Show me one photo or one mention of your AG grow before this thread.One. You fabricated the whole thing to make your point.
I have repeatedly explained that I do not post pictures, and why I do not post pictures and even if I had kept pictures of a grow that was roughly 6 or 7 years ago I would not break that rule of mine just to attempt to satisfy a little weasel like you. Unless in the pictures I had signs that said Brick Tops Dr. Greenthumb's Acapulco Gold grow you would just claim I searched the net for pictures to use .. and then say I photoshopped in the little signs.
With some 6,972 posts now I cannot say for sure if and when and where and how many times I may have mentioned Dr. Greenthumb's fake Acapulco Gold. I can say that it is not like I have ever been on some vendetta against him and took every chance I had to mention how he ripped me off. That was why I did not go into detail about it in the message that you have attempted to attribute a totally different meaning to than mine and where you attempted to read between the lines to find non-existent things you want people to believe should have been there and because they were not that it somehow equates to my having lied.
If you have ever noticed when someone asks what seedbanks to consider and I post Greenman's seedbank ratings page I almost always take the time to highlight where he says the seedbanks with a rating of 4 stars or higher are the most reputable and then I go down the line and highlight all those with 4 stars or higher, and that includes Dr. Greenthumb now that he has worked his way back up to having a 4 star rating again. So it is not like I am out to scuttle his business or that I have some ongoing vendetta against him. I know damn well that at least some of his strains are good. Not because I grew them but because friends have and I have smoked them.
The singular reason I mentioned how I purchased Acapulco Gold seeds from Dr. Greenthumb and they turned out to be more like Ghetto Gold or Roadside Red in this thread is because of the similarity of the situation.
When he came out with his Acapulco Gold, that he claimed to be original and pure, it had been AGES since any seed customer could purchase Acapulco Gold. To most it was only a legendary strain that they had heard about and were curious about but had never had the opportunity to grow it and or smoke it. Basically, most who would purchase 'the legend' would not have any way of knowing if what they received was real or pure as it was described because they had never had it before, they totally lacked a comparative base to go by. Only us old timers would possess such a comparative base.
Now Dr. Greenthumb has basically done the very same thing. He suddenly has a legendary strain that only a relatively few number of fairly old timers, but nor true old timers like me, would have ever had before. Like his fake Acapulco Gold he can claim it to be original and pure and few would posses the needed comparative base to ever know for sure after growing it and sampling it. As along as it is high quality, which I have no doubts about it being, people who would never ever have any way of knowing for sure if it is real or not could easily be fooled into believing it is real simply because it might be very good. But even if it is GREAT that would still not be proof of it being what he claims it to be.
So I saw a possible similar pattern where a legendary strain from the past was picked, one that relatively few would possess the needed comparative base to be able to accurately say if it is indeed real or a fake, and suddenly Dr. Greenthumb has it and markets it as being pure original G13.
Since he does have a proven track record of misrepresenting strains it seemed to me to be valid information to mention given all the questions about the difference in the original description of the original G13 and Dr. Greenthumb's description and the evolving story of how he obtained it and from who and the reaction of DoubleD after Dr. Greenthumb claimed it was his cut and Nevil being shown pictures and saying it does look like his old G13 but that it also looked like the Haw/G13 that if I remember right Kangativa said they have growing right now. So Nevil not only said it looked real but that it also looked like a hybrid. Then there was the message you posted where in essence Dr. Greenthumb himself, if the message you posted actually came from him, said maybe it is real and maybe it isn't. He said the source for it was reputable but he did say that he gave the strain the name G13 and not that it came with the name. He said only time will tell and it it turns out to not be real he will change the name, I believe he said he would do it; "in a New York Minute," though I might be wrong about the wording.
If Dr. Greenthumb was positive it is pure original G13 why would he now be saying maybe it is and maybe it isn't and if it isn't he will change the name?
