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.
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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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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None other than Bob Marley himself explained to High Times about ‘Lamb’s bread’ and what this name really means. Bob Marley: One time I was in Jamaica, was doin’ a show, an’ a man come up to me, and he…
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Here’s John McPartland discussing the likely origin of Cannabis and how he arrived at the conclusion it’s probably northeastern Tibet, i.e. Amdo / Qinghai:
Here’s the original landrace ramble I recorded with the most excellent Jason of ‘Curious About Cannabis‘. The origins of hashish, the sacramental cannabis culture of the qalandars, expeditions in Afghanistan, and the ancient diffusion of cultivation out of Central Asia…
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The unchecked spread of modern hybrid strains out of the West is in no one’s interest, least of all farmers in traditional regions of cultivation and Cannabis biodiversity. A new post is up at the main blog looking at how…
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Recently, we’ve made some wild-type (‘wild’, weedy, ruderal etc.) accessions from South and Central Asia available. Wild-type seeds exhibit slow and staggered germination. Almost all commercially available Cannabis seeds are of domesticated types such as hybrids or landraces. Domesticated seeds…
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Q. Are your landraces pure or have they been crossed with modern hybrids? A. We aim to collect pristine, authentic landraces. Many of the regions where we collect are dangerous, which means that few foreigners visit. This greatly reduces the…
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