Not trying to start anything, but I noticed you grow for yourself, and also have someone grow for you? Do you change your paperwork every winter, after the outdoor harvest? I am thinking you probably do.
Also, when I worked at a dispensary, our clones went like this......the clones i would have never even accepted as good clones at the dispensary were 10 bucks.
The decent clones of decent genetics were 15 bucks or so.
The really good stuff was typically 20-25 a clone. I think you probably made a good decision in scrapping those clones, from the sound of it.
I am disappointed that we are going to miss out on seeing the results of this experiment. I am not surprised about the clones being crappy.....about half or more of what I have seen have been really sorry looking specimens. Literally, at OMMProviders, I told the owner that he should not even accept a set of clones from a guy because they were SOOOO bad.......the next day, the owner had them in his shop, for donations of 10 dollars. You get what you pay for, unfortunately.