The ‘sinsemilla technique’ was first set down in the Ānandakanda, a c. 15th Century work most likely composed at Srisailam, southeast India. Shown is Matsyendranāth, one of the semi-legendary Nine Nāths listed in the Ānandakanda. Siddhas – meaning Tantric adepts…
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There is a far older word for seedless bud than ‘sinsemilla’, namely ‘ganja’. The so-called ‘sinsemilla technique’ was first set down in Sanskrit sometime from the 12th through 16th Centuries in a compendious text on alchemy named the Ānandakanda (आनन्दकन्द)…
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The cannabis crop, cannabis-fibre clothes, shawls, and shoes, as well as braided or dreadlocked hair were all cultural markers of the Pahari people of the alpine ranges of the Himalaya – the ‘Pahar’. Today, multipurpose cannabis landraces still are and…
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The new Chitrali accession has tested well. Seeds are showing a high germination rate and vigorous seedlings. Shown is a plant from the 2014 Chitrali accession, customer photo, collected by Angus. The highest region of the Hindu Kush, Chitral lies…
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New landrace accessions direct from Nepal – sourced during the harvest of Winter 2021: Dolpa – Far West Nepal, Multipurpose Jumla – Far West Nepal, Multipurpose Dakshinkali – Central Nepal, ‘Mountain Ganja’ Kathmandu Valley – Central Nepal, Multipurpose Dolpa and…
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Only one… There’s never been any real debate about this. Essentially, on one side of the Cannabis species question there’s all the people who get taxonomy: the botanists, universities, authoritative floras, botanical gardens, and – last but not least –…
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Another classic track about Lambsbread for anyone still with doubts about whether it’s Lambsbread or Lamb’s Breath, this time from Glen Brown, pictured above. If you’re looking for seeds of relatively pristine Jamaican strains, there’s this cross Whish made of…
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New on cannabis and the Scythians: Those Scythian Bongs Don’t Exist
Smoking *tobacco* in a chillum, Nepal… ‘Exotic’ Asian person smoking an exotic pipe must mean it’s cannabis or opium in the bowl… is an assumption best dropped… This lady from Jumla, Midwest Nepal was smoking coarse locally grown tobacco, and…
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Bad germination techniques are rife among cannabis growers, especially folks working indoors. Damping Off is a problem when germinating any species of plant indoors. But cannabis originated on the arid and windy desert steppe of Central Asia so is particularly…
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