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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Tune in to an interview with David Watson – aka, Sam the Skunkman – in which the legendary underground cannabis breeder discourses upon his seed collection and the crucial importance of preserving cannabis landraces in order to be able to…
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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.
Spark one up and enjoy this classic Ali G interview about ‘drugs’ like Moroccan hash with Professor John Henry of the UK’s National Poisons Information Service:
Seeds of new accessions of Lao and Thai cannabis landraces are available here and at The Real Seed Company. The image shows a ganja landrace from the Pakse region of Laos, on the Mekong River directly opposite the ethnic Lao…
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