Ordered a Mixed from PeakseedsBC - Quick Question!?

Hey all,

I ordered the 20pack of mixed seeds from peakseedsbc, they've got some very good looking strains.

24 seeds arrived promptly 3 weeks after order.

I managed to sift the seeds by the look of the seed. They were distinctly different. Some were a larger brown with black spots and lines and others had a more flat and had a different hue or color. I managed to sort them into 4 different groups as best I could.

The strains they offer appear to be distinct enough to warrant visibly different seed.

Is it reasonable to think that the different seeds will be different plants?

Seed appearance has nothing to do with what plants they came from. If you had a bowl full of seeds from one set of parents and another full of seeds from another set of parents, you might see very slight overall differences, but not in a 20 variety pack.

yeah but some of them are remarkably different and similar and there are multiples of the similar looking seeds. Near to a T copies. Different colors and shapes, and groups of each.

So plant A could have seed style X, Y, and Z randomly(different color/shape). Instead of plant A having Z seeds, Plant B having Y seeds, and plant C having X seeds; each plant having a different/unique looking seed (A only has Z looking seeds, etc...). Which is right?

Their plants range a wide difference in strains, and since I got a mix, I figured I could at least help my chances of getting multiple types of bud by splitting the seeds into groups according to what they look like and planting one of each

It's more like plant A can have seeds that are immature, partially mature, more mature and fully mature, and all of those types can have slight color and pattern differences. Also, because a fully pollinated plant can produce hundreds of seeds, some get more nutrients than others, growing bigger and reaching a more fully mature look. You are grouping together seeds that are of similar growth level and/or maturity. There aren't different styles but seeds are like snowflakes, each is a little different.

Seeds will reach viability before they stop growing, so live, healthy seeds can have minimum maturity appearances and maximum maturity appearances. Usually seeds start out green, then white, turn tan, get darker and/or greyer and finally, form little tiger stripes on the shell. Because of nutritional, light strength and age differences between seeds from the same plant, mature seeds can end up looking anywhere from tan to dark grey and may or may not have the tiger stripes while still being viable.

Very good explanation. Thanks a lot.

I could tell the seeds really into 3 main groups that they were DEFINITELY different. I popped 4 total, 2 from the most numerous group.

During the coming months, I will try to tell if the four different plants display different phenotypes

Here are some pics and some rationale.

Blueberry:


Twisted first couple leaf sets (common to blueberry), completely purple stem and underside of leaves.

Northern Lights:

Very short/bushy/fatter leaves. Looks like a total Indica with ZERO purple anywhere.

Unknown:

These three all have varying amounts of purple on their stems, none under leaves, and much skinnier "sativa" leaves. Believed to be Northern berry/ n'ern skunk


Top 3 - Unknown
Bottom Right - Blueberry
Bottom Left - NL