Sensi Seeds

Welcome to the About Sensi Seeds section of the website. Here you can discover the stories behind many different facets of this legendary seed company, from its beginnings as one man’s passion and a small collection of very special seeds to the impact that the Sensi gene bank has had on medicinal marijuana and the culture of cannabis in the Netherlands and beyond. Sensi Seeds has expanded over the last few decades to include sister companies devoted to industrial hemp, to educating the public on the true effects and potential of cannabis, and even to pure relaxation in beautiful surroundings. All branches of the company are founded on the same ethic: it’s not just about Sensi Seeds, it’s about the plant.

Lights x Reflectors 101 – Sensi Seeds

In the - often illegal - grower circles, a rule of thumb has emerged, partly thanks to numerous grower reports in hemp magazines, of "one watt per gram" as the standard for efficient growing under artificial light. But one should not be too dogmatic about applying this formula. Why not? Find out in this article.

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Top 10 Cannabis Apps That Are Actually Useful


Cannabis Apps
There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of cannabis-related apps available today for use on smartphones and tablets. Many of them are buggy, poor imitations of better products, or just downright useless! But there are some incredibly useful and valuable apps if you know where to look – so let’s see what we can find.



Here’s our top ten of the current most useful apps out there serving the cannabis community.

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Alan Dronkers at the ICBC Berlin 2017


ICBC
Alan Dronkers, Sensi Seeds’ expert in genetics, will be at ICBC Berlin 2017 to discuss the future of cannabis genetics. Read more.



The ICBC, or International Cannabis Business Conference, is a multifaceted event that takes place in several locations all over the world. From April 10-12, 2017, the ICBC Berlin 2017 edition will take place.

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A medicinal cannabis programme with teething problems

On 9 March 2017, the long-awaited legislation on the use of cannabis as a medicine entered into force in Germany. Now that this legislation has come into effect, doctors in Germany are able to use a simple narcotic prescription to prescribe cannabis buds and products. This article examines the matter in detail. Patients who, until now, have been in possession of an exemption certificate for self-treatment with cannabis buds, must relinquish these within the next two-and-a-half months.

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The Historic Hemp Towns of Europe

All over the world, we can see the historic importance of hemp in society, recorded in novels, administrative texts, poems, plays, and songs. Yet another way we see hemp’s importance through history is in place names – in towns and villages that were widely known for having a local hemp industry, of cultivation, textile production, and so on. In Europe, there are hundreds of such settlements, although the history behind the name may not always be clear.

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European HEMP FIBRES for automotive applications – HempFlax

Secure supply, stable prices, light weight, low environmental footprint and certified sustainability. Press Release In 2016, the cultivation area of industrial hemp in Europe covered more than 33,000 ha, three times as much as in 2011. Hemp areas grow along with the demand for fibres and seeds. Hemp fibres are among the strongest and most sustainable natural fibres in the world. They are mainly used in biocomposites for the automotive industry, as insulation material and for light-weight paper. Almost all European automobile companies already use hemp fibres to reinforce interior automotive parts.

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