Hey All!
Happy to see a few of you already got your seeds and started the G&S. If you have any issues early on let me know and we'll try and get you some replacements so you can stay in. I don't anticipate that but just letting everyone know. Most of these are really fresh seeds so you may notice a slightly longer than normal germination time. I also wanted to provide some information on the labels, particularly "Blue Ribbon Winner" vs "Yellow Ribbon". When we produce seeds or do R&D runs, we mark our favorite plants with a yellow ribbon. Anyone on our team can mark a plant for any reason, normally these are the biggest, frostiest, best smelling plants in the batch. After harvest, we collectively go through a much more rigorous process of selecting the Blue Ribbon Winners from the marked yellow ribbon plants. We like to select 2 Blue Ribbon winners but sometimes it's only one if there is a clear-cut winner. The Blue Ribbon Winners become our next breeding stock we use to produce seeds for the next generation. In some cases these are winners from up to 500 plants (Triks and Muchacha for example), in other cases, it may be a winner of 8-12 plants. I tried to send out Blue Ribbon's to everyone but in some cases we don't have enough seeds or the Blue Ribbons hadn't been selected yet. In all cases, I promise that you are getting some of the creme de la creme from our recent runs. I am super excited to watch all of you AFN autoflower champs do your magic on some Twenty20 cultivars! I'll share a few pics from our recent runs of some of the varieties you guys picked.
Cheers
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