Durbin Poison x UK Cheese brings Durban Poison together with UK Cheese. The first is a pure sativa landrace from near the port city of Durban in South Africa; the second, the Exodus clone - a single Skunk #1 plant found in Britain around the turn of the 1990s and kept ever since. Two lines that were never going to produce a quiet plant. CSI breed off held clones rather than off seed stock, which is why the parents named on the pack are the actual plants and not their descendants.

Order matters in a cross name. In Durbin Poison x UK Cheese the Durban Poison side supplied the seed and UK Cheese the pollen, and the reciprocal - the same two plants the other way round - is a separate breeding decision with its own results.

Genetic Lineage

• Mother: Durban Poison. A pure sativa landrace from near the port city of Durban in South Africa. That one comes from a landrace, not a cross. Used as breeding stock worldwide for decades, most famously as one half of Cherry Pie.
• Father: UK Cheese. The Exodus clone - a single Skunk #1 plant found in Britain around the turn of the 1990s and kept ever since. Its own cross is a Skunk #1 phenotype, not a cross. Famously forgiving and often recommended to beginners; spread by the Exodus Collective.
• How to read it. Everything below splits into what one parent gives and what the other does. Plants that take from both are the ones to keep.

Flavor and Aroma Profile

Two profiles that stay distinguishable rather than collapsing into one.

• The Aroma. Sweet and earthy with a distinctive anise or liquorice note from the Durban Poison side, against tangy cheddar sitting on earthy, skunky sweetness, loud enough to carry through a door from the UK Cheese side.
• The Taste. Sweet earth with liquorice arriving mid-palate, clean rather than coating up front, turning to sour cheese and earth through the exhale.

What each side brings

• Timing. UK Cheese runs seven to nine weeks depending on source, and that is the half of this cross you can actually plan around.
• The smell is a negotiation. Sweet and earthy with a distinctive anise or liquorice note on one side against tangy cheddar over earthy, skunky sweetness, loud enough to fill a house 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. UK Cheese is slender, vine-like branches carrying spear-shaped colas with big swollen calyxes under a dense sticky trichome coat; grows with real vigour despite leaning indica. Decide which suits your room before you flip, because you get both.
• They pull differently. Growers put Durban Poison at the clear, energetic end of the spectrum; light body and UK Cheese at balanced and sociable; slight indica weight. Which end a plant lands on is the main variable.

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. UK Cheese is a spreading plant that wants support.
• Vegetative Phase and Training. Open the middle out early. Light reaching the lower sites is worth more than any late correction.
• Flowering Time. UK Cheese runs seven to nine weeks depending on source. Start checking trichomes a week before you expect to be ready.

Effects and Experience

• The Mind. Growers describe Durban Poison as the clear, energetic end of the spectrum; light body.
• The Body. UK Cheese is reported as balanced and sociable; slight indica weight, and that is the side supplying the weight here.

In the pack

Feminized seeds from Humboldt CSI. CSI work from clone stock they have kept for years and reverse it into seed, so what arrives in a pack is the real cut's genetics rather than a seed-line approximation of it. Original Humboldt CSI stock.