Not everyone from Kentucky is like that...just the inbred ones fwiw..killer new haven is still around in Kentucky, as well as the herijuana. I have an affie that was over 30 years old when I started growing it 7 or 8 years ago. I am not for sure but I have a feeling it may be the affie that was used in the cross. Not super resiny but an absolute day wrecker. After trying my hand at dozens of strains over the years, it's still my strongest indie...by far. Most of my friends like the sweet tooth, c99 or satori better because of taste but the old heads that like indica always ask to smoke the ghanni. I firmly believe what Tom has said BUT..The herijuana I tried was really stout regardless of what it is made of or by whom.Steve Tuck was responsible for breeding zilch. Herijuana, like Trainwreck & Magic Carpet, was a clone Steve acquired in California and took hybrid seed of up to British Columbia in 2002. The extent of his work with these strains doesn't go beyond marketing & distribution, which to be fair by today's standards I suppose qualifies him as a breeder.
I have zero doubt he sold Emery and his lackies, prairieboy included(Hi Charles!), the world in seed form. Tuck was an artist at telling the right audience the right message, a carpet bagger from Kentucky who's burned a trail everywhere he's gone including but not limited to: HumCo, Overgrow, Legends, B.C., Oregon, and Los Angeles. If there is even a remote inkling of doubt about his credibility, I direct you to YouTube and invite you to watch his videos.
If you've grown genetics that you've enjoyed from Steve Tuck; great, who you really have to thank are the growers and patients he traded with or swindled. Again, in this sense he doesn't differ all that much from majority of breeders today, except for his gear comes with amplified authenticity issues to put it mildly. If its good herb, more power to you, been a lot of that going around in California. As for hanging your hat on any info that's came from that mans mouth or keyboard, good luck with that.*
For the record, I too, knew Steve personally and quite honestly he always did square by me. For me to turn a blind eye, however, to all the lies and stunts he's perpetrated throughout the years wouldn't be prudent. From time-to-time I'll read him or his 'work' being commemorated online and it's just a shame, or joke rather, how little our communities care or remember. What's not to be taken away here is the fact Steve was indeed a legitimate medical patient, however as you might sense any empathy generally extended to those with medical needs was lost in short order due to his antics.*
If he or any of his remaining associates are reading this, *Kanza says hello
Not everyone from Kentucky is like that...just the inbred ones fwiw..killer new haven is still around in Kentucky, as well as the herijuana.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of backward ass people in this state. But, certainly not everyone. Take me for instance.
All kidding aside, I know the Heri is here because she's passed through my circle on the regular. Grown her from seed(tuck,woodhorse, & ******), smoked her, past cuts of my own selections to good peeps. If the real deal KNH is still around and being grown down in central KY. I sure as hell can't find her. I've had my friends in Bardstown making inquiries for years with other growers from there down through New Haven. NADA! "Tightly held" would be an understatement.