....why not? this is why....-->
..hey if testers still want to risk it, that's on them, but they better forewarned, and again, I ask why when we have some difficulties already getting enough qualified testers here. From what I've seen here, (not random internet finds, haven't bothered) it's much like MedShe-man only not with hermies,.... disproportionate number of problems from a relatively few growers so far,...(Unfortunately, I didn't keep actual track of those I found here, other than who came into Sick Bay with non-auto plants) .... As for that clown, IDK who waved the thumbs up on him, but they were plain wrong , jumped the gun likely from dumb luck with the plants grown or simply not enough, or both..... Interestingly, when they didn't hermie, they were generally damn good according to those testers... But there's the rub, one or two positive opinions/result from limited grows isn't exactly what I'd call vetted, but that's just me,... If I had the negative feedback showing in Sick Bay and around the site with MedShe-man before he was invited to test, it never would have gotten to that stage... And I'll throw Scambeza on that dumpster fire too now that this has been brought up, I saw bad reports on them clear back to '12,..... I saw lessons learned on both of these,....
... I see the point you're trying to make, but I don't agree with it at all because of past experiences here,.... there are better breeders to engage than this one, sorry....
why? There's a lengthy list of other breeders in queue that have well established quality that could be invited first that haven't shown problematic genetics so early in the game,....
... AFN should be interested in quality, not quantity of breeders/banks,... Generally, we usually have some sort of "pre-vetting" to help weed out the riff-raff,... Spotting problems like this and collecting feedback is a big part of this. I for one am not endorsing the subjecting of testers to iffy anything just to see if said company can improve themselves while stepping over the FUBAR grows and results of the testers,... If folks want to roll the dice on their dime and time, that's their prerogative,... if a given company shows well over some time, then it's time to talk about official testing, but not before and using our members as "guinea pigs".... few can afford screwed up grows!
Things fail, sometimes strains don't auto. Ideal, no, but constructive? It CAN be. We do this to document out those experiences and give feedback to both the vendors and growers. Great point made right here in this thread:
