About Royal King Seeds South Africa
What this shop is, and what it is not
We sell cannabis seeds — 1,677 varieties of them — to growers in every province. None of them were bred here. They come from seed houses whose work we buy, catalogue and post out. What is ours is the arrangement: a catalogue sorted the way people here actually search, figures we are prepared to defend line by line, and season advice that assumes you are south of the equator.
What we actually are
We are a shop. Somebody else bred all of this, in most cases a seed house with decades of work behind it, and our part is getting it to your door in packaging that says nothing, with a description that holds up.
It is the duller of the two available stories and it happens to be the accurate one. It also draws a line under what we are in a position to tell you: what a breeder published about a line, and what growers report back consistently. Not a laboratory result nobody commissioned, and not a stabilisation history we had no part in.
Parcels go out unmarked and tracked, anywhere in the nine provinces. Prices are quoted in rand with VAT already inside the number and nothing added at the card step, so the figure on the shelf is the figure you pay. See shipping and delivery for timings, or the FAQ for the questions we get most.
What we do with the numbers
Four commitments, most of them about restraint.
The genetics are not ours
Every line in this catalogue was bred by somebody else — the seed houses behind the 1990s classics and the ones behind the current dessert crosses alike. Where the originating breeder is known, the strain page names them. A shop that quietly implies it bred what it sells has already told you something about how much its other claims are worth.
Missing data stays missing
Flowering time, height, yield and THC are reproduced from the breeder or from a published reference. Where no such figure exists, the field is left empty. That is why the depth of data varies from one strain page to the next: the gaps are genuine, and papering over them with a plausible range would cost you a season rather than ours.
What the 95% actually promises
Seeds that fail to germinate are replaced — same strain, same pack size, no charge. That is a commercial undertaking we honour, not a test result we are quoting, and the distinction is worth being pedantic about: no certificate of analysis appears anywhere on this site because none was ever commissioned. Method decides most outcomes anyway — damp paper towel near 22°C, dark, never allowed to dry, and a full seven days before you write a seed off.
Southern Hemisphere by default
The growing content here assumes a country between roughly 22 and 35 degrees south: seedlings out from September, harvest between March and May, and rain arriving in summer everywhere except the Western Cape, where it arrives in winter. Most cannabis advice online was written for the Northern Hemisphere and lands six months out of step.
Why this catalogue is not the same as anyone else's
Calling this one growing climate does not survive contact with the map. A humid subtropical coastline gives way to a high, frost-prone plateau and then to genuine aridity in the west, while the Western Cape sits in its own Mediterranean corner taking rain in winter when everywhere else takes it in summer. What limits an outdoor crop here is seldom the heat by itself. It is whether rain lands on plants that are already flowering, and how soon the first frost turns up.
Which decides what is worth carrying. KwaZulu-Natal and the Lowveld hand you a season long enough and warm enough for nearly anything, but the humidity of February and March makes an open flower structure worth more than a large THC number. The Western Cape takes its rain in winter, so bloom runs through a dry summer, and nowhere else outdoors is as forgiving. On the Highveld the first frost sets the deadline, which is why autoflowering seeds and autoflowering indicas dominate down there.
If you would rather not work through 1,677 options, the strain finder narrows it by space, experience and region in under a minute, and the growing guides cover the parts of a season that catch people out here.
One thing we will not do
Seeds are sold as adult collectibles and for genetic preservation. We do not tell you what the law permits where you live. That varies, it changes, and getting it wrong is your risk to carry, not ours to guess at — so knowing what applies to you before you order is your responsibility. Nothing on this site is legal advice. The legal notice sets this out in full.