1973 Durban sativa (poison) "The Green Pheno"- a collective history of a South African sativa

I’ll take 3 please.

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My dream strain​:smiling_face_with_three_hearts::heart_eyes::crazy_face:

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She has a beautiful shape

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Hoping she keeps the 3 nodes going into flower. I have dreamt of finding such a plant since around 2001 or so, when I found tri leaf plants in a Power Plant line, also South African, at least in part. 2% of the plants were triples, but upon flowering had normal growth unfortunately.

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She’s a beautiful little snowflake :snowflake: right now. Great Find

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The tri leaf red Durban is a boy unfortunately.
Here’s his sisters…


Ooooops. That’s Oaxaca pictured lol. I’ll find the Durban picture today.

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Looks like some repeat plant photos. They are bigger now. Will get fresh pictures.

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Interesting videos. I learned Lesotho Is pronounced
Le-sue-too in situ. What a corporate mess over there already. Grab your pure South African landraces now. It’s not looking good.
73 Red Durban

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I got also this type of hermies at my durbans and a lot of mutants too…

I read that Ed Rosenthal sourced “durban” genetics at 1975, and gave it to Mel Frank, who selected two lines A and B, B had hermie problems and he gave B to Skunkman, who stated he got rid of hermies… and crossed it with his skunk… I grew that and it has all pink pistils, not really bad pot… quite nice if I remember… very anise… most cuts in USA, including that norcal and colorado cut, are this durban/skunk…

cannabiogen and tropical seeds durban its same, it came from AfricanHerbsman from collective vibes… it is more sativa, and floral lemony more than anise…

seeds of Africa had good durban too. green anise one… I know one guy who grew it, he said he felt like he wants to climb the trees… hahahha.

it is fact that South Africa doesnt have tropical climate, it is subtropical, so we cant await that sativas from that area, and it doesn’t matter if it is swaziland, lesotho or ciskei… will behave like pure tropical cultivar…

I am looking for durban which smells astringent and chemical… any tips for such durban???

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thats interesting as most of todays durbans have around 12%THC

really and astringent too? from what I smoked, only tree phenos of cbg durban, it was floral lemony spicy, maybe little anise.

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Dont think Skunkman crossed the B line with Skunk#1, that was later.Skunkman’s Durban finished at the end of September at 52N, Skunk at the end of October.

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okay so what durban he crossed with skunk?

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Probably someone else took the job for crossing Durban with Skunk, not Sam.Most growers in Holland are commercial growers, so crossing with Skunk was the idea to get more yield.Thats it.

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I know it as I grew it. cultivator choice durban x skunk1, it was freebie at seedbays like 15 years ago… most of plants had pink pistils…

but sure you are probably right that some others made that cross too. I would not be surprised that the made durban/skunk x skunk too :smiley:

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One grower from the UK, forgot his nick name, but he is on icmag, said that Powerplant from DP, was actually Durban x Skunk ibl.
In the early 90s the Durban which was sold in the coffeeshop, was pure uplifting and made you laugh, except for some persons, who got depressed.Never had that problem, but i saw that with one guy happening.

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i would like to see that septemberfinishing durban. (or whatever genetics were in the Seed collected in Southafrica)

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I had a Durban a few years ago which finished half of September 52N.Only i dont remember from whom i had this Durban.

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Lol. Calling BS on this. A whole harvest of 28% THC plants in '79?
And it was lab tested? And somehow it had only THC and no alternate cannabinoids or psychoactive compounds? But it was still “hallucinogenic” despite the fact that THC on its own doesn’t act as a hallucinogenic?
Maybe if somebody time traveled with a big shipment of Girl Scout Cookies, coated in a undetectable psychedelic, back to the 70’s, but otherwise, let’s maybe put on our critical thinking hats.
I’m sure aspects of that story are true, but the rest is comical.

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I dont know which one he had used.

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