We all see it differently...for sure. Dunno how
@Heisen sees it...but my experience spraying clones/making S-1's from "elite" clone stock in the past is that stable clones make stable seeds....and if you make S-1s from a (stable) clone grown by many in many different gardens and situations w/o problems...the tests have already been done >with the clone over time<. S-1's are merely copies of that cut. Nothing new is introduced/brought forth genetically >to< test.
As far as crosses...it's kinda the same thing in my eyes. If the elite cuts being crossed are proven to be stable (as stable as modern genetics can be) and have been grown out widely...just crossing them isn't going to bring on any new problems.
I personally don't see what we got from Heisen this past week as being testers...nor do I remember them being tagged as such. My take is that these are the crosses and S-1's he made from the (proven) parent clones he sourced months ago that he planned to sell on the market. We just got a generous preview of some of this fare before "shit happened" and things changed.
Either way...Heisen sure isn't growing ROOMS full of plants for testing purposes.....and we are SO FAR down the line as consumers on all of this...LOL...we sure aren't "beta testing" anything here....Heehee.
But hey...whadda I know. LOL. Fuckin Old People.