Durban poison by Mel Frank

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GrimRe4

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Smoke Report- Durban Poison S1 via Authentic Genetics.
The trim was easy enough. Buds were foxtailed but full. Produced well enough. Very subdued nose. What I would describe as woody I suppose. As far as the smoke goes. I'm not a huge fan but it's not bunk at the same time. Not couchlock by any means. More of a spacey forgetful head to it. When I high dosed it became uncomfortable for me to sit still. Not the motivational high I was looking for but one that didn't appreciate me sitting down.
I usually roast 2 bowls from the ol trusty 14 year old bong after work. Very routine for me so that's the benchmark. 2 bowls is good bud. If I smoke only 1 then we have fire on our hands. This DPs1 was 4 bowls. After my ritual cigarette I'd go back for 2 more.
After a few days of this I was frustrated I was having to smoke so much. This is when I high dosed, I'm not sure how many bowls were smoked. When I got where I felt I was satiated thoroughly is when I got the uncomfortable sitting.
Others appreciated it more than I but they didn't get to know it as well as myself. My girlfriend likes it much more than I. She likes to clean the house on it. She comments that she prefers to mix it with others though. A bowl or two of this or that, then a bowl of the Durban.
All in all, I wouldn't grow it for the smoke again. I threw my old mother out early April. She got hammered with foul weather as she went into bloom. I recently cut her as she was a torture test of sorts. Lost a small handful of buds to rot but at the same time I was expecting colas to rot off but they didn't. Also to note, no pollen sacs were observed under all this stress as she went back into veg with almost all buds still intact. Cut shortly thereafter and composted.
 
Week4@inCharge

Week4@inCharge

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What's your best practice when growing out regular seeds? I'm thinking of starting up 4 or 5 of these guys then flipping them 4 to 5 weeks into veg. I've read that starting these guys out straight into 12 hours lighting is idea if your growing out of a tent,
 
Rurumo

Rurumo

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Week4@inCharge said:
What's your best practice when growing out regular seeds? I'm thinking of starting up 4 or 5 of these guys then flipping them 4 to 5 weeks into veg. I've read that starting these guys out straight into 12 hours lighting is idea if your growing out of a tent,
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It can definitely help with long flowering strains, although the plant still won't flower until it's sexually mature.
 
Week4@inCharge

Week4@inCharge

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The beans arrived(10 regular Durban Poison Highland). From Greece. Only took about 2 weeks to get here. Won't have room to grow these till it gets a little cooler here in the desert. See ya's in 2023?
 
Sourdough Hal

Sourdough Hal

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Authentic Genetics has more Mel Frank fems
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Durban Poison Feminized

Durban Poison Seeds Grown by Mel Frank S1 Feminized Seeds 10 Seeds Per Pack ($10.00 each seed) Fast flowering and an easy plant to grow with an excellent yield. Durban Poison and South African varieties are known to hermaphrodite, so keep an eye out and do not breed with any females that do...
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Week4@inCharge

Week4@inCharge

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Sourdough Hal said:
Authentic Genetics has more Mel Frank fems
agseedco.com

Durban Poison Feminized

Durban Poison Seeds Grown by Mel Frank S1 Feminized Seeds 10 Seeds Per Pack ($10.00 each seed) Fast flowering and an easy plant to grow with an excellent yield. Durban Poison and South African varieties are known to hermaphrodite, so keep an eye out and do not breed with any females that do...
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I wasn't sure if I wanted these too..but trying at the moment.... sheez..had to sign out of my bitcoin wallet and then back in to make all that work.. :-| Anyways... Got me some more Durban. :weed:
 
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PJ Diaz

PJ Diaz

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I was given some of these seeds, and been trying to figure out the genetics. They say it's a landrace, but I've also heard that "Early Durban" is Skunk x Durban Poison.

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Early Durban

Flowering indoors: 8-9 weeks Harvest outdoors: beginning of October Genetics: mostly sativa Aroma: citrus, anise
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Week4@inCharge

Week4@inCharge

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PJ Diaz said:
I was given some of these seeds, and been trying to figure out the genetics. They say it's a landrace, but I've also heard that "Early Durban" is Skunk x Durban Poison.

hubaseedbank.com

Early Durban

Flowering indoors: 8-9 weeks Harvest outdoors: beginning of October Genetics: mostly sativa Aroma: citrus, anise
hubaseedbank.com hubaseedbank.com
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They're probably all the same, mass production of these Indica and Durban Poison hybrids. And if your looking for a pure Sativa...these are not it. These will most likely be a better growing experience thanks to the Indica genetics. Who wants to flower for 4 months with a landrace?
 
Week4@inCharge

Week4@inCharge

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OSBuds said:
Durban Poison Lineage / Genealogy
The Journey from Africa.

1970's:
Ed Rosenthal brought back seeds into the US a
100% pure African Sativa from Durban South Africa.

Ed gave the seeds to Mel Frank. Mel worked the strain
and developed 2 lines "A" & "B" strains.

1985
Mel Frank gave "B" strain to Sam the Skunkman
who took the strain to Amsterdam.

2018 after seed / hemp bill passed
Mel Frank gave Todd McCormick the "A" strain

THE GROW OP.COM
https://www.thegrowthop.com/cannabis-culture/strain-of-the-day-five-things-to-know-about-durban-poison-a-well-travelled-strain-with-plenty-of-famous-kids
First. Durban Poison’s migration was meandering.

