That's what so fucked up in the industry today, 10 years ago almost every seed I grew was fire in his own right, every seed was a almost perfect like mother clone, which is what you paid and expected for.
When I bought some cheese seeds in Ams 20 years ago they were identical and smoked the same as the cheese I smoked in the streets there at the time
Today it's a shit show, we are supposed to do the breeders work and pay them top dollar for it.
Shit is hilarious...
My bagseed from some outdoor bud beats so far everything I put in the dirt from those so called breeders haha
So basically we are all just growing some mutts. I have a limited experience in growing. But I have huge experience in reading about growing on the internet. Because that's all I've been doing the last 7 months of my free time.
What I gather is this. If you Google the most reputable seed bank whether here in the US or overseas and they claim to sell some great seeds of plants like classic OG shit like Northern Lights, Super Silver Haze, Acapulco Gold, White Widow, etc etc you will basically be growing garbage.
This is the undeniable reality given various circumstances :
1) If people can just grow their own great weed, why would there be a legal cannabis market?
2) It's likely true that the DEA/Feds really destroyed all of the good clones of all the good indoor weed back in 2007 or whatever year it was right before legalization started passing legislation in various states.
3) Let's say somehow you are able to grow some fire ass weed that reminds you exactly of the year 1995 that year you were neck deep in Super Skunk, Piff, and Vermont Kush. You just hit the lottery son. You truly got that 1 out of 150 pheno in your 6 plant grow somehow and you are not going to replicate this feat ever again. Not from this seller anyways because they already started back-diluting their strain and it's just going to be another mongrol/mutt cannabis plant like the rest of them with a weak/mids at best high.
4) The true pawns in the seed game is us growers. It's us people that spend thousand and thousands of dollars off a fucking picture that is likely not the original picture or nowhere near close the original plant they are purporting to sell. In the mean time, we spend 4 months of our lives getting all excited about our grows that will 98% of the time end up being mids at best. Not even nowhere close to what they are purporting to sell.
5) Anyone who is a novice smoker or a part time smoker who smokes on occasion can grow weed and get high. Just as much they can also go to any dispensary and buy a 20 dollar eighth and get just as high. Now try that with an all day smoker. Can you say not happening.
These are the facts as I've come to see them from my experience journeying through the halls of internet grow forums, columns, articles, user reviews, journals.