I bought GDP recently from him. They arrived in reasonable time. Bought 10 seeds and tried to germ 5. 3 cracked, one I had to force by cracking the shell. Out of the 4 above ground 2 look sickly. I wouldn't think that with an old established strain there would be problems. Can't tell you about whether they hermied since I am not there yet. the 'bonus' seeds were stuff from some star wars fantasy and I wouldn't try cracking them.