I suggest a separate quarantine area with no shared space with a clean grow. Even from friends you never know. I have never had a bad infestation of anything except seasonal crap like caterpillars when I'm growing outside. Knock on wood. Even though my grow is clean I suggest to people they quarantine clones or plants from me. Better safe than sorry etc.
Nope- not medical... i realize that would open some opportunities for cuts...
That's where i got mu durban nug from about a week ago- pretty good stuff! They didn't have any DP clones out when i went (just Blue Dream and Sour D), so i didn't even ask. I think I'll call and ask though!
Here's some Ciskei I started. Letting them get some natural sun since there isn't a cloud in the sky. 16 days from seed. They are small but I keep the T5's right on top of them in the beginning so they don't get spindly and develop a nice sturdy stalk. Transplanting them today and they'll be two feet tall in a month when I put them in flower.
Land race and pheno hunt...These will be long running sativa's..
I was growing two Durban Poison'70 (Tropical Seeds) that looked since the begging like "the real one" (a long florewin n' thin leaves sativa), without the Skunk/Indica genes of the Dutchs Durban Poison...but sadly the both were killed too young by my dogs & newphews...Here's some Ciskei I started. Letting them get some natural sun since there isn't a cloud in the sky. 16 days from seed. They are small but I keep the T5's right on top of them in the beginning so they don't get spindly and develop a nice sturdy stalk. Transplanting them today and they'll be two feet tall in a month when I put them in flower.
Returning to me, this year I'm having a lot of bad luck with the Durban Poison'70 .
First, I germed one during the end of this June-2018.
...but it was killed by my dogs the first July week (my fault) when it looked like that:
File for the trademark. See what happens?
I searched TESS "Trademark Electronic Search System". It brings back six hits. None of them are cannabis related. But I just realized something. You can't trademark "Durban Poison" for anything cannabis related in the United States because cannabis is illegal under federal law. These seed banks using the trademark symbol wouldn't have any legal standing in the United States where I live. You can't have an international trademark and you have no legal standing if you were to try and enforce a trademark for a cannabis product in the United States. I think it's just marketing to make the consumer think they're getting something special. "Hey, it must be good because they trademarked it". I better buy some....
Yo! Thanks for turning me on to SoA. I have a dream of buying a beach house in South Africa and now growing a big garden of all these African strains
Cool!
CSI has S1 Durban Poison, Feminized seeds. S1 indicates that it comes from the mother plant of the original strain. The original strain was popular in the 70's, so finding something that hasn't been crossed is unlikly. CSI's claim of thier seeds being S1 is bold, but from what I can gather CSI is a reputable company.Dutch Passion offers a ~8 week plant that may or may not have been hydridized with something else while Ace/Cannabiogen offer African/Durban variants that flower for as long as 14 weeks. Meanwhile analyses range from less than 8% THC to as much as 30% with terpenes as high as 6%. Even more frustrating is that it’s clearly a great breeding strain with offspring like GSC and Cherry Pie.
What gives?? Does real Durban even exist anymore? Is what dispensaries are offering the real deal, or just a look-a-like pheno if something else entirely? Does it actually have this licorice/anise flavored, clear headed high that it’s fabled for? Maybe this just another case of the murky history of cannabis genetics where at the end of the day pot is just pot. Real curious if anyone has thoughts/experience with this strain.