I can't comment on the taste, my body has a huge aversion to smoke, everything just tastes of burnt nasty, and if i vape i taste nothing, just feel it on my throat. As to the smell, i know what i'm smelling with things, but have always had a hard time putting it into words, but as you say, pungent earthy, dank smell (as in the genuine dank, not "dank bud man" kind of dank", musky, i'm not much help on that one i'm afraid.
As to pics i will try and get something up, at rpesent i'm just on a spare computer as have just moved back in with my folk while i take a cheffy course. To describe it though, very thing sativa leaves, very viney (kinda like the pics of the whole plant from the side, but just not in that upright manner, kinda just goes everywhere and there's not any reason to the madness, and it ends up budding into crazy towering foxtails, the vague photo the doc has on his site is the only one i came across and it just doesn't look right. Most strains it's a crapshoot with me but with exodus given that i grew it almost exclusively, i have in the past found i am rather good, however big headed that sounds, at noticing little traits in it that just don't ring true with exodus and it has generally been the case that it's been discovered that the plant i questioned turned out not to be exodus at all but was a mistake or another form of cheese etc. Please keep this journal going
i'll be reading with great interest.
As to the beans, if only he had gotten them in stock a bit earlier, i had very much been in the market for a couple for the specific reason of doing a side by side, but unfortunately i have had to quit my job in order to take this course so presently the only money i have is petrol money, else i'd certainly be picking up sone for when i start growiong again which should hopefully be towards the end of august. Just need to find a job :/