Sounds like a good idea.
So... I started growing in 2004 in Victoria, BC Canada. Otherwise known as "The Island". I lucked out and I learned from some of the best at the time. My first setup was a 7 light setup in a basement and I was given absolutely mind bending cuts of Juicy Fruit and White Widow. . .I tottaly nailed the first crop and as soon as my flower went through the broker he called me up and set me up in a 60 lighter further up island. I stayed at that location 'till 2008 when the property owner decided to sell as an RCMP officer moved in next door.
After that I moved back to Manitoba to be near my parrents as they were getting older and ended up buying a house - setup in there and the garage and this is when I got bit by the breeding bug. I found a pheno of Blue Dream by Humbolt that I wanted to stabilize and I still have it and am working with it.
I ended up going though basically a divorce with a young lady at that point and had to stop growing as she was compromising opsec lol.
I ended up meeting some guys that were having trouble getting through a crop and decided to help them out in exchange for the first crop I produced and OF COURSE ended up getting popped the day all of my three clone orders came through. Up in Canada before legalization they were all upity about having lots of plants and I had a few hundred. Did my time, got out and bought a farm out in the country. I have 20 acres and lots of privacy, a large barn and enough buildings and areas that I could resume breeding.
Skip forward to 2020 a friend of mine was working with Reeferman on one of the Gulf Islands and I headed out to work with them. I didn't spend much time there but EVERY sentance from Reef's mouth was gold. I learned more about breeding just listening to him than I think he realized.
He introduced me to the STS, how to mix and spray and the timing of it all. Before then I had only used reg seeds and this changed everything. He told me a story, the details of which I won't go into, of creating seed for a few hundred hectares. . . .the idea of a sq mile of all female plants blew my mind.
I decided to order some of the ingredients and had a hell of a time finding them, with my silver nitrate being held indefinately at the border twice. After mixing up the solution I realized that I had purchased way more than I could ever use before it oxidized. I started looking for solutions and I saw the ones on the market, the amounts being sold and the difficulty getting the product into canada and then having it be actually fresh for a couple months still and I decided to start a company that compunded and made STS spray. Every product we ship is either compounded or packaged that day. This way the concern of freshness is gone. Very soon we will have a system to keep track of every batch from supplier to customer.
At first I decided to try it myself and went through a few different formulations, different surfactants and PH levels and strength levels and seemed to have found a mix that works everytime and rarely stresses the plant much if at all.
My focus is on creating a product that works for growers, and is different from what's out on the market while providing the tried and tested ready made solutions as well. I realize there are already others in the space so I am focused mostly on Canada right now, but am developing products that I can use some shipping secrets to get the STS to anyone in the world. MUCH of the world is overlooked and I want to make sure I don't ignore anyone from anywhere.
I think of the growers in poor countries who spend SO much of their resources growing regular seed and then having to cull most of the males. I think of the little guys who want to reverse a single plant and don't need enough to make 1000litres. I'm thinking of the medical patients who have very little and might want to make their own seed.
Also I have a program for any medical patients who are hard up for cash - if they message me and we can chat a bit and they seem sincere I only charge for the shipping. (I hope that's not going to get me in for trouble posting that here.)
I am in the first two years of business and am very appreciative of ANY feedback I can get from my customers. I try to always be available to my customers for growing and sts use support. I'm doing this business because I needed to find a legal way make a living while also being able to provide a product and service to the growing community.
Our website is
www.silverthiosulfate.ca
The Dry kit is nice as it's $30CAD right now and makes 2 litres of STS spray. IT makes your own stock solutions so you can store them in the fridge and mix up spray as needed. With a single kit I reversed 6 6' plants and I spray every 3 days.
I'll keep an eye on this post and be here to answer any and all questions that I'm able to. Glad to have found this forum and look forward to learning from everyone.
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