I think this post pretty much sums this entire thread up. Nobody even knows if this strain is for real or not and even if it is, there's not a person alive who can prove it is real or if what they are claiming they have is the "real deal" G13. This thread stopped being about Dr.GT or his G13 a long time ago. It's turned into nothing but a flamefest and nothing productive can ever come of it. Why not just let this thread die a quiet, peaceful death?
I am all for the death of this thread, but I will share some parting words, words that I cannot remember if I said previously in this thread or in another thread on the same topic on another site.
There are varying stories even among those who 'claim' to have had or worked with or knew people who allegedly had the alleged original strain. Some say it was developed by the U.S. Government at the University of Mississippi .. that seems to be the most popular story .. but some swear that the alleged strain itself was confiscated in a bust and when tested was found to be uber-potent and seeds were then sent to the University of Mississippi for growing and researching the strain. Then there is the part where cuttings were slipped out. Some say it is a total myth and none of that ever happened. None of us know for sure and none of us ever will know for sure.
Regardless of that what is known is that Nevil did have a strain that was called G13, a very potent strain that was used in several or more crosses by him and also by a select few others, but by all accounts over time the original lost vigor and died.
While there is an ever so slight possibility that the original exists somewhere, frankly I very highly doubt it. The probability of it still existing, in the same original genetic form, is likely as close to being zero as could be mathematically calculated.
But there is a high probability that some crosses that have at least some percentage of G13 in them, either high or low, do still exist. There are too many of them out there from too many breeders, some highly reputable ones, for me to believe that they are all total fakes, all total lies.
But I really do not believe that the real strain that Nevil and a small number of others did have, regardless of it's true origin, still exists, not in the same genetic form.
So if everyone else is in agreement and ready, I say we dig a grave, toss this thread in, sing "Abide With Me" over it, and let it quietly pass into the endless oblivion of the ethereal air of the Internet and leave the argument to all those on other growing sites who are not ready to stop arguing over something that is as endless of an argument as does God exist or why the chicken crossed the road .... or should that be what came first, the chicken or the egg? Either way, I am sure you all fully understand what I am saying .... well ... all but maybe one of you ... but the rest of you can explain it to him after he's finished picking his onions and orchids.