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Tweed Inc. will be announcing today that they will begin selling seeds to approved patients in early March.
The Canadian medical cannabis grower currently says they will have 10 different strains listed soon on their website, with prices ranging from $30-$55 for a pack of three seeds.
Karolyn, Karolyn CBD, Humber Valley Kush, TWD Haze [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG], TWD diesel, TWD Haze [HASHTAG]#2[/HASHTAG], Auto Borfolk (auto Bubba Kush), Norfolk CBD (Bubba Kush CBD), Hinterland, and TWD Cheese are all currently listed on the website, with other options expected in the future.
Tweed is also providing a $25 coupon good for any strain with a purchase of seeds. Patients approved to grow their own, once registered with an LP, can also purchase dried cannabis and cannabis oil for an interim period while waiting for crops to mature.
Kevin Furet, Tweed’s master grower and and an award winning breeder, says he has traveled the world to find unique genetics for Tweed.
“I knew I was building a collection, so a part of it came down to diversity, that’s why you see some auto flower options, some high CBD, some sativas and indicas,” Furet told Lift. The Humber Valley Kush is one of his favourites, he says, as he bred it himself.
“I was aiming for quality and diversity in this collection,” said Furet in a company press release. “Medical cannabis patients have diverse needs so I wanted to have a collection that matched that diversity. I see ten options as a starting point that we can build on with our own cross breeding.”
Although the Tweed team is being tight lipped about where they sourced the seeds, Jordan Sinclair, Director of Communications for Tweed says “connoisseurs might be able to figure it out.” Sinclair also says more genetics are expected soon, including some collaborations with the DNA Genetics team. Sinclair says Tweed is not currently looking at providing clones, but will be expanding their HomeGrow seed production.
All the seeds currently available from Tweed have been sourced from outside of Canada, but the company is also working on seed production in their Smith Falls facility.
Tweed says that the same seeds sold through their HomeGrow collection will be grown out in their new breeding facility to produce proprietary genetics that can be sold as seed or as finished products, and will allow Tweed to crossbreed existing genetics for all registered customers, including home growers.
Tweed is the second licensed producer to offer seeds. CannTrust is listed as providing seeds on Health Canada’s website, although nothing is available on the company’s own
website yet.
Four producers
currently sell clones. They are Whistler Medical Marijuana Company, Canna Farms, THC BioMed, and MariCann. Prices range from about $20 each (plus shipping and handling at THC Biomed) to $750 for 5 clones at Whistler Medical (each clone after 5 is $20 at WMMC).
Authorized patients who wish to grow their own cannabis must
apply through Health Canada and then register with a licensed producer. As of Feb. 9,
Health Canada says there were 2,554 individuals allowed to grow their own cannabis or to designate someone to do so, with average processing time being about seven weeks. While wait times in the first weeks of the new program, introduced last August, were only a few weeks, many patients are currently reporting a wait of 10 or more weeks.
