Here’s a new chat about landraces and traditional cannabis cultures with Angus and the good people of High on Home Grown | The Cannabis Podcast. The photo is by a Chitrali friend from his land in the high Hindu Kush…
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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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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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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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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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There’s a far older name for seedless bud than ‘sinsemilla’, namely ‘ganja’. To be clear, ‘ganja’ is not a catch-all term for any type of cannabis drug – though aficionados in the west may sometimes misuse it that way. Ganja…
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Short answer – no, they are not. 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’. Landraces are crops that are cultivated…
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Above is a 1973 shot of a Hmong oldster smoking a bong of tobacco. Below is a snap of seeds of a Hmong hemp landrace about to be germination tested after collection in Northeast Laos this week. For some background…
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‘Indicas’ cultivated in America in 1913 at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) research station in Nevada. ‘Kandivi’ is the Uyghur name for this Indica-type cannabis landrace that was once cultivated around the oases and irrigated valleys south of…
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‘Chitrali’ is our name for an accession of a cannabis landrace cultivated in Yarkhun Valley in the high Hindu Kush for dry-sieved charas, seed for food, and bhang…. That’s ‘bhang’ in the sense of leaf and coarse seeded inflorescence…. For…
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