I can say from my recent experience, that when shipping to USA Royal Queen Seeds is not a good choice. This is based upon my recent experience where they shipped me seeds inside a DVD case and thought that was stealth. However, anyone that knows anything about shipping illicit things knows that this stealth method has been played out for a long time and is actually now a massive red flag. Nowadays, with commonly available fast Internet, the only person that would mail a DVD case is someone who is trying to hide something. So what they think is stealth and still use as a stealth method as of Nov 2014, and have indicated they still plan to use, is like writing "illegal contents inside = please open and remove" on outside of the mail piece. When I complained to them about their use of this method they responded that they know about this but that some still get through. To me means that they know its a red flag, but they still do it, and to me that is ridiculous. They are tiny seeds. Would be much better to just do as Original Sensible did when they sent me seeds that arrived no problem in a very normal looking letter. So if you you still want to order from them, and I must say their website is rad with the persistent shopping cart at top left, specify in the order that they not use stealth, or at least that they not use DVD case. Of course, as you might have imagined if you have read this far, my padded envelope with very noticeable from the outside DVD case inside arrived with green sticker indicating having been opened by customs, and inside the case what I found was a DVD and DVD information fold-out, but none of the items I ordered. And the DVD is in Dutch. Perhaps I will watch it using the subtitles, but I have no idea what it is about AND, most importantly, I still have no seeds.
The plant was really healthy, even under 200w cfl. So my experience with them was good.
