Here’s that highly unusual semidwarf Nepali ganja landrace at 40° N in late August (foreground plant only). This is not just one freak individual. All plants in this landrace show this unusual compact, leafy morphology – rather like a wild…
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Here are some photos showing the clear differences between Sativas and Indicas in real cannabis landraces. These were shot in mid-July at 40° N. Above is a ganja landrace from Bokeo, NW Laos, collected by Angus. Below is a charas landrace from…
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Here’s an unusual occurrence of XY monoecy in cannabis. The plant is an individual from ‘Moliotiko’ – which is a rare Greek landrace. You can read about the significance of XY monoecy in this 2024 paper: Why not XY? Male…
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Here 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 ganja landrace which they’ve clipped and planted like tea bushes – tea being a common…
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Here’s a photo of some hand-rubbed Himalayan charas from ‘strain hunting’ back in 2009 – while digging through old files, I finally stumbled upon the original jpeg. A lot of cannabis sites have used the image and claimed it shows…
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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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‘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. Northern cannabis landraces such as those from the Hindu Kush and Himalaya are purposed for production of…
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