Maybe it is pure G13 but after reading the maybe it is and maybe it isn't message that makes me wonder even more if this is not another strain like his fake Acapulco Gold and he is already feeling the heat and knows if he is 'busted' this time he will totally lose any and all credibility so he is setting the stage so later if the heat does not die down he can say something like, hey, I was taken, I paid a ton for something I thought was one thing and turned out to be something else, but it's still damn good so I have renamed it .... keep buying it.
Personally I hope it is real, or should I say proven beyond any reasonable doubt to be real, because even though I am not an indica fan and even though Dr. Greenthumb did rip me off once in the past, to have the chance to grow and try real G13, I would have to place an order. But I need to positively know for sure up front this time if the strain is real or a fugazi. I am not going to risk being ripped off again.
Personally I do not give a damn what you personally want or need to believe. If you need to compound your previous lies about me with more, then go ahead and keep piling them on until they stack up to be as tall as Mt. Everest. It won't matter one single bit because no number of lies from you will ever be capable of altering the reality that I did purchase and grow Dr. Greenthumb's Acapulco Gold and it was without any doubt absolutely not the real true original pure Acapulco Gold he claimed it to be.
Call me a liar all you want. It is what anyone who says anything against Dr. Greenthumb risks, that and of being called a lousy grower. That is what you stated last August in the message from the seedbank rating site that I posted when you said that anyone who says Dr. Greenthumb gear is not great is either a lousy grower or; "a liar." (that was of course paraphrased and not an inaccurate quote of what you said.)
You broadcast to the world then that regardless of what might happen to someone who deals with Dr. Greenthumb, that anything at all that is negative in nature is either strictly the fault of the grower being lousy or that it never happened and that the person is; "a liar," which is the tactic you have attempted to use with me.
You have attempted to give Dr. Greenthumb a hall pass, a get out of jail free card for each and every possible negative eventuality that could occur growing his gear. It is a virtual impossibility that every single seed, from any breeder, will germ and that if it germs from it will grow a healthy vigorous plant that produces the way the genetics should and is as potent as the genetics could allow it to be, even when grown by the very best grower in the entire world. It is virtually impossible. It is like claiming some baseball player is so good that every single time at bat they will hit a home run.
Kangativa ordered seeds from Dr. Greenthumb and never received them, even after several email exchanges where Dr. Greenthumb assured him his order would be sent. Kangativa since said that Dr. Greenthumb had a good excuse for it, but good excuse or not Kangativa did not receive his order. Not every seed will germ, period, thee end. With the thousands and thousands of seeds a breeder makes eventually some will not pop. Eventually in a run of seeds some recessive trait will pop up, one that assure the plants and or potency will not be like normal. That is inevitable. It will happen sooner or later and it is not caused my lack of grower skill and when it happens it does not make the grower; "a liar." Those, and other negative problems can and will occur with any and every breeder's gear at some point or another leaving a customer/grower dissatisfied. It is impossible for it to never happen.
But you clearly stated the following:
OGMAN
August 23, 2010 at 8:08 pm I bought many strains over the years from many breeders. the doc’s all have been keepers for sure. his S1s of elite cuts are the FIRE. Anyone who says otherwise is either a lousy grower or a liar.
http://www.bestseedbank.com/cannabis-marijuana-seed-bank-reviews/dr-greenthumb?cid=1543
That was the statement of a pathological liar. No breeder and no business can or will ever maintain a high enough standard of quality 100% of the time to never end up with some dissatisfied disgruntled customers who have truly legitimate complaints, and those complaints cannot be explained away by the dissatisfied person or people always being; "a lousy grower or a liar."
Only a born pathological liar would ever even begin to believe that they could make such an absurd claim and have anyone believe it.
You are a Dr. Greenthumb pimp, period, thee end. You attempt to protect him more fiercely than a mother grizzly protects her cubs, right down to preemptively blaming any and all possible problems that anyone could ever have with any of Dr. Greenthumbs gear on them being" a lousy grower or a liar."
Don't ever attempt to claim that you have never been caught in a lie again, because you were damn lucky that when you told that whopper of a lie that a lightning bolt didn't come from the sky and fry you dead on the spot.