It's really not that crazy, cannabis seeds are one of the easiest things in the world to "counterfeit". Think about it, they all look more or less the same. It's easy to slap a popular strain name on a little mylar bag and claim it's something desirable that the unassuming customer would want. Ex: Sour diesel is popular right now, or the memory OF sour diesel, so they take whatever seedstock they have and slap a sour diesel sticker on the pack, steal a couple pictures off another grower or seed distributor, add a lengthy strain description and bam, new buyers who aren't hip to how the cannabis seed industry works buy them thinking its the real deal. Here's the real kicker, MOST growers can't get their hands on the real deal cuts of the strains they want, so unless they're particularly astute and pay attention to others grow reviews how would they even know? Meanwhile if you grew the original clone next to the seeds you popped they'd look nothing alike, smell nothing alike, and generally speaking be completely different in almost every aspect. Always be weary of a seed company who isn't A: a verified seed dealer for a specific breeder, and B: any seed company that claims to have every desirable strain under the sun but has no publicly known head breeder. Ex: Bloom seed co, well known for Grape Cream Cake/Tropicana Cookies has Harry Palms, Archive seedbank, well known for Dosido and Face off og and Rainbow Belts has Fletcher, Csi Humboldt, well known for their old school clone only varieties and Obama Kush has Caleb aka the nspecta, Seed Junky genetics, well known for breeding Wedding Cake, Jealousy and Permanent Marker has J Beezy. You see, those of us in the know have an awareness of who bred the strains we enjoy, or who has a solid reputation for putting out quality seeds who may be working with certain strains we want. We don't just Google a strain name and pick the first bright shiny page that pops up on the screen with guarantees lol sometimes we even do sketchy things like sending straight up cash in an envelope with a piece of paper with an order number on it for a strain with no description or shiny pics, based solely on the reputation of the breeder we're buying from and how much we like the parent plants of said strain. Crazy right?! Lol
