Author Archive: Real Seed Co
Real Seed Co
March 13, 2024
The cannabis landrace seeds automatically added to all orders are now as follows: Nepali Multipurpose – 12 seeds Afghan Mix – 5 seeds The image shows a Himalayan multipurpose landrace in Dhorpatan, Nepal c. 2009. Most Himalayan cannabis landraces are…
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Real Seed Co
February 28, 2024
The Syrian landrace is now on a Buy One Get One Free offer – so for every pack you buy will get you one more pack of the same size for free. In addition, all orders automatically receive a further…
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Real Seed Co
February 23, 2024
Hybridization is how Cannabis biodiversity is vanishing – permanently. “Hybridization, mostly during the last century, has obscured differences between the European and Chinese hemp groups, and between the Indica-type and Sativa-type ‘marijuana’ groups.” Hybridization is homogenization. Hybridization is why the…
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Real Seed Co
January 22, 2024
Enjoy this Summer of Love footage from the ‘Legalize Pot Rally’ at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London. Featured are Allen Ginsberg and the rally’s organizer – the parapsychologist and cannabis law reform campaigner, Stephen Abrams. Abrams can be seen…
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Real Seed Co
December 5, 2023
Here are some vintage photographs of the landrace that Afghan cannabis farmers know as ‘Mazari’, ‘Balkhi’, or ‘Mazar-i-Sharif’. The images were emailed to me by an old-timer who brought the seed from northern Afghanistan to the United States in the…
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Real Seed Co
November 5, 2023
Seeds of a wild-type Cannabis strain from the mountains of eastern Kazakhstan, Central Asia, are back in stock in our Wild-Type section. Getting informed about the difference between wild-type Cannabis and landraces is always a good idea, if you haven’t…
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Real Seed Co
September 28, 2023
Hybridization is the main cause of extinction of Cannabis, not the cops. * Introducing modern seed to regions like the Hindu Kush and Himalaya sets in motion unstoppable, irreversible and permanent loss of biodiversity right in the most crucial centres…
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Real Seed Co
September 20, 2023
An individual from a Syrian cannabis landrace, photographed by a customer of ours who sowed our ‘Syrian’ in July and took this photo in mid to late September. Near Eastern landraces like our ‘Lebanese’ and ‘Sinai’ or ‘Syrian’ and ‘Turkish’…
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Real Seed Co
September 19, 2023
Here’s a recent live Q&A on landraces featuring Angus with Macky and Monkey of High on Homegrown. A quick note in response to some comments in chat: It’s really important that people *do not* ever take modern seeds to ancient…
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Real Seed Co
September 5, 2023
Angus talks landraces and cannabis culture with Chad Westport on The Friendly Cannabis Show / Future Cannabis Project: