Iranian

Description

Genetics: Iranian Domesticate (“Landrace”)
Sourcing: The Real Seed Company, Khorasan, Iran, 2019 Harvest
Purpose: Charas (sieved resin)
Latitude: 35° N
Harvest: late-September to October
Height: [forthcoming]
Aroma: [forthcoming]
Characteristics: High-yielding
Grow Type: Outdoors, greenhouse, or indoors

A pure Iranian landrace from the Khorasan region of northeastern Iran, neighboring Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.

This is a very high-yielding landrace with immense flower production. It was sourced through a long-term resident of Khorasan with deep knowledge of the area. Seeds are direct from local farmers.

Khorasan is an ancient centre of cannabis culture. Most famously, it was the site of the khanqah of Qutb ad-Dīn Haydar, a Muslim mystic legendarily said to have discovered hashish. Best known to the West as Sheikh Haydar, his followers, the Haydaris, were famed for their extreme practices and chronic cannabis use.

NOTE: This is a new accession from the 2019 harvest. Seeds are exhibiting close to 100% germination.

Photos forthcoming…

A Jami qalandar, sixteenth-century Turkey. Qalandars are anarchic Muslim mystics who are believed to have been responsible for bringing sacramental chronic cannabis use from Central Asia and eastern Iran to the Middle East, North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Balkans in the 13th century.

A Haydari qalandar, sixteenth-century Turkey.