yes, the beans are just bad but there have been many reports of reef's gear bought from attitude as being bad. I understand that they don't want to be liable for being part of an illegal grow op, but they need to pull that garbage off the shelves instead of saying "tough shit they are for souvenir only". After my 3rd or 4th email to them they finally said that I could send all the beans back to them with original packaging and they would send to reef for him to inspect and determine if I could get new ones. that is a big waste of my time and not something I was interested in doing.
Attitude has great, though expensive, shipping methods but their prices and selection isn't all that. Customer service in the regard of germination is crap and not pulling beans that they know to be crap off the site is crap... so that is why they get a thumbs down from me. I have also heard mostly good about them and most people who order get what they ordered.
Big difference in how they work and a guy like speedy who is actually monitoring this thread in an effort to help you guys out and provide quality product to his customers. I've never ordered from him so I can't say about all of that but I am impressed at this point and he will be on the short list for the next order.
Jed