Sorry buckets I really thought I had replied to your personal message but for some reason no, so I apologize. Here it goes. I am relatively new on the forum scene but have done a lot of research and the Iranian SS seem to keep coming back in that research. In one way or another.
This is what I gather but I could be out to lunch: Some time ago a great strain was developed in Eastern Canada. It's was called the Auto Affie. I don't really know how the Affie was developed. Some say it's strictly an really flowering characteristic plant (meaning there would be no ruderalis in it others say there is). Like I said I am not privy to all of the info but from what I understand it was either made or passed along by a person I will call R. R wanted to spread the wealth around and from what I hear he was a sharer. So R took on himself of doing what sharers do, sharing that is. R was connected to people @UDG (Unlash Da Green) and Breeder Brad from Smoke a lot got it. From what I hear BB is somewhat of a sharer too and it got passed along. R claims it also made it's way to Alberta, BC, Québec several states in the U.S etc. I believe him. But unfortunately, the world is what it is and there is a lot more greed than sharers. Enters Dr.Greenthumb. Again I have no proof of it but from what I understand, those who know about the Affie claim it's the same plant as the ISS. Greenthumb would have made a S1 with it, worked it, or not, and changed the name. I don't know much past that, what I can tell you is that there is a considerable amount of bitterness towards Greenthumb on unleash Da Green and the story makes sense to me.
As for the ISS itself, it's a great plant. I have grown it this last summer and it performed quite well for me. BUT $150 for ten seeds? Come on!!! That's bad karma brother, and if people want to support that I will leave it up to them. As far as the UDG crew being great people I have some doubts about that. I was there for a short while and as far as I am concerned they are just the same as everywhere. Secretive, focused on not letting anyone talk about anything that don't benefit them and therefore yes as greedy as many others. I did not say more greedy, I said just as bad. BUT what follows may explain what I found there.
As for myself, I quickly got quite disgusted of the whole scene but I would lie if I did not say that I did get good info from the sites I have attempted to join over the last year. Why attempted? Simple:
Perhaps this is not the time and place but what the heck I may as well just speak up and say my piece since nobody never gave me the chance to do it. Late last fall (actually at around the same time as now) I made a very big mistake. one that was to have quite significant consequences for me. I welcomed someone in my home and gave her shelter for about five weeks. She was an old girl friend and we had lived together for about five years ending a few years back and she was in between two homes she said; so I offered her to stay at my place. Yes we ended up in the same bed. To make a long story short this person ended up being very angry at me for not wanting to be in a relationship with her and she left wanting revenge. I had felt sorry for her and gave her an Apple laptop I was not using much and since this person is a writer and had her computer stolen from her I felt it was the least I could do to help. Unfortunately she turned on me bad. By January, when she finally gave up trying to get back in my house (she had a place) by then) the shit hit the fan as they say. I was stupid enough to not clear the hard drive of the computer before I let it go and guess what she would have found the moment she went on Yahoo mail? (we both used yahoo mail) my account that popped up. Since I had not changed my yahoo password she now had full acces of my account. I had kept the information about the forums I had joined in a file on the e-mail program.
Another long story short, I watched myself being ignored from all of the forum I had signed on and things got progressively worse.
I can be naive sometimes and I just hung on for a while, thinking that things would get better once the season got underway and I would have photo's galore. But it did not. The was a patterns there. people would greet me warmly and visit my threads and very quickly they would either go or cool down considerably. But in the mean time something had happened and it's my fault for having being too stupid to figure it out sooner, I am conscious of that: By about the end of March, some friend of mine, my best friend that is, began getting e-mails from me. E-mails I had not sent. She was an old girl friend and we had remained very close. It turns out that this other person (the rat) felt I was in a relationship the whole time and wanted to 'expose me'. Anyhow, once the season really got underway I left the sites all together being busy with both the grows and work and this fall I finally tied everything together. This person (the rat) pretty much admitted. Pretty much I said. Because no I have no proofs and more than likely nor will I ever gain any. I mean,really, I probably deserved it for having being so stupid. At the very least I should have changed my e-mail password. But really, I gave her the computer prior her getting mad at me and I still trusted her enough not to think she could do something as bad as that.
