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HCG-ZAF-UNK-0120210001 is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Identifier

The accession identifier is HCG-ZAF-UNK-0120210001, built from the holder, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country, the province segment, the month, the year and the sequence number.

Holder segment HCG stands for Hippie Cannabis Genetics.
Year 2021 is the year of the earliest dated mention of the line as the business's that was found: a post on the growers' forum Overgrow of 19 October 2021 (https://overgrow.com/t/landraces-and-heirloom-part-1/13660/1151). No source gives a collection year that can be checked. The year 1973 in the line's name is the business's own claim, repeated in its description ("Originally collected in 1973"), and stays part of its product name. It is a lower bound, not a collection date, and moves if an earlier record is found. Common Crawl's crawls of SeedFinder from 2019 to 2024 hold no page of the business, and the Wayback Machine's first capture of its SeedFinder breeder page is of 13 September 2025.
Month 01 is the placeholder used when the year comes from a first dated mention rather than a stated collection date.
Province segment UNK. No source names a place in South Africa where the seed was gathered.
Sequence 0001. It is the only accession of the business for this country, province segment and year.

Sourcing

The business's description of the line on SeedFinder (https://seedfinder.eu/en/strain-info/1973-durban/hippie-cannabis-genetics) was read on 8 October 2026 and saved. Every statement about the line's origin, plants, aroma and effect is the business's own account of its stock and is attributed to it. Overgrow posts are attributed to their authors by username. The grow log of December 2021 identifies "the breeder" as the business: the member asked for its Instagram account, was given it, and wrote to it before reporting the breeder's account.

Country

The business's description names no country. It calls the plant a "pure african" and says the line came from what were then called "Durban Pencils"; the country is the reading of that trade name as Durban, South Africa. The grow log of December 2021 supports the reading: the member reported that the breeder described the line as a South African sativa of the 1970s. "Durban Pencils" is a trade name, not a collection place, so no province is entered.

Typing

Classification: Other. The business's description of its stock is its own claim and is attributed in the article; a seller's listing does not establish the class of the source population.
Sourcing type: Unknown provenance. The listing gives no chain of custody from a source population to the seed on sale.
Accession type is left empty: the description says the line was collected in 1973, and a grower reported in 2021 that the seed came from a reproduction run, but no source documents the original stock or the generations since, so the page is not typed as a reproduction of an identified collection.
Traits. The flowering times, leaf shape, aromas and effects in the infobox are the business's own descriptions.

Figures as written

The business gives "approximately 16-18ish weeks"; the infobox enters 16 and 18. Upstate's figures of 15 to 16 and about 18 weeks are from one grow in 2023 and are given in the article as that grower's.

Grower reports and reproductions

The grow log of December 2021 was opened to preserve the line, and TestOfOath gave out seed for preservation runs in October 2021. These are growers' seed runs, not the business's stock, and have no accessions here.
In the same grow log in August 2024 the member Heirloomwizard thought the plants shown there "hybridized to some degree" and suggested that the year 1973 was a marketing claim that had never been checked (https://overgrow.com/t/1973-durban-sativa-poison-the-green-pheno-a-collective-history-of-a-south-african-sativa/70654/289). It is one member's reading of photographs; the article does not use it, and the identifier does not rest on the year in the name.

Georeferencing

No point is given. The only place connected with the line is Durban, and it comes from a trade name of the 1970s ("Durban Pencils"), which names a market label, not a place where the seed was gathered.

Conservation priority

Not rated. The listing gives nothing about the size or status of a source population.