Hey JD, There is a difference between the companies, you should be aware of that. You know, there is a difference between buying 4 packs of seeds for 100 bucks or 1 pack. Or 40 seeds / 10 seeds. For example, here and on many other forums users keep talking about a highly regarded canadian seed company where the prices are more than reasonable and the quality is great apparently. Every user on these forums will find this company mentioned on a search for good quality gear for a small buck. Without knowing their gear i would rather buy a bag of their stuff for 25 bucks before i buy any high priced stuff. I spend 100 bucks on a bag of seeds only if i have smoked and tested it and i can be sure that i can get the same quality in seed form or if i don't mind the risk. Also i want to know if i have to go pheno hunting. Bodhi never made a secret out of this ( but in a bag of his gear i will find great plants anyway and rarely rubbish).
If i hear about Blueberry and start investigating i find bad results in a 10 out of 8 ratio. Of course i want to know more about it before i spend the money.
Yes, all companies work for a profit. But some companies committed to the full business approach and have lost their love to the herb if they ever had it. This website works for a profit but they make their money with adverts. Users here are not listening to what the website is telling them but what the other users are. And of course RIU can only be one out of many sources. Internet basics really...
I think it is safe to say you're not new to the business. Why are you surprised that things are going this way? Just take Sensi as an example. The names Sensi gave to their crosses are everywhere. I don't know if they are complaining about this. I think they don't give a shit because people keep buying their originals. It may be better to copy how they are running things before complaining about things i cannot change anyway.
A 4x4 cabinet in which you breed and develop will not produce a lot of smokeable weed, period. If DJ managed to do it, congratulations. Most people can't. Produce your seeds from the wrong parents or make some other mistake and you lose everything, the plants don't yield a lot and you don't have seeds for next time. And it's not worth the effort as long as i can buy quality seeds for 20 or 30 bucks which is all i need for each grow.
Of course there is a difference between buying one pack of seeds for $100.00 and buying four packs for the same price. And of course each company is different, not sure how you're point there is relevant? Each and every pack of seeds I offer comes with a guarantee that you will find
at least 2 phenos that equal or surpass the quality of the parents they were made from. This guarantee has been tested time and time again and stands true. Therefore, when spending $65.00 on a pack of Dj Short Blueberry seeds, there is no risk of finding your keeper pheno. Out of one 13 pack of seeds you will find your keeper pheno, in fact, you will find two.....2.68 to be precise. This eliminates the need to
hunt for your pheno. So, you can spend $65.00 for one pack of seeds with two keeper pheno's (at least) or you can spend the 100.00 on four packs of seeds, hunt through them and hope you get what you're looking for. We've offered this guarantee since we've been in business, so we've never kept that a secret either.
Are you surprised when you search for reviews on Dj's gear and find a bunch of bashing? I mean look at how many people make it their obvious mission to bash certain breeders and "dick-ride" another. Arthur is a shining example of this. We all know assholes yell louder and with more passion than non-assholes.
Is it too much of a stretch for you to realize that anyone can pay for advertisement on this site. And that those same people that advertise on this site might also be trolling the shit out of the forums to promote their shit....? Or more appropriately, just bashing all their competitors? I mean really, you haven't thought of that? What was the term you used....? "....internet basics really...."
Im not surprised things have gone this way, greed is pretty much instinctive, especially among the culture most of us are engaging in. I'm not familiar with the sensi's story that you're allude to. But you think I care about people using others names.....? Well, I don't. I care about other people claiming to be selling Dj gear that isn't. I care that people make boat loads of shit crosses and then associating the brand I'm working with to it. It would be one thing if company (A) released a strain called company (A's) blueberry. Unfortunately the majority of companies say it's Dj's this or Dj's that. I care about people using a brand that I've been working hard at helping to build for almost a decade and a half and crashing that brand into the ground so they can make a few bucks. And then when I attempt to defend my brand and company against that shit I'm told I'm a greedy dick. (mostly just by the trolls, but they are good at whipping up a frenzy of hate, and we all love to have something to hate). Let me say this as simply as I can....
fuck that shit. We're talking about ethics here, and this practice of making seeds in one's basement and then selling it as Sensi's Star is bullshit. It would be the same as recording a rolling stones album in your basement and then telling everyone you're Mic Jagger.
A 4x4 closet will produce plenty of 'smokeable weed,' period. Not sure what you mean by smokeable, but....a person can produce plenty in that space. Unless their goal is to cash crop. You have to test your parent plants when making seeds, how well they produce, if they're sterile, do they have color, smell...etc. You also have to test their offspring. That's why it's called breeding and not pollen chucking. By as difficult as you make it sound it is to produce seeds, you'd think you might be a little more willing to pay for them.