I had a Durban X skunk (maybe Afghan I don’t recall) and it grew like an indica but had a nice up effect, a licorice taste, and yielded well.
Not exactly what we’re talking about but still very nice.
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18 Weeks?
You could find 13 Weekers in the Tropics all over the world (Mexico SE Asia, Africa) in 70s Landrace. , People collected WAY shorter Plants in Durban in the 70s than 18 Weeks, so … how can you differ the 10 weeker Durbans as Hybrids in an evidential way? How can you just say, they are not real…
Imo these shortflowering Lines were so mega common even in the Tropics in the 70s… The most common were 16, 20 Weekers, but you found alot shortflowering. Thats all I can see, so … how can you claim these are definitly hybrids, any evidence?
My college has soon a Mexican Line going thats like 10 Weeks , and was said to cause very psychedelic effects, my College hunts mexicans since forever, has grown dozen Lines and says this was the most psychedelic of them.(not lsd like, but visual and psychedelic)
… I never seen a 10 weeker psychedelic Hybrid. So this could point out to that 10 weeker mexicans existed without any Indica Outcrossing?
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Ill ask you this @upstate have you ever smelled or smoked a Plant and thought: clear as day, this is Hybrid… I never ever did… I had a feeling sometimes, but thats about it… Sometimes i smoke something and i feel straight ahead, thats my Landrace feel, but its never a 100 Percent difference in a way that its just TRUTH. Its still a feeling.
So face it: there were 10 weeker Durbans , even in the 70s , and well, i never heard any evidence that these are just lately introduced Hybrids
Netherlands and possibly Spain, too. I wonder how well they preserved the cannabinoid profile of the DP.
In all fairness, hybridization is a legit concern anymore.
imho, i adressed the 70s. Not today. so ill ask again: is there evidence or Hybridisation in the 70s?
Sooner or later, the cannabis genome is going to be mapped, and we’ll have more definitive answers.
A very innocuous thing to flag but have at her.
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Flipped the two ‘74 bx MTF from ACC, not showing after a week although I have a stretcher and a compact. Hope that means male and female…
If I recall correctly, Skunk is (was) 50% Afghan. A DPxSkunk would be 75% sativa and 25% indica. Law of averages says 3 of every 4 individual plants will be sativa-dominant. Anyway, it’s good you preserved the ‘up’ effect. As cool as landraces are, growing genetic lines that have been worked tends to be easier, I’d wager.
Yeah, it saved some of the better qualities of the Durban but turned it into a 9 weeker. Not the same but a good facsimile.
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Even if you couldn’t replicate the effects of the DP exactly, you still had the fun of trying.
Well, maybe not on the smoke, but definitely on the look of the plant you can tell what is an hybrid, a landrace, and a wild type cannabis(at least in flowering), anyway there has been a lot of misuses with the names so who the fuck knows 
Probably here in Spain it happened, at least at someone house, Spain has been important in terms of breeding/preserving of cannabis since a long time ago, cannabiogen is spanish, even in the lambsbread x blue mountain from kwik seeds when I talked to the guy he said that they were preserved in Spain, it used to be a lot of good old school and landraces here, but now its all hybrids. Tho in theory if you do a cross you can still look for the DP terpene profile, as well as maybe in the future you could look through selection for a pure sativa(tho it would take a shitton of time it should be possible)
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I guess everything crossed with durban it could go well, it seems like a heck of a good plant to me, and at a 9 week mark it sounds good!
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Doing breeding even with the strangest/weakest plant is always fun!! you get to see the plant in its full potential, I at least have a lot of fun with F1 selections 
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so, a look is evidence…?
there are two possibilities:
A: there are 10 weeker fatleaved Durban Landraces
B: there are only 10 Weeker Durban Hybrids.
So how can the look differ between A, and B ?
Well, it depends on a lot of stuff, but obviously you would have to do research on the look of the original landrace and compare, if there are 10 week fat leave durban then I guess from the same seeds some more sativa will pop up I guess.
Its like the jamaican lambsbread that pev grow has, if you do the research you will see that plant has nothing to do with the original lambsbread, but the main thing is that, research and more research, if you dont know how a durban poison original from africa looks, how do you know what to look for?
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Landed!!! Customs wanted to fuck me up a bit but shit, worth it!! I will be germinating them today
And here we have some babies from the tropical mix!! I moved them to bigger pots like 2-3 days ago, flower will come soon(the mutant one on the left is an auto that it seems she didnt liked the soil or smth)
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Good luck!
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