These are now the landraces automatically added to all orders: Gorkha Nepali – 12 seeds Hmong Ganja – 5 seeds The Gorkha Nepali are ‘ex-stock’ seeds, in the sense that their germination rate is only around 50%, so they’re not…
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Don’t miss the beautiful Cinderella 99 and Pakistan Chitral Kush hybrids over at our sister site, Kwik Seeds: The prices are very friendly and the highs are even friendlier! Bliss is the beauty shown here in the photo. A dream…
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New over at our sister site is a reproduction direct from original ’89/’90 seed stock: 1990 Haze x Skunk #1 Plus, there’s an ongoing special offer for all our 1990s heirlooms: freebie packs of 1990 Skunk Special x 1990 Durban Skunk…
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Powdery mildew resistance in a Nepali Mountain Ganja landrace (foreground) is shown in the above photo of a test for resistance to powdery mildews. Powdery mildews are a group of related fungi which attack a wide range of plants, causing…
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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 landrace seeds automatically added to all orders are now as follows: Nepali Mountain Ganja – 25 seeds Hmong Ganja – 5 seeds The image shows our Burmese landrace outdoors just north of the tropics.
Origin stories of Cannabis found in medieval Indian texts such as the Ānandakanda, or that you might hear from Cannabis-inclined sadhus, relate a primordial event called Samudramanthana or The Churning of the Ocean. There are various versions of this story,…
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Charas smoking at an Afghan ‘chillum house’, photographed in 2018 by Lucas Strazzeri in Tashkurgan, northern Afghanistan. *** In Afghanistan and historic charas centres of Central Asia such as Chitral and Bukhara, the old-school way to smoke cannabis is pure,…
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