I just have A few questions where did budpatch acquire the cuts he gave 303 seeds? and what makes them so special? sounds like a few 303 strains may have a herm issue, sounds kinda like the same issue centennial seeds was having.
Thanks for dropping in Ku$hking!
Everything I gifted to 303 was grown from seed sourced from the breeders directly, or from their retailers. Two were my private breeding projects...Aspen OG and Grape Funk. They were special for their unique traits and medical benefits. Something very unique in each that wasn't found in any other market strain we knew of. I never had any intentions of them going big time, I just love to grow, breed and collect seeds. The 303 team was a perfect fit for me.
At least 50 females of each 303 strain were grown out prior to release by a combo of patients, caregivers and a licensed warehouse grow. We didn't use untested landrace sativa genetics like Centennial did. All of our current seed strains are polyhybrids of existing market tested strains. Herms happen, for whatever reason, be it environment, feed schedule, genetics, etc. I've seen posts of herm issues with every established seed company on the market, but we strive like they do to keep our strains easy to grow and herm free in a wide range of environments. We do stress test our moms extensively and select moms from as large a population as possible...grown from seed, unless of course we're working with a select cutting, but even then, the cutting has usually come from verified seed stock of some kind. All of this gear is currently being grown from seed in the medical grow for the center that distributes our seeds, so herms are as bad for us as they are for the home grower and we hate them as much as anyone.
Hope that answers your questions.
Here are a couple shots of our selection facility with some 303 Gear going for the next round of selections.
BP
Just flipped...Snow Goddess, Ski Train, Ski Patrol and Shooting Star
Below is a row of about 50 of some of the new crosses currently in testing...
Here is another row of about 50 testers...Aspen OG X here...looking pretty uniform so far
Here's a bunch of different gear...in flush now.