Issue #698 - Sunday, September 7, 2025 Hey grower! In today's issue... - Where We Actually Buy Our Seeds (2025) - Good seeds are key to a great home grow, but where to get them? Learn how we choose our seed sources, and let us know which ones you love (or hate). Now's your chance to be heard!
- The ultimate harvest guide is coming soon! In the meantime, don't hesitate to share your biggest harvest questions or challenges.
- The Godfather of Home Grow - This legendary figure
is a huge part of why home grow exists the way it does today! Check out his latest book!
- Off with their heads! Our week 4 photoperiod plants get topped this week. Learn why, and see pictures of each step!
- Grower Spotlight: Magical Marijuana Does a wizard grow weed in their garden? We can't say for certain (except with Gandalf), but if they did, it would look like today's featured pic.
Nebula Haze &
Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders, GrowWeedEasy.com
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." ~ Henry David Thoreau Where We Actually Buy Our Seeds (2025) by Nebula Haze Hey growers, Looking for good cannabis genetics? We got you! We have run our recommended cannabis seed source
page on GrowWeedEasy.com since we started the website in 2010. Our trusted seed sources page If you don’t have cannabis seeds in hand, it can feel like it’s going to be hard to get them. Luckily, these days, you can get viable seeds of good strains sent to you almost anywhere. Today, we want to hear about your experiences ordering seeds online. Marijuana seeds are so tiny… But within each seed is a tiny living thing, longing to be released… Did you know? A cannabis seedling embryo is already fully-formed inside each seed, just waiting to germinate and grow weed for you! Germination lets the seedling inside escape its shell prison! Never touch newly germinated seedlings like this, I only did it for the picture! Leaves are yellow inside the shell, and turn green once exposed to light. Less than a day after being planted in a Rapid Rooter, our seedling is already growing new leaves! Learn how to germinate seeds here. Back in 2010 when we started GWE, we’d only had good experiences with a single seedbank so far (the others had been mediocre-to-bad). So back then, the seed source list had only
one option… Bonus: Check out our 2010 version of the GrowWeedEasy.com seeds page on the Wayback Machine! You can even click around to see the original version of the site 🙂 Our seeds
page is not meant to be a comprehensive list of seed sources. Sirius and I are just a two-person team and can’t try every seed company. There are many, many outstanding cannabis seed sources not listed on our seeds page. But what the page is, is the list of the seed banks we actually use ourselves to grow weed at home and document on the website. Check out our recent autoflowering grow journal! The OG Kush Auto produced smooth, potent buds. We remove seed banks we stop using. Usually, they haven’t done anything wrong, just simply no longer carry strains we’re looking to grow with. To ensure every seed bank on the list is legit, they only stay if we continue using them for our home grows. Ultimately, our seed bank testing is led by you: If we hear about a really great new company that everyone loves, we
will test it out ourselves. Our goal isn’t just to grow great weed (though we do a lot of that too!), but also help home growers find exactly what they’re looking for. GrowWeedEasy.com testing process for seed banks - Community feedback – If we keep hearing good things about a particular seed source, we know it’s time to give it a try.
- Order seeds anonymously – We never tell them it’s us. I always order
the seeds myself as if I were a regular customer. I feel like that’s way more likely to give the “authentic” experience.
- Grow the seeds – Next, we actually grow the seeds from germination to harvest in a home grow environment.
- Document the results – We take pictures and notes about each plant, including where we got the seeds, and share that information on GrowWeedEasy.com and through our newsletter.
- Lab testing – When
funding is available, we get the buds lab-tested, especially for side-by-side grow experiments with clones (like testing super soil vs coco or plant training methods like defoliation vs natural)
We also love, love, LOVE when you send us grow pictures, or tell about your experience with seed banks and their strains/seeds. Our current cannabis seed source recommendations, as of September 2025. - ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- MSNL (Marijuana Seeds Netherlands) – Amsterdam seed bank with shipping centers in the US,
Canada, and UK.
- North Atlantic Seed Co. – Maine, United States
- Seed Supreme – Florida, United States
- Seedsman – Ships from US & Europe
- Other – Did we miss anyone you like?
We encourage you to write us any time with specific seed bank feedback, including anecdotes, or just your overall thoughts or experiences buying cannabis seeds online where you live. Click here to vote for the seed banks YOU like! Or just hit “Reply” to and tell us what you think! The Ultimate Harvest Guide is coming soon! Watch your email, because we're about to release the most comprehensive home harvest guide ever created! You will learn how to finish every grow with a bang, maximize your bud quality, and get the effects you want. The Godfather of Home Grow: Ed Rosenthal He probably doesn't need an introduction, but today I wanted to talk a bit about Ed Rosenthal, one of the founders of High Times Magazine. Ed Rosenthal is a legendary figure in the home grow movement. He's helped a lot of growers, but has a special place in my heart because he helped me get started. His comprehensive 2008 Marijuana Garden
Saver saved my plants more than once, and his 2010 Marijuana Grower's Handbook greatly deepened my knowledge about plant environment, drying, and curing. Both it's not just knowledge. His positive
attitude, spirit of experimentation, and dedication to helping growers left a deep impression on me. It is part of what gets me to run my own grow experiments. He's also just a cool dude. It makes me so proud that GrowWeedEasy.com is featured in several of his newer books, including his most recent Cannabis Grower's Handbook. Until GrowWeedEasy.com releases a physical grow book, I think this is the best
one available today, worth every penny. Ed Rosenthal's Cannabis Grower's Handbook features pictures from GrowWeedEasy.com! Order off his website for an autographed copy. Fun fact: Ed Rosenthal is a huge Grateful Dead fan, and all of his books begin with a GD lyric! He also runs an active growing newsletter, kind of like this one. I read every issue and highly recommend it! His
most recent issue is what inspired me to talk about him today. Do you like content like this? Which growers or community members should we feature next? ~Nebula Week 4: "Sweet Dreams" Photoperiod Seedlings Check out the full grow journal! Our lovely plants at the beginning of Week 4... ... and at the end of week 4, just before getting topped. Only moments after that photo, all the plants lost their heads... I can see water welling at the injury point. I would shed a few tears, too. I feel a little bad right now, but I know each plant is going to explode in growth with tons of branches. They are ready to fill up the grow tent! Check out the full week 4 entry to learn why home growers "top" plants, plus discover the challenges growing young plants with an overpowered LED! Happy growing! Nebula Haze
GrowWeedEasy.com
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📸 Weekly Plant Spotlight:
Magical Marijuana
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"Something fun." ~RJS This picture is 2 sparkles away from being
actual magic. This is what I imagine Harry Potter's garden looks like as an adult 😂 ~Sirius
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Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – Florida, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- North Atlantic Seed Co. – Maine, United States
- Seedsman – Ships from US & Europe
- MSNL – Netherlands bank with shipping centers in the US, Canada, and
UK.
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Who Runs GrowWeedEasy.com?
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Current Favorite Strain:
Mandarin Cookies (learn more in my article about relaxing limonene) Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). Copyright (c) 2025 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
marijuana should only be made after consulting with an experienced lawyer or other legal adviser. Any medical decisions should only be made after speaking with a doctor. Be safe! How Did I Sign Up For This Newsletter? Our records indicate that requested to be added to the GrowWeedEasy.com weekly newsletter at . Date: September 9, 2025
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