The Best Spanish Seed Banks
The cannabis seed banks from Spain are very important and are being awarded worldwide every year. One of the reasons for this success is the excellent climate available to the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula, especially those who are located in the Mediterranean coast. Also, Spain is one of the largest agricultural producers in Europe, for food but well, you can grow anything else here!. In today’s article we will let you know about some of the best Spanish marijuana seed banks, regarding their history, origins and milestones and, of course, mention to its most successful strains.
The current best Spanish seedbanks
Spain is by far one of the largest cannabis seeds producers worldwide, although cannabis is yet not regulated here, the grey space between legal and illegal permits growing to get seeds but not buds. The marijuana seeds also are fully legal according to the 1961 Vienna Convention which is still in force today. For this two reasons Spain is the perfect country to produce and market cannabis seeds.
The Spanish seed banks have a great reputation here and everywhere else. The production processes and breeding techniques are top-notch in the industry. This makes the “Spanish seal” a very demanded quality seal worldwide.
Diversity is one key factor to get successful cannabis seeds and Spain has a long growing tradition, this mixed with the huge differences regarding climate, land, type of soil and others makes the country an advanced sandbox to play breeding at the highest levels.
Furthermore, many foreign seed banks brought their strains and operations to Spain, enriching more and more this magical land.
Dinafem
Talking about Spanish seed banks is talking about Dinafem, one of the first established in the nation. Dinafem started their operations in 2002, after many years of investigation, their owners started a big project with the goal of create the largest seed bank ever.
What defines best Dinafem is their work to find new strains and enhance new cannabinoids. They started feminizing cannabis Seeds with the Power Kush and soon created one of the cannabis Spanish best strains ever, the Moby Dick.
Another remarkable varieties are the Bubba Kush or the Critical Kush, but what makes Dinafem better is their investigation partnerships with local universities. For many years they are involved with local academics to search and improve new non-psychoactive strains, such as the ones CBD enriched or with other new cannabinoids.
Sweet Seeds
Sweet Seeds is, no question about that, one of the best Spanish Cannabis seed banks. They strating to produce high quality marijuana strains in the year 2005 offering a small but delighted catalogue of feminized strains.
Moreover, in 2010 with the autoflowering boom they placed themselves as one of the most successful non photodependent strains producers in Spain, offering great quality at a great cost.
Manolo and Carlos, the founders, are from Valencia, the largest city in the Spanish Mediterranean after Barcelona, are famous too for developing a mix between the photodependent and the non-photodependent strains, the F1 varieties, achieving the best of the two worlds. What makes this seeds better for some growers is their ability to flower between 2 and 4 weeks sooner than the original versions, with the same quality and almost the same yield, allowing growers to harvest varieties that wasn’t possible before.
The best classic strain from Sweet Seeds is the Green Poison, an Indica hybrid with great yields, high endurance and fast flowering. But we can highlight also the Sweet afghani Delicious, a delightful piece of Afghan weed or a newer one, the Sweet Zkittlez, an amazing reinterpretation of one of the American bestsellers.
Eva Seeds
The story of Eva Seeds, one of the best Spanish seed banks, goes back to the 2000’s when the first growshops and seed banks were opening in this country. Eva Seeds was one of the first and the spirit of this bank is very clear in its slogan: “Natural Born Growers“, which shows that it is a bank created by weed enthusiasts, for weed enthusiasts.
The philosophy of this seedbank during its beginnings was to create a seed cellar by breeding mothers of the highest quality Cannabis plants. Eva Seeds offers a range of premium strains with the best price possible, which is why so many collectors opt for their varieties.
To speak about a popular strain from this Spanish seed bank is to talk about the Lemon King, the favourite variety of citrus flavour lovers, created from the crossing between Space Bomb and a Critical Swiss. But looking back at their classic strains is also worth mentioning the Jamaican Dream, a variety that drinks from the best of the heritable strains from Jamaica, which ensures Sativa genes and energizing effects.
Cannabiogen
Cannabiogen is a seed bank from Spain that emerged more than 30 years ago, making them one of the pioneers of the seed breeding industry in Spain. The background of this seed bank is a group of friends, all of them passionate about the Cannabis plant, who started sharing information about seeds on the internet.
It just so happens that this group of friends had the human capital necessary for the creation of a first division cannabis seed bank. Thus, among other professional profiles, there was a geneticist, a biochemist and a computer scientist, among others. This marked the beginning of one of the oldest and most successful Spanish seed banks, Cannabiogen.
They worked with heirloom genetics as exclusive as Acapulco Gold or Colombian Gold, with the aim of stabilizing their genetics and adapting them to the Spanish climate. With the passing of time, the great successes of this bank popped up, many of them based on Central America genetics.
Varieties such as Purple Mexican, which has a lot of Sativa genes and comes from the crossing of a Pakistani Purple Kush with the Mexican Oaxaca, are very well-received by the public. Sugar Loaf is another of the great successes of this seed bank, it is also a strain that drinks from the American genetic tradition and has genes from a stabilized Colombian variety with a Manali hybrid.
Pyramid Seeds
Pyramid Seeds is a Spanish seed bank with more than 20 years of experience. This institution was created in Barcelona with a clear premise: to offer a stabilized high quality seed line to the European collectors. In fact, research is one of the values that best defines this seed bank. To obtain their premium varieties, Pyramid Seeds uses the best international strains, which they combine and stabilize until they achieve the desired result.
At present Pyramid Seeds has a line of top quality autoflowering seeds, which come directly from versions of their feminized seeds. To obtain this seeds they use their varieties with the best characteristics and combine them with Ruderalis strains to get them to flower by themselves, without the need for a specific photoperiod.
Northern Lights is one of the best feminized varieties of this Spanish seed bank. This Indica variety is a safe bet, as it is strong and produces plants with compact and powerful buds. In addition to this, the variety Sunset Sherbet is also worth mentioning. This variety will convince Girl Scout Cookies’ seed lovers, offering American genetics, sweet taste and a lot of power.
Medical Seeds
Javier Ruano is the founder of the latest seed bank to be described today, Medical Seeds. This organization was created in 2008 with the aim of taking care of the best medical strains. Also, Medical Seeds is one of the seed banks that best stores and packages its seeds, so that they reach the final consumer in the best possible condition.
This Spanish seed bank does an excellent job of selecting strains from all over the world to build up their private stock of fully stabilized feminized varieties. At first, this seed bank, as its name indicates, was born with medicinal aspirations, although they gradually extended their target audience to include strains for recreational purposes. Today, this Spanish seed bank has one of the best catalogues in Europe, thanks to the work and dedication behind each product.
True to its principles, Medical Seeds is working to obtain strains with new cannabinoids, such as Elixir Vitae CBD, a strain with a strong psychoactive effect and all the properties of cannabidiol. The Sour Glue variety is probably the sweetest and most resinous in their catalogue, which also accompanies it with an intense and delicious taste and aroma.
This has been all about the best Spanish seed banks. As you can see, there are a lot of great seedbanks, although we may have left some along the way. Feel free to let us know in the comments section below.
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Licenciado en Biología Molecular, gestor de contenidos y responsable de tienda en Experiencia Natural. Viviendo la vida, hablando de Cannabis Sativa, padre. Número de colegiado es 20787-X.
