haha yes, i am picking up what yer puttin down
i for one am super interested to watch this unfold. the idea of someone finding relatives to the ancestors of some of my favorite modern strains is exciting, and even new indica expressions not found in commercial bud?
Can’t remember where I read it but one of the seed sellers from over there was saying that broad leaves being the only Afghanis was a western concept and there’s always been a mix of leaf shapes in that area.
Learn to read, I already posted it.
yeah, Hedge is low IQ. Can’t help him
im trying to help you. But you jst don’t get it
You're skepticism is well founded and on the same level as mine. Whereas I respect NLSG for the foundational work he did with NL, like all of us old dinosaurs, he's getting up an age and memory is no doubt an issue. So he could probably use a little extra cash, didn't want to have to deal with newbie growing questions and forum bullshit, so he figured the best way would be to let somebody else do the marketing and give him a cut of the sales.
That's pretty much where we are now... marketing and salesmanship over quality, substance and most importantly, the amount of _work_ involved to actually create something unique.
that's pretty self- disparaging, wouldn't you say? not all old people are greedy and dishonest is my point.
it sorta goes without saying that there should be a good argument or evidence involved and i KNOW you didn't post that on any thread i've been on with you, and so far (unless i'm missing something) you ignored my p.m. asking for good evidence or a compelling argument.
yes , I ignored you.
I keep a line that is said to have come from Kandahar in the late 70s -early 80s. Kandahar is where Schultz discovered and described Cannabis indica as a distinct subspecies from sativa. My line comes from Underground seed collective and is no longer available commercially. It is truly great weed! Can hardly wait to grow it again!I've recently heard that the Afghanistan, Pakistan area used to have very much variety, including cerebral strains. Now it is more known for couch-lock hash plants that we are all too familiar with, and popularly known as indica. I know nothing about that history, but I think Kush might have been considered more cerebral. I guess.
I do know that I grew a plant in the early 80s that I considered old school pure Afghani. It looked exactly like a picture that was published in a book with a name something like Plants of the Gods, by Richard Evans Schultes, I think. The picture of the plant came from Kandahar.
Here is the plant I grew. It wasn´t a keeper for me though I wished I had preserved it. At that time I wasn´t aware that hybridization was going to endager the incredible variety that used to exist.
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I was so ignorant to pinch the top off of that plant. It prevented me from seeing it in it's natural state. Quite a specimen anyway. Very skunky.
Are you trying to avoid other afghan landraces that might have cbd? Been seeing your posts all over, i am pretty intrigued and interested about what you have to say. I saw a comment about skunk being a bioweapon to dilute the genes of cannabis and i sort of see what you mean, as someone who is passionate about landraces, you know, the way skunk has been used to destroy the genetic diversity of cultivated cannabis is really there to see. But the point i suppose i am getting at is are you only focusing on heirlooms that have been taken out of places like Afghanistan, pre-hybrid and hemp industry-era and bred in isolation? Would the notion of taking various afghan landraces, allowing cross pollination and selecting for the zero cbd traits until it breeds true be a notion you would entertain? I can see why you would want to find some seeds that are 'clean' and the work is already done,Good morning genghis
I think it was originally collected in Afghanistan, looks like it may be genuine.
Id say plants that are genetically those of hashplant origin, so not tropical sativas or multipurpose hemp/food/resin domesticates from the himalyas, but genetically speaking, plants that were historically domesticated in the middle east and dry northern regions of the world. I am sure many indica type plants have a varying spectrum of the factors you mentioned, i have heard of old school indicas not having extremely wide leafs all of the time etc
Happy Hogmanay! Have you ever tested your plants for cbd? I miss the effects of Afghani but had given up on finding pure seeds so got quite excited about this one, hopefully it’s uncontaminated and still has the effects that I miss.
I’ve been reliant on cannabis for medicinal reasons most of my life but sadly the modern skunk hybrids don’t work for me so I look for anything unrelated to it, not just from Afghanistan.
Alot of the modern afghan landraces are also not typically as broad leafleted as some would assume, the mazar i sharif landrace is supposed to resemble a hybrid of a sativa and indica so i have heard, big 3-4 meter plants that grows in skinnier leafs as it matures
I mean any sort of genetic trojan horse is a kind of bioweapon in my opinion, sorry i paraphrase alot. Bioweapon is kind of how i regard hemp and skunk. You have any more plants that are supposedly pristine you could point me in the direction of?
The only other plants I found that are unrelated to skunk or hemp are ot1 haze and the Thai from ace.
I see. You had a look at the real seed company aswell i am assuming? ive been buying their seeds for years, was hoping that alot of them would at least be uncrossed with skunk and og and all of those. hemp id imagine there are lots of hybrids of on there...not including the multipurpose type stuff
Seriously doubt much of anything collected in the last 30 years is clean.
