Is buying seeds online safe? Where?

I have ordered many times and never had a single problem. Attitude,hempdepot,sannies shop are highly recommended.

Nice! Thanks Guys. this thread was empty when i found it, now look at it! Im sure now when someone asks u can point them here =) Lots of good advice along with places to buy!

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~Jake~

Last Updated: December/05/10

Greetings growers this is for medical marijuana users and those who can use the information legally. Seedbank ratings are farther down and the links to growing information are near the end.

The seedbank update is over 12 years old and is the longest running seedbank rating service in the world. Use the list of rated seedbanks and you won't worry about being ripped off. Thanks again to the many people who send in reports on how they did with various vendors.



This is the season to be jolly so light up a big one and put a smile on your face. It's a good time for indoor grows. Get those seed orders in if you haven't already.



The post office in the USA often gets funny about delivering letters. People many times use a fake name to get orders sent to them. The trouble is that the letter carrier may not deliver it if they do not recognize the name. Before you send your order, send a letter to yourself using the name and see if it arrives. Then make your order. Ask the company first if they send to your country. If no reply, do not order.



If you have bought from a seedbank send in your report so that other people will know how good or bad it was. No seeds are sold from this site. This center is only for information. You may also send in a grow report on a variety you grew out.
To reach me write to admin@ZZZseedbankupdate.com remove the ZZZ. Please do not write me at 37.com, only at the email address listed.



This group I've heard good things about. Those with four stars or more are the most reliable. They will send to most countries. I've tried to list those that ship worldwide. Those with a relatively low rating may just be new to the ratings. It takes a while to earn a good rating. A 1/2 means they are half way to the next star.


I keep getting bad reports on bc bud depot. Non delivery or poor quality seeds if they do arrive.


Attitude 4 star 1/2 (F****1/2)
Bluenose 3 star (***) (2)
Dr. Greenthumbs 4 star (F****) (1,2,3)
Hemp Depot 4 star and 1/2 (F****1/2) (1,2,4,)
Hemcy 4 and 1/2 star (F****1/2) (1,4)
Highland 2 star and 1/2 (**1/2)
Joey Weed 4 star and a half (F****1/2) (1,2)
Klozit King 3 star and 1/2 (***1/2) (1,2)
Natural Mystic 3 star and 1/2 (***1/2)
Peakseeds BC 4 star (****)
Seedboutique 3 stars and 1/2 (F***1/2) (1)
Seedbank.co.uk 2 star and 1/2 (**1/2)
Tambu 3 star (S***) (1,3)


The limited area seedbanks and a list of bad ones to avoid will be found farther down
Check out the new and unrated seedbanks at the New page. These are seedbanks I've heard good things about but haven't had enough reports on to make a rating.



I don't have time to answer individual questions so I usually just tell people to do some reading. I have information on my site and links to other sites with even more info.



Would you like to see your grow report in the SU? Please include the name of the strain, where obtained, how it grew, potency and yield. Tell us the names of other strains you grew or smoked for comparison. Cultivation tips and news items are also welcome. You can get credit under any name you prefer or stay anonymous. If you like I will rewrite it for you.
To reach me write to admin@ZZZseedbankupdate.com (remove ZZZ)



This is a report on which seedbanks are reliable and give good service. I also list some bad ones to stay away from (crooks). Reports from people who have ordered from cannabis seedbanks are welcome. That's what this is based on, reports from people like you. You can send your report to me at seedbanks@ZZZ37.com (remove ZZZ) If you send a report please state what bank you ordered from, how long it took and roughly how far away you are from them. I'd like to know if the packaging was stealty (well hidden) and what method used and if any seeds were crushed. Any other info you think is important will be appreciated. Reports on how the crop turned out are good too. I don't rate companies on price, that's up to you to compare. The more stars, the more reliable. F = faster than average, no letter = average, S = slow.



