Buy Seeds for Outdoor Grow
Buying Seeds for Outdoor Growing–What You SHOULD Know
Looking to buy seeds for an outdoor grow? You’ve come to the right place. Firstly to learn about what to look for when selecting cannabis seeds for outdoor growing for your particular situation and secondly, some recommendations from our many cannabis seed offerings.
To buy seeds for outdoor growing creates a slightly different set of criteria or priorities in what to look for versus buying seeds for an indoor grow. Of course harvest quality counts big, as do the traits you are looking for in both the buds and the experience they help create.
When buying seeds for outdoor growing versus indoor growing, the anticipated harvest date or date of maturation is going to be a heavily weighted factor in a lot of growing regions, especially at more Northern Latitudes. If your crop doesn’t finish before kill frosts or heavy rains set in, there won’t be any finished buds to harvest.
If you buy seeds for outdoor grow in Northern Latitudes, there are cannabis seed strains available from Old School Breeders Association that have been developed specifically for these types of cultivation situations. Naturally, excellent bud qualities are a huge part of the selection and breeding process too.
When you buy seeds for an outdoor grow, the following distinctions can help you select a seed strain that is more likely to cater to your desires for both the growing habits and final yield:
Plants that are a mixture of the cannabis genetics spectrum. These plants can lean towards the Indica or Sativa end of the spectrum. Seed strain descriptions will typically indicate which tendencies tend to appear most common in the progeny. They can exhibit the best traits of a variety of genetics in a single specimen.
These types of cannabis genetics tend to grow squat and tight with very wide balded foliage. Indicas take longer to reach large sizes and tend to stay compact in both growth and flowering. Buds are typically very solid and stout, with the buzz leaning towards the more physical and relaxed of the experience spectrum. Indicas buds tend to finish sooner in the growing season.
Sativa plants tend to grow tall and lanky and finish with wider spacing between buds. Buds can be very large, but typically do not pack a lot of density. Sativa genetics are very hardy in most outdoor growing situations. However, sativa genetics typically take a long time to ripen, while there are exceptions Most find the buzz from Sativas to be very uplifting and giddy; excellent for activities or being creative.
Typically, thes genetics refer to “hash plant” varieties that have origins in the Hindu Kush mountain range. However, the term “kush” has been applied to a wide array of hybrids in the world cannabis genetic pool, so it typically refers to a highly potent hybrid; really more a measure of potency in common descriptions or strain names.
These are strains that will produce buds even under long day conditions, i.e. can harvest in mid summer. Autoflowering strains are very reliable for outdoor growing since they finish before the weather begins to change to less favorable conditions. Bud quality can be very good in autoflowering seed strains, however, it is typically not as potent as Hybrids, Indicas or Sativas. The difference can be negligible–having buds is better than not having buds once the season is over.
