Does Size Really Matter?

Put the rulers away gents. It’s not going to help here. I want to know if size really matters. I know color doesn’t always matter but does size? I have made seeds plenty in the past and i always toss out the little beans. All my seeds are either as large or generally larger than those i get from breeders. My seeds all have a very high germination rate and excellent vigor. Recently however i bought some TTRS seeds from Bloom genetics. They are the smallest seeds i’ve ever seen. I’m not sure if this is poor breeding or perfectly fine. Please weigh in if you’ve ever grown tiny little seeds. I want to know germination success rate, vigor and overall experience with these little ones. Here is a photo of the seeds. The larger two seeds at the bottom are my breeding and cross of Moon Fire x Blueberry Muffin (moon muffins).

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Small is ok. White, not so much.

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I concur.

Small, discolored, stripes, no stripes. I’ve had success with em all.

But white beans in my experience have had viability issues and or low germ rates.

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I’ve not seen any correlation between plant size and seed size from my runs and the stuff I’ve bred. I will agree with with the others though that the white ones have all had some issues with vitality and growth…“Shoots a dirty look over at inhouse genetics”

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I agree @Billybiscuit @Rhai88 @Foreigner about the white seeds UNTIL you start talking about Freakshow. They are crazy white!!!

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Maybe similar to Bergmanns rule, plant seed size is particular for them to thrive in thier native environs. Possibly also the shell thickness and composition.

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Usually Sativas have smaller seeds.

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You can grow giants from the tiniest of seed @Itslegalnow . @PsillyRabbit beat me to it and its generally true, equatorials make small seed and they get big. I’ve grown out beans about the size of a poppy seed and they made large plants, have no fear.
:v::canada:

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I think i saw this as well, so that could be. Perhaps it is Sativa dominant.

:shrug:
As with everything in life. There are always exceptions.

I’ve gotten a few larger white seeds that really took off in germination and had great vigor. They were however larger than these. It seems like however the census is that white can be immature and therefore less likely to do well. I imagine some breeders are chopping a week or two early in many cases but selling every seed they get. From these seeds i got a pack of freebies that were all larger and darker.

This is a better shot of the Bloom seeds without a flash. From the responses i got earlier, i’m going to say these look pretty good and should be viable seeds. Thank you all

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Yes they look much better without the flash :+1:

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your results may vary…

modern hybrids create large dark round seeds.

landrace sativas are often pale brown and small seeds, but tens of thousands of them.

landrace ruderal can be quite small and almost black.

freakshow [ and ilk ] seeds when ripe should be tan/light brown, not white. white means they weren’t given enough time. since the seeds don’t tend to have a brown hue, they don’t have the same green → brown cycle that regular seeds do. it’s more of a white → tan cycle. the ripening process for freaks takes longer, in my experience.

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Definitely have had seeds lighter tan than those and pop no problem. GTG Best of luck seed chuckers. :rofl:

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I’m glad that my theory of seed size and its relationship to vigor and germination was wrong. Much like you all suspected, of 4 of the TTRS seeds germinated, i got 4 sprouts. Now they’re in the medium and in a humidity dome. Great stuff

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The seeds could of went longer for sure, but germination is all that matters at the end of the day. My GDP momma fully seeded run (a few early seeds). All the best Green thumbers!

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No way man, surly that cant be right. I’m not having that one.

@Itslegalnow they all grow nice weed is my experience of big and small pips

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That’s what she said

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So check it out!

Look at the tap roots on these seeds. A few got twisty which in the past for me meant they may break ground. These seeds are the four solo cups.The one that hasn’t broke ground was probably the ball of a seed.


The solo cups here are the four tiny seeds i germinated that were my original tiny seeds


Looks like everything is doing great.

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