Non-Auto autoflowering followup: RQS offers discount instead of seeds. Acceptable?

Just a question. Would you want to grow their shit again after what happened? The cost of growing a free, shit seed is more than you paid for them. Just buy from good breeders and not these shit Spanish banks.

you don't have to play with light schedule. A photoperiod will never flower under 18/6 schedule - never.... nor 16/8 .... 15/9 starts to get into a grey area and not all photoperiods will flower under 14/10 but some definitely will. We use 12/12 to guarantee to cover rare genetic oddities. if it started to flower in 18/6 there is no rational reason to believe it will stop. The length of uninterrupted darkness is the cause for bloom phase to start. It is a hormonal response in the plant. The hormone is only produced in darkness, hence the need for uninterrupted darkness for flower to start. If enough accumulates, flower phase starts. This absolutely does not accidentally or randomly turn into an autoflower without a fairly complicated multi-generation interbreeding process with a 'ruderalis" plant that is not a photoperiod plant, lol. RQS lied to you and were smiling while they did it.

Not acceptable, as you don't know what seeds they are. Especially if you are growing it out for CBD only. I grew a RQS plant before. Had a good time with it, but that is my only experience with them, have heard other not nice stories about them. They have a rep on the site, his name is James. reach out to him and show him these questions and the diary. maybe he can help fix it. growdiaries.com/grower/james To their point: Yes plants are living things, but their genetics dictate how they behave. true photoperiods do not auto flower, period, end of story. So the lights are fucking up or the plants are.. This is now a question of WTF where you sent assuming you have fully troubleshooted your lighting setup and confirmed it is not turning off at any other point. I would argue back to them these points and how you have no idea what is in the package you where sent as that should not have flowered under 18/6, raise concerns about their QA and how this is abnormal and a bad response to something they should be more concerned of. Tell them how you are growing it for CBD only and you now have no idea and they can not prove what you where sent is CBD only as its clearly not what was stated when you purchased it. I would also try and grow the other seeds if you have not already at some point and see if they also autoflower. Gives it is a mix of THC and CBD, it will be hard to tell if it has equal parts without testing. If it was CBD only easy to test, smoke it and if you/a buddy feels high its not good. lol They should send you replacements, end of story, its their fuck up. seeds cost them very little so this is not a massive cost to them. If they choose to sand by their 20% off I would tell them to go fuck themselves. Why go spend more money on products they can't stand behind, that's a loose loose in my eye. Buy from other breeders who don't fuck it up. and write a review on their public facing pages so others know don't get their CBD seeds as you has an off experience with them. With all this said: The only thing that would make this somewhat ok is if the strain has autoflower in its genetics as then it can come out sometimes like it is doing now, But I did not see that when looking at their description or lineage. And the only way I would be demanding things like this is if I purchased directly from RQS, and not a reseller, aka a online seedbank that was not RQS. I would be asking that seed bank for a refund or reshipment and letting RQS know they are fucking up, assuming it got repacked, If it did not get repacked and came in OEM packaging then again its a RQS problem. Most of the time you are not going to get a desired outcome as cannabis companies are not bound by anything like laws or a ethics board. They can and will just ignore you with no real consequences. Its why this industry is kinda sketchy. Lot of white lies and fabricated data points on things to sell a product very little transparency on how things work. Happened to me before will keep happening to others. Best we can do is inform others about it and be a truthful as possible. If you paid by credit card depending on your terms and agreement with them, they can do a charge back "refund". but its hard with weed seeds. Good Luck!

It would be nice to have a diary to support your claim, without it I think a discount offer sounds reasonable.

The fact they responded at all is what I would consider a win! They could have blamed you and your methods..........20% off isn't too bad...............at least its something.

I would expect to get what i paid for. It should be shipped for free, too. The mistake is RQS's and they should be responsible for their mistake.

Simple solution, stop buying RQS. Its been years and years of RQS proving over and over again that they are not trustworthy in customer service and quality of product. They also have questionable marketing strategies and are disreputed for buying websites like seedfinder.eu and using them for their marketing only, not updating them. leading into a dead end on the website.

Most breeders would send out replacement seeds, especially if your running a diary on here. I'd push for another batch of seeds.

After my morning smoke and coffee, I remember I grew a RQS photo once, it went full blown male autoflowering... tossed my RQS beans after that one, that was about 10 years ago though.

The response sounds pretty awful. At minimum they should have re sent you the correct beans. I believe RQS is a white label reseller, so you're not really talking to breeders there, just a marketing department.