Hydrolife Canada February/March 2017

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Cannabis Genetics
Fit for Royalty
Thanks to the progressive nature of our country’s cannabis
reform, Royal Queen Seeds—headquartered in Barcelona,
Spain—is spreading its seeds to Canadian soil. And with the
way things are going in America, the online seed bank is also
gearing up to start selling directly to customers there as well.
With the cannabis industry gaining
a stronger foothold in Canada, it’s
business time for companies like Royal
Queen Seeds (RQS). Already amongst
the fastest-growing cannabis seed
businesses in Europe, its offerings in
the Great White North are expanding
at a breathtaking rate.
The online seed company was started
by a small group of breeders as a passion
project. “Starting up the RQS website
was a labour of love and passion,
as cheesy as that sounds,” shares Shai
Ramsahai, RQS sale manager. “With
years of growing experience and experience
working in the European cannabis
industry, we decided it was time to share
some of our creations with the world.”
“We started off small, offering a select
few of our favourite, most cherished
strains. They proved to be extremely
popular, which allowed us to grow
and develop our range of seeds even
further,” he says.
The RQS team also expanded as
time passed, allowing the company to
continue developing new and interesting
strains, as well as refine some of
its classics, such as its ever-popular
Special Queen and Amnesia Haze.
Thanks to this innovation, RQS now
sells a wide range of items, spanning
autoflowering seeds, feminized seeds,
CBD seeds, CBD oil, merchandise, and
select grow gear. Plus, their stock keeps
on diversifying.
“Our push to discover new ways of
breeding and new genetics makes us
unique,” says Ramsahai. “A fine example
is our foray into autoflowering CBD
strains. While we have a few awardwinning
feminized CBD strains, creating
an autoflowering CBD strain of worth is
a tough challenge, but we feel we have
achieved it. We are certainly one of the
first in Europe to have done so.”
Another huge industry development
that has helped RQS expand its
portfolio is legalization. “Legalization
movements making progress across
the world have spurred genetic
experimentation,” says Ramsahai,
citing RQS’s new CBD-focused
autoflowering cannabis strains,
Stress Killer Automatic and Fast Eddy
Automatic, as examples. These strains
are suitable for people who want to
create their own crop of CBD-rich bud
without having to be pro growers. “They
can plant a seed or two in their back
garden and get a personal harvest of
CBD-rich weed, growing multiple crops
a year,” Ramsahai says.
58 grow. heal. live. enjoy.
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