Durban Poison

oldleave53

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Can anyone with some DP grows under their belt give me a piece of mind................. I am growing a massive DP and its only in week 4 of flower and the cola's are already huge. My question is how long (usually) to flower. I have always grown Indicas or Hybrids never a pure Sativa. I have heard that pure Sativas can flower up to 20 or 25 weeks. That's not a problem, but if this plant and cola's are already this size surely its not going to take another 15 or 20 weeks. Anyway just wandering about the flowering time of a DP from someone who has grown it before.
 

Clankie

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Can anyone with some DP grows under their belt give me a piece of mind................. I am growing a massive DP and its only in week 4 of flower and the cola's are already huge. My question is how long (usually) to flower. I have always grown Indicas or Hybrids never a pure Sativa. I have heard that pure Sativas can flower up to 20 or 25 weeks. That's not a problem, but if this plant and cola's are already this size surely its not going to take another 15 or 20 weeks. Anyway just wandering about the flowering time of a DP from someone who has grown it before.
Never fear, I am here! It is fortunate that you are growing one of my favorite strains. DP (haha!) is very fast flowering for a pure sativa and will definitely come in under 10 weeks of 12/12. Usually 9. Any other questions about her?
 

oldleave53

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Not really, or atleast not right now.LOL. I cant believe the amount and size of the cola's on this strain. Its unreal and this thing is only 4 weeks in.
 

Clankie

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Not really, or atleast not right now.LOL. I cant believe the amount and size of the cola's on this strain. Its unreal and this thing is only 4 weeks in.
It is a spectacular plant, and strong argument for landrace preservation in and of itself. Not only that, but if you are looking to do any breeding, durban makes a great mate for longer flowering sativas, any F1 will have phenos that resemble the other strain but with reduced height and decreased flowering time, without losing any of the sativa-high thc quality, and if you pick the right Poison the potency can be just crazy.
 

Chicago Gooner

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Damn, I'm jealous. I've planted DP last spring and I burned it with nutes like a total n00b that I was and I wasn't able to recover it so I tossed it and went with Super Lemon Haze as I didn't have anymore DP beans. I'm considering putting it in possibly at the end of January but I'm having a really hard time deciding if I want DP, S.A.G.E or Kali Mist. Decisions decisions.

Just out of curiousity, how long did you veg it and did you top it? How tall is it in the 4th week of flowering and what kind of container is it in?
 

Clankie

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Damn, I'm jealous. I've planted DP last spring and I burned it with nutes like a total n00b that I was and I wasn't able to recover it so I tossed it and went with Super Lemon Haze as I didn't have anymore DP beans. I'm considering putting it in possibly at the end of January but I'm having a really hard time deciding if I want DP, S.A.G.E or Kali Mist. Decisions decisions.

Just out of curiousity, how long did you veg it and did you top it? How tall is it in the 4th week of flowering and what kind of container is it in?
It stays very short for a pure sativa, I have only grown it indoors, but to get the best yields I usually either topped it or lstd the top eight branches away from the middle cola, but either way I would advise vegging the shit out of it, but keeping it from being too bushy. Mine always seemed to hit a wall as far as vertical growth went, at which point they would basically start diagonally branching out and barely gaining height at all. I would usually keep 'em in veg for around a week after that and then induce flowering.

And by 'too bushy' I mean cut off the branches that are below the canopy, as is a rather bushy plant in general. DP usually establishes a good indicaton of where that will be by the end of the second week of 12/12.
 

oldleave53

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Damn, I'm jealous. I've planted DP last spring and I burned it with nutes like a total n00b that I was and I wasn't able to recover it so I tossed it and went with Super Lemon Haze as I didn't have anymore DP beans. I'm considering putting it in possibly at the end of January but I'm having a really hard time deciding if I want DP, S.A.G.E or Kali Mist. Decisions decisions.

Just out of curiousity, how long did you veg it and did you top it? How tall is it in the 4th week of flowering and what kind of container is it in?
It is only 52" from the top of the 3 gal pot and yes I did top and vegged about 5 weeks, but this isn't something I am used to growing. Like I said, I am used to growing Indicas which are short and bushy. This DP is not bushy at all its rather stretched with a truck load of colas.
 

