Maybe my description isn't right but all I can say is wasn't for me bitter lemon on the exhale
Well, I can't speak for what is really going on at a company that I don't belong to/have close ties with, but what I can say is this, it's not the first time I hear this about declining quality with beans from them. Either stability issues and bigger pheno differences is something I've been hearing for quite some time and on several other fora as well. However, in general I personally still hold them in quite high regards.
What I also know is that when the things happened with Dinafem in Spain some years ago (owners were caught by the government, business closed, big law suit etc.) some (or most) of the Spanish producers changed tactics/size of grow ops or even went abroad (Colombia for example) to produce their weed/seeds. This might explain the change in seeds? Just thinking out loud here and what might sound logical, for a real answer I'm obviously not the right person to speak to.
Khalifa makes some strange/unique genetics indeed!
Do you have some pictures of them?
Cheers
... I get ya mate, just thought as a guy with his ear in the bizz and an eye on their "competition", you might have picked up a whiff of whatever is fouling Sweet's mojo... But your forum presence(s) does enlighten the situation nonetheless. Alas, it confirms the observations... 
I cannot understand why, in these crazy competitive times (to say nothing of forums/social media), any company would allow or tolerate such a thing and shoot their own feet
... much less keep tabs on the diversity.
Looking great in there mate!Hello folks another week down for the girls cruising along decided to throw a net on them bit easier then wiring up each branch
Also I forgot to top them in the style I like which would be at the third node to leave 6 tops then after some growth do another topping on the two main tops to leave you with 8 I find this way is easier to train the plant if I do the traditional 4th node topping I always get a branch or two that end up shorter not really sure why i guess it's to do with light
Yeah agreed, in the end there are so many things that can happen... (and could have caused this)
As for Dinafem, my experiences predate their shut-down... It was back when that good man Mark was the rep' here, in the good ol' days!
...I dunno Antonio, it seems to me that a certain level of complacency becomes the norm', whether it's because a company has become lazy, careless or just plain indifferent,...being dismissive of such feedback, chalking it up to "grower error", which to be fair is the case sometimes, but not always... It makes me question just how well they are testing and quality checking new batches, especially their older popular cultivars which should be well dialed in, for fek's sake!
Khalifa is definitely interesting, and I love a breeder that zag's when most everybody else is zigging along with the same redundant pop culture stuff! Truth be told, the majority of cultivars I've grown these last several years has been from private breeders and small companies... And there are so so many breeders out there these days, how can one ever grasp the scale of such an ocean
My grow situation and restrictions are pretty challenging, especially OD's. I need speed, mold resistance and a full range of effects, all with about 7-9 plants each season. So, picking "winners" is no small challenge!
Yessir, fairly said and true... Still, I feel that where the bullet hits the bone is that final stage grow-out check to see if the most recent batch is still true to the originals. I realize this normally would delay their release for a while, maybe a whole year/season but that's the price of (quality-check) business.
LOL -- will do mate, thank you for the offer! I might have a step in that direction already with Sawney and the PMK 
