looks like you guys guys beat me to the whole dutch companies ripping peoples off rant..I agree with every single thing you said in your post , the worst plants I've grown have come from th seeds , people need to realise these big Dutch comps out source their seed making to Spanish fem makers , all these Dutch companies at one time or another shined , sadly they all went to shit years ago , the Dutch laws make it very difficult for a seed bank owner , who by now is pretty rich and runs a business has got old and probably doesn't even smoke cannabis any more ,got kids family and settled down , these guys sure don't have a cannabis castle holding their old strains , the strains are held by workers growers and so on as the years go by the owner looses control of what was once there master work , but demand fuels the market people still want the legendary seeds and will keep buying them , only the old growers will know that what some has just grown as feminised kalimist is in no way at all similar to the actual kalimist we all used o love , I grew it out feminised , not sure what it was but it was one of the worst plants I ever grown . These strains are only preserved by private breeders and collectors , I used the pre 98 kalimist for the kalishnapple which was awesome , and I agree that even back in the day when the bubblegum and blueberry where hot topics , Dutch masters blueberry for example never had a nice sweet blueberry pheno ever after years of growing them all ways dry woodsy purple stem peppery buds , bu if you purchased blue mystic from nirvana or may kc you would get strait up blueberry , they added northern lights and it was better , same with a lot of the strains at the time nirvana and kc had the proper hybrids much like the smaller breeders now , where as sensi seeds was the market leader and dominated the seed and strain industry , their lines were more stable and yielded very well , you knew what you was getting and you got it when planting sense seeds , but when you wanted to find some thing special you would find them in comps like nirvana , sagamtha at one point had special genetics and where amazing but they to changed , great topic for discution
I agree with all that you said apart from kalishnapple being awesome lol.
ive told plenty of people about my experiences with serious seeds ak47. we first smoked it back in the 90s I think and it was a powerful smoke. I grew out about 6 packs a few years back, two of which directly from the company and the rest from a list reseller (tude) all of them were bland airy bud a large proportion of full blown herm plants and auto flowers and everything in between. then when I questioned the reps and simon on the forums they tried to make like it was my fault lol. and I quote ''because they auto flower under t5s (floros).'' so there you go.
anyways, back to bubble gum!. I love blueberry too but that's a whole other thread..
if bbg is around it will be a small private breeder who is passionate about the line who has preserved it in seed form imo. such as bog and brother monk. and of course there are the old legit cuts out there like the ibg or whatever other keepers from back in the day.