This is gonna make me seem a bit conceited, don't give a fuck. I know what I know and I mean what I say.
"Shoreline's ecsd" is ecsd. Plenty of people love it, more than don't or it wouldn't be in demand. I haven't grown a plant in almost a year and still have people asking me about when the next batch of ecsd is coming.
Way back when this whole thing started heisen was saying his shit wouldn't herm. I kept telling people some of his shit would throw balls on lowers of seed plants and even throw sterile nanners on clones that were a little stressed/over ripened. Totally ignored by most, obviously.
You can't blame the seeds, the seed maker or the plant when that happens; even if heisen said it wouldn't happen. It's a known highly probable outcome. If you don't know what you're growing before you pop the seeds, your fault.
I think some of the cuts he's been through and tossed are better smoke/genetic material than what he's got right now, even with the marriage of the gps catalog. I've grown progeny from everything he's had/has to make my claim and smoked em pure as well.
Even way back when I said using katsu's bubba wasn't gonna be the best option. Still willing to see what's in there but the pre98 does magic in crosses compared to the katsu. Anyone remember what happened to that plant? I do.
Totally conjecture here and I'm sure someone will see this as a dig, it's not: it seems he's basing some of his decisions on his wife's preferences on smoke, since he doesn't regularly, and combining it with his experience with the plant.
If you've smoked cigarettes in your life your palette is diminished. If you haven't trained your palette, you don't have one to begin with. I've trained my palette, use it every day to make hundreds of people happy. I can smell and taste figs, vanilla, cinnamon and a hint of apricot in 120 proof whiskey, tell you what kind of woods a meat was smoked with, what herbs/seasonings are in your grandma's stew, etc.
I've smoked an immense variety of some of the best weed on planet earth for my entire adult life. All day, every day. I know what to expect from genetic combinations based on experience. I'm not just trying to get decked, I'm trying to enhance my time on this planet. You can be captain pothead with a high tolerance and not be able to pick up the nuances of what makes the smoke awesome or realize its better suited for activity/situation x instead of y.
Half the clones/projects he's scrapped have probably been because over half of those seeds are going to clueless dipshits that couldn't grow their way out of a wet paper sack and are too headstrong to realize it.
I'd rather take a pack GMO or jetfuel s1s/crosses and grow them right... cloned from sexually mature plants, plenty of root space, organically, in an ideal indoor environment; sound familiar? .... than a million packs of purple punch crosses. Since there's not a barrier of entry (price, harder to find/source, etc) that's disconnecting the noobs from the purveyor this is what we get. I'd do things totally differently and real growers/cannaseurs would be happier with the end product.
You can parrot shit heisen says all day, it don't make it right. I respect him for doing the thing but sometimes he's a bit facetious, which is something I like about him. I wish heisen nothing but success merely because I enjoy his demeanor and appreciate where all this came from.