the real scooper....quotes from swerve and shesh...
this is how i see it..
this info needs to be here in this thread. there is a steady circulation of new growers in the scene and in their minds they just want LA kush strains and to them swerve is the king.. but they don't know the history behind the cali connect and swerve and all the bs.
sure swerve will continue to work on these varieties and they may turn out to be some stable dank lines but i have been around since before they made up the Cali Connect and i saw all the bullshit that they talked hyping up their gear.. all the contradictions and blatant lies, cover up's, ect that came from that. so, because of that i will not support their endeavor because it seemed to be purely motivated by profit and fame. he wants to be the kush legend in LA.
if you guys were in the scene prior to cali connect then you'll know that swerve isn't all that he claims to be and has no problem lying/denying any misinformation that he has been responsible for in the past.. ie "i never passed fake cuts", "i never said this and that", "i am the only one with the real Fire" claiming that "Raskal and Cali Connect are friends".. i have heard that you have never even met Raskal face to face.
also, claiming rights to the Tahoe when you were simply given the cut from another grower.. how does that make it your work? and don't you claim to have something to do with the Pre98? and you always refer to 96-97 when you talk about the kush. LA kush was around well before them. i smoked kush in the early 90's (90-91) and i know old schoolers that smoked it in the late 80's (87-8
. its just that it wasn't called "OG" yet. it was called Afghani Kush, Purple Kush, ect, with the term "kush" mainly refering to the earthy, kushy taste and that kush smell. i don't agree with your timelines based on my experience.
i do think that OBS (creator of the alien line) is a good breeder doing some good work and i am stoked to have some of his alien crosses straight from the man himself. i just don't agree with him letting Cali Connect work with the line.
what alot of people don't understand is that in LA before the kush cuts were readily available in the clubs everyone wanted these genetics bad. they were obsessed with it because of the money that was being made with it. so much so that they were willing to pay thousands for a cut (or cuts) knowing that they'd make their money back fast. seeds were also sold for ridiculous amounts and swerve saw all this and was the one who stepped out and said i am going to capitalize on this. then he proceeded to rush seeds to market without proper testing and 100% proven genetics. and people that were crazy about getting their hands on these genetics jumped at the chance regardless of whether or not they were tested, which they claimed them to be all the while keeping their fingers crossed.
but he was saavy enough to realize that if he didn't have the real genetics it wouldn't matter that much because many of the people that were going to buy the seeds didn't know any better because they couldn't get their hands on the real genetics anyways and wouldn't be able to compare.
anyways, you do your thing swervie.. keep working the lines and do right by the cannabis gene pool. this info needs to be here though so that others can read both sides and make their own decisions since it all disappears over there on the farm
Posted 17 June 2010 - 09:48 AM
hey man constructive criticism and just criticism is what makes people and companies stronger.. what sux is the pointless lies people spread kinda like me not knowing raskal..well to help you out yeah man i know raskal and have hung out with him. i had him at a bbq at my pad and chilled when i took him to the ufc fight.. so yeah i can easily say i know raskal...so once again misinformation.. but in the end, we, i all of us are just out here tryn to grow some dank meds sow e can continue to fight our everyday lives with the f'd up illnesses we got..and the only kush we got before 96 was afghani or purple. otherwise it was northern lights#5, purple haze, bubblegum, catpiss,bullrider and so forth no kush as the kush aka monkeyballs or presoviet affies, we just called affy not kush, hence why monkey balls is called that or hindu death or cabbage not purple kush or afghani kush... "swerve
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