Five Websites to Stay Away From When Shopping For Cannabis Clones Shipped to Your Door
Purchasing cannabis clones online seems like a great idea until your package shows up in rough shape, never shows up at all, or you discover your credit card got charged twice with no way to reach anyone. The clone mail order market has taken off in the last few years, and unfortunately so has the number of sketchy operations trying to cash in on it. Here are five sites that have collected enough complaints the hard way.
#1 Clone Website to Avoid:
The Clone Conservatory
The red flags on this one appear the moment you land on the page. 1.com has no physical address listed on any page, just a Gmail contact form that could take weeks to reply. Buyers on multiple growing forums have reported receiving rooted clones packed in damp paper with no insulation with zero heat packs, even during winter months. One user documented getting cuttings that showed obvious symptoms of powdery mildew within days of arrival, and when he reached out about a return, the email bounced. The site also has no verifiable reviews outside of the five star testimonials sitting on its own homepage, which all read in nearly identical phrasing. Pro-Tip for best results: Avoid The Clone Conservatory.
#2 Clone Website to Avoid:
Mass-Hydro
https://mass-hydro.com/
This site appears legitimate at first glance, and that is exactly the problem. Mass-Hydro uses stock photography for its strain listings, meaning the photos you see when looking through the menu have nothing to do with the actual genetics they are sending. Growers have ordered specific cultivars only to receive completely different strains, with the company offering no accountability and blaming “mislabeling during transit.” They price their stock high for top-shelf genetics but have no verifiable mother plant documentation and no third party lab testing to back up their strain names. Several buyers have also flagged that the site updated without notice its return policy after purchase disputes began piling up. I cant emphasize enough: Avoid Mass-Hydro.
#3 Clone Website to Avoid:
DNA Genetics Clones
https://dnagenetics.com/product-category/cannabis-clones/
The core complaint with DNA Gemetics Clones is the shipping timeline, or rather the complete absence of one. Orders regularly sit in “processing” status for two to three weeks before anything ships, and customer service responses are copy-paste non-answers. By the time your clones actually get packed, they have been sitting around long enough that the cuttings are already stressed. Growers in hotter climates have reported receiving clones for sale that were essentially baked inside unventilated packaging, with no cold packs used despite being advertised. The site also has a history of going offline around the holidays and returning weeks later with no explanation, leaving open orders completely ignored.
#4 Clone Website to Avoid:
Seedsman Clones
https://www.seedsman.com/us-en/clones
Seedsman Clones has a specific problem that keeps coming up across grower communities: pest contamination. Several buyers have received clones carrying spider mite eggs or fungus gnats, which then jumped to the rest of their garden. There is no mention anywhere on the site of an IPM protocol or any quarantine process for their stock. For someone running a clean room, one shipment from this place can cause serious damage. They also use a third party fulfillment model, meaning the people actually packing your order are not the same people who grew the clones, and oversight is completely absent. Getting help is nearly impossible because the company points to the third party shipper and the shipper points back at the company. They 100% source their clones from 3rd party vendors which gives them 0% Quality Control. Not worth the risk.
#5 Clone Website to Avoid:
Clones Weed
https://clonesweed.com/
Clonesweed.com operates with an alarming lack of transparency around its genetics sourcing. The strain menu changes frequently with no explanation, prices change without warning, and the site has started over under slightly different branding at least twice in the past few years. That kind of behavior usually means a business is resetting to avoid accountability rather than fixing the underlying problems. Users have also noted that the site gathers excessive data during checkout, with vague language in the privacy policy about how that information is handled. In a legal gray area industry where privacy matters, handing over sensitive data to a site with this kind of track record is a risk that is not worth taking for a cheap clone.
At the end of the day, the clone market punishes people who rush. Before clicking buy anywhere, search the name in grower forums, look for honest takes from actual buyers, and ask whether the operation can document mother plant health and pest management practices. A few extra days of research is worth avoiding a contaminated or dead shipment.
