Yeah that really seems odd. I never made any first hand experience, so your opinion weighs much more than mine when it comes to RQS.
Also my first statement should be clarified a bit. I spent alot of time on a Swiss grow forum and after a while I noticed that there was alot of hate for RQS. They even have a dedicated thread for it. Folks over there are smart asses, but they seem to know their shit. It's similiar to here with some members breeding themselves, trading seeds and according to their posts, they do quite well. Probably the forum is overall smaller then THCFARMER but they got 160k members and 4.3 million posts (I think it started in 2001 or so). Not all companies are hated on and of course there are also members over there, that like and grow RQS.
What seems a bit strange though is the amount of different strains that RQS has in their catalogue. They started around 2000, if I remember it right. Of course you could have many teams of breeders to create alot of strains, but it's hard to come out with alot of new stuff all the time. Same goes for Bud Voyage who just came out last year with a big catalogue. Somebody on the forum contacted them and they claimed to breed themselves - was sort of a whacky answer.
Anyway, I don't want to start some shit storm or whatever, but I'm really curios to find out the truth at some point.
youre fine, i definitely prefaced the rant with apologies for a reason lol. i definitely dont wanna start a stupid back and forth either.
Most large seedbanks will take on strains from a large number of different breeders. And many commercial breeders supply strains to more then one seedbank too. Many seedbanks like herbies arent even breeders, they just resale large volumes of stored seeds from breeders that work for various other companies. And even go out of their way to make customers think the seed is coming from them not other breeders,
Most european seedbanks do NOT treat broke/low baller purchases from americans the same way they do from Europeans. RQS does. Ive grown plants from them for close to 20 years. i consider them
the most reliable modern seedbank i have access to as an american in a low income, prohibition state. Nirvana, barneys, herbies.... they love to steal my money and say customs got it, even though everything i ordered royal queen always showed up. Idc what other peoples experiences are with those companies, thats
shitty, and i have zero respect for it.
Royal queens $5 fem seeds like special queen blow away most other flagship seedbanks strains youll be paying like $100 for half a dozen of. it also repeatedly beats out plants almost twice as strong in the cups on flavor and the qualities of its high alone.
Royal queen is also one of the only large worldwide distributed seedbanks around that actually employs their own breeders too. Unlike 9/10 other seed sellers that just buy and resale products from commercial breeders both like my old friend tammy the brought me the psychedelic banjo. She has a few things on royal queen. most knowledgeable breeder ive ever personally talked to as well. One of only a couple commercial breeders i trust at all anymore. Most the constantly popping up "new breeders" with el cheapo square space sites are literally just buying seeds in bulk from sources like royal queen, repackaging them as their own products, and peddling them as if they were actual breeders.
Theres probably 20 different "small private breeders" that will sell you RQS's flagship plant special queen, as any number if different unique strain names, and all for probably about double what RQS sells it for. Ive smoked special queen from two other growers now that were labeled something else from some random new seedbank. Very unique genotype and ive grown and smoked it for close to 20 years.
RQS is an easy target because dont usually even bother to engage in shutting these people up, because its pointless to try on internet land lol. But they also dont care of people "steal" their genetics to work with on their own anyway.
The euro crowd loves to hate on royal queen for offering reg seed true F1s as well. For god only knows why. Ive spent the last half-decade trying to figure that one out, and i still cant. There is no ground to stand on there, at all. Much like claims RQS steals other peoples strains. Growers should be THANKFUL there are still breeders offering reg seed f1's between stable phenotypes. Thats the hallmark of a breeder who actually cares about the genetics of their plants and
doesnt mind when people take their genetics to work with for themselves as far as im concerned with it.
I mentioned publicly i was going to order some special queens for a breeding project of my own. RQS popped up *in private*, and sent them to me for free no questions asked just so i could have the genetics to work with for my own projects. And anyone who knows me well at all, knows why thats something i respect the fuck out of. Good luck finding another seedbank that will send you a multi pack of their flagship strain free of charge for the soul purposes of breeding your own plants with it.
RQS is literally the only modern seedbank/breeders left i stand up to even bother defending at all. Speaking from personal experience theyre the only company ive ever worked with in the growing world ive never had a single negative experience with. i cant even say that about guitar companies.
that being said, ive never used the reputable american companies like humboldt, chimera, Bhodi etc because i firmly believe cannabis seeds arent worth what they charge for them, I can get a pound of brandywine tomato seeds with every bit as much backcrossing and stability work on em for $20 at the amish produce stand down the road. I can buy white chinese opium poppy seeds, hundreds upon hundreds for like $5 that have every bit the breeding work on em any modern cannabis does. I can get stable zucchini seeds a private grower has worked on for the last 35 years. A whole pack of like 30 for like $3 at the amish stand lol.
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