When I started growing two decades ago my first purchase was sensi seeds. The seeds were produced before laws in netherlands changed and befor sensi lost lots of their motherplants due to changes in laws. Strains were super skunk, skunk and shiva shanti tge cheap version.
I was 19 and ran a 400w hps and made lots of mistakes.
The best plants were super skunk my number one back then and shiva shanti the skunk 1 was dissapointing.
I made a few seeds and worked with those for a while and had some good results.
few years later I were at a new place new setup and less mistakes. I purchased super skunk again and skunk one again from sensi. Quality was not like back in the days at all. Super skunk wasnt uniform anymore and quality was fucked up.
I got a new setup and a 600w light after that. I didnt want to spend 100's of dollars to fuck them up again and went with a nirvana purchase for the first grow with the new setup. Strains were hindu kush, k2, Big bud, northern lights.
big bud had huge buds all over my whole cab was filled with bud but nearly no thc absolutly not smokeable. The northern lights were the same plants were like 2.2m in height and grew up to the ceiling of my cab buds were football size but also not smokeable due to the lack of thc.
but then like a wonder I popped the k2 and hindu kush and in both packs of ten I found a keeper of each strain. It took me about a decade and 100's if not 1000's of dollars to find plants that would even compare to this two plants. But only one k2 and one hindu kush were so special the rest was shwag.
I grew a lot strains besides this two
and only sensi star from paradise seeds were a competitor (i read lots of bad reports on sensi star today and it seems like they dont use the same motherplants like back in the days) it was like narcotics no daytime smoke at all. I popped 5 of ten beans and found a keeper. The rest of the seeds I kept until a few weeks ago they were like more than a decade old and I sent them to a friend (also a member here at riu) in the US a few weeks ago to help with sleep issues. I hope he can get them to germinate.
Then came black domina also from sensi seeds. Great quality I found in a pack of ten high yields of outstanding bud.
Other strains I liked were sweet tooth from spice of life back in the days.
From more today breeders I had the following that were worth to mention..
The incredible bulk from dr.krippling first released batch of seeds. Grew like crazy.
Cannabiogen pakistan chitral kush a lovely kush with lots of berry flavoured purple phenos. If you rub stems you can smell a overwhelming berry flavour even in veg. A top notch pure landrace that I can recommend to every kush lover.
Frisian dew dutch passion is a great outdoor strain grew into huge trees with some great aroma to it.
Dinafem original amnesia also absolutly great!
Exodus cheese by greenhouse seeds I found a top pheno in a pack of ten that I was told by an uk grower looked like the clone only version. Great quality for 30€ a pack of ten.
So far from my expirience...... but I for sure will remember more good stuff when I am less stoned. So maybe there are more to come in this thread.
^^^ man what a book for a singke post but I was exited