ILGM – Editor’s Choice (2026)
ILGM is the US‑focused seed bank with a germination guarantee and fast shipping. Trusted by thousands of growers nationwide.
- ✅ Auto-flowering & feminized seeds
- ✅ High germination rate
- ✅ Fast US shipping
- ✅ Excellent customer support
Herbies Seeds
Herbies Seeds offers a huge selection with worldwide shipping. A solid choice for international growers.
- ✅ Wide variety of strains
- ✅ Reliable shipping
- ✅ Good customer service
- ✅ Payment options available
Crop King Seeds
Crop King Seeds offers a variety of Canadian strains. Slightly lower ratings but still a good option for many growers.
- ✅ Canadian strains
- ✅ Reliable shipping
- ✅ Decent customer support
- ✅ Payment options
Lost Cause Seeds. Just the name hits different, doesn’t it? Like something you whisper to yourself after a long night, or mutter under your breath when the world’s gone sideways. But these seeds—these little green grenades of potential—they’re anything but hopeless.
I first heard about them from a guy in Humboldt. Real scruffy dude, smelled like pine and diesel, talked like he’d seen some things. He handed me a jar, said, “This is from Lost Cause. Careful with it.” That was it. No pitch. No brochure. Just this look in his eyes like, “You’ll get it.”
And I did. Eventually.
See, Lost Cause doesn’t do flashy. No neon branding, no influencer campaigns with girls in bikinis holding bongs. They’re not trying to be the next Cookies or whatever hype machine’s churning out purple frost monsters this week. They’re weirdos. Botanists. Probably a little unhinged. But goddamn do they know how to breed cannabis.
Some of their strains hit like a freight train—no warning, no mercy. Others creep in, slow and syrupy, like molasses in your brain. I had one that made me cry watching a rerun of Frasier. Another that made me clean my entire garage at 2 a.m. with surgical precision. It’s unpredictable. That’s kind of the point.
They don’t chase trends. They chase phenos. Rare ones. Mutants. Stuff that shouldn’t exist but somehow does. I heard they once stabilized a landrace cross that smelled like burnt rubber and mango chutney. People hated it. Then loved it. Then hoarded it like it was gold dust.
And the germ rates? Solid. Not perfect—nothing’s perfect. But you pop ten, you’ll get nine. Maybe eight if Mercury’s in retrograde or whatever. They don’t promise you the moon. They just give you the rocket fuel and say, “Good luck.”
Honestly, I respect that. Too many seed companies act like they’re selling magic beans. Lost Cause? They’re more like, “Here’s some chaos in a shell. Let’s see what you do with it.”
It’s not for everyone. If you want plug-and-play, go buy some autoflower from a Dutch catalog. But if you want to dig—really dig—into the weird, wild, sometimes frustrating world of real cannabis genetics? Lost Cause is your jam.
Or maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s just a lost cause.