Malawi Gold

Description

Genetics: ‘Malawi Gold’ Nkhotakota Cannabis Landrace / Heirloom
Sourcing: Afropips, via collector community
Purpose: Ganja (bud)
Latitude: 13° S
Height: Up to 4 metres
Aroma: Floral, tangy, spicy, herbal
Characteristics: Vibrant, euphoric, and long-lasting high
Classification: Cannabis sativa subsp. indica var. indica
Grow Type: Greenhouse or outdoors

This is the original Afropips Malawi Gold heirloom, a classic tropical Sativa that’s renowned for its warm, postive, and euphoric high.

This Malawi Gold is a pristine heirloom that’s descended from a cannabis landrace collected in Malawi several decades ago. To the best of our knowledge, this line has never been outcrossed, which makes it increasingly rare in a world where nearly all so-called ‘landraces’ have been hit with modern hybrids.

This Malawi Gold line was maintained ex-situ for decades by Jim from Afropips, who used this pure Sativa to create some outstanding crosses such as Malberry, an F1 of Malawi Gold and the Dutch Passion Blueberry.

The seeds offered here are from a selected Malawi Gold line donated to The Real Seed Company by a generous collector.

The best Malawi cannabis landraces are equatorial Sativa-type plants renowned for their vibrant, euphoric high and unique flavours.

Historically, they’re most closely associated with the Nkhotakota region.

Traditionally, flowering tops are made into ‘Malawi cobs’ by wrapping them in corn husks for storage and curing.

According to the original Afropips description, ‘Malawi Gold is internationally renowned as one of the most potent psychoactive pure African Sativas. Afropips superior first grade Malawi Gold was selected from 10 years experience with top Malawi growers for the spiciest taste & the most psychoactive clean vibrant high. The high is long lasting & has an enjoyable alert mental clarity coupled with a warm pleasant feeling that radiates throughout the body. The unique tropical & luxuriant spicy Sativa up high can be attributed to the presence of THCV in this early cultivated strain.’

The historic photo shows a Malawi cob from the 1980s.

The field shots show plants from this accession at 40° N in mid July.