These are some shots showing how the terms ‘Indica’ and ‘Sativa’ can still be used in a meaningful way when the cannabis plants we’re talking about are authentic landraces. In the context of the kind of cannabis you find in…
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Here’s an image of a field of ganja being destroyed in Tripura state in Northeast India in December, 2014. The farmers have used a compact, semidwarf ganja landrace which they’ve clipped and planted like tea bushes – tea being a…
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‘Island Time’ is an F1 of two classic, old-school Sativas: ‘Jamaican Lambsbread’ and ‘Maui Wowie’. If that sounds like your kind of cannabis, then check out these beauties – all available as regular seeds: ‘Colombia 90’ ‘1990 Durban Skunk’ ‘Colombia…
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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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Greek cannabis strains are a wise choice if you’re working outdoors beyond the 30th parallel and want to use the crop as bud. Greek strains have two major advantages: They’re early maturing and they’ve undergone decades of selection for use…
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The freebie landrace seeds automatically added to all orders are now as follows: Nepali Mountain Ganja – 25 seeds Afghan Mix – 5 seeds The image shows a ‘mountain ganja’ type plant growing as a volunteer near a police checkpoint…
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Hybridization is how Cannabis biodiversity is vanishing – permanently. “Hybridization, mostly during the last century, has obscured differences between the European and Chinese hemp groups, and between the Indica-type and Sativa-type ‘marijuana’ groups.” Hybridization is homogenization. Hybridization is why the…
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Enjoy this Summer of Love footage from the ‘Legalize Pot Rally’ at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London. Featured are Allen Ginsberg and the rally’s organizer – the parapsychologist and cannabis law reform campaigner, Stephen Abrams. Abrams can be seen…
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Hybridization is the main cause of extinction of Cannabis, not the cops. * Introducing modern seed to regions like the Hindu Kush and Himalaya sets in motion unstoppable, irreversible and permanent loss of biodiversity right in the most crucial centres…
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Here’s a recent live Q&A on landraces featuring Angus with Macky and Monkey of High on Homegrown. A quick note in response to some comments in chat: It’s really important that people *do not* ever take modern seeds to ancient…
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