The Durbin I have now was acquired through a friend who kept raving about it to me. Now in the past, I have run many Durbin beans, and I only saw sativa plants with thin fan leaves and medium to long distance between internodes. Most of the aroma profiles I came across were all some variation of anise and incensey type "haze" smells. I dont know if what I was running was a hybrid of some sort, but Im inclined to think not. My main problem with all the durbin Ive ever run into is that none of it hit me in the head very hard. For those of us hard core well seasoned smokers, we call this "Daytime weed"...lol. So I always generally stayed away from durbins. I didnt see any wide leaf durbines on short statures, but I also didnt see any durbins that grew like what we know of hazes today. The durbins were more in the middle somewhere, shorter stature than typical landrace, still maintained long spaces between internodes, but also had more firm flowers on them than a typical straight haze. Its been years since I ran that gear and I cant remember all the exact details. I just knew the high wasnt for me and I forgot about durbin.
But a friend kept beating the dead horse about how good this durbin was and so finally it was obtained and I must say, it is much different than what I saw as durbin 10 years ago. The aroma is still very much durbin, but the cola is meatier, caked in resin and yield very good. Im pretty sure its a hybrid, but I have not gotten to an F2 stage with it yet, so Its tough to really say what is in the makeup till I start digging around in the f2 gen and looking at all the variation and recessives. What I can say for sure about the Durbin cut we now have is that its much more like the durbins I grew from seed years back, but on steroids. Its very good smoke and hits the head very nicely. It is definately something I want to play with more and Ill drop a little hint. We here at the farms have a durbin project in the works right now. The room to be pollinated is at about 3 weeks of flower and so the great orgy sex fest will begin soon. Dont ask me any questions about the project yet, I want to keep it a surprise and stoke you all out. Its definately something that will get alot of people excited and so I want to surprise you guys. Soi dont bust my chops yet over it, let me pretend to be Santa Claus and your trust and patience will be rewarded.