mandala rocks. his 8 miles high is in my top 5... very nice well mannered high. he has a cheap safari mix that's 20 or even 30 seeds on the cheap. if you're looking for a stinky indica, his hashberry is popular.
i like high quality seeds. their $28 haze skunk is seriously potent gear with a long lasting high and low tolerance build up. according to a post somewhere, black label seeds is a sister brand to HQS like sativa seeds is to nirvana. i liked their compact autoflowering masterkush well enough for what it is. not a fan of either brand's use of the bubble dome in cardboard lose your seeds asap packaging. HQS thai skunk was closer to an average fruity haze like rokerij amnesia, someone's fruity thai and particularly mutated & slow super lemon haze.
sannies has cheap gear and are very respected in here. i bet their jack is nice.
rokerij amnesia haze is very nice. it held it's own against a bunch of similar fruity jacks, hazes & thais. i'd call it average where DNA's sweet haze is clearly better than average and if you just bought a fem of that and cloned it, it would be a bargain. fems are a cheap way to get otherwise expensive strains. so far, every DNA strain i've tried has been above average. i'd consider their fems bargains.
nirvana used to be good entry level knockoffs, but their fems & autos are notoriously bad and their regulars might be slipping too.
CH9 has potential. i vaguely recall being impressed with their straight up indy looking jack, maybe for potency or lack of odor, but i think it might have stood out a little above average too. jack's cleaner 2 & sweet haze were the real standouts and all of the fine average gear blended together. i'm going to test jack again (i'm pretty sure it makes huge seeds) as well as their more euphoric sounding jack 33.
if you really want cheap seeds, the thing to do is wait for a really good newsletter offer at attitude with at least a couple interesting sounding strains that suit your tastes. then, when you get a couple or so more UFO freebies, you'll at least have a fair amount of strains to compare against each other, especially if you do some cloning.
3-4 TGA beans to get at least a single female isn't as cheap as you can get, but as jack's cleaner 2 is my current favorite strain, it's worth $30 to try for another female or use a male if i have to. a $50 5 pack is reasonable.
john sinclair's sativa trans-love is another $50 strain and blended in with the average fruity hazes for it's buzz that was nice euphoric & motivational, but that strain impressed me with how much faster it made buds than anything but a masterkush auto in my garden. the buzz is better than C99 on that strain and if you were really in a hurry, you could get bag appeal bud in just 30 days of flowering. i'm crossing it with 55 day cinderella apollo to see if it can become an even faster haze. a strain that gets you high like this with the speed that it buds made this strain one of the best freebies i've ever bought. if it got crossed with sweet haze, it would be awesome i bet. mind you, those buds i had to take down around the 40 day mark because of severe hot spot burning were also making seeds with barely enough fan leaf for the task. my topped seattle just made a nice flat top of 8 buds without any training. it just stopped stretching when i flipped it and sprouted buds and made seeds quickly.
hope that helps
