Post a pic? What are you looking for, tight buds, frosties, macro photos? It looks like that posed by BritMan. Its all about the smoke tho, innit? And how do you know the grower is barely breaking even? If you are an established, experienced and set up grower and not making a profit at 30B then maybe you need to evaluate your operation.
As to top shelf, I should have clarified my original post. Top grade flower is a marketing tool. In the states, they run the lab tests and whatever shows the most THC is marketed as top shelf. But its a plant. Yes, THC levels are important but at the amounts in flower its the entire chemical profile combined with the users experience level for one to really evaluate "top shelf". However, the production of "top shelf" (high THC levels) will entail higher production costs for reasons that all growers know, which adds to the wholesale costs of "top shelf", where the only difference is newness, fancy names, and a few points of THC percentage. Thats in the States. They don't do lab tests here. They make up names. They use autoflower.
So who is to consider what is "topshelf"? I have been smoking weed since 1968. I have run through every Weed shop up and down Sukhumvit and Khao San and elsewhere. I have had "topshelf" experiences on cheap weed and meh on expensive and not to often vice versa. My fav strains in the USA arent considered "topshelf" to the marketing gurus, but I smoke 24/7 and my user experience is different than yours. The only thing that anchors me to the couch anymore are the pure Rosins we get in Cambodia.
The best analogy for weed is vodka. You got rot gut (compressed brick) and everything else. Its all good.