I guess a S1 can be close to the mother especially if it's a "homozygote" (aa) plant. If a mom is heterozygote (ab) and you self it, it's less consistent. In that case I'd be rather pursuing a backcross with a phenotypical distinct male with rather recessive traits. But I am not a breeder....
Nope, not me. I did moderate for Dan Van Pot, before he got busted. Thats been so long I cant even remember the name of the forum. He bred the Cup Winning God Bud, with BC Bud Depot, and they screwed hum, so he left, and took his Male, along with a Clone of the original Mother. They did/do have the original mother, but have to use a different male. But BC Bud Depot, has never had the original MALE, that helped win the cup, since Dan left. I also moderated for Claude/Serious Seeds, when he first started his forum, and I got a federal supervised release violation, from a rat, I was growing, at his house, whos ex, found out, and told the cops, so I went back to federal prison for 30 more months. I was out for 5 years, after doing 5 for cultivation, and went back, for 30 more months. So I lost that mod job, needless to say. I was Jethro, on both of them. I did about 7.5 years, and 5 years supervised release on a 10-LIFE Mandatory Minimum, for 1250 clones, and caught a state charge on the rat, who I was growing with, while on supervised release. It was a state 5-10, class C. They ran the time concurrent with my federal violation as I had way more fed time, than as I would have been eligible for state parole in 18 months, and I had to do 30 months, for the feds. No Parole, in the feds anymore. Since 80s-90s. Those convicted Before the 80s-90s Law, still do go up for Parole, in the feds.
Yep. Been out of their clutches since 2009!! Beshear #2, even restored my voting rights!!!
Compared to the companies you listed Karma is doing an outstanding job with his seed lines, HSO is only a reseller they don't make the seeds themselves, Ripper had some decent seeds but now most of their stocks are white labels renamed with the latest trends and I have no experience with the 2 other listed. From this list I'm positive only Karma(maybe Mamiko I don't know) is really making the seeds he's selling himself or at least send the parents to people making the seeds for him if he can't. Mamiko has gained a lot of attention because one of their crosses produced a clone elite circulating around the globe now but I have not grown anything from them so I can't tell if their work is worthy of the grow space. I've made some seeds fro Ripper long ago, a Haze hybrid who was really good. And I've made a few seeds from HSO with mixed results, decent buds but nothing great and a lot of packaging errors, the seeds were not what was written on the packaging twice.
