Nepalese Mountain Ganja

Description

Genetics: Himalayan ‘Mountain Ganja’ Cannabis Landrace
Sourcing: The Real Seed Company, Makwanpur, Nepal Himalaya (Winter 2022)
Purpose: ‘Ganja’ (bud) and garda charas (sieved resin)
Latitude: 27° N
Harvest: October
Height: Up to approx. 4 metres outdoors
Aroma: Floral, ganja, spicy, herbal
Characteristics: Soaring ‘speedy’ high, hardy, humidity tolerant
Grow Type: Greenhouse or outdoors

***Please note these seeds are on Discount because they are from Winter 2022 harvest and their viability has dropped below 80%***

A recent germination test showed these seeds are around 60% to 70% viable, so we’ve reduced them to half price.

A highland Nepali cannabis landrace (i.e., domesticate) cultivated for production of ‘mountain ganja’ and garda charas in subtropical and temperate areas of Central and Mid-West Nepal.

This is a different type of crop from the two other main types of cannabis domesticate found in Nepal, which are the multipurpose Himalayan seed-fibre-charas plants of alpine areas and the ‘Sativa-type’ ganja domesticates of the tropics.

Seeds of this ‘mountain ganja’ type are mottled and smaller than those of typical Himalayan multipurpose cannabis plants. Potency is markedly higher and aromas are redolent of ganja.

A happy customer writes as follows: “The Nepalese Mountain Ganja is stunning! I call it ‘coke’ weed as you are racing around doing shit for hours afterwards!”

Sourced in the highlands south of Kathmandu, which are closely connected to the Terai, these ‘mountain ganja’ populations may have been affected by the large-scale ganja cultivation introduced to lowland Nepal by Indian groups in the late 1930s, following the collapse of the Trans-Himalayan charas trade. Notably, ganja cultivation in the Terai dates back to at least the 18th Century.

A cultivator with a lot of experience with landraces writes that this accession shows “three really distinct phenos: half of the plants are semidwarf with some ‘wild’ type leaves and bud structure; the other half are more classic Sativa type, with one side having ‘Nanda Devi’ kind of flower structure and the other side a more true ganja type – very resinous and with better bud structure.”

Also see our accession ‘Dakshinkali’.

The photos show plants from this accession at 40° N in mid July and in full flower at 38° S.

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