I have to hand it to the Docta, he's either a master troll or he's a real piece of work.
All that bluster about "SELECTION POOLS", and "200+ plant populations", and lamenting if pathetic tent breeders "just did their own work and selection pools and got out of the fucking tent, they wouldn't need to use Dosidos, or stardawg, or whatever else... they'd have their OWN SHIT". [1] Care to guess where his prize stud Face OFF OG, the sire of the coveted Do-Si-Dos, the genetics he is basing his entire company on, found in all but one cross on his menu, comes from? You were correct if you guessed "six bag seeds". [2]
While we were treated to rhetoric about working lines, Do-Si-Dos doesn't even come from lines worked by the Good Docta. Dosidos is OGKB, not bred by the Docta but used with permission, chucked with Face Off OG BX, also not bred by the Docta. "BX'ing", for those who have only asked questions online and haven't actually read a book about breeding, is an advanced technique used by breeders to iteratively produce males that are progressively closer genetically to the bag seed that they didn't breed so as to more faithfully rip off someone else's work. Did he get permission to BX and use this male commercially from the original breeder? Does he even know who the original breeder is? I don't care and neither does Docta, but he sure cares when other people use his genetics, even when they aren't his.
Which gets us to the other thing Docta is most well known for, his beef with Rare Dankness. Docta brought this up as recently as last week, so he hasn't moved on. [3][4] Summary: he is miffed that he gave Moonshine a bunch of cuts with what he believed was some sort of "gentleman's agreement" and the upshot was he unintentionally "contributed some of my genetics to their line up." Those genetics being the Face Off OG #4 bag seed mother of all of Archive, Triangle Kush, Poison OG, Williams Wonder, Skywalker OG, Dogshit, Norcal and SoCal Cat Piss, Sour OG, Albert Walker, FLO, HP13. [5] I imagine this gentleman's agreement in Tha Doctas mind went a little like this: "My dear chum, please enjoy this bounty of cuts I didn't make and intend to use as the basis of an extensive breeding program, but you are not to release any crosses with them lest you wish to be branded for life as an ungentlemanly scoundrel."
After my brief interaction with Tha Docta and learning all of this I'm glad, in a sense, that I bought a pack of IHG Do-lato. When I bought it I had no clue about Archive or Dosidos. Maybe because I stopped paying attention to the HTCC when they started having it ten times a year. I had heard of Gelato, however. When I searched Dosidos I didn't find much info about it that might have led me to its origins. Now I know why I had a hard time even today finding info about Dosidos and Archive. It's because Archive Seed Bank has opted out of all of the search engines! "LMAO"
No sales, no marketing, and customer abuse is a legit business strategy but it's a risky one for sure. I wish Tha Docta the best of luck in his continuing endeavors. However, I suspect that a few short years after federal legalization Tha Docta will still be doing the same thing he's doing now and having fantasies about being an ultra premium brand like Gucci [6] while Leo of Aficionado, one of the breeders mentioned here that Docta hasn't dissed yet, is going to be quenching cotton mouth with Krug in the back of his Citation en route to an LVMH board meeting.
So Docta: it's not to late to turn yourself around, pick up some landrace genetics, pop some 200+ plant populations, and make your OWN SHIT. Then you wouldn't need to chuck around with other people's tent breeds and bag seeds like Sour Diesel, Urkle, GG#4, NorCal Cat Piss, and Forum Cookies. Bodhi has Zipolite Oaxacan and Acapulco Gold out right now, only $70 for both, and would surely hook a fellow breeder up with others from his fridge with, get this, no strings attached!
[1]
http://rollitup.org/t/archive-seed-bank.862496/page-37#post-13442177
[2]
http://www.archiveseedbank.com/seeds/face-off-bx2/
[3]
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSFbRm7l--h/?taken-by=archiveseedbank
[4]
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQPW33aBuMU/?taken-by=archiveseedbank
[5]
http://rollitup.org/t/rare-dankness-rd-genetics.509817/page-146#post-8681043
[6]
http://rollitup.org/t/archive-seed-bank.862496/page-37#post-13442177