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Family: African Durban Strains
Strain: Durban
Strain Type: Mostly Sativa Origin: South Africa Breeder: Sensi Seed Bank
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Description:
“A very early strain from South Africa. Durban is a compact Sativa with a sweet aroma and an up high. One of
the most reliable early outdoor varieties, it will produce chunky, solid buds even during the worst season. If you
haven't tried Durban, you are missing out on one of the easiest-to-grow, highest-quality early varieties in the
world.
Durban Poison
- Outdoor / Indoor
“This strain is famous throughout the world. Non hybridized sativa. Not only confined to Natal, but grown widely
across South Africa leading to variable quality. Our seeds selected only from experienced growers giving
consistent 'kick ass' plants loaded with resin. Height 6 - 9 ft, flowering period 8 weeks outdoors, 10 weeks
indoors.” -African Seeds catalog
Durban Poison - Native
- Outdoors / Indoors
“Specially selected seeds from crops grown in the wild, these seeds will give consistently good sativa plants with
high yields and large buds. Nice herbal taste and strong 'physical high'. Flowering period 8 weeks. Also good
indoor results.” -African Seeds catalog
Specifications:
Finishing: end of Sept. Height: 1.5 - 2.5 m. Yield: up to 400 gr.” - Sensi Seed Bank Catalog 1995
Growers Comments:
"I grew Sensi's Durban this year and it has the anise flavor (dry toke) and it is very sweet/fruity smelling.You
get a relaxed body high with a mild mind high. It is worthy grow for personal stash, but definitely not for
commercial purposes, low yield. Many of my friends who are indica smokers liked the high of the Durban. They
said they could still function, but felt high." -Mota
"2 many males+2 little potency+2 small a yield = on sale baby"-toker2
“The West Coast variety never finished outdoors in time in Seattle. I grew it twice and pulled it early due to
mold both times. I'm guessing it would have taken until mid to late October to mature. The Dutch version?
Don't know.” - SCW
“Same with the Dutch version- mid to late October.” - danny
Strain: Durban Poison
Strain Type: Mostly Sativa Origin: South Africa Breeder: Dutch Passion Seedbank
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Description:
“Imported from South Africa, produced in Holland. Exclusively inbred, never hybridized, 100% Sativa. Large
long bud leaves, buds are also large and long with lots of resin. A sweet licorice or anise flavor. “Up” high
similar to Thai. High yields. Well suited for out crossing with late bloomers to produce earlier flowering. Also
does very well under artificial light.
Specifications:
~ Flower: 8-9 weeks ~ Harvest: end of Sept.” – Dutch Passion catalog
Growers Comments:
"South African (called Durban Poison by some) is the most inconsistent or, more accurately, has the most
strikingly different varieties of all marijuana originating from a single country… If you come across what is
called South African or Durban Poison in the US, quite probably it originated from stock developed in the
1970's by breeders in the San Francisco Bay area….The unnamed breeder had two primary concerns-high
potency and early flowering-and he succeeded wonderfully with both goals. This stock is perfect for the indoor
gardener no matter what the growing conditions. This Durban Poison strain has broad leaf blades almost like
Afghani but long internodes like sativas. Stigmas may be pure white, red, pink, or a delicate purple. Branches
grow with differing lengths like Thai, and the profile may be from an eight foot ovoid down to a four-foot
squat bush. This Durban is fast-growing, hardy, very early to mature, very potent, tastily sweet or spicy, and
fragrant. What more could a grower ask?"-Mel Frank
“M3 Pinetown Durban South Africa Sativa. Known also as Durban Poison. A great high, similar to Thai. One of
the earliest maturing original Sativa's. Very suitable for making hybrid crosses. In Holland it flowers the
second or third week of September (Outdoors). Taste is sweet. $45 for 15. (Suitable for indoors/outdoors)”
-From the Super Sativa Seed Club Catalog 1987/1989
"I was reading that a certain durban sold from a breeder is superior to the others sold from other breeders.
