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Message started by daver2 on Oct 2nd, 2009 at 4:57pm

Title: Seed Question: Expiry date?
Post by daver2 on Oct 2nd, 2009 at 4:57pm
Hi all,

Back again (yay!)....but happy to report that for the first time I was able to skip my 'spring' cycle altogether, I am attributing that to the seeds. They have made my cycles much more tolerable, much lower frequency rate and generally lower KIP/headache.

This cycle however seems to be a bit seed resistant, or maybe i'm just paranoid that they won't work. Does anyone know the shelf life of these things? Last time I bought some, I did so because i was worried that they might lose effectiveness over time, but when i bought the new ones i wondered if I was just buying the seeds from the same batch. (After all, how much demand for them can there be at these little stores?)

One thing i did notice about seeds is that they seem to sometimes aggravate things while they are helping (make sense?) As an example, dosed last night (20 seeds) and got hammered around 9:30pm, got into the KIP 9-10 range and stayed there until 1:00am which is completely unusual for me, normally i'm 30-45 minutes tops, but I have noticed that in the past with the seeds, sometimes the headaches were longer. Alternatively, I used to get up to 9-10/day at my peak, but the seeds have reduced that to 1-3/day.

Anyway...just some musings and observations about seed use, hopefully these will kick in a bit harder and shorten my cycle time but might look for new seeds if people think these are too old.

d.

Title: Re: Seed Question: Expiry date?
Post by Melissa on Oct 4th, 2009 at 3:14pm
From what I gather, and someone correct me please if I'm wrong, getting slammed after dosing is common.  Also, I've read that seeds can lose their potency after they've sat around for months?

Congrats on skipping your spring cycle, that's fantastic!

Title: Re: Seed Question: Expiry date?
Post by Marc on Oct 4th, 2009 at 3:27pm
Yep, RC seeds generally made be get some bad hits before  I saw improvement. In my case it was the next day or night - never sooner than that.

I would assume that seeds age and lose potency, but I have no way of measuring it, and I've never felt any side effects from any of 9 batches.

Marc

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