Way too many aficionados still believe that landraces are ‘wild’ plants – i.e., naturally occurring spontaneous creations of nature. This is exactly wrong. ‘Landrace’ is an old technical term for traditional domesticates, meaning region-specific animal or crop breeds created by…
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New at CANNAMANtv, a ramble through the world of traditional cannabis culture with Angus from The Real Seed Company:
A new accession direct from Shan State, an ethnically Tai region of Burma. ‘Tai’ refers collectively to Thai, Lao, Shan and many other groups from Southeast Asia, all of who share – to greater or lesser degrees – a tradition…
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The new Growroom420 podcast is online now:
Politics is coming for our plant, again! This time it’s the ethnonationalists. A response to the dreadful, politicized new genomics study from Guangfeng Ren et al., is up at The Real Seed Company blog: Did Cannabis and its Cultivation Originate…
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Here’s a new interview and chat with Angus from The Real Seed Company on the Growroom420 podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MwafhOl43s
Colombia 90 is a potent commercial landrace–hybrid cross resurrected from seed collected from Colombian export bud and stored since c. 1990. You can find it in the Heirloom section. Also new are crosses of a ‘Colombia 90’ mother with two…
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Produced direct from original Master Kush seeds purchased in Amsterdam in 1990, these genetics are the foundation of many of today’s Kushes….
Freebie seeds with any order of any strain in any quantity are now 12 Kumaoni plus 12 ex-stock Highland Lao #2. Exactly what happened with these Highland Lao #2 seeds isn’t clear. Initially, they tested at +90% germination. Mysteriously, a…
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In light of the findings of a crucial new herbarium study from McPartland and Small, I’ve restructured the homepage archives at The Real Seed Company. A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis (Cannabis sativa subsp. indica) domesticates and their wild relatives…
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