In the late 1970s, American breeder Ed Rosenthal bred some of the South African seeds that he brought back to the U.S.. Rosenthal then passed some prime specimens on to fellow breeder Mel Frank, who was on the hunt for short-season plants he could grow to full potential in New York before the fall weather caused their untimely demise, It was a big (and continuing) problem with plants that were coming from Latin America, he says.


Durban was one of those short-season varieties, and some of Frank’s seed stock was donated to the Amsterdam-bound hands of breeder David Watson, or Sam the Skunkman.

Second. The strain “had some work done” in California.

Sam the Skunkman reports he once planned to bring Durban Poison to the level of commercial production by further reducing its flowering time. “I got maybe 100 seeds from South Africa and grew them in California in the late 70s,” he says. He had to deal with seeds that grew to hermaphrodite, developed small calyxes and inferior buds for a few years. Once the undesirable traits were bred out, though, Durban Poison was ready for the market, starting in Amsterdam.





From Cannigma.com:


https://cannigma.com/strains/durban-poison/


Durban Poison make its way from the bush of South Africa to a million smoke sessions across North America? One oft-repeated story is that in the late 1970s, famed American cannabis breeder Ed Rosenthal brought some South African seeds back to the US, where he gave them to breeder Mel Frank, who also donated some seeds to Amsterdam breeder Sam the Skunkman.

In a forum post from 2007, the Skunkman said that “South African Durban Poison was first introduced by me,” after he received “maybe 100 seeds from South African and grew them in California in the late 70s.” He said that most were hermaphrodite with small calyxes and “not so great buds.” He added that he saw the potential and began breeding out the faults, and by the early 80s it was ready for launch in Amsterdam, where it was a major hit. As his name indicates, Skunkman was instrumental in the formation of the seminal Skunk strain, which, like Durban Poison, has had an outsized influence on the cannabis world as a whole over the past few decades.

WIKILEAF:
https://www.wikileaf.com/strain/durban-poison/

In the late 1970s, American breeder Ed Rosenthal selectively bred several plants from a bag of South African seeds that he brought back to the U.S. Rosenthal then passed some prime specimens on to fellow breeder Mel Frank, who fine-tuned the genetics to optimize resin content and flowering time. Frank’s efforts resulted in “A” and “B” lines of the original seed stock; the B line was given to Amsterdam breeder Sam the Skunkman, who further reduced the strain’s flowering time.

Howtogrowmarijana.com
https://howtogrowmarijuana.com/weed-strains/durban-poison-seeds/
The Journey from Africa
Back in the fabled and beloved late 70s era, an earnest and hopeful young man by the name of Ed Rosenthal was in South Africa, seeking a new strain for further development. The variety that he discovered was one of the earliest finishing plants in the area and he took it home to the US. There, he started cultivating and kept developing the strain through careful selective inbreeding. Ed passed on some seeds from his work to his friend, Mel Frank for further work. Their focus was to reduce flowering time whilst simultaneously, increasing the yield. Mel worked with several generations of the plants, choosing to further breed the quickest and most resinous among them. The process resulted in two distinctive phenotypes, that Mel creatively named A and B. The A strain was his favorite, so he chose to move on with it. And it was around then that the B strain of Durban Poison found its way to Europe.

In a rather friendly gesture, Mel Frank gifted his not-so-favorite “B” line to his friend Sam the Skunkman. Sam does not need special introductions among the cannabis connoisseurs, as he still holds legendary status among breeders. However, this gift was just a beginning of a long and successful story. Sam took the seeds with him back to Amsterdam, where the seed business was starting to grow. It is also well worth noting that among those seeds that gave birth to the Durban Poison, one could find the start of the famous Skunk#1 line. His goal was, again, to reduce the flowering time, so that the plant could have a chance to finish outdoors during the –rather short- Northern European summer. His successful attempts made Durban Poison one of the most popular plants in its early days
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Thanks for the History lesson... Much appreciated copy and pasted to my notes.. thank you!
 
conor c

conor c

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VincenzioVonHook said:
my mates just got some in and waiting to pop. They look legit as fuck. 99% of these "durban poisons" are nowhere near the original Durban.
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These look exactly like the Durban and Swazi my housemate brought back from source a few years ago.
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Yeah apparently it's not Durban in fact it's supposedly Transkei the line he is selling as Durban at least it looks good though
 
MtRainDog

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The ag mel frank durban poison is s1 of the same cut thats all over the west coast. Same durban poison csi uses.

akbb has some durban offerings. Don't know much about them.

I'm not a fan of durbans usually. Racy, nervous energy type high. Actually makes me dizzy.
 
Week4@inCharge

Week4@inCharge

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MtRainDog said:
The ag mel frank durban poison is s1 of the same cut thats all over the west coast. Same durban poison csi uses.

akbb has some durban offerings. Don't know much about them.

I'm not a fan of durbans usually. Racy, nervous energy type high. Actually makes me dizzy.
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Sounds like steroids...lol, probably perfect for that morning jog or social gathering when your pounding a few beers.
 
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