DrGreenthumb
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It can be awesome, but as a 3 way cross there is a lot of variation, each individual plant/clone is different. It's more consistent than most, but you're still going to get quite a lot of very different plants. The strongest one I smoked was chosen from 5 packs of sensi seeds Jack Herer (60 seeds grown out, best one cloned) by somebody related to the seed vendor I used to work for (it'd be expensive to pay full price), strongest, not best, it made everybody that smoked it whitey, trippy haze-like high, but it was a 7 week flowering period. It was really potent & moreish, before you knew it it was projectile vomit time. Amsterdam coffeeshop Jack Herer tends to be more like skunk & a much gentler smoother smoke, I think they just select the higher yielding ones, having people go pale & vomit off half a joint in the shop maybe isn't great for business, but whiteys are a favourite pastime here in the UK. They don't even put harder stuff on a lot of the menus in Amsterdam, it'll just be something the dealer recommends that they daren't even advertise, like that Domina x Haze. Never had a bad Jack Herer smoke, but some can be pretty average relaxing high, or it can be mind warping buzzy trippy stuff that makes any experienced smoker vomit.
Even the staff at the seed shop I worked at knew the strain names were meaningless & they'd have to grow out 5 packs of their most expensive seeds to find something special. The people that are hyping the names know they're all bullshit more than anybody, it's just done for marketing so they can get away with charging a premium to suckers.
If you're talking about names for individual clones, then they're much more consistent, but for the strains that are distributed as seeds, especially when the same name is produced by several different seed vendors, then the name becomes meaningless, it's nearly as bad as saying you prefer people with a certain family name, especially if it's not some stabilised land race inbred for centuries. The Jack Herer you smoked was maybe a distant cousin of some of the Jack Herer I smoked, most likely it was completely different.
My rule of thumb is that if Sam Skunkman was involved with the seeds they're probably good & fairly consistent. A lot of breeders are just hacks in it for the easy money, they can make a lot more money pumping out random seeds than growing for bud, or somebody got hold of a great clone & tried to make some seeds from it, sure you might get a great plant from that, but it's just luck, they'll all be totally different. Some seed houses used to be great, but had to downscale, change breeders, sometimes they'll lose all their genetics & have their main breeder imprisoned for 5 years, but they still keep selling seeds with the same names somehow. Names that were once great can turn to total crap.
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