ElenaBong: A Seed Store With a Genealogy of Every Strain

An online store and reference site for ElenaBong, a Ukrainian collector’s shop for cannabis seeds, bongs, and grinders. Built from scratch: the store and its catalog, a genealogy of every strain with its own visual language, a reference library, and a live grower’s calendar. The site is in Ukrainian.

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ElenaBong product page: the genealogy block of a strain with its cross-stitch ornament and its parent strain

ElenaBong Project at a Glance

Client

Olena Bong, a collector who sells cannabis seeds as souvenirs for collection, along with bongs and grinders, across Ukraine.

Scope

The store, catalog and product pages, a strain genealogy, a reference library, a grower’s calendar, and the server setup.

Stack

WordPress, WooCommerce, YOOtheme Pro, Cloudflare, and a server-side page cache.

Scale

193 product pages in 20 catalog sections, 172 strains in the genealogy, 93 genealogy pages, and 45 reference articles.

What the ElenaBong Project Required

A seed catalog is hard to shop. Hundreds of strains come from different seedbanks, names repeat across breeders, and every seedbank publishes THC, genotype, and flowering data in its own way. A buyer needs to narrow the catalog by what matters to them, and to understand where a strain comes from before choosing it.

The store also had to read as a collector’s project rather than a generic shop: a site that explains the genetics behind every strain in Ukrainian, with a source for each fact.

What I Built for ElenaBong

The store

A WooCommerce catalog with 193 product pages in 20 sections, filters by seedbank, THC, genotype, plant height, and flowering type, a bonus code at checkout, delivery by Nova Poshta, and payment by card transfer.

The strain genealogy

All 172 strains from 7 seedbanks on one canvas: each thread is a strain, each row a genetic line. Every fact cites the seedbank page and the date it was checked, disagreements are shown side by side, and the whole table can be downloaded as CSV and JSON.

An ornament for every strain

A 15 × 15 cross-stitch pattern generated from each strain’s data: the core shows the indica share, the rays the sativa share, the frame the declared THC, and red stitches the genetic lines. Related strains look alike, like members of one family. Every product page shows it with the strain’s parents.

The reference library and calendar

45 articles in five sections (the plant, genetics, chemistry, cannabis in Ukraine, and culture), a glossary, and a live grower’s moon calendar for 2026–2027 that shows where the Moon is right now.

How the Strain Data Is Checked

Genetics, THC, and awards on every strain card come from the seedbank’s own page, with the date of the check. For 169 of the 172 strains the seedbank page was found. When a seedbank page gives two different values for the same characteristic, the card shows both and leaves the choice to the reader; 33 strains are shown this way.

Readers can suggest a correction from any article, and the open data section explains the method and keeps a log of changes.