Cali Connection - LA Affie and Chem 91 grow

[ziggaro]

Yo Swerve whats your beef with Nspecta? Or whats his beef with you? I seen you give him props in the past so he's somebody I qualified as being in the know. He says you got fake cuts of 91 and the tahoe cut story is a big lie.
BTW had a homie toss me some 91 seeds from his recent order and they do look pretty white. I bet they germinate anyway but I hear what people are saying.

 

[Swerve]

Nspecta and i go way back. a love hate relationship... everyone loves to hate on me.lol for doing what they all talked about.

and i love how its a fake but yet its been proven..

 

[baddfish99]

I ordered the LA Affie from the attitude and also received the free chem 91. I received my package earlier today and all of my seeds were fine, nothing was crushed. When I order from the tude I always have them sent it in the crush proof tin and order the t-shirt to pad my shipment and give me the replacement guarantee.

The Chem 91 seeds look great. Consistent in shape and maturity.

The LA Affie was supposed to be 6 fem seeds but I somehow had 8 seeds in my pack. 4 of the seeds look mature and uniform but the other 4 seeds are much smaller then the rest and appear a bit premature. One seed looks like a mutant freak. I'm going to pop them tonight. I'm wondering if Cali Connection put a few extra beans to make up for the questionable quality of some of the seeds. I hope the all pop, I usually have a 90-95% success in popping seeds.

As long as I get one quality mother plant out of the batch I will be happy. I have grown out Cali Connection in the past and have had good luck in my pheno hunting, my CVK is pure fire. Hope my LA Affie will be worth it!

 

[cotchept]

The LA Affie was supposed to be 6 fem seeds but I somehow had 8 seeds in my pack.

I just checked mine and I got 8 La affies as well and they all look good! So do all my Chem 91s. Gonna pop the Affies in a few weeks to give them a nice 2 month veg time since they're known to veg slowly.

 

[aknight3]

Yes well I believe Swerve is digging his own grave here.

So it's 'clearly' due to shipping? How's that? The package and cases for each pack of seeds are not damaged. Did the 2 premature chem 91 seeds somehow become premature during shipping?

I ordered 2 packs of Bodhi seeds along with these that came in just regular baggies. There's no problem with those. I also had these sent to me wrapped in a t-shirt so there was lots of padding.

Right so I've created this thread to talk nonsense about Swerve and Cali Connection.

Nonsense.... like my seeds were crushed.

Nonsense.... like I think there is a quality control issue considering whomever packaged your seeds somehow missed 2 very obvious premature seeds, and 3 cracked ones.

Nonsense.... like there is a lack of customer service and all anyone has to do is read this thread to see you putting blame on the postal service, the customer, anyone but you and your company.

So you're saying there is no sense to my logic here? It seems very logical to me, and so does creating a thread detailing my experience for all to see. We are well beyond me attempting to get replacement seeds here Swerve. I don't want them anymore. This is bigger than that now.

You put a lot of effort on the front end of your company with lots of advertising and hype and you completely ignore the back end. That is going to catch up to you holmes. If you can't or don't have time to make sure your customers stay happy and are satisfied, I would suggest perhaps hiring someone who can do that for you. Whatever you pay them it will be less than all the money you're going to lose from displays like this one. People talk. Especially when they feel they've been wronged.

You could have come in here and been cool and helpful and then everyone would respect you a little bit more. Like I said bro you're sinking your own ship here.

The retailer has NOT offered to make it right. They told me to send the package back in their UNOPENED containers and they will see what they can do. Well, damn I opened my containers so now what? I guess I'm SOL. No, I'll cut my losses and see if I can turn shit into roses.

I wish there were more threads like this I had read before placing my order, because I would have chosen not to support you and your company. I can now see why so many people hate on you on all the other sites. Take some responsibility man this is a problem on your end.

However, this thread may still yet take a turn in your favor, if your beans have the fire in them. If that's the case, then perhaps whomever reads this thread will grab your gear despite the downsides and risks of ordering your stuff, because the pot is good. Either way this thread shall continue, because the people deserve to know.

We shall see friends. Stay tuned.

i was planning on making an order with cali connection seeds, i probably would of spent over a thousand, and much more afterward, after reading this thread and seein Swerves responses and his general attitude i think ill place my order with someone a little more respectful of their customers...what i think doesnt really matter though, its just my 2, later

 

[maphisto]

Try Gdp genetics i'm running the Bay11,Kens kush,& GDP..100% germ rate great customer service with their rep Pnw grown i know he's here on rui,but check out this grow journal on icmag on http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=241346. swerve needs to just grow up insted he likes to point the finger on the grower.good luck on whatever ya choose..

 

[mikeyboy2121]

i was planning on making an order with cali connection seeds, i probably would of spent over a thousand, and much more afterward, after reading this thread and seein Swerves responses and his general attitude i think ill place my order with someone a little more respectful of their customers...what i think doesnt really matter though, its just my 2, later

I would recommend Bodhi. He has a new drop going down soon. Not only does he have uuuber dank gear, he's also very respected in the community, and his heart and mind are in the right place. Great business ethic, and is the complete opposite to my experience here in regards to customer service.

I won an auction very recently for some extremely rare beans of his, and he contacted me and said he was gonna send me freebies because the price of the auction went too high in his opinion. How freaking cool is this guy huh? THAT is some customer service.

The auction BTW ended up going for $400, and all the proceeds went to the family of another farmer who passed away recently. I was pleased to spend the coin because it went to a real good cause.

That is the kind of breeder/seed company I want to be supporting. There you have someone who is in it for the right reasons. Who doesn't care only about the money, and because it's not all about bling and flash but rather quality, you have people coming back for more. I know I will be.

