Discussing Archive Genetics

Agree, as far as overgrow goes he probably got the biggest. Million dollar seed drops.

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Sure, his sarcasm seems clear, he spends a lot of time and money to select the more unique expressions that arise in larger populations and isnā€™t doing all this extra work for charity. We can choose to buy seeds from a cheaper sources who select from much smaller bottlenecked populations if we feel that those are ā€œgood enoughā€, but he is trying to hold himself to higher breeding standards than many a chucker ā€“ and that comes with a higher price. I do wish he would drop his prices though, I believe seeds should beā€“similar to commercial Burpee seeds ā€“ 99 cents for a pack of 100 :sweat_smile:

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He can justify his pricing all he wants. Absolutely no seed pack should be more than 100$. Has anyone here ever done seed production? You literally get thousands of them lol thousands and thousands but somehow the norm is 10 seeds for 100$+, ridiculous.

Seed game now is totally different than even last year. Everyone is struggling. No more easy money off this free ass plant lol

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And Archive continues to sell out drops.

And they cut out the middleman. No freebies. Good on him

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Itā€™s not the high price thatā€™s an issue

MY issue is the inconsistent pricing, some packs are 200. Some are 350. Some are 150. Like, WUT THE FUQ bro, just set a price for a line & run it. Anything Rainbow Belts, for example, seems to have hype driven price hikes. ā€¦ fuck all that

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If they drop moonbow 75 f2 they can have my money.

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did anyone maybe run the ā€œsweet thangā€ regulars yet? :face_with_monocle:
description mentions 5% boygirls. can anyone confirm that?
(iā€™m gonna start a few beans from my pack in feb/march.)

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Im going to drop hyperfuel next.

The ā€œworkā€ really isnā€™t that difficult with enough room and time. Could partner/start with a nursery and run hundreds of different phenos at once. This is what bodhi does and he dropped his prices from 77 dollars to 45 dollars a pack. Condescending also to the fact that anything short of reversing and smoking every male is somehow not breeding. People have been breeding for millennia without reversal sprays.

I had rainbow beltz and it was ok. Basically a 20 minute face melt and then regular buzz. Within an hour the buzz was gone completely and I was sober. The face melt is nice but not enough to keep buying it. I also built up a tolerance fast and has a very low ceiling. He made it not one time but 3 times cuz it fucking sucks and needs improvement.

If it was up to this guy, noone on this site would even be called a breeder and he would have you thinking that his seeds are the best. Sounds like a snake oil salesman to me. If the plants are so good then why does he talk so much shit? Thatā€™s what people do when they are compensating for something like lack of good plants.

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I think fletcher knows a lot but thereā€™s valid criticisms to be made as mentioned above

He makes killer clones and killer beans or people wouldnā€™t use puro Loco, faceoff, dosi, etc in their crosses and flower runs.

He also makes some beans that are a total letdown

One thing I will say is running a lot of plants is harder than some people think. So is acquiring legitimate heirloom clones with provenance.

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My puro loco and she wasnt the pretty one. Smoke is an over ripe mango gas. She is a experience.

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Rainbow Belts i ran a couple times. Snagged a Purple City clone near me for $20, a STEAL at that price compared to over 300 dollhairs for 10 seeds.

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anybody done the dosidos hybrids?

the hybrids i agree, i dont think there will be much difference between a bodhi pack of faceoff x hp and an archive faceoff hybrid.

the more inbred stuff like moonbow i think can justify a higher priceā€¦ not sure if 350 lol.

btw theres a crystal guru on great lakes selling packs for 7,000. youre going to get a kick out of that one.

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Do you have a link for that?

Nice man 20 dollars more than i paid for my cut. Lol cant wait to get her in rotation.

it was genetic designer, but i checked right now and those are no longer available (hopefully no one bought em) but that breeder had two or three different packs for 7k, im sure of that. https://www.greatlakesgenetics.com/genetic-designer/

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Yup, thatā€™s ā€œFangā€ spitting out his overpriced seeds. Since he broke away from Gage Green Group, their seeds are 1/2 off, but his new venture, Genetic Designer, I donā€™t care, there isnā€™t a pack worth $7k. His prices have been exorbitant to fuel his ā€œdesignerā€ lifestyle.

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Iā€™ve had poor luck with Archive at two jobs. The rainbow belts is a super slow vegger. The moonbows was super wonky. I just killed two that i did not test, but surely had hops. It is possible we infected the moonbows, but Iā€™m curious if anyone else has seeds from Archive that appear or tested positive for hops? I think it was the moon drops or something I grew at another place, and that would never make it into the flower room at my grow. Crazy slow vegger, finnicky. I used to like Archive when they were putting out Grimmace, etc, but I havenā€™t been impressed at all as of late.

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All the moonbow/rainbow belts are mids. He knows the hype tho and prices them accordingly. Thereā€™s a reason the vast majority of his breeding is all cookiesā€¦ just sayinā€¦ no disrespect to Fletcher, heā€™s a smart guy and knows what heā€™s doing, but Iā€™m not buying any of his packs.

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I have smoked moonbow and rainbow belts direct from the shop. They look fantastic but smoke average. But I will say that the clones they sell are beautiful and healthy. And as far as seeds go there are some gems like ginger tea and rudeboi and many others

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