I have a system of additional ratings. They are a one (1) for accepting payment by money order or certified check without charging extra for it. A two (2) will be given for free stealth shipping. A three (3) will be given for accepting credit cards. This leaves a paper trail but is quick and easy. (4) indicates that they use PGP code for privacy on request. A five (5) means Western Union is accepted. A six (6) indicates customer complaints about seed quality. An example of the new rating might be Ed's seeds (***) (1,2) which means three stars and he gives free shipping and takes money orders with no extra charge.



These seedbanks send to certain countries only.



Dr Chronic 3 star and 1/2 (F***1/2)
Pukka 2 star (**) (1)
Sensi Seed 4 star and 1/2 (****1/2)
Nirvana Shop3 star and 1/2 (***1/2)
Seeds of Passion2 star (**)


These are seed breeders and wholesalers primarily. While they have a good reputation, I don't have enough information about their mail order seed business to make a rating.



BCGA
Bros Grimm
Dutch Passion
Fantaseeds
Greenhouse
Homegrown Fantaseed
KC Brains
Serious
(and many others)



This is the rip-off section. The following seedbanks I've heard many bad things about. They are NOT recommended. aka means also known as. X means they seldom or never send the product. N means sending non viable seeds (non sprouting seeds) M indicates they send very inferior seeds or nothing at all


A-1 Seedbank (X,N)
BC Seeds (X,M)
Beeoo (X)
Fairlight (X,N)
Greenmanspage (X,M)
marijuanaseed.us (X) Software Services aka Cannabis4u aka Medical hemp aka cannabis@direct.A2000.nl [L.Pafort] (X)
Richies Seedshack (X)
Stinkey's (X)
Weedseed (X)
Pot a Gold (X)

These seedbanks are not recommended due to excessive complaints. This is a judgement call and some customers have said they were satisfied. The nature of the complaints are as follows: 10 = non delivery, 11 = very poor customer service, 12 = inferior quality or misrepresented seeds, 13 = unethical conduct by seedbank owner.


BCbuddepot (11, 10)
Bullmall aka Bull-electrical.com (10, 11)
Cannabisseeds.com (10) Ganjaland (10)
Greater Harmony (10)
Kindseed (10)
Laughing Moon (10, 11)
Seedbank Co uk (11)
Seedbank.com (10)
Topseeds (10)

I know a guy who was busted from ordering on-line seeds. Have no idea what % get caught but it's a real risk and just stupid to pretend it never happens. But you know how some people are, they get away with something and they call it safe.

Japanfreak said:

I know a guy who was busted from ordering on-line seeds. Have no idea what % get caught but it's a real risk and just stupid to pretend it never happens. But you know how some people are, they get away with something and they call it safe.

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I could not begin to remember the year but I started purchasing seeds online right about the time they first became available and have purchased them far more times than I could begin to remember and I have never had an order not get through, I have never been ripped off in any way, never an incomplete or inaccurate order and I have never had anyone come knock on my door to pay a little visit to ask me about any purchase I ever made or show up in the middle of the night in hopes of finding anything that was the result of a purchase I had made.

There is a degree of risk in everything someone does in life. You can strain taking a dump and have a heart attack and die sitting on the can. I have known of people who had a heart attack and died while having sex. More people die on the roads in the U.S. every year than the number of American military members who died during the entire War in Vietnam. Nothing is 100% totally risk free in life.

But unless someone lives in a country with some dictator or something where they are uber-strict about everything and they will inspect every single package that comes into the country and then attach electric leads to rather sensitive parts of your body for things like buying Girl Scout Cookies online ... I would say ordering seeds online is very safe. Not 100% totally safe, but very safe.

The people more at risk would be the people who order 50 packs of seeds or 100 packs of seeds or 200 packs of seeds, etc. If their order is caught in Customs information to the local cozzers, or even the DEA, might result because someone like that would be seen as a commercial grower. But someone ordering 1, 2 or 5 packs of seeds is too small of a fish for anyone to really make any real attempt to catch or worry about.

