New Grower Lying seed banks

[ninja1]

Why is it most seed banks lie about the time it takes for their strains to finish? Of course to try get more sales but youd think people would get abit pissed off being told lies and just stop buying from that bank.

 

[cres]

only buy what you see test grown... its the best advise I can give ya.

 

[Captain Howdy]

Most seed banks judge their times on a hydro set-up under optimal conditions with a fecking huge light on one plant. The times are possible but you'll have to replicate the breeders grow conditions.
Soil grows add at least a week if not more onto those times as well, and outdoors even more.

But Cres is bang on, have a goose on here for a while looking at the strains your interested in. You'll soon find an average you can base your grow on.

Peace

 

[krug]

Marketing and profits...simples!

 

[DANK]

I was thinking about that recently :joint: If one company didn't lie about their finishing times people would just think its a really slow plant and not buy it I think

 

[SCARHOLE]

seeds banks just go by the breeders discriptions,
Blame them.
lol

 

[GoAuto6]

Well I think that because you cant create optimum conditions, or are a new grower, or all of thee above , does not mean that they are lying....Generally when i get a new strain it takes 4 maybe 5 grows of that breed to even start to fine tune what they like.. the breeder's have grown hundreds usually, they have put the time in to finger out what it is those girls like ... so instead of calling them a liar, we should strive to match there skill.... :smokebuds:

 

[thud]

Marketing and profits...simples!

The strategy depends on repeat purchases. If your customers only ever buy from you once, you have an incentive to rip them off. You don't lose the repeat business because there is none.

I read about varieties, I note who the breeder was. I note my experience with their varieties and what others have written. Some breeders are uniformly reviled, yet they stay in business. This is consistent with a clueless public doing most of the buying. The one that is able to reach them with his marketing, makes more money than the good guy supplying to connoisseurs. I guess we all have people whose opinions we respect. A recommendation from them is worth more to me than some snappy advert.

How to find these real experts then? I note that almost every grower in the journals forum is positive about their grow. Every variety is potent and abundant. I actually like to see negative reports since despite their rarity, half the strains must be below average.

 

[WEEDOSHI]

I always add 3-5 weeks extra ontop of their estimate.

 

[Muddy]

If you switch to bloom nutes and lights at 4 weeks, your plants will finish in the times the seed banks list. This was pretty much the accepted way to grow them when autos first came on the market. But since then we've learned you can improve your yields significantly by waiting until vertical growth stops, usually around week 6. Those extra 2 weeks of veg push the times to the 10-11 weeks that we usually see, instead of the 8-9 that is advertised.