No, Sensi is not the superior Durban (I think). Ask around, and make sure you buy the best strain of Durban.
It is renowned for it's early flowering characteristic, it can go outdoors or indoors, and it offers the up sativa
high in a fast flowerer. It is also very stable, so you can easily breed your own seed."-Big Bong
"I bought some HBC durban (dutch passion) last winter and grew a very nice crop of their durban 1/2 inddor
and finished outdoor by mid-spring. a friend gave me 6 of his S.S.B. durban and i grew them out this
summer and harvested about 4 weeks ago. both company's durban grew very similar but the HBC durban is
wayyyy better. better taste and buzz anyway. even the aroma during growth was different. in my opinion, go
with Dutch Passion's version and stay away from Sensi's on this one. I have nothing at all against Sensi Seed
Bank but i and others who have sampled both ssb's version and dutch passion's version agree that D.P.'s is
much much better. both were grown in the same soil (except for the partial indoor life under 1000k hps along
with 500k mh with the d.p. durb.) and all other possible grow conditions differences were eliminated. i.e.
....they grew under very similar conditions. s.s.b. is still at or near the top of seedbanks in my book but they
kinda missed with this one. this, of course, is mostly just MHO but others agree too and maybe the ones who
know what i'm talking about and hang here will put in their 2 cents worth before someone orders and is
unhappy a few months down the road." -durban grower
"The trick is to not allow too much upward growth- on node 7 or 8, pinch out. Take the bottom 2 branches of.
You should be left with about 6 branches which will rapidly bush out to form a 'goblet' shape. These branches
will, in turn, produce branches growing into centre of plant. These secondary branches should be cut back to
about 3 or 4 nodes on the same day that flowering is started. Durban starts to flower very rapidly- you should
see signs within a week. After about 10- 14 days, pinch main branch-tips of. These will have shot upwards to
form a crown that will now fill out into colas. Final plant should be just over 2 foot from seed or 1.5 foot from
cutting. High is totally unbelievable- its like the first time you got stoned, but better- its clean, spacey,
cerebral and euphoric. Yield is average, nothing a cash-cropper would be impressed about but for personal its
fine."-Norweigian Wood
"Mel Frank says that he knows the breeder in California that developed Durban Poison, and that it came from
2 females out of 16 grown from 1 variety out of six that came from South Africa. Only those two plants were
worth a damn. What he doesn't say is that there must have been some other plants in the mix; a male, eh?
He notes that genetics among growers in SA were already all jumbled up from the sources they had to draw
on, so the claims that Durban is a pure sativa have to be taken with a grain of salt." - SCW
"I'm trying some Durban from Aloha out right now in SOG. I've harvested a small test clone from the female
and it was good quality so I have a little sea of her going now.. 4 per foot in organics, mostly castings. She
stretched more than I wanted or expected under the 1K Agrosun MH, I was aiming for 2 foot high at finish but
will probably hit 2.5. You can train and prune and tie her all over but it won't change the node spacing which
makes for the lankiness. Budding them around 6 to 8 inches, or 5 days of veg is about where I'd do it next
time. The yield should be good, not great.. it won't be huge like a good indica, but weight has more to do
with flowering times and amount of resin (how many cycles per year can you get, and resin weighs alot). I
have no idea if these plants are even distant relatives of the seeds you might get." - ~shabang~
"I messed around with Durban in a 24" sog setup, and it just wouldn't work, but I did have one plant that
stayed fairly short, so I cloned it for a mother and put it aside for some months. Recently I switched to scrog,
and thought of the Durban, so I cloned it up and ran 5 of them under the screen in a 2 x 2' space with a 220
HPS conversion bulb. The Durban wanted to run a bit, but that was OK with the screen method. What I have
now is a number of 4-8" flower spikes about the size of large cigars, and there has been no vertical stretching
for a couple of weeks. I think it will mature nicely, which is good, as Durban is our #1 favorite day smoke. A
bit spindly, yes, but I can live with that; this is not for production, just personal smoke. The moral may be
that Durban can work in some inside environments, or maybe just the right Durban. Like I say, so far, so
good.
