Most online seed banks are anonymous. A logo, a checkout page, a drop-shipper somewhere in the middle. Seeds & Clones is not that — and the difference has a name.
Seeds & Clones is a Los Angeles business founded and run by Aaron Justis, who spent 16 years building one of LA’s most recognized dispensaries before turning his full attention to genetics. The relationships behind this catalog were not made over email. They were made over a counter, over years, in person.
In July 2010, Aaron took over Buds & Roses, a little-known Los Angeles storefront that had opened quietly in December 2006. Over the next 16 years he built it into one of the city’s landmark dispensaries — a shop known for carrying genetics that mattered, from breeders who mattered, before the rest of the market caught on.
For over a decade, Buds & Roses sold seeds and genetics from many of the same breeders now on this site: Humboldt Seed Company, Purple City Genetics, Equilibrium, and more. When the store closed in 2026 after nearly two decades in operation, those relationships did not close with it. They moved here.
Genetics is a trust business. Anyone can list a strain name on a website; what you cannot fake is where the seeds actually came from. Grey-market resellers and drop-shippers trade on famous names with no line back to the breeder — no guarantee of authenticity, freshness, or that the pack is even the real release.
Sixteen years of buying genetics for a dispensary teaches you exactly which breeders stand behind their work, and it earns you something no new seed bank can buy: a direct line to them.
When the Maven Genetics lineup — including the new Prizm drop — landed at Seeds & Clones, it was picked up directly from Maven’s Los Angeles headquarters, hand to hand with one of the company’s principal owners. Cup-winning genetics, straight from the source.
Same story with the Wizard Trees Black Magic Collection: picked up in person at Wizard Trees, the LA breeder behind RS-11 and Zoap. Small-batch genetics, handled the way small-batch genetics should be.
Every pack on this site has a verifiable chain back to its breeder. That is the whole pitch. You get authentic releases, fresh stock, domestic US shipping — and when a breeder drops something new in LA, Seeds & Clones is often holding it before most of the internet knows it exists.
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Aaron has been interviewed and profiled by cannabis media for more than a decade, from his early advocacy work in Los Angeles and Sacramento through 29 Cannabis Cup awards to the launch of Seeds & Clones. If you want to know who you are buying from, start here.
Seeds & Clones is owned and run by Aaron Justis, a Los Angeles cannabis retail veteran who owned the Buds & Roses dispensary from 2010 until its closing in 2026.
Buds & Roses was a Los Angeles dispensary that opened in December 2006. Aaron Justis took it over in July 2010 and ran it for 16 years, building it into one of the city’s landmark cannabis retailers.
Directly from the breeders. Many packs — including the Maven Genetics and Wizard Trees lines — are picked up in person in Los Angeles rather than drop-shipped, preserving a verifiable chain from breeder to customer.
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