I was a little nervous the first time I bought seeds on line. I used Attitude and had no problems at all!! they actually came pretty fast with a cool mug.

Brick Top said:

I could not begin to remember the year but I started purchasing seeds online right about the time they first became available and have purchased them far more times than I could begin to remember and I have never had an order not get through, I have never been ripped off in any way, never an incomplete or inaccurate order and I have never had anyone come knock on my door to pay a little visit to ask me about any purchase I ever made or show up in the middle of the night in hopes of finding anything that was the result of a purchase I had made.

There is a degree of risk in everything someone does in life. You can strain taking a dump and have a heart attack and die sitting on the can. I have known of people who had a heart attack and died while having sex. More people die on the roads in the U.S. every year than the number of American military members who died during the entire War in Vietnam. Nothing is 100% totally risk free in life.

But unless someone lives in a country with some dictator or something where they are uber-strict about everything and they will inspect every single package that comes into the country and then attach electric leads to rather sensitive parts of your body for things like buying Girl Scout Cookies online ... I would say ordering seeds online is very safe. Not 100% totally safe, but very safe.

The people more at risk would be the people who order 50 packs of seeds or 100 packs of seeds or 200 packs of seeds, etc. If their order is caught in Customs information to the local cozzers, or even the DEA, might result because someone like that would be seen as a commercial grower. But someone ordering 1, 2 or 5 packs of seeds is too small of a fish for anyone to really make any real attempt to catch or worry about.

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And like I said, I know a guy who was busted. I'm sure if you had ever been busted you'd have a great speech about not making light of the risk.

walking down the street isnt safe these days...who are we to judge whats safe

You should judge yourself but when people make light of the risks just because they haven't been hit had bad luck doesn't help anybody. There is a real risk otherwise people wouldn't use safe addresses and such.

Japanfreak said:

And like I said, I know a guy who was busted. I'm sure if you had ever been busted you'd have a great speech about not making light of the risk.

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And like I said:


There is a degree of risk in everything someone does in life. You can strain taking a dump and have a heart attack and die sitting on the can. I have known of people who had a heart attack and died while having sex. More people die on the roads in the U.S. every year than the number of American military members who died during the entire War in Vietnam. Nothing is 100% totally risk free in life.

But unless someone lives in a country with some dictator or something where they are uber-strict about everything and they will inspect every single package that comes into the country and then attach electric leads to rather sensitive parts of your body for things like buying Girl Scout Cookies online ... I would say ordering seeds online is very safe. Not 100% totally safe, but very safe.

The people more at risk would be the people who order 50 packs of seeds or 100 packs of seeds or 200 packs of seeds, etc. If their order is caught in Customs information to the local cozzers, or even the DEA, might result because someone like that would be seen as a commercial grower. But someone ordering 1, 2 or 5 packs of seeds is too small of a fish for anyone to really make any real attempt to catch or worry about.


You know; "know a guy," one person, one single person who was busted. Well I have purchased beans online just about from the day they became available and I don't even know one person who was busted as a result of doing that ... not one single person ... in all those YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS.

Considering the MASSIVE number of seed transactions that take place each day I would guesstimate that the odds of being busted because someone ordered seeds online and were somehow tracked down about being equal to being struck by lightning and living on the same day you win a $500,000,000.00 megabucks lottery and the Olsen twins show up at your door begging you to marry both of them and adding that if you will marry them both they want to ask Keira Knightly and Paris Hilton over every weekend for a weekend long group romp in bed involving a 55-gallon drum of lubricant and circus equipment.

"like I said, I know a guy"

year and years of something

Seriously how many guys do you know brick? 100? 1000? So I know one guy who got busted. 1/1000 risk? 1/100 risk? I don't call that very very safe. But I'm glad all the people you've known is all those years are safe.

roflmao...you two guys really get at each other ...

ok look, I can google too.

"A CASTLE Hill man has been busted importing marijuana seeds from the UK to create his own home-grown hydroponics operation in a unit owned by his mother.

