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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New freebies with any order of any strain in any quantity: 12 seeds of Rasoli, a very large strain that produces among the most renowned charas in the Himalaya. Seeds tested c. 80% viability. 12 seeds of Bokeo, a ganja…
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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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Behold, a master a work! Check out ‘Charas or Hashish?’ for more on the qalandars and the history of charas. Photo from Balkh Province, Afghanistan 2018 by Lucas Strazzeri.
‘Endangered Varieties of subsp. indica: A Few Thoughts‘ is new at the blog. I discuss McPartland and Small’s crucial new study, ‘A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives‘, and dive into some…
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New freebies with all orders from 06/05/2020 are as follows: 12 Rasoli Himalayan charas “Sativa” seeds 5 Afghan Mix seeds The photo is the Afghan Mix accession exhibiting var. afghanica leaflets.
The study, published April 3rd 2020 and entitled A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives, is available for download here. The abstract is as follows: Abstract Two kinds of drug-type Cannabis gained…
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‘On Indicas & Afghanicas’ is new at The Real Seed Company blog. It looks at the history of Cannabis taxonomy, particularly as it relates to proposed species, subspecies, and varieties from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. The photo is from the…
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Angus’s deep dive into landraces with the excellent Jason of Curious About Cannabis is up at Youtube. The photo shows a page from a Sufi mystical text from Aceh, Indonesia. The role of Islamic mysticism in the diffusion of Cannabis…
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