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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Our Egyptian cannabis landrace that we collected in Sinai during the 1990s got some informative customer reviews recently. “I grew out the Indica pheno a few years back, and that was superb. Short, squate, and almost Navy blue at fiinish….
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Fingers crossed – any luck, we’ve got seeds of that semidwarf Nepali ganja landrace…. All plants in this Nepali landrace show this highly unusual compact, leafy morphology. This is a ganja landrace, which means that this strain has a long…
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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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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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Here’s a shot of our ‘Lao Sa’ landrace at 40° N in mid-July. This is an old-school tropical Sativa of the type grown in the ethnic Lao region of north Isan, the heartland of Thai Stick. The late 1960s and…
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Here’s a great interview with Mel Frank on the origins of modern hybrids and cannabis cultivation in the United States.