Which is the Jabba? I recently gave the remainder of my JS beans to a buddy, and will be getting clones back soon. I ran five earlier but only got one female, he got 3 out of 4 females which just finished and says one is extremely stank nasty, so I am very interested in that one, he also got one that was an impressive yielder and one that was very bubba-like in nature.
Testing isn't and shouldn't be about free beans, but free beans are one of the best motivations for testing, so mentioning them shouldn't be some kind of taboo. I look at it as a trade for growing potentially hazardous genetics. As far as the finances go, if you are financially dependent on the outcome of every single plant you grow, then perhaps testing is not the way to go as these are unproven, potentially unreleasable genetics that could cause some problems with your garden. So, and I'm not saying this is the case with anyone, but if you're doing it because you need the free seeds than you definitely need to evaluate whether you should be testing in the first place. I have had testers in which a large percent of females showed hermaphroditic behavior and pollenated nearly everything else in the room. If I had paid for these beans and gotten them without any kind of warning, I would certainly be pissed. However, they were free, and the risk of intersexiness is a vital part of testing itself. At any rate, in these days of extracts and concentrates, a bunch of seedy herb is no longer really the armageddon-like scenario that it once was. I remember in one of the more recent testing posts B said he was not really concerned with the skills of the growers as he wanted feedback from all skill levels; but I do remember him mentioning in another earlier post that he wanted testers to be able to run at least 7 of each strain to get a good sampling of females. I plan to start my entire packs, I just like to stagger them a little, just in case anything goes wrong with the first batch I will still have enough to get at least a couple females.