In the opinion of most experts with real experience of working at scale, there is only one hybrid to emerge from the underground breeding projects of the prohibition era that’s genuinely true-breeding: ‘Skunk No. 1’ Notice how in this ‘Catalog…
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Feminized seeds of an authentic ’89 / ’90 season ‘Haze x Skunk #1’ are avaliable now.
Check out this ‘X18 (Cider Kush)’ customer photo and report by NoHarmFarm: The aroma absolutely fills the room, not subtle at all. Mouthwateringly kushy, strawberry yoghurt, rosemary, grapes, apple, sweet and sour – It’s hard to pin down. There’s a…
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A somatic mutation in our ‘1990 Haze x Skunk’. The likely cause is that a single cell at the two-cell stage developed a mutation that stopped chlorophyll production, and this mutation was inherited by all its daughter cells. Such mutations…
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Enjoy a further, deeper ramble through the history, botany, and culture of cannabis landraces with Angus of The Real Seed Company and Aussie Gunja Man: The image shows Central Asian ‘charsis’ in a park in 1780s Lucknow, north India. You…
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Part 2 of the chat with Angus of The Real Seed Company and Matt of Riot Seeds is now online. You can find Part 1 at The Real Seed Company Blog.
‘Addiction’ is a controversial concept. To my mind, the jury is out on the whole question of what addiction even is, particularly in the context of substances such as cannabis or coffee and ‘tonic’ use. Most days, my go-to sources…
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David Watson – aka, Sam the Skunkman – discusses his cannabis seed collection and the importance of preserving cannabis landraces in order to be able to create advanced cannabis cultivars in this 2021 interview. A controversial figure, Watson is widely credited…
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Scotland’s number one organic animation series: Cannaman!
Here’s a great interview with Mel Frank on the origins of modern hybrids and cannabis cultivation in the United States.