I'm sure ggg has very special male genetics as well. I mean Gromer's original male(studley spewright) came from ggg. To me-not alot of people are going to mess with ggg charging those very high prices. From what I've seen ggg does put out absolute heat, they're just not a hyped of breeder at the moment.
Gromer also got really lucky, its like the stars aligned for him. His timing was great(striking while its hot, as they say)..with covid he got a bunch more sales/online traffic- with people milling around the house on computers alot more, making purchases...his retirement announcement brought a lot of attention to thugpug as well...his big following here(riu)...also he has a somewhat strong social media game which is a plus these days if you're in the seed game. Gotta say, it was nice to see a smaller dude/breeder like gromer/thugpug take off as opposed to all the over-hyped big$$$ crews like cookies fam, jungle boys, and seed junky type breeders/seed co's. I always considered Gromer a growers grower. He's one of us.