i tried durban once when i was given a bud. i liked it, especially more than all the afghani crap that was all you could get in the town i lived in in NY, but it's NOT as trippy as it's comparisons to thai rep. agreed. it's more like a mellow generic haze. the flavor from whatever version i got was totally legit though! like straight up smoking a licorice stick. it gave me dry heaves in between hits. i think that's why it's called poison. it was worth it though to get high again finally. just like the kali mist freebie i gave up bidding on weight for at $120 an eigth, i tried to score a bag of DP and couldn't.
i tested the MOZAMBIQUE poison freebie i got with my malawi's leaves as the one that made it was a male. it had less of a licorice taste and was more like the spice anise that licorice comes from mixed with some licorice tasting basil. that might be why it wasn't called durban, but i think someone growing that said it was visual. it could have been mulanje gold though. i got 2 freebies of that too as well as 2x more malawis from holy smokes. now they're mixing indicas in with their freebies, but eventually, you should be able to get 3x sativas again as i've seen that offer come and go twice.
i'm going to use my malawi, untested, as my male breeder hopefully knocking up lemony jack's cleaner, jack f7 & lemon skunk up with it along with sour cherry buddha's sister indica, haze skunk and a BX and save some pollen too. i'm also looking into getting C plus for a calio-o pheno hopefully for a lemon/orange haze. i always wanted to make a 3 way with malawi, burmese & cali-o. i bet it's do nice nice with fruity sweet haze too, but that strain's already a stretcher. i was so bummed when ALL of my plants got hot spot burned the night i forgot to turn my fan on. the malawi was hardest hit. i had to stress FOUR brothers to get to her too.
don't get me started on vancouver island burmese! 0% schwag!
i do like a pure sativa high, but i'm telling you, the hybrids in my signature are all as good as columbian gold to me in different ways.
JC2 trades a warm body stone and touchy feely thing for gold's light floaty sensation and is almost as trippy, it only takes 9 weeks. i can't stand the name jack the ripper though. THAT should be the real shit. JC2 is freakin' sexy shit though. give a babe a backrub on this, and she'll be all "don't stop" shucking her soaking panties. LOL no shit, i caught myself massaging my arms and chest on it and laughed my ass off once i realized i was imagining invisible ripples of tie dye color wherever i touched. i never tried the movie thing on it, but i bet it's not shabby there if it can make "something out of nothing" visuals. the stone is functional, but it's just a happy sense heightening stone i think most would enjoy. as much as i hate getting stoned, i will not complain about a little bit with all the rest of that fun stuff in trade.
haze skunk is more potent and possibly longer lasting with not stone buildup even after a month, though is less trippy, though i bet it performs better in a scrog as the top i took was best
sweet haze is less trippy, but not shabby, but has much stickier, bigger and fruitier buds for well rounded quality vs. gold's generic flavor and fluffy fuzz buds. it's really stretchy, but finishes in 9 weeks. i was already hard for this strain just smelling those fruitier than most hazes buds, but when it hit me with some trippiness most other strains exaggerate, i was grinning from ear to ear. i really need to compare my top 3 faves under the same conditions, along with malawi to pick favorites. if this strain has more trippiness in it's reserves, i'd like it more than JC2, especially as it's not at all stony.
8 miles high has a lighter trippy level, and like all of the others plenty of sativa euphoria. i love it for being mellow. it has a perfectly neutral energy balance that's totally stone free, but not racy either. you can do whatever you want as long as it's fun on it. it has a really cool "precise body control" effect that's similar to gold's light floaty effect, but more purposeful. it's a nice laid back 24/7 strain that loves music and dancing.
all of those make me more than happy enough, but i'm always looking for better, and once i have enough stash, i will start playing around with real sativas. i miss the 80s so much! the weed, music and overall VIBE were so much better than the stressed out disposable music and schwag appeal 21st century.
i still wonder if malawi will deliver the goods in trippy better than anything else. there's not a lot of reporting on that yet other than the aussie who talked more about creativity and motivation. i'll keep testing though... 17-24 week oldtimer's (purple) haze sounds awesome, i'd like to give mekong another try to see if it's less diluted than most hazes, and then there's columbians, panama & highland thai still, but the latter is just too fussy, and probably better suited to outdoors anyways.
i've asked a bunch of times for comparisons of hazes, so don't lose sleep if you don't get a direct answer. the impression i've gotten so far is that ace & gage green are the most legit, but holy smokes, cannabiogen & world of seeds have fans too.