Peruvian Landrace: Kotosh Purpura
I have been going to Peru since 1994 after I met Guillermo Arevalo through one of my teachers, Mark Plotkin. This was before Guillermo became known as Ketsenbetsa, and played the Shaman in the film "Blueberry"
I started drinking ayahuasca with him and his wives in Sept 94 and continued to work with him till 2005.
In 2007 my Bro, Friend, Teacher, and Shaman Peter Gorman, writer of "Drug War Follies" in Skunk Mag introduced me to the family he has worked and studied Ayahuasca and plant healing with since the late 1980's.
Peter's story is one everyone should read in his book "Ayahuasca in my Blood"
It's during this time between 2007 - present that I spent several years looking for weed in the Lima, Cuzco, Iquitos, Trujillo, and Chavin regions while working with many of Peru's Ayahuasca, and Huachuma Curanderos.
What cannabis I did find was brown compost most of the time, and occasionalyl I'd get smoked out on something nice.
It wasn't until 2013 while journeying on the riverbaot Sophie downriver on the Ucayali that I smelled that scent/taste I've only encountered 4-5 times in my life. I was like a bloodhound sniffing out the weed, and I found it with a young Hassidic Jewish Man, named Abram.
We talked, he rolled and passed me some of the finest tasting, most psychedelic cannabis I've tasted in my 45+yrs of puffing.
He told me they grew "Mono Rojo" and he was going home to Ankash after delivering their latest shipment to Iquitos, where I had boarded earlier that afternoon.
That night he invited me to celebrate some ritual, and afterwards we puffed all night long. I just kept getting higher and higher, I was tripping like I was on Aya, DMT, L, and Boomers all at the ame time, the spirits of the forest were showing themselves to my third eye, ribbons, and patterns were superimposed over my vision. I was home in the Jungle.
17hrs later in Puerto G***** where I disembarked, abram gave me a large roll of newspaper. I could smell the fine scent of Connoisseur Cannabis.
What he gave me I found out today was only what the growers smoke and grow for themselves. This is not Cannabis sold on the market or to anyone they do not know.
He said it comes from Peru, and has been grown here by them for over 50yrs, they brought the seed with them when they settled in Peru. He said he does not know where the seed originates(this is where I hope Sam's DNA project can fill us in).
Here's the fun stuff.
I started 8 seeds in June 13th or so 2015
I left on an overseas journey throughout Asia buying gemstones in July, and my wife did not care for the plants at all, they were in 1gal pots in Moonshine mix(search ICMAG).
My boy watered them when he said he saw them getting burnt by this summers Southern Oregon heat wave.
I came home to extremely tall, not stretchy, decent spaced internodeds, thin leafed sativas, and 5 males starting to show already on day 60-75 from seed. Females did not show till day 90-100 from seed.
I was surprised by the christmas tree shapes nice looking mexi type columbian type like I grew in the 70's
I planted these into 20something smart pots I had from Colorado filled them with moonshine mix, bat and bird guano, and fed them with nectar of the gods till Sept 15th when I started flushing a tad early, but as I watch them now I think they have just enough trace nutes to finninsh up by Jan 2016
3 distinct phenos showing from the sample of 8 seeds started
scents range from fruity berry on the thicker tighter noded green leaf, and typical comersh scent on the other green tight noded pheno.
the third is clove, frankincense, and something else I can't place a name to yet. I'm guessing March before first samples will be ready for tasting.
I have been going to Peru since 1994 after I met Guillermo Arevalo through one of my teachers, Mark Plotkin. This was before Guillermo became known as Ketsenbetsa, and played the Shaman in the film "Blueberry"
I started drinking ayahuasca with him and his wives in Sept 94 and continued to work with him till 2005.
In 2007 my Bro, Friend, Teacher, and Shaman Peter Gorman, writer of "Drug War Follies" in Skunk Mag introduced me to the family he has worked and studied Ayahuasca and plant healing with since the late 1980's.
Peter's story is one everyone should read in his book "Ayahuasca in my Blood"
It's during this time between 2007 - present that I spent several years looking for weed in the Lima, Cuzco, Iquitos, Trujillo, and Chavin regions while working with many of Peru's Ayahuasca, and Huachuma Curanderos.
What cannabis I did find was brown compost most of the time, and occasionalyl I'd get smoked out on something nice.
It wasn't until 2013 while journeying on the riverbaot Sophie downriver on the Ucayali that I smelled that scent/taste I've only encountered 4-5 times in my life. I was like a bloodhound sniffing out the weed, and I found it with a young Hassidic Jewish Man, named Abram.
We talked, he rolled and passed me some of the finest tasting, most psychedelic cannabis I've tasted in my 45+yrs of puffing.
He told me they grew "Mono Rojo" and he was going home to Ankash after delivering their latest shipment to Iquitos, where I had boarded earlier that afternoon.
That night he invited me to celebrate some ritual, and afterwards we puffed all night long. I just kept getting higher and higher, I was tripping like I was on Aya, DMT, L, and Boomers all at the ame time, the spirits of the forest were showing themselves to my third eye, ribbons, and patterns were superimposed over my vision. I was home in the Jungle.
17hrs later in Puerto G***** where I disembarked, abram gave me a large roll of newspaper. I could smell the fine scent of Connoisseur Cannabis.
What he gave me I found out today was only what the growers smoke and grow for themselves. This is not Cannabis sold on the market or to anyone they do not know.
He said it comes from Peru, and has been grown here by them for over 50yrs, they brought the seed with them when they settled in Peru. He said he does not know where the seed originates(this is where I hope Sam's DNA project can fill us in).
Here's the fun stuff.
I started 8 seeds in June 13th or so 2015
I left on an overseas journey throughout Asia buying gemstones in July, and my wife did not care for the plants at all, they were in 1gal pots in Moonshine mix(search ICMAG).
My boy watered them when he said he saw them getting burnt by this summers Southern Oregon heat wave.
I came home to extremely tall, not stretchy, decent spaced internodeds, thin leafed sativas, and 5 males starting to show already on day 60-75 from seed. Females did not show till day 90-100 from seed.
I was surprised by the christmas tree shapes nice looking mexi type columbian type like I grew in the 70's
I planted these into 20something smart pots I had from Colorado filled them with moonshine mix, bat and bird guano, and fed them with nectar of the gods till Sept 15th when I started flushing a tad early, but as I watch them now I think they have just enough trace nutes to finninsh up by Jan 2016
3 distinct phenos showing from the sample of 8 seeds started
scents range from fruity berry on the thicker tighter noded green leaf, and typical comersh scent on the other green tight noded pheno.
the third is clove, frankincense, and something else I can't place a name to yet. I'm guessing March before first samples will be ready for tasting.
