Surfin Durban
durban pie x surf’s up
durban pie- cherry pie bx to durban, a genetic precursor to girl scout cookies
surf’s up- thai x canadian 50 day indica
Smells like intense gasoline fumes with and mango hard candy. The taste is like fuel and mango candy with a kushy exhale.
This seed originates from a very old school fillmore grower in san francisco who retained a lot of older bay area genetics. I learned to grow with seeds from accidental pollinations from this grow and got some amazing plants.
I thought my last baggie of these seeds had been stolen years ago, but it looks like this one somehow made it. it’s possible this one was actually an accidental pollination from one of my early grows before I was good at spotting males.
This plant had a lot of stress early on, I thought it would simplify things if I started it in commercial soil. I used some locally mixed seed starter soil called coco #5 and had ph problems and millipedes eating my seeds. This was the only seed, so I really babied it and eventually got it pretty healthy. In the end, the solution was rather crude, I fell back to fox farms ocean forest soil because it had always worked well for the durban pie and surf’s up in my early grows. The salt based nutrients in that soil were an effective quick fix for the nutrient uptake and ph issues caused by the coco starter mix.
some whole shot plants so you can see the structure, which in this case is a crazy asymmetrical v shape.
This grow didn’t reach the full potential of the plant, but it yielded well for its size with 2.5 ounces, smelled great, and faded to some really interesting red and purple colors. Interestingly, it looked like the durban pie in veg with dark green 5 and 7 blade fan leaves and a symmetrical structure. But in flower, it looks just like the thai phenos of the surf’s up, with thin willowy pale sativa leaves that develop reddish purple stripes as they ripen. Here are examples of the pure durban pie and surf’s up. The smell also reflects its parent plants: the surf’s up had a tropical floral sweetness, and the durban pie had a very loud stinking kushy smell.
Initially I didn’t like the high, and thought about scrapping or giving away my only clone. But after a 3-4 month cure the smell high has really refined and intensified. This is a pretty trippy speedy sativa, more so than either of its parents. With such an amazing gasoline and mango smell, I had to make some hybrids with it. The clone (which took several months to root and then reveg) has really blown up in the outdoor grow. Within a month it has grown from a solo cup clone to a branchy 2 foot tall bush. With a healthy clone in my rich no till soil, the vigor and ease of growth are amazing.
This will be pollinated by either bodhi’s dank sinatra or blueberry hashplant in my outdoor grow, or possibly with guava hashplant pollen from my indoor grow.
I’ll definitely be taking a break from african sativas for a while after this project. They’re really fun to grow but medicinally I need more indicas.