I grew something called Jamaican dream. That was a sativa dominate. It was a high producer. Smelled and taster super sweet, kind of fruity like overripe mango or papaya. I also had a bit of mold in one cola while drying. I caught it early, kinda pulled the buds in the colas apart didn't get anymore mold. I think the mold was from a fan leaf stem that got clipped but not down to the mainstem. Had a hell of a time selling it here in California, nothing new sativa is not popular in California . Probably smoked 25% of it.oh darn super tasty sativa for the head. Lol
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jamaican origin of cannabis.
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I grew something called Jamaican dream. That was a sativa dominate. It was a high producer. Smelled and taster super sweet, kind of fruity like overripe mango or papaya. I also had a bit of mold in one cola while drying. I caught it early, kinda pulled the buds in the colas apart didn't get anymore mold. I think the mold was from a fan leaf stem that got clipped but not down to the mainstem. Had a hell of a time selling it here in California, nothing new sativa is not popular in California . Probably smoked 25% of it.oh darn super tasty sativa for the head. Lol
Jamaican cannabis originates from India - but certainly not from hemp strains or from Himalayan charas strains, as people have suggested earlier. That is totally wrong.
The seeds arrived with ganja (i.e. herbal cannabis, bud, whatever you want to call it) that was shipped to the Caribbean from India by the British, for the Indian coolies (indentured labourers, i.e contracted slaves) who worked on the sugar cane plantations. There was a regular export trade from India to the Caribbean until the 1930s.
So the original Jamaican strains originate from the various places ganja was being grown in India - principally around Maharashtra, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu.
Subsequently, in more recent decades, I think other strains were introduced from Colombia.
Then in the last few years modern hybrids have really started to mess things up.
But original Jamaican cannabis and cannabis culture is fundamentally Indian - and the cultivars are descended from tropical Indian ganja strains.
The seeds arrived with ganja (i.e. herbal cannabis, bud, whatever you want to call it) that was shipped to the Caribbean from India by the British, for the Indian coolies (indentured labourers, i.e contracted slaves) who worked on the sugar cane plantations. There was a regular export trade from India to the Caribbean until the 1930s.
So the original Jamaican strains originate from the various places ganja was being grown in India - principally around Maharashtra, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu.
Subsequently, in more recent decades, I think other strains were introduced from Colombia.
Then in the last few years modern hybrids have really started to mess things up.
But original Jamaican cannabis and cannabis culture is fundamentally Indian - and the cultivars are descended from tropical Indian ganja strains.
Very unlikely the type of plant you are describing has any genetic connection to Jamaica.
Yeah , your probably correct, it was a blue dream cross. I saw some Jamaican bud was entered into the cannabis cup, all dutch strains. They tested dead last around 15% thc. Assuming it was outdoor, trying to compete with indoor from Amsterdam.
Funny that the british themselves were providing the ganja to their workers lol. Reminds me to some other cases where slaves were given spirits instead...
The British in the 1920s were trying to keep cannabis out of international drug control legislation. They were making too much money out of taxing it in India, which was the largest market in the world for cannabis products. They also genuinely didn't see any good reason to make it illegal.
You can read about it in Cannabis Britannica by James Mills.
You can read about it in Cannabis Britannica by James Mills.
