Thought I would share my journey through looking through 2 packs of dope beard durban from akbb.
Every thing was started in 50 cells trays on May 10th. Soil is coast of Maine potting mix. Got 21/25 for germination. Promptly transplanted to 2 gallon plastic bags. I amended all holes and fabric pots with an organic dry fertilizer revita pro (5-4-5) 8%calcium. Put all the females into the ground between June 20-July 2nd. Here are some pictures I took today.
Hey RR, looking good here! I’ll be following along w interest. I have a pack of the Dope Beard in the stash too, but haven’t really seen many reports on it.
Should be a good choice for outdoor. It’s supposed to be a fast finishing Durban right?
The dope beard was a fat leaf cross like lots of Durban’s I’ve seen definitely not pure african, the ones I sent you were the pope beard / sssc crossed to Rhodesian poison that I picked up from dirty Jim from ACC he collected it in 86 so your going to see lots of sativa leaners , I’ve seen them go to 14 ft and be very racey up strong high , some will be much shorter and fatter leaf like the dope beard cut only
I have run it in the past and plants were done from early october to mid october.
Nice I have only run the sssc durban and this dope beard. I’m curious how they all compare to each other. Keep us posted if you pop the Dutch passion durban.
I finally got around to another update. Things are going great! The durbans have shown themselves to have the best septoria resistance overall. I have seen this change later during flower. But I can confidently state for veg and stretch the did really well.
Anyways, the are seemingly finished with stretch and are focusing on flower production.
Also, I am noting that this could just be leaf frost and might not necessarily correlate to bud trics. Anyways, still a stand out plant.
The males on this line exhibited resin on the leaves at a really high percentage ~80%. So I am expecting good things out of this line in terms of resin production!
Mr. Reefer, how’s the garden coming? What is the goal here? f2? Open Polly? I kept 5 males this year. The ones I think would be good or want to keep never work out right. The plants chose me sometimes and not me them…
Garden is looking good! I will take some updated pictures soon.
The plan is to f2 them and select through the best females. Open pollination of the males with female selection to narrow down the best smoke and outdoor northern grower. I will keep you all posted.
Thanks for stopping by and asking good questions @freddy-Foo
Looking good Mr. Reefer. what seems to be some attributes of this seedline? smells? How many weeks do you surmise? There is a North American/Colorado Durban floating around that was mislabeled. Have u head anything about this?
I have only run the plants outdoor 100% organic at 42N.
I have run the dope beard durban in the past and I ran into a lot of flintstone vitamins terps. Unfortunately that is the easiest way to describe it. More of a broad leaf type. Chunky indica nugs on a small/medium Christmas tree frame. Amazing resin production!
The SSSC Durban is a Christmas tree framed thin leafed loaded with long sativa buds. I had some fade purple in the cold. Here is the description from akbb
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Pinetown Durban Sativa. Known also as Durban Poison. A great high. One of the earliest maturing original sativa’s. Very suitable for making hybrid crosses. This plant is excellent for producing exemplary concentrates of extreme potency (especially rosin). Heavy metallic terps are the norm. Flowers 77 Days.
I definitely ran into the metallic mouth feel and licorice terps.
The 86 Rhodesian poison I have no experience with. Seems like it is a more raw durban line than the others.
So with this whole combination I am seeing some bigger overall plants with dope beard type buds. Some later plants with longer sssc sativa buds. You know a combination of all plants combined really. Everything seems to be much bigger in stature overall compared to the dope beard and the sssc. More will come to light after harvest.
I have no experience with the Colorado cut, but have heard about it. I think it is the Myrcene dominate one? Hopefully someone else can talk further about that cut?
A few spots of rot, but this year has been horrible for rot. Nonstop rain and overcast for a week. So overall the durbans have been very resistant to it. Great septoria resistance on this plant.
farmerlion
will be lovely to see yours grow!
