Diesel Poison (Durban Poison x Chemdog 91 Bx3) is Durban Poison crossed to Chemdog Bx3. Durban Poison is a pure sativa landrace from near the port city of Durban in South Africa. Chemdog Bx3 is the Chemdog Bx3 stud - Chem 91 pushed back into itself three times. Between them they cover ground neither reaches alone. Skunk VA has held the Chem 91 cut since 1995, so what sits behind these crosses is the clone rather than a line bred to resemble it.

Durban Poison 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.

Order matters in a cross name. In Diesel Poison (Durban Poison x Chemdog 91 Bx3) the Durban Poison side supplied the seed and Chemdog Bx3 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. Parentage: a landrace, not a cross. Used as breeding stock worldwide for decades, most famously as one half of Cherry Pie.
• Father: Chemdog Bx3. Skunk VA's Chem 91 backcross, and the constant in this catalogue. Built from 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

Two distinct smells, and a pack will give you both plus everything between.

• The Aroma. Sweet and earthy with a distinctive anise or liquorice note from the Durban Poison side, against diesel and sour earth, concentrated rather than diluted by the backcrossing 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.

Where the parents disagree

• 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.
• Structure varies hard here. 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 from one parent; Chem-family structure, open and stretchy, and it wants support late from the other. Plan the canopy for the taller outcome.
• They pull differently. Growers put Durban Poison at the clear, energetic end of the spectrum; light body and Chemdog Bx3 at alert and head-forward rather than sedating, as the Chem 91 line runs. 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. Chemdog Bx3 is Chem-family structure, open and stretchy, and it wants support late.
• Training. Worth the effort early - it is the difference between an even canopy and three colas and a lot of leaf.

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

Seeds from Lucky Dog Seed Co. Skunk VA breeds these; we stock them. Most of the catalogue runs back to one clone he has kept alive for three decades, which is a rarer thing than a new cross. Sold as authentic Lucky Dog Seed Co.