Bangladesh Sativa

Around the mid 1970's, a pair of Australian hippies made their way to India. During their meandering exploration of the mystic land, they decided to head eastward for Bangladesh and entered the 'land of marijuana.'

I don't have details on all that they did there, but what came out of it was seed they picked from some top looking herb they purchased in a market south of Dhaka, in a town called Narayanganj(I haven't got a clue what that interprets to, only I notice it has another 'ganj' or 'marijuana' in it's make up)...

To attempt to get to the point, The strain arrived back in Nimbin, Australia, in the mid 70's and from there it came into the hands of an enthusiast who, recognising it's qualities, revered it above anything he ever came across and used it for all of his commercial grows. He's been growing it along the sides of Nimbin's Tuntable Creek ever since and his love of the strain has made him loyal to preserving it's purity...

It is an unadulterated landrace sativa strain that has been selectively inbred to maintain it's qualities. It came into my possession around 10 years ago and I've kept it true in that time. Since my smoking days began in the mid 70's, I've come across a hell of a lot of good weed but this one is my main stay...
Some of my early experiences of her were devastating! I would rock around to a friends house of an evening and he'd pull it out in front of me, load a single hit cone in his pipe that we'd sit there sharing it till it went out because we'd just gotten lost. I'd often forget where I was and as I used to look out from his windows at the night lights below where he lived, I'd freak that I might be anywhere, in another dimension, New York, Mars, I didn't know...it was mind blowing in the truest sense!

I'd get home hours upon hours later, yet the high would invaribly be pursuing me and it would just kept on hanging in! Many might doubt this before they've experienced it for themselves, but it commonly hangs in for around 8(eight)hours, where you are too high to pick up a ringing phone within that time. If we were smoking a joint, that would usually occur from sharing about half a one paper blunt between the 2 of us, the rest of it would just go out without our noticing.

One night I remember, he must have pulled out a particularly mature bud, it was an amberish color so I'd say it probably was. Phew! Oh boy! I was totally ripped and suddenly he had this urge to get his lifetime photo collection out to reminisce over. Somehow he found his way to his school photos dating back to his primary school days. I found myself looking at this photo he handed me and I was lost in it for a while. I went from face to face in the pic and I recognised em,' one by one, I went through each person recalling their names...Oh, that's Steve McKewan, Nancy Carter; and so it went on and on and I ended up working through most of the class line up and I vividly remembered each of em' and their names. I began looking for myself, I remembered all these people so I just had to be there somewhere! The search went on, then it dawned on me that this was his school photo from another side of town in an another era some nine years before my time. I was really spun out over it!

It's really that hallucinagenic!. Bangladesh is a very cerebral and trippy high but it has an amazing gravity that helps to balance it out against excessive paranoia. Well, you might be interested to know about it's grow...

The Bangladesh Sativa is what we here, call a long termer, that is it has a longer than usual veg period and won't flower until daylight hours drop somewhere below 13 hours. They won't flower under 2 months of age irrespective of light hours.

They are a modest yielder although I've had big specimens outdoors here in the subtropics, yielding more than 12oz.

They reach heights of around 18 feet/5.5 metres if they are left unchecked so they do tend to be a bit leggy.

In their grow, they smell extremely sour, like something really acidic that chemically rips at the membranes of your nose...

I grow them 100% organically in the great outdoors, to see the best results. Typically, I start them at the beginning of the last month in Autumn, around 4 weeks before the onslaught of Winter. I then take them right through Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn, until they are around 13 months of age just around the beginning of Winter. I usually prune them all the way to prevent them from sticking up above the undergrowth. They still usually end up at around 3 metres height and averaging around the 10oz mark(not a huge yielder as I said)...

This strain is great for the fact that it has no modern genetics in it. It's buds withstand our heaviest subtropical wet seasons here and she is simply the most mold resistent strain I've ever grown...

When the bud comes in at harvest, the stuff smells really special but to get to this stage, I let them go through until they're sweating out every last drop of resin. The plants go through a metamorphosis of color change, leaves turning a deep golden orange and slowly working their way to the top of the plant. When this golden colour tinting works it's way into the buds themselves and not just to the external leaves protruding from them, I know they're ripe. It is so easy to miss the magic of this strain if you're an impatient grower, eager to cut the buds down. She saves all her real magic to her very last and then spews it out all at once...I've seen people miss it from being to hasty to harvest.

