About us

It started in a grow shop

Before Bulk Genetics, there was a grow shop: Optigarden. It was ours (until we sold it years later), and we sold the usual stuff: nutes, growing media, lights, grow tents, tools.

Seeds? We didn't sell them. We gave them away to our customers. The more you bought, the more you got.

But a lousy gift isn't a gift. So we went out of our way to make sure those seeds were up to par: well-known seed banks and a few breeders we'd gotten to know along the way, who had seriously good genetics.

The marker-pen bags

Before we knew it, we'd built up more than a dozen strains. We handed them out in clear zip-lock bags, with the name scrawled on in permanent marker. No fancy packaging.

And then the inevitable happened: customers kept coming back asking, "Hey, what were those seeds? Which seed bank? Where can I buy them?"

Those little bags needed a name. A brand people could remember and ask for.

We didn't overthink it. We were buying and producing in bulk, by the big batch, so "Bulk" had to be in there. We went with Bulk Genetics. It summed us up nicely. We registered bulkgenetics.com so nobody else could grab it... and kept giving seeds away like nothing had happened.

2020: locked down with 50 strains

Fast forward a few years. COVID, lockdown, doors shut. And there we were with more than 50 strains across feminized, autoflower and CBD seeds.

The way out was obvious: an online store. The seeds we'd been giving away in the grow shop for years would finally have a store of their own, and for the first time you could actually buy them. We couldn't offer them on the Optigarden website for legal and advertising reasons (Google and Meta being Google and Meta), so Bulk Genetics moved into a home of its own.

And it worked. Better than we'd expected. Even though we still weren't a "real" seed bank: we were still using our zip-lock bags and our marker pen. All handmade, all homegrown. And we didn't want anything more: quality genetics at an affordable price.

And then things got a little out of hand

With the website up and running, we caught the bug. First we tracked down breeders with the timeless classics. Then specialists in American genetics. Then the specific strains customers kept asking us for, again and again. In the end, there was no stopping us: we became obsessed with adding more and more strains. Always quality ones, though.

We've never been short of offers. Dozens of breeders have reached out over the years. But we can't test everything, so we set ourselves a simple rule: we only work with breeders and seed banks we trust, the ones you see at the trade shows or that come highly recommended. No gambles.

Today: more than 400 strains and counting

It's 2026 and our catalog has passed 400 strains. New ones arrive every month. Some have sold out because their breeders stopped producing them, but we haven't given up on them: we want to bring them back.

The goal is still the same as it was behind that grow shop counter, just bigger: to gather the largest collection of genetics we can and put it in your hands. Now that includes US growers, with an online store run in the United States and orders shipped from California.