Oops, didn't mean to come off like a twat. I'm kinda sarcastic and have a dry sense of humour that sometimes doesn't translate well to print. I'm as guilty as anyone for buying into hype, not so much now, but back in the day I'd send my rent off for the next big thing in High Times and end up with something worse than I already had. It's gotten to the point where you go to some sites to look for seeds and the description isn't even there, just what was mixed with what... like that's all the info I need. Nothing about which phenos I should look for or expect, no info at all. Lucky to get a pic of some random weed to represent what I should get, no breeder tips on growing her, whether it's mold resistent or feeding info (which doesn't really count now that I do no till), nothing. What do I get for my 150-300 bucks? Some seeds that may or not be what they are advertised to be and a breeder that doesn't take the time to copy and paste the descriptions/tips and give them to the seed broker other than "badazz clone only mixed with the same male all their crosses are made with". That shit grinds my gears! I get better instructions and info on a new microwave I already know how to use, and if I have any questions I don't have to chase Samsung down on instagram to find the info.
It seems to me that we have given breeders a free pass to the fame and fortune show, letting the idea of testing their gear fall away so we can gargle their nuts on social media. Watching breeders bad mouth each other, only to have the same shit hurled at them a couple months later by some other breeder. How many watered down diesel crosses, kush crosses, haze crosses, etc...do we have to shell out big money for and find average weed before we hold people accountable? If I don't get anything I like with TNF, I'll throw them in the bin full of breeders I won't order from again. I skeptically ordered these like I skeptically order everything else. But I will say, Dynasty, Ace, E$KOBAR, USC, NAW, and a few others do give pretty good descriptions/info and the work they put in shows in their products.
I will say though, the RKS seems to be an elusive pheno at best, so anyone thinking they can order 20-30 seeds expecting to find a 1:200 pheno is walking around with their head up their ass. You could have bad luck and grow out 500-1000 plants and still not get it. The next guy might get it with one freebie. Statistics are a bitch, and genetics are 100% luck if you don't run the numbers. Also, remembering what shit smelled like 30 plus years ago when you were younger with a better sense of smell might not be even possible. If you hopped in the waaaaaay back machine and smelled that exact weed, it might not smell like you remembered. Different growing styles, different nutes, length of cure, what it was cured in, all changes the smells of the weed I've grown in multiple growing mediums, nutes, organic vs chem, etc... Too many variables for me to trust my own memory. Chasing nostalgia is a fools errand, IMHO, but I still do it. Lol.