Here are some vintage photographs of the landrace that Afghan cannabis farmers know as ‘Mazari’, ‘Balkhi’, or ‘Mazar-i-Sharif’. The images were emailed to me by an old-timer who brought the seed from northern Afghanistan to the United States in the…
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Seeds of a wild-type Cannabis strain from the mountains of eastern Kazakhstan, Central Asia, are back in stock in our Wild-Type section. Getting informed about the difference between wild-type Cannabis and landraces is always a good idea, if you haven’t…
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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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An individual from a Syrian cannabis landrace, photographed by a customer of ours who sowed our ‘Syrian’ in July and took this photo in mid to late September. Near Eastern landraces like our ‘Lebanese’ and ‘Sinai’ or ‘Syrian’ and ‘Turkish’…
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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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Angus talks landraces and cannabis culture with Chad Westport on The Friendly Cannabis Show / Future Cannabis Project:
‘Down By The River’ – Big Sur, 1970 *
New ‘Lao Gold’ landrace seeds are in stock from the same farmer, 2023 harvest * A recent customer review of our ‘Lao Gold’, which is a pristine old-school cannabis landrace of the type some aficionados call a ‘Lowland Thai’: “I’ve…
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‘Kerala’ ganja landrace – a customer photo c. 15 weeks indoors in a 5 gallon pot. ‘Very strong mint garden spice aroma’, writes the grower – ‘very narrow leaves.’ This is the classic South Indian landrace also called ‘Idukki’, after…
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Shiva and Parvati prepare bhang (cannabis) – Sikh woodcut, Lahore – c. 1870 * Produced by Sikh artisans for Hindu pilgrims and collected at a local fair or bazaar by John Lockwood Kipling while he was director from 1875 to…
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