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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Here’s an unusual occurrence of XY monoecy in cannabis. The plant is an individual from ‘Moliotiko’ – which is a rare Greek landrace. You can read about the significance of XY monoecy in this 2024 paper: Why not XY? Male…
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These are some shots showing how the terms ‘Indica’ and ‘Sativa’ can still be used in a meaningful way when the cannabis plants we’re talking about are authentic landraces. In the context of the kind of cannabis you find in…
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Here’s an image of a field of ganja being destroyed in Tripura state in Northeast India in December, 2014. The farmers have used a compact, semidwarf ganja landrace which they’ve clipped and planted like tea bushes – tea being a…
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This is a photo I took of some hand-rubbed Himalayan charas while ‘strain hunting’ back in 2009. Digging through old files, I finally stumbled upon the original jpeg. A lot of cannabis sites have used the image and claimed it…
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