It's 1 foot to the scrog screen and that gives me another foot until the tops are too close to the light. I may
raise the screen a bit next time, as the longest Durban bud is 8 inches. I let the Durban grow until it nearly
filled up the scrog screen (not exactly a scientific process), and that took about 3-4 weeks from the rooted
clones. Sorry, I don't keep a log book or anything like that, so I'm guessing to some extent.
From the time the lights went to 12 hours, the Durban looks to finish about 8 weeks. That's sooner than I
thought, and I'm basing it on the proportion of white to brown hairs, never actually having Durban go all the
way. Outside I had to harvest it early due to mold. I think I'll let it go two more weeks, while I'm away on
vacation, to see if it puts on some weight, which will be about 9 weeks from lights out. The sweet indica being
grown in the same air chamber is already dead ripe.
One thing about Durban; it's very prone to mold. I recommend denuding all the stalks beneath the screen
and using a fan to provide air flow to that area. I lost several stalks to mold before I opened up the dead
space.
Oh, and one last thing. Remember, I tried Durban sog last year, and it sucked. I had to pull them all out and
start over. It was just this one Durban that seemed to have the potential to stay small that I saved, and it
turns out to be ideally suited to scrog. I can't promise other Durbans will work out." -cha cal
"I grew out sensi durban. Potency on a 1 to 10 a solid four. Very pretty plant but not practical to grow. And
too many males. No soaring sativa high."-seedydive
“I`ve just grown out the durban from sensi....this seed came in original sensi packaging but it was bought
when sensi had the buy 1 get 1 free sale going on....I`ve never grown any other "brand" of durban so I cant
compare...potency is the biggest disappointment from what I`ve had. early maturity was nice, coming in at
Sept 20th....the high did not pick me "up"...a mild sativa high..."-straydog
"I grew Dutch Passion's version. It's not worth paying for. From what I hear, the Sensi isn't much better. That
is if you’re looking for a pure sativa with an anise flavour. My plants looked like tall indicas. I'm not saying
that the plants were absolute crap, just that they were not worth the $11 a seed I paid. Paying $28.50 per
blueberry seeds had more value. They were good enough and uniform enough that I've selected the non
hermie plants to create backup seed before I dump the lot.
I think the wild bank in Africa would be the best source. With any luck, I'll have some coming in the mail any
day. I saw some pics of traditional durban leaves at lyceum. Dutch Passion's were not close." -Vic High
“Today I tasted some Durban Poison for the first time. The plant was not mature yet, all pistils still white on
day 60 of 12/12. Durban has a very clear energetic high for me with almost no body. About 90% head, 10%
or less body. The aroma is sweet, like tai. It looks a bit like tai also, but much fluffier and less size to the
calyxes. It is fun to talk on, go out in public, and energetic. I can see now why many old-timers like it.
Personally it is a nightmare in ScrOG/indoors and I would not recommend the physical characteristics. It
stretches like crazy, and the buds are very fluffy and airy. the colas also fall over before they finish. the colas
continue to stretch well into the 2nd month of bloom. I do not know why it is touted as an early variety. The
head is great, but I think a cross to Skunk to increase density and resin is in order.” - Splif Lipsit
Strain: Durban Poison X Mighty Might
Strain Type: Sativa/Indica mix Origin: British Columbia Breeder: Federation Seedbank
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“Better outdoors than Durban alone, yet a better yield than Mighty Might alone. A classic.
