Reddit reviews MciIhenny's Gold

Downvote me all you want, but that's exactly how they do it, and that's how they've done it for over 100 years. What the company president does is select the best plant specimens that'll be the source of seeds for the next year's crop--he doesn't look at every plant throughout Central America. Source: McIlhenny's Gold, a not-terribly-flattering book about the history of the secretive McIlhenny Company.