The full episode of the podcast on cannabis landraces with Angus and Matt of Riot Seeds is now online – scroll down for the video. *** The photo above is ‘Ganja plant almost ready to cut, Naogaon. 16th February 1894.’…
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Our new accessions of Thai and Lao landraces are on a special offer to encourage people to start exploring them. The offer applies to Champasak, Hmong Ganja, Isan Thai, and Nakhon Phanom Thai. All orders of packs of these landraces…
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Angus joins Matthew from Riot Seeds on the Breeders Syndicate podcast to discuss landraces – botany, culture, history and more….
Emails asking if our cannabis seeds are feminized or ‘regular’ are a regular occurrence here at The Real Seed Company. If you’re after feminized seeds, you can find some over at our other site in the newly created category –…
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A big blindspot in current thinking about cannabis landraces is lack of knowledge about the cultural context of these crops. Not only enthusiasts but most academics and researchers publishing on cannabis still seem to be in the dark about fundamental…
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Behold, a 128-year-old sample of ganja! If you believe the Internet, the sinsemilla technique was developed in the 1970s by Mexican cartels. But check out this botanical sample of ganja from 1896. This material was collected in Berar Province in…
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This is an excellent talk by Dr. Shelby Ellison on feral germplasm and genetic diversity, including how feral cannabis populations can be utilized for pre-breeding and to develop advanced cannabis cultivars.
Check out these figures showing the THC content (%) of UK customs seizures of landrace cannabis strains in the mid to late 70s. Sample sizes are very small and results are from TLC (thin-layer chromatography) but still show the potential…
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Here’s that highly unusual semidwarf Nepali ganja landrace at 40° N in late August (foreground plant only). This is not just one freak individual. All plants in this landrace show this unusual compact, leafy morphology – rather like bamboo or…
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Take a look at these photos showing the clear differences between Sativas and Indicas in real cannabis landraces. These were shot in mid-July at 40° N. Above is a ganja landrace from Bokeo, NW Laos, collected by Angus. Below is a charas…
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