This one looks at the new PRC study on origins, nomads and Cannabis, Scythian death rites and warfare, anarchist qalandars, battlefield yogis, orgiastic Kaulas, and the future of Cannabis in Afghanistan… among other things… The image is a battle between…
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‘Everything Comes from China!’ A response to the already notorious new genomics study from Guangfeng Ren et al. is now up at the main blog: Did Cannabis and its Cultivation Originate in China? It’s rather a serious piece, so if…
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Did you know the so-called “sinsemilla technique” was already employed in tropical India at least 500 years ago? Check out the latest post on the true roots of sensi. The painting is Dervish Receiving a Visitor, Bijapur, India c. 1620….
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Here’s a new chat on the Growroom420 podcast: Endangered strains, ancient centres of cultivation in Central Asia, what “landrace” means, the origins of ganja and more… The photo shows some hand-rubbed charas from Garhwal in the Indian Himalaya.
Freebie seeds with orders of any strain in any quantity are now: 12 Rasoli seeds. Rasoli is a very tall strain that produces among the most renowned hand-rubbed charas of the Himalaya. Seeds show c. 80% viability. 5 Afghan Mix…
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An email today from a start-up in India looking to import seeds of the European hemp cultivar Kompolti to cultivate in the Himalaya was another reminder of just how quickly things we take for granted will vanish. Indigenous Central and…
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‘Ganjapreneurs’ are in for a nasty shock if they imagine today’s strains are anywhere near the peak of what can be achieved with Cannabis. Real crop scientists are about to get in on the action – and all that means…
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New freebies with any order of any strain in any quantity: 12 seeds of Rasoli, a very large strain that produces among the most renowned charas in the Himalaya. Seeds tested c. 80% viability. 12 seeds of Bokeo, a ganja…
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Freebies with any order of any strain in any quantity are currently 12 Parvati seeds and 5 Afghan Mix seeds. 2 for 1 offers are also ongoing for any order of our Manipuri and Ukhrul accessions, two pristine traditional ganja…
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Ecologically destructive practices and mistaken views about the climate emergency are rife among the Cannabis tribe. Ceaseless extolling of the very real virtues of hemp has meant too little awareness that most commercial pot production right now is apocalyptic. Hemp…
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