and parasites to your grow environment. You run quite serious risks of contracting bacteria and viruses that can ruin your cutting as well as any other plants you may have. Treating young cuttings with pesticides is recommended: not your ideal starting point, to be sure.

If you prefer healthy and environmentally friendly growing methods instead, working with cannabis seeds is the better choice. It reduces your chance of contracting bugs and disease as well as facilitating organic grow efforts.

5 Only Female Plants

So is choosing between seeds or cuttings a difficult decision? Well, to be fair, it really isn’t, especially since you no longer need to select female seeds to grow. Years ago, before the arrival of feminized seeds, cuttings had the advantage of being all-female, guaranteed. Today, however, just about any seeds you can order are feminized, guaranteeing over 98% female specimens for any feminized seeds you purchase.

6 Legal Issues

Legal issues are yet another good reason to prefer seeds over cuttings. Purchasing seeds is legal in many countries, in contrast to buying cuttings. If you get stopped with a few seeds in your pocket, there is nothing to worry about. However, if you carry around a batch of cuttings, that’s an altogether different story. That makes choosing between cannabis seeds or cuttings more than a matter of quality: it’s a major legal decision, too…

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7 Glorious Genetics

The best thing about growing cannabis from seed is the chance of growing a unique plant full of wonderful traits. Every single plant you grow from seed has its own unique genetics. This adds to the variety, resulting in plants with striking and wonderful properties that give you much more than you hoped for. If that happens, you are of course entirely free to take your own cuttings from that seed-grown plant and propagate the unique genetics you have produced.

And if you prefer using regular, non-feminized seeds instead of feminized ones, you can start your own breeding experiments at home. Crossbreed different plants and strains to produce your own unique seeds and grow singular new varieties at minimum cost. And if that sounds a bit far-flung for you, there’s years and years of professional breeder experience to rely on, culminating in the most wonderful genetics any grower could ask for.

Premium Cannabis Seeds Or Cuttings With Risks

As you can see, growing weed from cannabis seeds is the best way to get premium buds. They give you the best chance of raising robust, healthy plants while offering great choice of strains to work with, and they add sustainability benefits to your grow practices.

If you’re still fretting over whether to choose cannabis seeds or cuttings, consider the advantage of a seed’s shelf life compare to a cloned cutting. If you don’t have the space or time to plant all your seeds at once, you can store them for years if you keep them in a dark, dry, and cool place. If you’ve bought a cutting, your only option is to get it into the ground right away, or risk watching it wither and die in a matter of days or even hours.

And obviously, this is before we consider the ease and convenience of ordering our cannabis seeds online and just waiting for the postman to deliver them at your doorstep. If you had any lingering doubts as to whether growing with seeds or cutting is the better choice, allow us to make things easy for you!

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If you’ve made your decision and plan to start growing cannabis, we trust you can make the smart choice between seeds and cuttings. Be sure to check our extensive collection of seeds. You’ll find the finest feminized strains, special CBD genetics, and fast, easy autoflower seeds. We have strains to match any taste and preference, from choco to fruity and from hazy sativas to the most gorgeous indica and kush cannabis seeds.

Pick The Best Seeds

If you look at our premium genetics, or better yet, grow some at home, you’ll experience for yourself that choosing between cannabis seeds or cuttings is in fact very easy. So, are you starting to wonder what you can do to make the seeds of your choice grow even bigger and better? Read up on our expanding series of Grow Blogs to rake in premium harvests with casual ease!

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Plant Breeding 1: The Basics

Every time a grower lets a cannabis seed germinate, they tap into a whole world of research and plant breeding expertise. Breeding cannabis strains has a long history behind it, stemming from ancient traditions of breeding other plants. This is fundamental knowledge for any grower, no matter whether you’re into tomato seeds or weed plants. That is why this blog series teaches you what plant breeding is, and how it impacts you as a grower and plant aficionado.

Plant Breeding: The Foundation Of All Modern Crops

Step inside a random supermarket or gardening centre, or shop for cannabis seeds at any online seeds bank, and you are bombarded with enough choice to make you dizzy. Tomatoes, cucumbers, geraniums, and cannabis strains: there’s so many different kinds that at times, it’s hard to see the forest for the plants.

So how is it that we have such dazzling options for choosing what’s for dinner, what to plant out in the garden, or which cannabis strain to enjoy? One way or another, it all comes down to plant breeding. By plant breeding we mean everything that growers, farmers, or breeders do to improve their crops, making them better suited for whatever purpose people want to use tomatoes, potted plants, or cannabis strains.

But what exactly constitutes an ‘improvement’? Trying to make a plant ‘better’ seems a rather subjective activity – it all depends on what you consider ‘good’ or ‘desirable’. To clarify the matter, and to understand what all those generations of growers and breeders have been up to, you will find a summary of the main goals of plant breeding below.

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Plant breeding is the key to growing ever-better crops.

Why Use Plant Breeding?

Plant breeding always aims to improve certain crops, which in practice means making them more suitable for human use. Perhaps you sense the problem inherent in this aim, because after all, who decides what makes a ‘good’ crop?

We will turn to that question later; first, we will try to clarify why anyone would want to improve a tomato, a cucumber, or a cannabis plant in the first place.

