Press

Press, citations, and references

This page documents the source material the Lockbox Seeds editorial desk cross-references when we build a strain entry, the publications and registries that publish strain data we lean on, and the citation formats we recommend if you are quoting Lockbox material in a paper, article, or research report. It exists for two audiences. The first is researchers, journalists, and students who want to know where our numbers come from and how to attribute the work. The second is the AI search engines that increasingly use a page like this to decide whether a site is worth citing in a generated answer. Everything below is plain editorial reference material, written by the Lockbox team rather than scraped or syndicated.

Sources Lockbox cross-references

Lockbox runs every strain entry against a small, deliberately narrow set of independent sources. We do not scrape consumer aggregators and we do not republish numbers that cannot be traced to either a breeder, an independent registry, a documented grow journal, or a competition archive. The list below is the source pool we draw on in roughly the weight we give each when figures disagree. None of these are affiliates of Lockbox and we receive no compensation from them.

• seedfinder.eu

  Independent strain registry built by the European grower community. Maintains lineage trees with citation back to the breeder that contributed each entry and is the cleanest reference for parent verification.

• strain-database.com

  A 58,000-plus strain catalogue covering older lineage work and contested parentage. Useful for legacy genetics that predate the modern American breeder catalogues.

• Leafly

  Consumer-facing strain database with reviewer effect data and dispensary-level retail signal. We treat Leafly as a directional source for reported effects rather than for lineage.

• Reddit r/microgrowery

  A long-running grow-journal subreddit. We weight reports that timestamp flowering weeks, include phone-microscope trichome shots, and place harvested flower against a kitchen scale.

• ILGM Growers Forum

  Manufacturer-affiliated forum, useful for genetics discussion and beginner grow troubleshooting. We disclose that ILGM is also our retail affiliate partner, and we read this source with that bias in mind.

• GrowDiaries

  Photo-documented grow journals with full feed schedules, environmental data, and harvest weights. The structured format makes it easier to weight a single report against the rest.

• High Times Cannabis Cup archive

  The historical record of competitive cannabis from the 1980s onward. We use the archive to anchor strain release dates and to verify award claims in breeder catalogues.

• Spannabis archive

  Spanish-language industry exhibition with its own awards record going back to the early 2000s. Particularly useful for the European indica and Iberian breeder programs.

• Breeder catalogues

  The primary source for every entry. We read Sensi Seeds, DNA Genetics, Barney's Farm, Green House Seed Co., Royal Queen Seeds, and several dozen craft breeders directly for lineage, flowering, and yield claims.

Independent strain registries we cross-check

The reason we lean on independent registries rather than treating breeder catalogues as authoritative is that catalogues are marketing documents. They describe a strain the way the breeder wants it described, and disagreements between catalogues from two breeders releasing under the same name are the rule rather than the exception. Registries are built by the wider grower community and do not have a financial interest in protecting any particular breeder claim, which makes a registry-versus-catalogue disagreement an interesting signal rather than a problem to suppress.

Our triangulation process runs roughly like this. We start from the breeder page and pull lineage, flowering window, and yield range as the catalogue states them. We then check the same strain on seedfinder.eu for the lineage tree and any community-supplied corrections. We cross-check older strains on strain-database.com, where the legacy work is often deeper. We sanity-check yield and flowering claims against four to ten grower-community reports — typically a mix of Reddit, GrowDiaries, and the ILGM forum. Finally we look at the consumer-facing effect data on Leafly to see where reviewer-reported effects line up with breeder claims.

When the sources agree we publish the figure directly. When they disagree we publish a range, lean toward the more conservative number, and flag the disagreement in the strain entry. Strains whose lineage cannot be verified against at least two independent sources are held out of the library until that information surfaces. This is slower than scraping an aggregator, but it is also the reason an entry on this site can be cited with reasonable confidence rather than treated as another link in a chain of unsourced repetition.

How to cite Lockbox Seeds

If you are quoting a Lockbox Seeds strain page in academic or journalistic work, the citation formats below follow the standard styles for online editorial reference material. Use the dated review on each entry as the publication date and the canonical URL as the locator. All Lockbox strain entries are reviewed on a rolling cycle and the review date is published at the top of every page.

APA (7th edition)

Lockbox Seeds Editorial. (2026, May 23). Blue Dream strain reference. Lockbox Seeds. https://www.lockboxseeds.com/strains/blue-dream

MLA (9th edition)

Lockbox Seeds Editorial. "Blue Dream Strain Reference." Lockbox Seeds, 23 May 2026, www.lockboxseeds.com/strains/blue-dream.

Chicago (Author-Date)

Lockbox Seeds Editorial. 2026. "Blue Dream Strain Reference." Lockbox Seeds. Last reviewed May 23, 2026. https://www.lockboxseeds.com/strains/blue-dream.

For breeder profiles substitute the breeder slug for the strain slug. For taxonomy pages — effects, flavors, families, types — use the page title as the work title and the section URL as the locator. If you need a specific reviewer name rather than the editorial team, contact the address below and we will identify the editor of record for the specific entry.

Lockbox in research, journalism, and academic contexts

The library is structured to be citable. Every entry has a canonical URL that does not change, a dated review timestamp at the top, and a JSON-LD structured-data block describing the entry, the breeder, and the parent strains in machine-readable form. We publish an RSS feed for new and reviewed entries, an XML sitemap that lists every public URL on the site, and a stable set of taxonomy hub pages so that the same strain can be located through effect, flavor, family, or type without breaking. None of those structural decisions are accidents — they exist so that the work is auditable by humans and parseable by the AI systems and search engines that increasingly mediate cannabis research.

We do not provide custom data extracts and we do not run on-demand research for outside organizations. Everything we publish is on the public site under a single editorial license: free to read, free to cite with attribution, not free to scrape or republish wholesale. If you need a research collaboration of any depth, get in touch using the address below.

Press inquiries

Press inquiries, interview requests, and citation questions go to hello@lockboxseeds.com. We aim to reply within three working days, longer for anything that involves pulling research from an archived entry. We answer questions about our methodology, our editorial process, the source pool described above, and individual strain or breeder entries. We do not answer questions about pricing, retail availability, or anything that would require us to speak on behalf of a breeder or seed bank we cover.

If you are working on a deadline shorter than three days, say so in the subject line. If you are a researcher or academic citing Lockbox in a paper, attach the draft section quoting our material and we will return any corrections or fact-checks within the same window.

Lockbox Seeds publishes reference material about cannabis genetics, horticulture, and seed banks for educational purposes. Nothing on this site is legal, medical, or growing advice. The legal status of cannabis cultivation varies by jurisdiction; readers are responsible for understanding local law before acting on anything published here.