Beldia – Rif Mountain (Ketama)

Description

Genetics: ‘Beldia’ – Ketama Heirloom
Purpose: Hashish (dry-sieved resin) or bud
Latitude: 35° N
Outdoors: August to September
Indoors: 7 to 8 weeks
Height: Approx. 1 metre
Characteristics: Resinous, short, very fast flowering
Grow Type: Indoors, outdoors, greenhouse

Believed to be a pure Moroccan heirloom that has never been outcrossed, this variety was created using seeds of the Beldia landrace that were originally collected in Ketama, Morocco in the early 1990s.

Ketama is a region of the Rif mountain range that produces the best Moroccan hashish (ie, dry-sieved cannabis resin).

A customer sent this review:

“The Beldia I grew last summer made some excellent sift. My 120 screen ripped so I ended up 140g of very clean 150u dry-sieve and 2 pounds of bud. The hashish is my fave. I’ve got 100g curing and gently pressed the rest. It’s so damn good. Even with the plant matter it’s a much more complex smoke. My friends who do bho dabs keep asking me for it.”

At The Real Seed Company site, we use the term ‘heirloom’ for cannabis landraces that have undergone several generations of modern selective breeding without outcrossing.

Intensely resinous and very early maturing, this Beldia heirloom is ready outdoors in August or September. Some aficionados use ‘semi-auto’ to describe these very early landraces such as Beldia, Lebanese, and Sinai.

Several generations of intensive modern breeding work have made this Beldia line well-suited for use as bud. It’s also been adapted for cultivation outdoors at northern latitudes.

As with unworked Moroccan landraces, this Beldia heirloom is a short and compact, reacheing no more than 2 metres in height. Plants are typically not more than 1 metre tall.

Indoors, this is very early maturing, finishing in around 7 to 8 weeks.

A useful breeding parent and an example of what can be achieved by inbreeding landrace varieties such as Lebanese, Syrian, and Sinai.