In order to understand plant breeding, you need to know that most modern plants, vegetables, fruits, and cereals (and weed strains!) are nothing like their original ancestors: the so-called landraces. The tomatoes you find in your kitchen today are completely different from the tiny sour berries they once were. That difference is due to plant breeding.

For thousands of years, farmers and breeders have been selecting their crops for favourable traits, season upon season upon season. They then went on to crossbreed these chosen prime specimens with strong specimens of existing plants, to make sure these desirable properties would return in subsequent generations.

Within one or two generations, this kind of selection will usually not make much difference. However, if you continue to select the best specimens and keep on crossing them with what you already have, the differences between your selection and the original plants becomes ever clearer. Eventually, this produces the intended results of plant breeding: every next generation displays the breeder’s intended improvements more clearly than the ones before.

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Plant Breeding: Selecting For Better Traits

Plant breeding is based on the same principles whether you are working with tomatoes or cannabis plants. In both cases, the breeder wishes to make certain traits return more prominently in the next generation. These desirable properties usually come down to the following:

  • Better yields;
  • Improved taste;
  • Better external appearance (colour, size, leaf shape, etc.);
  • Higher nutritional value (or stronger effects in case of cannabis);
  • Stronger plants with higher resilience against disease and weather influences.

As you can see, these plant breeding goals apply equally well to tomato plants as to cannabis strains. All growers want bigger harvests, better-tasting buds, beautiful purple flowers, healthy green leaves, more THC and terpenes for the ultimate high; and less risk of mould, disease, and pests.

When weed became increasingly popular over the second half of the twentieth century, enthusiasts all over the world started dabbling in cannabis plant breeding. Using the old strains and landraces they could get their hands on, they crossbred their classic cannabis varieties , until they finally developed the incredible range of strains we have available today.

To achieve that, they employed plant breeding techniques that had been perfected over centuries spent improving staple food crops such as wheat, vegetables, and fruits. The grower community, then, still owes a great deal to the efforts of breeders who were often forced to work behind the scenes.

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Landraces And Ancient Genetics

Landraces are the original forms of crops improved through human cultivation. This means that alongside cannabis landraces, we also have tomato, banana, and potato landraces dating back millennia in some cases.

When it comes to old-school weed, professional ‘strain hunters’ actively venture into the wild to find such old landrace genetics. They do so in order to develop new strains that resemble their distant ancestors more closely than most contemporary strains. Such genetics ‘hunters’, or ‘archaeologists’ if you like, are also active in the search for primal potato or cereal varieties.

But why would anyone wish to use such old genetics rather than the present-day bred varieties we see in supermarkets and dispensaries? Surely, today’s weed, tomatoes, and potatoes are much better, stronger, and tastier than their predecessors used to be?

This is true in a sense; and yet, demand for landraces and their prehistoric genetics is on the rise. This is largely due to breeders’ unrelenting efforts to keep developing new varieties of potatoes and bananas – plant breeding, in other words.

The History Of Plant Breeding

Plant breeding is as old as mankind’s first attempts to grow their own food. Back when we were still hunter-gatherers, travelling the lands in search of our food, we did not have any kind of permanent residence. That meant we had to rely on what we managed to forage along the way for a stable food supply. All of that changed, however, the moment we started to build our first human settlements, which allowed us to live in one place for generations.

Our first ancestors with a fixed address soon discovered the advantages of being able to grow their own fruits, vegetables, and cereals in their newly-invented back yards. You could say that these very first farmers laid the foundation for our modern societies, with cities full of people who are entirely reliant on farmers living elsewhere for the food they need every day.

These present-day farmers in turn depend entirely on the crops improved by centuries of plant breeding, which enable reliable large-scale agricultural food cultivation. Today’s hypermodern Dutch agriculture with its incredible efficiency would not have been possible without the ages of plant breeding that preceded it. The same applies to our cannabis culture.

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Without plant breeding, there would be no modern agriculture.

The First Grower

The very first farmers used the landraces they found in the forests and fields to grow on their plots of land. They soon discovered that some of these plants were somehow ‘better’ than the others. They produced bigger harvests, for instance; or grew taller and tasted better, or were more resilient to disease and bad weather.

At some point, there must have been one incredibly smart prehistoric farmer who figured: “Wait a minute… What if I only kept using these good plants and just got rid of all the others – would that leave me with only great specimens on my land next season?”

This single stroke of agricultural genius was all it took to give birth to the whole concept of plant breeding.

In a sense, all present-day cannabis growers owe their hobby to this First Grower Of All Times. Plant breeding turned out to be useful for more than just corn, carrots, and apple trees. Cannabis plants have proven well-suited to cultivation using plant breeding techniques, too.

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Plant Breeding Techniques

As we have mentioned above, pant breeding developed into an entire branch of scientific endeavour, comprising various theories and a range of different techniques. At the heart of these techniques lies DNA, the biochemical code of genetics that contains all traits of any plant or animal species alive today.

You probably felt this one coming: as soon as we touch upon genetics, we have entered the domain of cannabis breeders and growers. We are called Amsterdam Genetics for a reason, after all: every single one of the premium cannabis seeds you can order here came about through clever use of plant breeding techniques.

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We would love to tell you more about the technical aspects of plant breeding, but that is the subject of the next episode in this blog series. If you want to learn how you can develop the world’s best new strains using the genetics found in cannabis seeds, continue reading our next blog on DNA and plant breeding now!