Humboldt Seed Company (HSC) Thread

GlassJoe

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My preferred bank for HSC has become Chitown seeds though I've used Hembra multiple times with no complaints. Hembra has nice freebies (3 fems of another HSC strain is their usual) and their service is good but Chitown does $80-90 packs (10 fems/20 regs) with free shipping, so I've usually just gone for the lower cost. My only complaint is that Chitown's website sucks by comparison.
 

petert

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I am very glad for this thread. Have been reading about Humboldt Seed Company on a magazine called Growing Marijuana Perfectly. They even have one on the beautiful girl who is the daughter of the company founder. The articles make it seem like this company's seeds & strains are perfect and amazing. But in this thread and elsewhere (growers I know who have grown their strains), there are problems with hermies, runts, not enough cultivation info on their website for each strain, low yield, inaccurate flowering times, and they say the strains have Sativa effects but many of them don't, and the strains they say are Sativa effects come from Indica genetics, which makes no sense. I appreciate all of you sharing photos and info. These days, with so many scammer seed companies, the only way to know for sure before buying a strain is to see what other growers are getting from it.
Every breeder puts very optimistic flower times and blown out of proportion weight and THC % expectancy. I’ve grown HSC multiple years with zero hermi’s . That said it was only Blueberry Muffin so maybe other strains are suspect. I’m popping BM, Pistashio and Apple Blossom from HSO this spring.
the other thing that people tend to mix up is HSC and HSO.
 

GlassJoe

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Every breeder puts very optimistic flower times and blown out of proportion weight and THC % expectancy. I’ve grown HSC multiple years with zero hermi’s . That said it was only Blueberry Muffin so maybe other strains are suspect. I’m popping BM, Pistashio and Apple Blossom from HSO this spring.
the other thing that people tend to mix up is HSC and HSO.
Apple blossom was one of my best performers last year, though I got it late in the season and only had a chance to run one. it's the little one in front in these pictures, going from July 8th to August 7th to September 2nd and then harvested around the end of September.

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Ganjihad

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I would suggest staying far away from their mango trees strain.

It had no mango or fruity terps, and most definitely was not tree like. Bland, terpless, low thc/non potent/weak strain.
 
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trychrome

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Hey folks! Here's the sister plant to @PopAndSonGrows Mountaintop Mint as well as my first of many Hella Jellies. The nose on mine is a sweet, almost creamy, skunk with subtle minty-menthol notes, very difficult to describe. Almost as if a freshly showered skunk had just run through a mint field but with nuances. Think inhaling mint through an unlit menthol cigarette.
I also included the current Hella Jelly, done now, and some past ones from last year:peace:

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This one is my own creation alt titled "Making Lemons from Lemonade"
It's an intentional cross. The Vanilla Frosting was one of three plants infected with WPM
after I introduced a foreign plant w/o quarantine, so I put it outside.
I just happened to have a Blueberry Muffin male laying around from the regular seed run
and here we are..

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The early nose was Blueberry Play-Doh but has since transitioned into a creamy cherry medicine
with some RHCP funk.
It was 11/13 from seed basically and I put some effort into f*ck*ng her up but she still managed to
come out alright. She's in day 5 of dry right now. I'll be working my way through the rest of the
beans, but so far, Outlook Good!

See ya!

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This is 1 of 4 Blueberry Muffins 7 1/2 weeks bloom Glad i took a clone I had some issues early on with bad root damage so the yield was very low I got 2 super colorful beauties that smell amazing like a blueberry syrupy kool aid & 2 green phenos that are almost done still in flower but they dont smell nearly as good.
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Stumbled here looking for info on HSC packs. Have all of you that have grown these packs, gotten the correct amount of seeds in your packs? I got a blueberry muffin f9 original pack that only has 14 seeds in it..I reached out to where I bought them and they sent me another pack for the mess up. This pack also says regs seeds so there should be 20, but only has 11. We’re all of your packs consistent in numbers?
 

trychrome

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Stumbled here looking for info on HSC packs. Have all of you that have grown these packs, gotten the correct amount of seeds in your packs? I got a blueberry muffin f9 original pack that only has 14 seeds in it..I reached out to where I bought them and they sent me another pack for the mess up. This pack also says regs seeds so there should be 20, but only has 11. We’re all of your packs consistent in numbers?
My BBM regs had 20, all the other fem packs had 10.
 
Don’t want to throw the bank under the bus because they did send a replacement to try and make up for the difference. It was chitown seeds and they are great…I will still order from them because of the customer service.
 

Cboat38

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Okay they have good c.s cause I’m about to order the blueberry cupcake from them, I wonder if it’s a shop cause I can just go there and buy em
 

crisnpropa

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Ordered from DCseedexchange: pineapple upside down cake regs (20 seeds in a pack).
I was sent a pack of fems.
Emailed a short, polite alert to customer service, and I am a satisfied customer.

Love DC seed exchange!

Just wish I knew how to take advantage of the rewards points they offer.
 

trychrome

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Thanks for that. I’m not sure how I got 2 packs with less than advertised seed numbers. Makes me think someone is scamming the packs. It’s either HSC themselves or the Seedbank that sold me the seeds.
Funny story, I sent this screencap to @PopAndSonGrows a week ago. I'm not sure he understood what I was getting at. It's from HSC's >press assets >>product photos

I got a pack of Hella Jellys from DCSE and Chitown and both were pristine with proper bean counts. My BBM came from a Sacramento dispensary delivery service, and my Collie Man Kush came from another Sac dispensary, both correct.

I did find it peculiar that the HJ pack is listed as 10 fems but obviously shows much more. Could be an art department snafu¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Funny story, I sent this screencap to @PopAndSonGrows a week ago. I'm not sure he understood what I was getting at. It's from HSC's >press assets >>product photos

I got a pack of Hella Jellys from DCSE and Chitown and both were pristine with proper bean counts. My BBM came from a Sacramento dispensary delivery service, and my Collie Man Kush came from another Sac dispensary, both correct.

I did find it peculiar that the HJ pack is listed as 10 fems but obviously shows much more. Could be an art department snafu¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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it seems most people get the correct beans but there are others including myself who haven’t. Lol. I want a blueberry muffin male so this is my problem. Maybe I got fems instead in both “regs” packs. I’ll find out after they bud
 

GlassJoe

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Funny story, I sent this screencap to @PopAndSonGrows a week ago. I'm not sure he understood what I was getting at. It's from HSC's >press assets >>product photos

I got a pack of Hella Jellys from DCSE and Chitown and both were pristine with proper bean counts. My BBM came from a Sacramento dispensary delivery service, and my Collie Man Kush came from another Sac dispensary, both correct.

I did find it peculiar that the HJ pack is listed as 10 fems but obviously shows much more. Could be an art department snafu¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I've only ever bought fems, but I've gotten at least 10 in each of the packs, 11 in one of my my apple blossom. The banks I've purchased from are chitown seeds and hembra genetics.
 
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