Thanks for sharing the pic link
The kush types that I call golden temple Kush were from a farm North of Amritsar and are not at all common in the area at least not for heavy set Canuck on a old Russian side car bike
My Chinese did have purples both the older version I obtained by trading on the net and the more recently imported version it also has mutations weird leaf mutations on a small % of individuals .
The Burmese as its called in Canada does not show that coloration at all and it was very subtle but there were some slightly darker plants I would not call totally purple but yes .
I don't really see a connection between what the majority of the US market calls "kush " and the plants I know to be true kush's I think the majority of the "kush" plants are from the Pakistani gene pool , the terpene profiles of plants Like Chem Dog are so much like the best of Pakistan and the structure many of these "kush" plants are taller and don't fit that short super wide leafed Afghani structure .
Bubba Kush is more like a true kush from my understanding Nevil and I have talked about this topic in the past .
I know that there was a time when actual flowers were being imported from the region to North America that would explain where the genetic base for many of today's popular cultivars entered North America I know this to be a fact for BC Canada I also herd the same loads were coming into the USA along the west coast but this all ended around the time of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan .
I am only offering my observation of the various strains I have grown and collected if Cannabis seeds were sweets I would be fatter than I am now .
The kush types that I call golden temple Kush were from a farm North of Amritsar and are not at all common in the area at least not for heavy set Canuck on a old Russian side car bike
My Chinese did have purples both the older version I obtained by trading on the net and the more recently imported version it also has mutations weird leaf mutations on a small % of individuals .
The Burmese as its called in Canada does not show that coloration at all and it was very subtle but there were some slightly darker plants I would not call totally purple but yes .
I don't really see a connection between what the majority of the US market calls "kush " and the plants I know to be true kush's I think the majority of the "kush" plants are from the Pakistani gene pool , the terpene profiles of plants Like Chem Dog are so much like the best of Pakistan and the structure many of these "kush" plants are taller and don't fit that short super wide leafed Afghani structure .
Bubba Kush is more like a true kush from my understanding Nevil and I have talked about this topic in the past .
I know that there was a time when actual flowers were being imported from the region to North America that would explain where the genetic base for many of today's popular cultivars entered North America I know this to be a fact for BC Canada I also herd the same loads were coming into the USA along the west coast but this all ended around the time of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan .
I am only offering my observation of the various strains I have grown and collected if Cannabis seeds were sweets I would be fatter than I am now .
Very insightful, I've heard of Burmese and Chinese indicas before but in my mind they're a separate genepool from the Kush type, they're not hashplants and probably not derived from hashplants. Thai and Laotian show this influence as well.
Only Ornamental posted this picture from Clarkes book, I think it shows the relatonships between different varieties pretty well.
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Kush strains are an isolate and confined to a small area, it's crazy how widespead they have become since they were commercialized. Looking at the map I think it's very much a possibility that "Kush" is an ancient cross breed of Indian and Central Asian genetics, the short stature might have come from ruderalis and the wide leafs from chinensis but that is of course just speculation from my part. Chinensis however is a separate gene pool.
I can't post pictures of RSC Manipuri but I'll pm you the links. Lots of purples in them, did your Chinese and Burmese plants have that feature?