Okay fine, you made your point about AG, we get it
But the jury is still out on his G13, and he has great reviews on some of his other strains.
1: The reviews on his other strains are meaningless in this exchange. They in no way whatsoever are evidence that what he is selling as the real true G13 is the real true G13. What he is selling and calling G13 might be a great strain, it might get top reviews, but even that would not in any way be proof that it is the real true G13 as he is claiming it too be.
2: Do you fail to see the more than obvious similarities involved here. He offers what he claims are Acapulco Gold seeds decades after the last real true Acapulco Gold was seen. Most who would purchase it would never know the difference between it and what is was supposed to be. They would not notice the total difference from seed to toking it and everything in between. Only a handful of old-timers might be able to do that. No one else could, so he could claim whatever he liked with little risk of being caught being untruthful.
Now he offers what he calls G13, long after the plants that professional breeders who had it had lost vigor and died and long after any who smoked it would likely be purchasing it now to notice the difference between the real thing and what he is selling. I posted the original description of the real true G13 and it is as different as night and day from Dr. Greenthumb's description and from what those few who are growing it and telling about it are saying about it and how they describe it.
Do you fail to see a parallel? If you see it do you now understand why I went on about the fake Acapulco Gold? Dr. Greenthumb will pick a famous strain name from the past, one from far enough in the past that most current growers would not know it was not the real thing if they grew it because they never grew, or smoked, the real thing in the past, and then he offers 'a strain,' 'some strain,' using the famous name.
It is almost the perfect scam, at least if the strain he is claiming to be G13 turns out to be a good strain unlike the Acapulco Gold that turned out to be a low grade strain. There is no documentation that can be used to prove it is not real. Regardless of people like Shantibaba and Nevil saying it's not, Dr. Greenthumb can still claim it is. There are not enough people out there who had, grew and smoked the real G13 to be able to say enough to convince people who want and need to believe that they bought, grew, or are growing, and are or will be smoking one of the most famous stains of all time. So he can make all the claims he wants without fear of being proven wrong, even though he had had to alter his story a few times already, and if by chance he created a strain that is impressive people will believe it to be the real G13, even though it does not come close to matching G13's original description in any way, and he will be able to continue to charge an arm and a leg for a good strain, but a strain that is not what it is claimed to be and not what people will actually receive. But he can charge more for the same strain if he claims it is the real true G13 than if he just developed a very good strain and gave it a name of it's own.
As I said, it is almost the perfect scam. Had his fake Acapulco Gold been good, rather than being more like Ghetto Gold, he likely would have gotten away with it. He had several strains in his Heritage Line, all strains claimed to be famous high potency strains of the past. His Heritage Line did not last long. Likely because the others, just as was the case with Acapulco Gold, were terrible and even those who did not know the real deal would not purchase them again because of their near total lack of quality.
If the strain he created and is claiming to be the real true G13 turns out to be high octane, he will make a killing off of people who will actually believe that they are purchasing the real true G13. The prefect scam. Create something good and give it the name of an extremely famous strain that will be impossible for anyone to prove to not be the real deal, something that likely no longer exists, at least not in the hands of anyone who could or would ever offer it to the public, regardless of what a few claim.
Even though it is fake, as long as it is good and people rave about it, they will perceive it to be real and if perceived to be real that gives him a virtual monopoly. That means that every single person with the hope of experiencing the real G13 will have to purchase from him and him alone. It is the perfect scam. Reality is whatever someone perceives it too be, within reason of course, so if perceived as real, in the minds of buyers and growers and dealers and smokers it will be seen as being real, it will be accepted as being real, and that will allow him to charge more per bean than if he just gave his strain a new name, regardless of how good it might turn out to be. The famous name, if perceived to be the real deal, justifies whatever price he wants to put on it, for two reasons. First, because it is believed to be as advertised, and second, because there is no competition and lacking competition the marketplace does not eventually set the price, Dr. Greenthumb and Dr. Greenthumb alone can set the price.
If he has created a strain that is good enough for people to believe it too be the real G13 he has just struck the largest vein of gold he will ever strike.
