BluesHarp
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Has anyone dealt with this seed bank. How much are they??Afropips has two landrace strains up at Nguniseeds. Durban Poison and Swazi Rooibaard.
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Has anyone dealt with this seed bank. How much are they??Afropips has two landrace strains up at Nguniseeds. Durban Poison and Swazi Rooibaard.
Of course any of the "dutch" durban poison strains are indeed durban/skunk hybrids (probably from the same source, so all relatives) and if other faster pure Durbans do exists, they have been hybridised for sure in my opinion. All african strains are descendants from the same tropical indian strains so there's no reason for any hashplant looking 8-10 week african landraces lol.
vibes.
I have to disagree about ALL African strains being derived from south Indian genetics. Morocco and Egypt are in Africa too and the strains are closer to Midde Eastern varieties.
Hey bro, yeah of course... I was speaking about pure tropical strains (Eastern, Southern and Equatorial Africa strains) and not the northern and magreb hashplants. So all this Middle Eastern strains were probably hybridized with the tropicals at some point originating faster maturing african hybrids, so I still have my doubts about the purity of any 8-10 week plant in tropical regions.
Thanks for the interesting document as well.
Vibes.
So if by good authority the Durban Poison was an early maturing strain(like many South African varieties), why are the longer flowering Dutch Passion stock being represented as the original? What am I missing?
Well you are dead wrong Miss T,
I bred the Durban Poison in the early 1970's in Cali and it was early from the get. it came from the 30th latitude and I did the work at the 37th. It was also small plants and hermi but I worked on it for a few years got rid of the hermis, and selected for big bracts, and spicy taste and high, as well as earlyness, and cleaned it up. No Hybidization, No acclimatization, just hard work killing all the rejects and keeping only the best for the goal. I did have a lot to select from!
BTW it is pure from S Africa, never hybidized, if you refer to my S.African Durban Poison, which has been around for many others to copy and/or hybridize from the mid 70's, until recenty when other S African seeds suppliers have also sold seeds from S Africa or with S African genes in it. My S African Durban Poison is early enough that it can be grown outdoors in the ground in Holland 53rd latitude if the winter is a bit late and moderate, maybe 30-50% of the years. BTW I have also grown many pure Durban seeds from S Africa that were not early like mine.
-SamS
great info fambz!
to be honest, im not sure about dutch passions version... back in the days (end of 90s) a bro used to grow lots of durban, sensi and dp, the strange thing to me was: dutch passions version had the broad leaves and rounded buds, like on the pix above from yoss, it did taste different guess thats the anise/liqurice flava BUT the effect was always red eyed couchlock for me (we speak about 100s of plants grown over the years from seeds...), never found a single uppedy plant in it... sensi seeds used to be a whole different story, their version produced mostly thin leaved plants and spear shaped buds, with a similar flavor, more spicy/minty, and 90% + phenos were uppedy, rather short lived high (1h approx.), but after 2k2 or so, the sensi versions changed... became wispy, hempy, hay tasting, phenos most of the times, and germination probs occured ...
Being as that Sam bred and NAMED Durban Poison, the question begs to be asked what have these supposedly African seed companies been sending stateside?
-Kanza
Being as that Sam bred and NAMED Durban Poison, the question begs to be asked what have these supposedly African seed companies been sending stateside?
Amazing the folklore created around some things.
What's wacky is that I knew a guy who lived in Umbilo (A Durban suburb), where he went after leaving Vietnam in the late 1960's. When he came back to the USA in like '72-'73 he brought a selection of seed with him from the Nam, Thailand and SA; including an indigenous Durban strain he called "Zulu" because it came from KwaZulu in Natal. He grew and bred all sorts of intermixes from that stock. I could easily be wrong on this one but I always thought (assumed) he bred the "Durban-Thai Highflyer" which was sold by the SSSC. That said, he was not a very friendly fella and did almost all his breeding in Arkansas and Tennessee and Indiana so the geography does not bare out. However he did talk of close friends in San Francisco and Zaandam (just outside of Amsterdam)- and I know for a fact that he shared his breeds with other growers in those cities at the time but I have no idea exactly who they were.
Now I read that Ed Rosenthal and Sam were almost the 'fathers' of the original Durban strains. Makes it seem like no other human had ever been to SA or returned with a native sativa. Just feels a bit like telling the Cheyenne or Shosone tribes that Lewis & Clark discovered the Grand Canyon, eh?
Just sayin'