Australian Customs and Border Protection Service intercepted a package on August 16 last year.

It was headed to a local unit complex from Ireland addressed to a "Terry White".

Officers at a New South Wales port became suspicious after checks on the local residence revealed no one who lived at the address went by that name.

Upon further inspection of the package it was revealed to contain three packets with ten cannabis seeds each. The packets are sold legally overseas from a cannabis seeds supply company, under the brand names "Dutch Passion", "White Label" and "Flying Dutchman".

Brett James Dickson pleaded guilty yesterday in the Townsville Magistrates Court to several drug-related offences, including unlawfully producing, supplying and possessing a dangerous drug.

Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Greg Mobbs said the 36-year-old man was arrested when police attended a Castle Hill address. Officers went to the Mills St unit, owned by the defendant's mother, on June 12 this year.

Dickson admitted to police when they arrived that the seeds were his and then gave them a tour of his in-house hydroponics set-up.

"He revealed he was growing cannabis," Sen-Sgt Mobbs said.

"He showed police eight plants located in the bathroom off the main bedroom."

The prosecutor said the marijuana plants were being grown under a sophisticated hydroponics system. "They were under several lights, being ventilated by fans, using a power converter and an amount of fertiliser," he said.

While in the main bedroom 26g of cannabis were found in a bowl and more hydroponics lights located in the cupboard.

The defendant admitted buying the equipment from an online hydro store. In total 105g of cannabis was found in the unit.

A mobile phone was also seized with a text message revealing Dickson had supplied the drug to a friend in April, 2010.

However, he claimed to police he did not sell cannabis and that drug deal was "a one-off thing".

Defence lawyer Ali Lyons said Dickson, who is currently unemployed but once worked in real estate, turned to cannabis to address some health problems.

"He had two heart attacks two weeks apart in 2009 and suffers from anxiety,' Ms Lyons said.

"He took up smoking it when a friend offered it to him and he started growing it after that for personal use."

Magistrate Peter Smid did not record a conviction for the defendant who had a clean record.

Dickson was ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid community service."

Japanfreak said:

ok look, I can google too.

"A CASTLE Hill man has been busted importing marijuana seeds from the UK to create his own home-grown hydroponics operation in a unit owned by his mother.

Australian Customs and Border Protection Service intercepted a package on August 16 last year.

It was headed to a local unit complex from Ireland addressed to a "Terry White".

Officers at a New South Wales port became suspicious after checks on the local residence revealed no one who lived at the address went by that name.

Upon further inspection of the package it was revealed to contain three packets with ten cannabis seeds each. The packets are sold legally overseas from a cannabis seeds supply company, under the brand names "Dutch Passion", "White Label" and "Flying Dutchman".

Brett James Dickson pleaded guilty yesterday in the Townsville Magistrates Court to several drug-related offences, including unlawfully producing, supplying and possessing a dangerous drug.

Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Greg Mobbs said the 36-year-old man was arrested when police attended a Castle Hill address. Officers went to the Mills St unit, owned by the defendant's mother, on June 12 this year.

Dickson admitted to police when they arrived that the seeds were his and then gave them a tour of his in-house hydroponics set-up.

"He revealed he was growing cannabis," Sen-Sgt Mobbs said.

"He showed police eight plants located in the bathroom off the main bedroom."

The prosecutor said the marijuana plants were being grown under a sophisticated hydroponics system. "They were under several lights, being ventilated by fans, using a power converter and an amount of fertiliser," he said.

While in the main bedroom 26g of cannabis were found in a bowl and more hydroponics lights located in the cupboard.

The defendant admitted buying the equipment from an online hydro store. In total 105g of cannabis was found in the unit.

A mobile phone was also seized with a text message revealing Dickson had supplied the drug to a friend in April, 2010.

However, he claimed to police he did not sell cannabis and that drug deal was "a one-off thing".

