Vancouver Island Seed Company

Vancouver Island Seed Company’s website is wrapped up with Vancouver Seed Company and Liberty Seeds. They had some phenomenal success with a few strains back in 2008 and 2009, when their strains GSpot and Fucking Incredible were named some of the Top Ten Strains of the Year by High Times. Most of their seeds only seem to come in packages of ten. They’re based out of Nanaimo, British Columbia, which is a small town about two hundred miles northwest of Vancouver on an island, hence the name Vancouver Island. This company carries very few of the standard cannabis strains except for a few like Blackberry and Burmese. Some of their strains have risque names like Bitch and Smut. Their mail-in order form is set up to accept Canadian orders, but they also have a section that says Country, so it’s possible that they would ship to other places.

Listen, we don’t like being overly critical or mean about websites, but this one is pretty hard to look at. It has the vibes of a mid 1990s geocities website, complete with a busy background, fonts that change size and color too often, and a lot of repeat graphics. Kudos to them for being able to figure out which font colors will stand out against the background enough that it’s still legible, but being legible doesn’t mean it’s nice to look at or easy to focus on. Their downloadable PDF catalog also has a rather busy background that makes some of the fonts on it difficult to read, especially because those fonts wrap around the entire length of the catalog like a children’s word game. We are not wild about it. Their FAQs section is about cannabis in general, not about their company or how to order their products, which we find confusing and unhelpful. Funnily enough, there is a link under Retailers that will take you to Vancouver Seed Bank, which is a much better put together site than this one. It’s possible to buy Vancouver Islands Seeds directly from that site and have them shipped around the world. At the Vancouver Island site itself, you have to use a mail-in order form and send it to them in the post. Their selection is made available on one page in a table, with a small writeup for each one that covers flowering time, the phenotype balance between sativa and indica, an estimated yield, some genetic information and some sparse growing advice. We guess it’s searchable using the Ctrl F function of our browser, but we can’t tell what’s a feminized seed, what’s unsexed, and whether any of these are photoperiod or autoflowering. There’s also no THC or CBD information. We’d suggest buying these folks’ seeds from a third party instead of using this site, to be honest.