Bottleandmobile

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Can you post pics? If no thats not problem. Is it Dutch Passion Durban poison or other breeder? it takes 10 weeks maybe 9 DP is a great strain :blsmoke:
 

Clankie

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Can you post pics? If no thats not problem. Is it Dutch Passion Durban poison or other breeder? it takes 10 weeks maybe 9 DP is a great strain :blsmoke:
I grew a selected pheno from sensi. I didn't do the selection on that one, but I would imagine that since it is a landrace it would have a lower amount of phenotype variation, more environmental than anything else.
 

hazey grapes

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durban poison and burmese are the two fastest finishing and most compact "IBL sativas", but they sure look like they have at least some indica in their background. i like DP well enough even if it's not a favorite flavor and gives me dry heaves, but the bud i was gifted did taste like straight up licorice and did get me high, but it wasn't too visual like columbian gold. i'd rather smoke super potent high quality seeds' haze x skunk which has at least some psychoactivity and is the strongest sativa i've smoked so far, jack's cleaner 2 as it's not only visual, but has a really cool warm and fuzzy euphoria with an even cooler touchy feely aspect that's made for sex or delicious fruity sweet haze which has at least some psychoactivity too besides an above average flavor compared to watered down generic hazes that are more clear headed too. as an added bonus, sweet haze & JC2 are 9 week strains. JC2 has some body thump stone, but is still totally functional unlike skunk #1 & blueberry etc.

if licorice isn't disgusting to you, DP is a very distinctive strain for sure and is definitely funner than street beasters.

i just found my holy smokes mozambique poison freebie leaf i set aside when it sexed male and it had a flavor that was like a cross between anise (licorice) and dried basil. it was more of a spice taste than the DP bud i was gifted that tastes like smoking a licorice stick. had it been a female, the flavor might have improved with budding. what i saw from the HS' malawi gold female i had to cut down early when it got hot spot burned from forgetting to turn my fan on was promising. anyone interested in THEIR poison should wait for the freebie offer they repeat at attitude. buy a pack of anything, and get 2 each regs of mozambique poison, malawi gold and mulanje gold. i'm pretty sure the beans were less than $40 for a 10-12 pack too. i'm going to use malawi as my next male breeder. it should be much trippier than durban in theory anyways. the DP i blazed was more like a generic haze which is nice enough, until you try something better smoking. a lot of people love it though as i saw it got almost 50% of the votes in a favorite sativa thread somewhere. it and another strain were repeatedly mentioned.

some other strains to look into for trippy highs are jack the ripper, the third dimension, killing fields, jack hammer and sannie's jack f7.

when you finish your grow, please do share a smoke report. i'd like to compare notes with my memories of the unknown DP i smoked i imagine was dutch passion as i think they were one of the first banks to carry it in the 90s.
 

oldleave53

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Can you post pics? If no thats not problem. Is it Dutch Passion Durban poison or other breeder? it takes 10 weeks maybe 9 DP is a great strain :blsmoke:
Yeah, to you guys this might not be a huge success, but like I said I've never grew Sativa and as you can see the size diff in the Acapulco Gold next to it. They are the exact same age as the small plants to the left that I am used to growing. Durban Poison 2.jpg
 

mcrandle

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Bubba, I agree. I jumped the gun on that one. I posted because I assumed that DP hasn't changed out their stock in about 10 years. But my neighbor had almost the exact same results in his attic last year. He only grew DP-Poison, but the end product supplied the whole county and myself with Grade AAA quality shit. Three pulls on a nice perc put me in to dream land on MANY weekends.
 

BubbaGum

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Bubba, I agree. I jumped the gun on that one. I posted because I assumed that DP hasn't changed out their stock in about 10 years. But my neighbor had almost the exact same results in his attic last year. He only grew DP-Poison, but the end product supplied the whole county and myself with Grade AAA quality shit. Three pulls on a nice perc put me in to dream land on MANY weekends.
Interesting, it's odd because I constantly hear negative things about Dutch passion yet people seem to grow their seeds. I'll try and find a journal/link to post
 

mcrandle

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Interesting, it's odd because I constantly hear negative things about Dutch passion yet people seem to grow their seeds. I'll try and find a journal/link to post
To give you an idea on the potency...I went through TWO 15-seed packs of Mr. Nice Neville's Haze in 2010. I had three females that put me in fucking LALA LAND on one REALLY DEEP milky ass bong hit. I mean for hours I was seeing spots in my peripheral vision.

The Durban my neighbor grew, I mean that particular pheno, was the almost the same high. The only difference was that the Neville's Haze high lasted about 4 SOLID hours. The Durban was like 2 hours, tops. Mind you, that was one pheno, the others were more of a bagseed paranoid high that lasted about 1.5 hours
 
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