Author Archive: Real Seed Co
Real Seed Co
September 1, 2025
One of the best lines to come out of early 1990s Amsterdam was ‘Citral’, a classic of the era’s coffee shop menus and seed catalogues. Shown above is an original early 90s F1 with DJ Short’s ‘Flo’, now available as…
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Real Seed Co
August 15, 2025
You can find a wide range of ‘autoflowering’ and ‘semiautoflowering’ landrace and feral cannabis varieties here at The Real Seed Company. ‘Autoflowering’ in cannabis means plants go into flower based only on their age. ‘Auto’ is the opposite of ‘photoperiod’…
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Real Seed Co
July 2, 2025
Requests for landraces from the Caribbean or Central and South America are a frequent event here at The Real Seed Company. Over at our other site, we do have a growing collection of really good heirlooms and crosses from regions…
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Real Seed Co
June 28, 2025
The second half of the episode on Tai landraces is out – following up on the chat based on this blog post: Ancient Yunnan and the Tai roots of Indian Cannabis Culture That’s ‘Tai’ as in Lao, Thai, and Shan…….
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Real Seed Co
June 21, 2025
Part 1 of a new podcast episode with Angus and Matt of Riot Seeds is out now on The Breeders Syndicate podcast. This ramble through cannabis culture starts in Yunnan with the ancient origins of Tai landraces and from there…
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Real Seed Co
June 12, 2025
The November 1st, 1985 catalogue of Cultivators Choice, listing the Sacred Seeds varieties brought to Holland by David Watson in the 1980s. Along with the ‘Northern Lights’ lines and a handful of other additions like ‘Chitral’, what you see here…
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Real Seed Co
June 3, 2025
If – like me – you missed this fascinating 2023 study on the development of prehistoric cannabis cultigens by Rita Dal Martello et al., you can download the pdf here: Cannabis differentiation and Haimenkou. The authors examine archaeological cannabis seeds…
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Real Seed Co
May 16, 2025
Where legal, to get the best germination rates when germinating landrace cannabis seeds, follow these simple steps: (1) Presoak seeds in 1% peroxide solution for approx. 12 hours. All cannabis seeds – but especially landrace seeds direct from regions such…
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Real Seed Co
May 12, 2025
These are now the landraces automatically added to all orders: Gorkha Nepali – 12 seeds Hmong Ganja – 5 seeds The Gorkha Nepali accession is from Barpak, roughly 50 km north of the town of Gorkha. Expect large plants of…
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Real Seed Co
May 6, 2025
Show above is Tashkurgan – a north Afghan landrace maintained from an accession originally collected by Lucas Strazzeri with the help of Baaba Qo. The photo is from an order of over 10 different lines from our catalogue by a…
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