arjan is a dick, but he knows his craft.
( i don't know him, this is what i hear plus that whole thing that wend down with neville)
Arjan's craft is marketing. When Shantibaba was part owner in Green House Seeds he worked with Nevil who was part owner in the Green House Coffee Shop and everything they created, individually or together, was sold under the Green House Seeds name ... Arjan handled the marketing, he handed the business end, was not then and is not now a breeder. After a few Cup wins Shantibaba didn't want to enter any more competitions, he could tell way back then that they were turning into dog and pony shows and were on their way to losing credibility. Arjan wanted to enter them all, his ego for win for a business he was part owner in, and his already beginning to claim to be part of the breeding side, when he was not, and feeling wins would sell more seeds and there would be larger profits ended up with Shantibaba selling Arjan his share of the business, leaving and taking his genetic stable with him and he opened up Mr. Nice Seeds. Roughly to years later Arjan was caught trying to bribe judges at the HTCC and Green House Seeds was disqualified from entering that year and that's when Nevil finally got fed up enough with Arjan and he sold his share of the Green House Coffee Shop and took his genetics and left.
Arjan's ego likes his name to be put on strains he did not breed. It puts his name out there and it makes people who do not know any better believe Arjan is a breeder. Arjan also likes to lay claim to some of Shantibaba's work. In a video that can be found on YouTube Arjan is telling about White Widow, which Shantibaba renamed Black Widow when he opened up Mr. Nice Seeds, and in the video Arjan actually says that the original White Widow was his creation, I believe he called it his invention. Either way he has tried to lay claim to having bred what was actually bred by Shantibaba and even though when Shantibaba left he took all his genetics with him Arjan, in the same video, claims that every other seed companies White Widow is fake, that the one true original White Widow can only be found from Green House Seeds, when it, under the name of Black Widow, can only be found from Mr. Nice Seeds.
Most Green House Seeds strains are average at best, many are knockoffs and some are F2s. All are feminized seeds and many have problems with turning hermie, Super Lemon Haze being one of them.
Green House Seeds products are not the worst someone can purchase but they are a long way from being the best that someone can purchase.