SeedFinders NewsFlash

In recent weeks there have been some updates.

1: The plant profile function has been extended
The entries for taste, smell and effect have been enhanced, structured and simplified. We can now visualize this data with the aid of dynamic graphics, based on the input of our users. Our pie-charts can be found here in our strain-clouds, here you can look out for similar tasting, effecting or smelling varieties! In the next weeks there will be some more updates here!

2: Automatic flowering varieties
Recently, more and more autoflowering varieties come on the market. These are now also listed in a separate category and the search function has been also extended. Flowering times of this strains will be shown as "from germinating to harvest".

3: Many new varieties
A mass of new varieties were added, here you can find a list.

The well-known and popular british seed-shop The Attitude is connected with the SeedFinder database up from now. You can find their offers - like the seeds from the other stores - with our search function or you can find them in our price comparison onto the strain-descriptions. The Attitude is a serious and well-known shop with a myriad of varieties, international shipping and a lots of bonusses, check it out!

Much has changed in the recent months, but sorry, i was too lazy to post all the small changings here ;) But I would like to emphasize an important change with the image-upload and the review-function:

1.: Now you can upload much larger pictures than before, the maximum height or width is 3000 px.
2.: The images can now be associated with a strain-review!

If you have already uploaded pictures and profiles to a variety, please click on the edit-link below your image and connect it to the right review. This will allow better filter-options, users can go directly from the image description page to the appropriate extra information - and we can show the right images below the respective strain-reviews.

The new SeedFinder JSON API provides all the relevant information for every cannabis strain in our database, including short reviews, charts, medical information, parents, hybrids and much more... Use a bit of JavaScript / Ajax, PHP (or the language of your choice) to request the latest information directly from the SeedFinder and include it live into your own website! You can make your own applications, or widgets for your website with this new API (our example widget coming soon) or integrate the data directly. Its use is completely free - please just note the Creative Commons licenses and put links to us if you use the API. We will extend this option a little bit in the future, we also will make an interface for a simple search, but more information on that later... Here you will find information about the API, to be informed about changes or extensions just remember this blog - or subscribe to the RSS feed with the API tag for this blog.

Our new JSON API will deliver now all important data for own widgets and applications. With the help of the new output you have full access to our threadfinder, a possibility for webmasters of cannabis forums to realize an strain-connection for threads very simple. Also its possible to get all IDs now on the fly, with this new API you are able to create a strain-browser very simple! Click here for all info about the API, you will also find some small examples there.

Rejoice, rejoice, we have increased our prices ;) Yes, exactly, the price for our raffle, which you can win each month when you upload your pictures and reviews ;) Thanks to the generous support of the Cannapot Webshop, our Thanksgiving tombola now will be able to payout every Month a 70 EUR voucher for this shop! Check it out, here some more info...

Our CannaFox-Plugin is online! All info about you will find onto Mozilla's Add-On-Page! To make it short: With the help of this addon you will knit more than 30 big cannabis marijuana grower forums together and you will have direct access to the strains connected to one of the threads out of this forums. This enables you to find more strain-related threads out of all forums very simple, and also you are able to connect threads to strains by self! Check it out!

If you stumble upon a cool video with extended info or a report about a cannabis-strain - now you can connect it to the seedfinder! This videos will be shown directly below the strain-description where you can watch it! For the moment this option will work only with youtube, but some more video platforms will follow if needed! It's very simple and will work like our ThreadFinder, you only have to insert the video-id, select a preview-image and hit a button - ready! You will find the upload-link onto the strain-description-pages, bottom right, into the big green upload-bar for strain-info. This option will be also integrated into our CannaFox Marijuana Add-On soon.

Short info: Up from now you'll find here a page with the latest uploads from the last 2 weeks! For example pictures, reviews, videos and so one...

The breeders in the SeedFinder now have their own dynamic Strain- and Hybrid-Map! With this new feature you can visualize all the varieties, their parents (and their descendants) of a breeder. You can center the different strains, you come from there directly to the variety descriptions and you can generate more maps (for example for a parent) to quickly find similar strains. Tip: You are able to zoom, stretch or rotate the maps which can be quite helpful! The keyboard shortcuts for that you'll see in the legend, top left of the map.

The whole thing is still in beta, it works better here and there, but it can quickly be a little confusing if too many varieties appear on the map. But hey, it's a start, and at some point I may will find the time to optimize this maps a little further ;) If anyone like to help us to build an even more stylish and more usable visualization, just do it, onto http://thejit.org/ you can find the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit with which we have also crafted our own maps. There are also some other great opportunities for the presentation, but you will see - it's not quite as easy with a few hundred species in one single map ;)

Lots more has changed in recent weeks / months - even if you should have not noticed much of it, most have changed in the background. It was time to clean up a little bit, to bring some structure to the project and to prepare some stuff to make the future updates easier and faster for me ;) The ThanksGiving-Game for example ... From time to time the draw has been delayed a bit - simply because I have not found the time to do the raffle ... Well, I'm sorry, but this does not happen in the future, the draw is now automatic :) New (and visible) are the first "breadcrumbs" for the database - which facilitate the internal navigation - and by the way also google seems to like that ;) Over time this will spread through the entire SeedFinder, hope you will like this too :)

One more thing... Because we were always just on the cleanup we have also optimized our databases - be happy with the new, around 10 times faster query time ;) Yeah, its not a bad idea to have a look from time to time ;) Ok, that no matter for most requests onto our page, but if you view large genealogy trees or hybrid-maps it will be (hopefully) a little noticeable and some seconds faster than before! (And by the way I need only half of the ice for cooling the server.)

Well, I will not list everything here, the spring cleaning is still ongoing - and also some wicked new features will coming soon! Just one example: A giant wizard for strain selection - based only on the user reviews and quite configurable (with all the options from our strain review function)! But patience, patience - the majority is already done - but it will take a little while yet - then it'll be really, really cool ;=)

Allright, see you later,
klaas