Lebanese

Description

Genetics: Lebanese Cannabis Landrace
Sourcing: The Real Seed Company, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, 2008 Harvest
Purpose: Hashish (sieved resin)
Latitude: 34° N
Harvest: August through September
Height: 0.5 – 1.5 metres
Aroma: Cedar, pine, fruit, mango, candy, hashish
Characteristics: Early maturing, compact, resinous, columnar and spherical variants, semi-autoflowering, high CBD
Grow Type: Outdoors, greenhouse, or indoors

A Lebanese cannabis landrace personally collected at source with the assistance of a local old-timer hashish aficionado from Bekaa Valley. Lebanon has a long tradition of producing fantastic hashish, and the region’s best strains are renowned for their quality and breeding potential.

This is a very early maturing landrace. Harvest can be as early as August. ‘Semi-auto’ is the term used by some aficionados, meaning that this landrace goes into flower during the summer when days are long. In other words, like other Near Eastern landraces, Lebanese is good for northern latitudes.

Characteristic aromas of this Lebanese landrace are cedar and pine, with sweetness and heavy aromas of fruit such as mango and cherry. Lebanese plants are typically compact and early maturing. Deep-red or purple colouration can show during senescence.

Relative to other hashish domesticates, CBD can be exhibited in exceptionally high double-digit quantities in some individuals. As with other hash landraces, the population can be expected to segregate into Type 1, 2, and 3 chemotypes.

Two main architectures can be found: Columnar plants grow to one central stem with minimal branching and are well-suited to breeding advanced industrial crops. Heavily branched phenotypes are often near-spherical (e.g., 90 by 90 cm).

This particular Lebanese accession has notable pedigree, originating in one of the most renowned mountain regions above Bekaa Valley, which is traditionally where the finest Lebanese hashish has been produced.

*NOTE: Bekaa Valley has been a major centre of commercial hashish production for export since the early 20th century. The crops employed in that era were probably introduced by the Levantine smuggling networks that controlled Mediterranean smuggling to Egypt, then among the world’s largest markets for hashish. The plants are likely to have been similar to those cultivated in Greece, which was the major regional producer until the 1930s. Afghan seeds are said to have been introduced to Bekaa in 1974. A further factor is hemp (subsp. sativa), which was briefly cultivated in the valley during the ’90s in misguided crop substitution programs, which may explain the high levels of CBD exhibit by some individuals within the population of this landrace.