Chem Flyer (Durban Thai High Flyer x Chemdog 91 Bx3) sits between Durban Poison and Chemdog Bx3: a pure sativa landrace from near the port city of Durban in South Africa on one side, the father behind most of the Lucky Dog catalogue on the other. The value here is the Chem stock underneath. Everything else is a decision about what to put against it.

Durban Thai High Flyer x Chemdog carries a 91 because selections get numbered to stay distinguishable once they leave the room they were made in. It marks this exact mother, and it is the part of the name worth reading closely.

Written this way, Durban Poison is the mother and Chemdog Bx3 the pollen donor. Reversing a cross is not a formality; which plant carries the seed shapes what comes out of the pack.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Durban Poison. A pure sativa landrace from near the port city of Durban in South Africa. Parentage: a landrace, not a cross. Used as breeding stock worldwide for decades, most famously as one half of Cherry Pie.
• Father: Chemdog Bx3. Three generations of Chem 91 worked back into itself. Parentage: a backcross of Chemdog 91 - the cut Skunk VA has held since 1995 - worked back into itself three times. Backcrossing is what you do when you want more of one parent rather than a blend.
• What to expect across a pack. Two distinct parents means real variation in frame, finish and nose. Select early and take cuttings off anything you would want again.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

The two halves stack rather than blend, which is the whole reason to run it.

• The Aroma. Sweet and earthy with a distinctive anise or liquorice note from the Durban Poison side, against Chem 91's nose with the volume up - turned earth, diesel, pine and citrus behind it from the Chemdog Bx3 side.
• The Taste. Sweet earth with liquorice arriving mid-palate, clean rather than coating up front, turning to greasy and mouth-coating, fuel then earth, sour at the finish through the exhale.

How the two sides differ

• The smell is a negotiation. Sweet and earthy with a distinctive anise or liquorice note on one side against the Chem 91 nose concentrated rather than diluted: turned earth and diesel with pine and citrus behind it on the other. Neither wins outright in every seedling.
• Two frames in one pack. Durban Poison is exceptionally tall slender stalks with wide internodal spacing and thin, narrow-fingered fan leaves; tall elongated conical colas carrying round chunky buds under an unusually thick layer of oversized trichomes. Chemdog Bx3 is Chem-family structure, open and stretchy, and it wants support late. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• Opposite ends. Durban Poison is reported as the clear, energetic end of the spectrum; light body; Chemdog Bx3 as alert and head-forward rather than sedating, as the Chem 91 line runs. The cross sits somewhere between and moves plant to plant.

Cultivation and Growth Traits

• Plant Structure. The two parents disagree here, so plan for range. Durban Poison is exceptionally tall slender stalks with wide internodal spacing and thin, narrow-fingered fan leaves; tall elongated conical colas carrying round chunky buds under an unusually thick layer of oversized trichomes. Chemdog Bx3 is Chem structure - loose, tall and top-heavy late.
• Vegetative Phase and Training. Open the middle out early. Light reaching the lower sites is worth more than any late correction.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Durban Poison as the clear, energetic end of the spectrum; light body.
• The Body. Chemdog Bx3 is reported as alert and head-forward rather than sedating, as the Chem 91 line runs, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

13 regular seeds per pack. Seeds from Lucky Dog Seed Co, Skunk VA's own line. We stock it because the Chem work here is the real thing rather than a reconstruction of it - he was given the Chem 91 cut in 1995 and has held it ever since. Authentic Lucky Dog Seed Co genetics.