Specifications:
(indoors) ~ Flower: 60-65 days ~ Height: 110-140 cm ~ Yield: 300-325 gr/sqM (outdoors) ~
Plant: Jun. 1st ~ Finish: Sept. 8-15th ~Height: 5-6’ ~ Yield: 3-4 oz” – Heavens Stairway catalog
Growers Comments:
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Strain: Durban X Skunk
Strain Type: Mostly Sativa Origin: Holland Breeder: Positronics
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Description:
“Origin: South Africa and California Type: F1 hybrid Composition: 12.5 % indica, 87.5% sativa – Positronics
seedbank
Specifications:
Flowering-Time: 8-10 weeks Environment: Fit for inside, outside, and greenhouse cultivation Appearance: The
plant has long, sticky buds and many branches Smell/Taste: High, soft taste Height: Medium tall Yield:
200-500 gr. Harvest-Time: ± 10 October” – Positronics seedbank catalog
Growers Comments:
"Very simple pedigree: its an F1 cross of two stable strains: durban poison and skunk (probably skunk#1). Its
not the most potent strain ever, but it is nice. Durban gives a good flavour to this plant (durban has a slight
taste of aniseed, coffee or liquorice), which grows slightly larger than average skunk (but can still be cropped at
under 2ft easily), plant tends towards a bush (no single stem shit here), buds are firm, very resinous and
pungent. Yield is lower than many indicas, but quite respectible compared to most sativas. The reason for the
cross was that durban is concidered by many to be a bitch to grow, with a resultant lower yield than ideal, so
some of D's worst traits (height, yield, variation in high, hermaphrodite tendencies & cutting prob's) have been
moderated by crossing to skunk. I wouldn't grow it outside. If I liked skunky weed (purely a matter of personal
taste), then this would be a plant I would grow first off, along with Kerala skunk (similar, but from southern
india, slightly more trippy). I think on the hole, a good plant. "- durban
Strain: Durban/Thai
Strain Type: Mostly Sativa Origin: South Africa/Thailand Breeder: Super Sativa Seed Club (SSSC)
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Durban-Thai Highflyer/ S.S.S.C. "M8 A Thai strain inbred for 4 generations crossed with our Durban South
Africa sativa. Very sweet resinous buds. The high is very strong and up. One of our own favorites. Harvest
outdoors: the second week of Oct. Suitable for indoor growing as well. $55 for 15" - / S.S.S.C. seedbank
catalog 1980s
Specifications:
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Growers Comments:
“I recently got my hands on seeds from my FAVOURITE SSSC strain - Durban/Thai. I have 5 healthy
seedlings going as we speak (5/7 germed from 11-year-old seeds). I grew a whole room full of these babies
about ten years ago and they were SO KILLER, with the kind of SICKLY-SWEET, DANK scent and flavour that
makes your mouth water...so resinous that the joint would be BROWN by the time you’d smoked HALF of it. It
had this "evil" scent like rotten meat when you broke up a bud. I'm going to be crossing Durban/Thai with a
Haze hybrid I'm developing over the course of 1999. I'm really excited about this project!” – MrSoul
"The original SSSC Durban/Thai cross is one of my personal favourites that I grew back in the 80s - I know
that the mother was the Thai and she came from the fourth generation of selecting individuals which best
suited indoor cultivation. This Thai mama was SWEET, I'm sure it's the Thai you remember (circa 1977?) with
a head-trip high? I now have a SUPERB female D/T that I flower clones from. I really wish you could
see/smoke this plant! In 8-9 weeks of 12/12 she's ripe...a really FAST Sativa because of the Durban
influence, the ripening buds smell like foot perspiration...really FUNKY. Thankfully, the weed cures to a
delicious licorice scent/flavour and is wickedly cerebral. DTC99 resulted from pollinating THIS female with my
best C99 male." - soul
Durban Thai Home Hybrid
"Those are hybrids of Durban/Thai crossed to NL#5/Sk#1 x Hawaiian...the breeder calls the cross Durban Thai
Home Hybrid, or DTHH. I had 50 from this generous friend & he even gave me his last 7 original Durban Thai
seeds (11 years old), which is how I got my special D/T lady." - soul
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