Shown above is a plant from ‘Mazar-i-Sharif #2’ in mid-July at around 40° N. An authentic Indica landrace from Balkh Province, sourced in ancient hashish-producing districts outside the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, this accession exhibits the classic Indica traits of broad…
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To welcome in the Year of the Snake, here’s a painting of Fuxi and Nüwa on a ‘hemp’ textile, which was hung on the ceiling of a tomb chamber at Astana Cemetery, Turpan, Xinjiang (PRC). Turpan was a prosperous, multiethnic…
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Where legal, germinating landrace seeds is easy: (1) Presoak seeds in 3% peroxide for at least 3 hours. (2) Place seeds in moist, fresh, and sterile Seed Compost. (3) Ensure the conditions are very warm (+25 °C). (4) Ensure the…
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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….
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.
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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Here’s a great male from our Syrian landrace – found by Biointensive Cannabis. Seeds are available of this Syrian strain and other cannabis landraces from the Near East and Middle East such as Sinai, Lebanese, and Turkish. All have the…
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Here’s a new podcast episode with Angus of The Real Seed Company and Conor talking cannabis landraces, preservation, hybrids, and British plutocracy in the modern and historic cannabis trade. The image shows a plant from a maintenance grow of an…
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