@quiescent .....No.....I didn't run an entire pack of the Cali Cherries. Was just testing the waters to see if they were up to snuff to put outside this Summer....and if the "Cherry" was anything more than "Cherry Pie". FWIW....I ran that CP clone for 4 cycles and on the 4th...from clone...it hermed on me. I know it's all over in 'rado's gear and a lot of gear now....but it is what it is. I wasn't overly impressed...."OK" pot.....no cherry in mine...kinda had that "Bubba" thing goin on....almost (not a Bubba fan here)..... but it did/does have an incensy smell to the smoke you can not forget/mistake when you walk back in the room. Have always been surprised it gained such favor...but hey.....a lot of stuff out there is that way for my money.
The Cali cherries is the first "fem" that truly hermed on me...bad.....in over 15 years.....and fems or S-1's are all I run. I had 45 plants 5 ft tall year before last..outside....no herms...all fems (mine and Cannarado's). Last year I did 22....all fems....half CVS...half 'rado....and again.....no visible fems. (though I have found an errant seed here/there....this is in pounds of weed. I keep those!)
I hear ya bill...and you are right...hermies are more prone here in the US....mostly because...for better or worse...folks got burned (literally) buying all those weak Dutch strains for all those years. No, it doesn't hermie (OK...they will...but for arguments sake...)....but nobody here wants Big Bud or Barney's Farm >anything<. We made the trip over to smoke our heads off and ended up smoking hash all week cus the weed was so damn horrible overall. Probably not a good representation of the pot there (you and others may have)....kinda like here and the dispensaries.....but even so.....what they were calling "thai" and "kush" and other stuff wouldn't have garnered a cent here stateside. Looked like the old Mexischwag we got in the 70's....and it was in every shop...sold as some "exotic" sativa....
And I hear ya on the "boy bomb" thing. The last M/F seeds I ran were alien's gear. 6 full packs...all over the board on his strains he hyped at the Farm...Alien Rock candy...Alien Afterburner..alien dogshit...Alien Hay... Out of 60 seeds I got 8 females....and none of them were for shit. total crap. 4 months wasted time.....garden completely knocked out of service... and that was it for regular seeds for me. I've never looked back. I was told I didn't follow his "feed schedule"...and thus....the high ratio of males/blahblahlbah. Yeah...right. However..in the end I was more pissed at myself fot climbing on the hype train than anyone else...and some folks here are guily of that as well. It is what it is though. If you can't afford to play....you shouldn't...whatever the reason/whatever shit happens.....
But it >is< getting deluded out there badly. This drop is evidence of that. The same stuff all wrapped together/crossed together...and back on each other...and on and on. Still good stuff...but how ;long will it be before the bottom drops out? How many times can you cross this plant? I guess folks are gonna find out...huh?