Author Archive: Real Seed Co
Real Seed Co
July 22, 2023
Balkhi ‘first garda’, 2007 primo unpressed north Afghan resin from beyond Mazar-i-Sharif… The massive scale of the 2006 and 2007 cannabis harvests in northern Afghanistan saw unprecedented availability of the highest grades of Afghan charas everywhere from Amsterdam and Berlin…
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Real Seed Co
July 18, 2023
Here’s the full photo of ‘Kandivi’, the Indica-type landrace collected by Frank Meyer in the winter of 1910 in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and shown here at a USDA research station in Nevada in 1913. As noted in a USDA bulletin…
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Real Seed Co
July 10, 2023
Afghanistan, 1971 – left is the legendary Harvard ethnobotanist, Richard Evans Schultes; but who can name the gent pictured right? Even Schultes’ most ardent acolyte is on record to avow that his guru acted in bad faith during those pivotal…
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Real Seed Co
June 28, 2023
Here’s a very stoned photo of some Kashmiri garda charas c. 2008 – because seeds of a Kashmiri landrace are now available. Kashmiri cannabis earned a legendary reputation among westerners during the heyday of the Hippie Trail, mostly for various…
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Real Seed Co
June 26, 2023
‘Ukhrul (Naga)’ at 40°N – a customer’s photo from last year, this individual performing well at such a northern latitude. Collected by Angus in the highlands of Ukhrul district, Manipur, Northeast India, close to the border with Burma. This landrace…
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Real Seed Co
May 22, 2023
The extra seeds automatically added to every order are now the following accessions of cannabis landraces, both collected directly at source in the Himalaya / northern Afghanistan: ‘Kumaoni’ – 12 Seeds ‘Afghan Mix’ – 5 Seeds The image shows traditional…
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Real Seed Co
May 13, 2023
The photo above is a lower branch of a Lao / ‘Thai Stick’ ganja landrace collected by Angus c. 2012 and pushed well into senescence indoors by a customer. Strong aromas such as musk, tobacco, dark chocolate, and overripe fruit…
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Real Seed Co
May 11, 2023
There’s a far older name for seedless bud than ‘sinsemilla’, namely ‘ganja’. The ‘sinsemilla technique’ was first set down in writing sometime around the 15th Century in a massive Sanskrit alchemical compendium named the Ānandakanda (आनन्दकन्द) or ‘Root of Bliss’….
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Real Seed Co
May 9, 2023
Short answer – no, a landrace is a type of domesticate. In other words, landraces are created by humans. In that sense, landraces are exactly the opposite of ‘wild’ or ‘natural’. In fact, even in areas of the world where…
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Real Seed Co
May 4, 2023
The photo shows a hashish smoke-up at a ‘tekke’ in early C20 Greece. Tekkes were cafes or dives in Greek ports such as Piraeus where tokers gathered to smoke hashish, drink tea and coffee, and listen to the music of…
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