Durban Poison
The classic landrace sativa!
- Earthy
- Woody
- Spicy/Herbal
Pearl Pharma produces cannabis flower that embodies perfection and quality. Simply, we seek to consistently provide potent flower with deep flavor profiles and dense resinous buds. We are lucky to have a great team of talented and experienced growers who know their craft, and it shows in the product. Our cultivation experience dates back to 1998; since then we have been making relationships with respected breeders which has allowed us to get a hold of some stellar genetics. Those genetics are then “pheno-hunted” to locate the best-of-the-best, enabling us to provide a truly unique version of every strain we release. Our products are for all types of consumer; whether you are new to the experience or a serious OG, you will find a strain of Pearl that lights you up. The whole team at Pearl Pharma enjoys the process of bringing nose blasting, beautiful and potent cannabis to the market; after all that is the Pearl Life. We appreciate all of the people out there who live the Pearl Life with us.
Durban Poison has deep roots in the Sativa landrace gene pool. The strain’s historic phenotypes were first noticed in the late 1970s by one of America’s first International strain hunters, Ed Rosenthal. According to cultivation legend, Rosenthal was in South Africa in search of new genetics and ran across a fast flowering strain in the port city of Durban. After arriving home in the U.S., Rosenthal conducted his own selective breeding process on his recently imported seeds, then begin sharing. Rosenthal gave Mel Frank some of his new South African seeds, and the rest was cannabis history.
Frank, who wrote the “Marijuana Grower’s Guide Deluxe" in 1978, modified the gene pool to increase resin content and decrease the flowering time. In search of a short-season varietal that could hit full maturation on the U.S. East Coast, Frank’s crossbreeding efforts resulted in two distinct phenotypes, the “A” line and “B” line. The plant from Frank’s “A” line became today’s Durban Poison, while the “B” line was handed off to Amsterdam breeder David Watson, also known as “Sam the Skunkman.”
Durban Poison has a dense, compact bud structure that’s typical of landrace Indica varieties, but the flowers’ elongated and conical shape is more characteristic of a Sativa.