First off, if DJ was paying the price range for the strains he mentioned, then he is, or was, an idiot. About Colombian Gold, he said $60.00 to $100.00 per ounce. When it hit my area it was $35.00 and it never topped $55.00 ... and that was for more than an ounce. In that era, at least anyplace I ever lived of visited and bought while there, people would sell a "lid." Some people in some areas might have been around an ounce, maybe less in some cases. I could buy lids that were a baggie filled so full that there was not only no rolling it up, but they would be difficult to close. You could hardly fold the flap over. $35.00 to $55.00, and it was almost as gold as a gold bar.
And what he said about it and turning hermie was; "The plants were also
slightly hermaphroditic."
Colombian Red: He didn't mention hermies.
H.O.G. I mainly smoked H.O.G. all through college, in my case for free, but people selling it sold it for $35.00 to $45.00. DJ said it cost $40.00 to $120.00. About it turning hermie he said; "the plants exhibited
slight signs of hermaphroditism."
Guerrero: Can't say I ever grew it. Nothing about hermies was mentioned.
Michoacan: His price range was close on this one, but then he never mentioned anything about hermies about it.
Thai: Thai strains have long been known to be very hermie prone, but then they most Thai strains, at least at the time, pretty much all were just called Thai so it would have been hard to nail down any particular one as being better or worse. DJ said; " plants grown from the seeds produced only minor quantities of seed, all of the product was hermaphroditic.
Also, many of the male flowers were sterile on some of the plants, or on certain parts of certain plants. Did you happen to notice where, in what I wrote, of the very few hermies that I did know about, most times they were sterile, the pollen was sterile, there was no pollination from a plant truning hermie?
Chocolate Thai" DJ said; "and all were hermaphroditic." If I ever had Chocolate Thai in that era, I didn't know I had it, so I never experienced major hermies.
DJ mentioned; "Vietnamese," which is lumping a few or so strains together. As you might have read before, my brother in law shipped two very large stereo speakers home from Vietnam shortly before returning to the world after his second tour of duty. They were sativa strains from the Dalat area. He grew the different strains until his oldest daughter was getting nosy, which meant he grew the strains for roughly six of seven years. I only grew some a couple times. They were so long flowering that where I was living at the time it was a gamble on if they would finish. In my limited experience, not one hermie. We've talked about it many times over the many years and he has said, repeatedly, that if he ever had a hermie he can't remember it. DJ didn't mention hermies in relation to Vietnamese strains.
Next was Thai stick: Thai was already covered in relation to the hermie topic.
Black Magic African was next: I never knew of it in my area. I never even heard of it in that ear, not until some years later. No mention was made by DJ about hermies.
Durban Poison. A neighbor of mine was a conscientious objector during Vietnam, he was a Quaker. He had to spend the same amount of time he would have spent in the military doing some sort of good deed charity type work and ended up in the Peace Corp going all around Africa installing small hydroelectric generation stations on any moving body of water with enough movement to make electricity. When they left a village there was one communal refrigerator and each hut had one single light hanging from the ceiling, as centered as possible. He brought back Durban Poison and a couple unidentified strains. No hermies from them and DJ didn't mention any.
Venezuelan was mentioned. That's another one that if I had anything from Venezuela, I didn't know I had it. But he didn't mention hermies.
Next was Indian Elephant and Buddha Stick. I never had any. DJ did say; "Most of the plants grew medium bushy, and
most, but not all, were hermaphroditic."
Panama Red. DJ said; "I did grow some seeds of Panama Red on more than one occasion. The plants were of the medium bushy character of the Colombian Red, with a little more hermaphroditism." That couldn't have been much because he did not mention hermies when he mentioned Colombian Red. I grew Panama Red, I never had a hermie.
Hawaiian herb was lumped together. No mention of hermies was made by DJ.
Jamaican Lions Herb, and Jamaican strains in general were mentioned. But there was no mention of hermies being a problem. I've grown Jamaican strains in the distant past. I never had a hermie.
Philippine herb, again lumped together strains. I never grew any of them, or if I did, I didn't know that was what I was growing. DJ didn't mention hermie problems.
So, what I said was:
I used to grow a number of those types of strains in the 70's and I never had a
single hermie. A few friends had like 1 or 2 each over years, but they did not cause pollination the pollen was sterile.
So how is that all that different from what DJ said? Colombian Gold; "
slightly hermaphroditic" Colombian Red; no mention of hermies (other than later when he said, H.O.G.;
"slight signs of hermaphroditism," Michoacan, no mention of hermies, Thai; "
Also, many of the male flowers were sterile on some of the plants, or on certain parts of certain plants," Chocolate Thai; "and all were hermaphroditic," or at least all he experienced, Vietnamese; no mention of hermies, Black Magic African, no mention of hermies, Durban Poison; DJ didn't mention hermies at all, Venezuelan; he didn't mention hermies, Indian Elephant and Buddha Stick, I never grew it but he said; "
most, but not all, were hermaphroditic, Panama Red; DJ said; " with a little more hermaphroditism" than Colombian Red, but since he didn't mention hermies when talking about Colombian Red, it had to be, at the very most, a very minor issue, Hawaiian; no mention of hermies, Jamaican Lions Herb, and Jamaican strains in general; no mention of hermies, Philippine strains, all lumped together, no mention of hermies.
So, precisely where does what DJ said and what I said differ more than just ever so slightly, other of course than he was grossly overpaying for some of the exact same strains?
DJ said a couple strains were slightly hermie prone, one that was very hermie prone tended to be strile or at least partially sterile, most there was no mention of hermies, and the only others that mentioned it, I never grew.
So how does my personal experiences with such strains make me; "an idiot?" I said very much the same thing as DJ, other than not having had any personally, but that I did know a few people wo had a couple over the years, often sterile. DJ said almost the very same thing, with the exception of a few strains I never grew, those of those only one or two did he mention any hermie traits.
You are in desperate need of reading comprehension improvement if you took from what DJ said to mean that most sativas had more than a very slight hermie trait and that what he said was largely or radically different from what I said.
... then he came back 
lol
