I paid 75, bought 2 packs. I'll see if they are overpriced when the product is finished. The way I am starting to look at it is if the final product is even good quality it's worth $20 a bean. Hell I'm getting way more worth out of the yield then the $20 invested. I was paying $300 an oz a year and a half ago
Bean prices aren't nearly as bad
Dude... Mr. Head.... I totally agree with what you mean by beans are worth 20 bucks a piece if they turn into something decent. I think that's a very "the cup is half full" way of looking at things. Although, there are so many different companies and breeders out there putting out so much decent stuff, I think we oe it to ourselves and eachother to be more discerning as growers when we rate the genetics we buy. If people say "well, these beans turned out pretty decent, so I guess it's worth the purchase", that will mean that we are not holding anybody up to high enough standards... ESPECIALLY the bigger companies such as DNA. I have loved DNA since I started growing over 4 years ago (longer than that, but I judge by the time I got licensed), but with the resources DNA has at hand, DNA should be putting out cutting edge stuff every time without fail. I think they'd have a much better rep if they put out just ONE bad ass strain once every two years instead of this crap where they put out a handful of strains every year and cause their customers to dig thru it to find the gem. I just harvested my last plant of LA Confidential that I will ever grow. The LA served me well for a long time, and her quality and bud density is awesome, but the yield is a joke (and the pheno I have is not very resistant tospider mites and PM. i used to have a super resistant pheno and lost her by accident thru sloppy cloning and not having a mother). I whittled all the genetics I've been working with down to just one: Chem 4OG by Cali Connection. I have added two new strains. I am working with Blue Dream by HSO (Humboldt Seed Organization), and and Kush Dream by DNA, their Limited line. I added Blue Dream because its a proven strain with super high quality nugs, and HUGE yields (I am not some simple cash cropper who only cares about yield. I care about quality, but the more I can yield, the lower prices I can give to my patients. Quality meds at an affordable, competitive, and fair price is my top priority), and I got the pheno (clone) from a friend who had great luck with her and was generous enough to share the genetics with me. The Kush Dream is already looking like a winner. In my grow journal I am detailing my progress with her, including a full miniature miniature grow that i did to sex the beans, then decided to finish the females just for shits and giggles. I'm super duper excited about these strains. I have a feeling the Chem 4OG is gonna be booted outta the grow entirely in the next few months. She's already taken a back seat to the new kids on the playground. If anybody in mid-michigan has interest in the chem mother, get in touch.
So yeah. I agree that beans are usually worth their high prices as long as they give me something decent, but I wish there wasn't so much uncertainty. I'm totally surprised that there aren't just a few strains out there that almost everybody agrees are the best. I have ordered some stuff by Bodhi. I have high hopes for them (One of them is a Blue Dream cross called Dream Lotus... noticing a pattern here???).
RockyMtnMan: Nice plants bro. It looks like you know a thing or two about a thing or two. Those girls look happy and healthy. Just gorgeous. They look a lot like my chem. Not a surprise, as they are related.