Okay, here's the deal. At one point several years ago Stitch was the most prolific auto breeder around. Jim from Dope-Seeds contracted him to create strains for his Short Stuff line. Those included Mi5, Onxy, RRF, and others. After this latest round of bad reproduction Jim cut ties with Stitch. He now has another breeder reproducing those strains for him. Jim is the distributor of Short Stuff to other seed banks. I know he's tried to recall all the bad seeds but it's still possible that some seed banks may have old stock. So to insure getting good seeds, buy direct from Dope-Seeds if you're outside the US.
Yes, Flash, AutoFem and SuperAuto are all owned and run by Stitch. He sells a lot of seeds and doesn't have the capacity to reproduce them all himself, so he contracts that out. He also provides CS to them to produce fem seeds. Unfortunately he either didn't pick his reproducers very well or didn't provide proper instruction on how to use the CS. The result has been fem seeds that produce males, hermie or don't auto flower. Not the first time this has happened. About 3 years ago he had several strains that were doing the same thing and were out of stock for many months while new ones were reproduced. So, IMO, he's brought this all on himself with his bad business practices. There was some talk at one point that he was going to partner with the Joint Dr. but far as I know, that never went anywhere. Seems that he's burned all his bridges in the seed business, which is why I believe he decided to go it alone with his Direct sales.
Stitch's presence here on AFN was always problematic. At one point, because of his status in the business, we felt it was important to have him here as a member. Unfortunately he caused more problems than what it was worth and in the end, he was reduced to read only status. In the process he got personal and called me some nasty names. Water off a ducks back as far as the personal insults but not the kind things we want in our vendors.
My advice regarding any of the strains he's created is to be cautious. Buy Short Stuff from D-S if you can, if not, only use reputable seed banks. I would even suggest you email them before hand, state that you know there have been problems, and ask if they have new stock. Personally, I wouldn't buy from him directly. No guarantee that you will be getting good stock and given his poor customer service, no guarantee that you will get a good replacement.
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