 

[hellraizer30]

Cant go rong with bodhi thats for sure!

 

[Nightmarecreature]

Hellraizer that signature you have is hilarious!

 

[halo2killer]

Any eye candy? An update? Chem91 pics? La Affie pics? I will post mine when I get a chance. I have two chem91s 2 Original sour disels. And from other companies I have auto ultraviolet, g13 labs white lavender and dinafem critical jack.

 

[mikeyboy2121]

Not too much to show atm. I'm down to 2 LA Affies and 7 Chem91's.

4 LA's popped tails and then 2 of them stalled, one before it broke the soil and the second at about 2 inches tall. Never developed its first set of leaves. The 2 that made it were heavily mutated. Looks like they might grow out of it.

The 7 Chem91's are looking to be in good shape.

I'll see if I can get some pics up in the next day or 2.

 

[baddfish99]

I put all 8 of the LA Affie in a moist paper towel on a plate and let them sit covered on top of my refrigerator for three days. 7 of the eight seeds have popped. The one seed that didn't pop was the mutant seed that was more pear shaped and a third of the size of the others. So basically I paid for six beans and have seven sprouted!

I will update you guys on the grow periodically.

 

[cotchept]

I don't have much space in the tent so I threw just 1 LA Affie into some water tonight. Gonna give it a nice 2 month long veg time. Plan on popping a few Chem 91s in a few weeks.

 

[joejoenugz]

Hey brotha I just ordered the same thing and going to do journals on both, first of all, all of the seeds were a brownish generic color maybe half a stripe on 1 seed. So all 6 of the affie germed and only two sprouted, and they look like two different strains, the keeper , thank god I can keep a mom, still had a mutant first set of leaves but looks good otherwise, so 1 out of 6. I would be bent if I didnt know hw to keep a mom, not my first picnic with seeds either, and then the chem 91 reg, I got 8 sprouts and two of them are yellow, still alive but sad, and actually looks like I got 3 of each pheno, so again not complaining, but if I had to pay full price for all and was counting on them to be my plants to bloom, and not coming down on cali connect but the hype has to be backed up with solid work or a bunch f people are just going to get hella pissed, amd theyre not going to be around too much longer. I know for me , im not a breeder, but what I dew, i back up 100% and have an award winning history with anyone that knows me, and thats what I expect from cali connect, same thing, youre not really a badboy until your work speaks for itself.I know i will keep these moms for. Super long time Nd grateful to have the strains but I know for a fact I wont be buying anything else from them and thas only being fair, if I really want to get pissed, ill talk about how I just feel like I threw 5 20 dollar bills out he window getting one descent seed out of 6.and not being mean. Peace.

 

[halo2killer]

My chems a shooting straight up. Not much branching at all. My osd is branching crazy. But one is dwarfed hasent moved in 4 days. Hope it comes through. We will see.

 

[baddfish99]

Only four of my LA AFFIE are left. It looks like all four of the under developed seeds died on my. Three of then had germed but never lived past a week. I know LA AFFIE is a slow vegging strain but these remaining seedlings are far behind the pot of gold and ace of spades that I started at the same time. So far I am a bit disappointing with the quality of the seeds I got from Cali Connection but then again I usually avoid feminized seeds at all cost. Guess I was caught up in the hype.

 

[mikeyboy2121]

Feminized seeds in my experience have been just as good as regular seeds. I usually don't have the kind of experiences with fems that you have with your Affie. However, I am having the very same issues.

Some interesting developments with my plants. I hope to get an update posted in the next few days.

 

[halo2killer]

Ok... Since no update lately. I will give yall an update on my chems. 1 of the bushy chems was a male indeed. The smaller one which I couldn't cut any clones from was a female. Pissed I didn't get clones. I may revegge, if its some superdank. On a sidenote the runt sour diesel is picking up a LOL bit. I didn't cut any frm it either. Not very vigorous. But it is a full female. As for my other OSD it is very nice. Crazy color tone, leaves almost look bluish greyish green. Saw one male part on it..then 2. Thought it was a herm with all this herm talk. But it ended up bursting hairs outta the male part. Very weird. BTW the OSD was FEM. I believe it is Original Sour Diesel x Bruce Banner reverse pollen donor. Has anyone else ever seen this? I know osd is herm prone so I may have a great representation of the real deal. Not trying to hijack thread. But just thought someone may have some answers.

 

[RedMan420]

Ok... Since no update lately. I will give yall an update on my chems. 1 of the bushy chems was a male indeed. The smaller one which I couldn't cut any clones from was a female. Pissed I didn't get clones. I may revegge, if its some superdank. On a sidenote the runt sour diesel is picking up a LOL bit. I didn't cut any frm it either. Not very vigorous. But it is a full female. As for my other OSD it is very nice. Crazy color tone, leaves almost look bluish greyish green. Saw one male part on it..then 2. Thought it was a herm with all this herm talk. But it ended up bursting hairs outta the male part. Very weird. BTW the OSD was FEM. I believe it is Original Sour Diesel x Bruce Banner reverse pollen donor. Has anyone else ever seen this? I know osd is herm prone so I may have a great representation of the real deal. Not trying to hijack thread. But just thought someone may have some answers.

Yes your right the sour d fems are osd x Bruce banner , I have some of those beans , haven't ran them yet , but I have done the strawberry og ( Bruce banner x Tahoe ) and every seeds I started of it has been dank so I have high hopes for the sour d fems!

 

[cotchept]

I've got mine vegging. The La Affie is over week ahead of my Chems but they're both the same size. That Affie vegs slower than molasses. That's all for now.