Well, at this stage the buds are a cerulean(sky) blue colour with golden orange overlays penetrating the colas. They sparkle like jewels which they are! Their odour is unreal. If you've ever smelt lavendar, that's their smell! It has the most appealing smell of any of the bush bud I've come across over the years...Being an old landrace strain, this stuff does tend to burn a bit hot though. It can make you cough and whatnot. I put up with that a bit because, in the end, you end up smoking far less of this stuff than pretty much anything else I know of...

These girls cure so much faster than commercial weeds of today. I've seen em' hang dry in around 3 days. It seems to store indefinitely; I've drummed it up and brought it out a year or so later almost as good(in every regard), as the day she went in to storage...

It's flavour is a bit more indistinguishable in a joint but in a cone you can taste a fruityness similar to the taste found in White Widow only it is a fair bit coarser in it's make up, though it doesn't carry the medicinal taste.
It's buds form very compact, hard nuggets. They are pretty resilient to hermaphrodite on the whole, on an average year, I'd see around 2% showing up in the females. The males are always true, never turning hermie.Outdoors, they flower for around 12-14 weeks from the time they start showing flowers and comprimising only dissappoints in terms of the final product. These girls are real sun soakers that flourish in an open subtropic to tropical environ.
They grow surprisingly well indoors but it never really seems to give them their true potential. Indoors they require around 12-14 weeks from 12/12 turn down...

I crossed her with Aloha's White Widow a couple of years back and the cross was so strong it was silly. I was crashing into walls walking down the length of my hallway and I had really violent bed spins when I hit the sack, it was a wonder I didn't pass out. Oh, I was so ripped! Drunken is probably a better way to describe it, perhaps the most intoxicating herb I've smoked! That stuff was such exceptionally fine product, I reckon it might have won a cup only I ain't the man for putting in entries. I recall an old connoisseur who was so in love with it, he buried an oz. In a jar for 2 years to preserve it for a rainy day...

The Bangladesh are an antique from the past. The Nimbin Hemp Embassy gave out some 20,000 of them at the Nimbin Mardigrass Cannabis Festival 4 years ago. They could have easily made their way around the earth since that time...

Regards,
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Species: An unadulterated landrace sativa
Origin: Narayanganj, Bangladesh, 1975
Climate: Prefers an outdoor subtropical/tropical environment
Sow: For subtropical/tropical regions, Late Autumn or early Spring
Veg: A longer than average veg that will not trigger flowering till daylight
falls somewhere below 13 hours. Will never flower below 2 months of age
Flowering time: Outdoors 12-14 weeks from initial flowering
Indoors 12-14 weeks from 12/12
Harvest: Late Autumn, or as late as early Winter in more tropical zones that allow it
Height: Unchecked, they will reach heights of around 18’/5.5m
Yield: They are a modest yielder yet big specimens can exceed 12oz
Smell: During grow: Acid sour
After curing: The bright smell of lavender flowers
Flavour: A little coarse/hot but has a resemblance to the light fruitiness of White
Widow, without the medicinal taste
Fertiliser: Responds well to any fertilisers but best results for potency
and smell, come from a 100% organic grow
Potency/high: A very cerebral high that is laced with sufficient body so as
not to induce excessive panic. The high is extremely intense and long- lasting, enduring up to 8 hours if properly matured. She creates a romantic predisposition toward the world around you, lending itself to loose philosophical rambling and in it’s prime she is vividly hallucinogenic
Storage: Stores exceptionally well for long periods, preserving most of it’s
qualities of potency and smell
Drying: Hang drying renders it dry within as little as 3 days
Buds: Compact, hard buds that turn sky blue near harvest, developing flame
orange hues and sometimes turning brown at fullest maturity
Mould: Extremely mould resistant
Hermie: All males are hermaphrodite free; females average around 2%
Breeding: Selectively inbred; open pollinated in an isolated location
Other: Prefers a subtropical to tropical outdoor environment, where they can be
started before the onset of Winter. Started late autumn, allows you to rid males within the first 2 months, allowing you to be free of carrying them unnecessarily through the main grow. They require big exposure to direct sunlight. Strict organics renders the best final product in terms of potency and duration of high. She conserves the best of her magic till final metamorphosis renders golden hues to it’s buds. Patience pays off big-time with this one! Good luck!

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