Defence lawyer Ali Lyons said Dickson, who is currently unemployed but once worked in real estate, turned to cannabis to address some health problems.

"He had two heart attacks two weeks apart in 2009 and suffers from anxiety,' Ms Lyons said.

"He took up smoking it when a friend offered it to him and he started growing it after that for personal use."

Magistrate Peter Smid did not record a conviction for the defendant who had a clean record.

Dickson was ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid community service."

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Ok .. again, one guy ..... what about the thousands and and thousands and thousands of orders that arrived safely across the world on the same day?

As I have said twice already; " I would say ordering seeds online is very safe. Not 100% totally safe, but very safe."

What do you want from me JapanTroll? For me to say, that while even though the probability of being busted for purchasing seeds online is almost ZERO that just because the possibility still exists people should be soiling themselves at the very thought of doing it and would be very wise to not do it?

Japanfreak said:

Dickson admitted to police when they arrived that the seeds were his and then gave them a tour of his in-house hydroponics set-up.

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He gave them a tour? Really? LOL

Originally Posted by Japanfreak Dickson admitted to police when they arrived that the seeds were his and then gave them a tour of his in-house hydroponics set-up.

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supaleeb said:

He gave them a tour? Really? LOL

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What a moron ... but it really got him into some deep shit fir sure ..."Magistrate Peter Smid did not record a conviction for the defendant who had a clean record. Dickson was ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid community service."

Knowing that I could end up without a conviction going on my record and get "60 hours of unpaid community service" is enough to make me consider after nearly 39 years of growing and buying seeds online just about the the time they were first offered to stop toking cold turkey and never buy seeds again or grow again.

"60 hours of unpaid community service" ... now that's some scary shit to face! Knowing that there is an extremely slight degree or probability that you might possibly get busted for purchasing seeds online and have to do 60 hours of unpaid community service should be enough to cause us all to never purchase seeds online ever again, right JapanTroll?

But then if he had not admitted he ordered the seeds and not then offered to give the cozzers a tour of his house he wouldn't have had to pull weeds or pick up trash or whatever for 60 hours.

Had he never taken possession of the seeds so he could not have been busted for possession of seeds. If they had a warrant they wouldn't have needed the tour, they would have had a free pass to walk right in .. and they would never have gotten a warrant based on seeds he had never have taken possession of.

order on online your fine as long as its from a trusted site. The one's on this site are good.

I "may have" ordered seeds a few times. What happens if customs finds your seeds? NOTHING!!!!!! They take your seeds, put a letter in the original envelop, it says we found something that is against the law in the U.S and send it to you "in lamins term's" . No knocks, no raids, no nothing. It's seeds, prove I ordered them. I was billed to a different company! And you know what my card may have been stolen for all I know. / Thats if you live in the U.S. Buy a pre-paid card i know some who do that if you want!

Dont listen to Japfreak, he's to hyped up. I'm sure he also doesn't touch pussy knowing there's STDS out there!
He's worried about seed's but then again where did he get his? From a street dealer, well guess what that dealer knows you have them now and I'm sure he's trust worthy!! It's safer having them mail to you rather then them being handed to you!!

Japanfreak said:

year and years of something

Seriously how many guys do you know brick? 100? 1000? So I know one guy who got busted. 1/1000 risk? 1/100 risk? I don't call that very very safe. But I'm glad all the people you've known is all those years are safe.

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I have read alot of your posts. and you are probably the biggist troll i have ever seen. so excuess me if i dont take what you say seriously

and brick. thanks for sharing your experiances. it helps alot when deciding. i appreciate it man.

Just got my seeds from nirvana and it was my 1st order. would i or will i do it again=Hellz yeah, might try attitude next time though. Good luck.

maybe have problems if you make a big order (500 seeds). but 1st of all if the get your order stopped at customs i wouldn't think the cops will come to your house for 5-10 seeds. cost them too much and its shit you don't even have in your possession.

"Sir! are these your seeds?"=NO. they must be yours...your the one that has them.