So there is is, buckets sorry guy but since I felt I have been silenced and pushed away I don't tend to spend too much time online. But somehow now I feel I should just just say it. Why? Because in truth I really want to help too you know! But the name niceeven is pretty much shit on the internet and I am pretty much at the why would I try stage. I could have begun a conversation with you and others and sooner or later it would have ended by no fault of my own. BUT there is an upside. See we often get the opposite result of what we are trying to achieve. For example. I wanted in. I persisted, well it did not work great for me. This person (the rat) wanted to isolate me from the community. Fine OK I don't have very many friends and she is smart and knows that talking about the plant I love so much meant something to me. However, I was seeking an online community and what I found instead was real people to talk to.
See, I think is a pretty cool story. There is an older guy who lives downstairs. Let's call him P. Well P keeps to himself and one day last spring P came in the garden while I was there (he never does) and asked me how the garden was doing. I love my vegetable garden. Of course, I had to ask him if he gardens and he said no not really but just at the very moment he said that I noticed a tray of Cannabis seedling I had on the patio and my brain went SHIT! P saw my eyes and looked in the direction I had looked at and he smiled. He then said " well, not much vegetables anyhow!" See, P was and had been a professional outdoors grower here in Alberta, for years and years. Acres and acres of the shit. Admittedly he got busted and retired but it turns out he had a lot of knowledge. Suddenly things happened and they keept happening. Now, I would not want to sound more bitter than I am about the whole thing (and trust me, I am) but I have to say that things turned out for the better!
Now, I did get more seeds this year. RCMC is OK. I ordered three time from them. The first one (last year) was FAST, the second this fall not as fast, this last order they where painfully slow but I did get my seeds. I will be growing Auto-Affie X MM-F3 (not listed but I asked the guy is they where to have an auto affie cross available and he told me about that one and a AA Herijuana cross and I got GG#3 as well. I got my own GG#2 seeds I made this summer and I am excited about them. Two great males and one good female. I got the Grizz and I got a strain from that KRK guy (I call him quirky, only talked to him once on line and he was not nice the least) His Patriot Medecine was a bust for me this summer but I could not resist. So I got the Bionic Guerilla or whatever it's called. I am also running a few Dane strains I have from last year one of them a nepalese, pure sative, grown in Danemark for thirty years. Dane strains are available at a place called Frobanken in danemark and there is another site called Seedheaven, they have very cheap seeds too (but boy are they scared of me
)Finally my big success story I did get something local too. Don't know what it is but it's been around for some time here in Alberta I am told. "Don't worry about it buddy, just grow it, kind of strain". Also I have to add an addendum about the european strains. I would seriously consider giving Female Seeds Nl a try. They have a few semi-autos, sativa based strains that do trigger but more importantly stay into flowering. What does that mean? Cover them for a couple of weeks and they will turn. Nothing new there. BUT they will stay in flowering and not turn back. Anyhow, I grew Purple Maroc this summer and it finished 3rd week of September for me, without covering, and it was GREAT! This year i got some outdoor Grapefruit from them too and they even gave me 4 of C-99 seeds for free. OK only, one germinated but I am currently growing it to give it to one of my new found indoor grower buddy (that was another great way to get a community as there is a lot more of them than there is of us) and it looks great.
Sorry for the delay in the response buckets. Hope you will find what you need and you will have a great season.
You will understand I am not spending much time on line but somehow ( I sometimes call it destiny when I am not too stoned)I stumbled on a post on this thread while googling about MM crosses and boom! I felt I had to respond and it grew from there. Plus, I think I really needed to tell my story. Hope I did not put you asleep. See, you got much, much more than what you bargained for.
Be well, be safe and more than anything else: Stay away from the bad, mean niceeven!
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