The Story of Serious Seeds

The breeder behind Serious Seeds, Simon, is responsible for the material sold by the seed bank. He studied biology at one of the universities in Amsterdam and was always a non-smoker. He only discovered the merits of smoking pure marijuana after his study while travelling through Africa in 1986. Today he remains one of the few Dutch who smoke this wonder plant in its pure form as one should. From that moment on he started collecting seeds. Back in Holland he immediately started growing those seeds out for personal pleasure crossing what he thought were the best plants seemed a natural follow up. Contacts with other growers gave him access to different plants from which he also selected the best ones. The genetic background of this material was not always clear.

Kali Mist

Simon taught biology at a high school when Alan Dronkers asked him to come and work at Sensi Seeds. It was quite a career change to do that but he never felt sorry about it. After some time working for Sensi he left and started a seed company with some American pot refugees. That year (1994) the AK-47 as well as the Chronic won prices at the American Cannabis Cup festival in Amsterdam. That first seed company with the Americans soon fell apart however, and in 1995 Serious Seeds was grounded. It has always been a Serious policy to have the products grown from the different seeds available to try out in some of the best coffee shops in Amsterdam. The 'Greenhouse' is one of those coffee shops which carry Serious' products to smoke from the start in 1995 to this date. Greenhouse coffee shop won a Cannabis Cup in 1995 with the Kali Mist grown by Serious Seeds. In 1996 another famous Amsterdam coffee shop, the Dampkring, won the Overall Cup at that year's Cannabis Cup with White Russian, the newest Serious strain. Another serious shop from the early days is the Blue Bird and recently also the Dread Rock, they really sell what is listed, instead of anything under an often asked for name.

Serious has always been a small company, and prefers to stay like that. We love to smoke ourselves, and basically we try to develop new and interesting plants to grow and smoke for our own pleasure, as well as for our clients.

This means we don't work to produce something new every year for commercial reasons or to compete in the next contest. We want to put a new name out when we think we have something worth while for pot growers and smokers to try out.

Common Terminology:

F1 hybrid - first generation offspring of 2 (usually different and unrelated) parents
Germination - the sprouting of a seed, the tip of the root appears first
Indica - referring to type of plant which looks short, bushy, leafy with broad leaves, grows a dense, compact bud in a shorter flowering time than Sativa, another type of plant.
Medicinal plant - plant seemingly useful for certain groups of patients (usually with high concentration of THC, possibly combined with other cannabinoids)
Sativa - type of plant which looks tall, slender, with open instead of dense buds, long flower times, but with usually better smoking effect than Indica
Strain - a line of plants from common ancestors with certain characteristics
THC - shortened form name of the molecule responsible for the high-effect in Cannabis

Simon, Serious Seeds.

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