the Mexican Landraces Thread

[elchischas]

" I can imagine you could totally educate me when it comes to the southern American heirloom cultivars"
@Emperortaima most of us consider @elchischas to be the authority of Mexican and South American cultivars. His knowledge is encyclopedic.

Thanks brother, the words mean a lot to me
Many times, most people don't know how difficult it is to travel to isolated and remote places.
Here in this country, danger is around every corner, and if you ask about weed, well, you can imagine that my trips are always full of emotions.
Few people appreciate this type of seeds, sometimes I don't know if it's worth looking for them..
In the end, I think I do them more for myself, to give meaning to my life.

 

[Emperortaima]

Definately to me those are pure landrace type seeds, that's the kind of seeds i'll looking for

Those remain me some that i got on this peninsula area just i'm at northern part but Guatemala isn't really far from here
When you pay close attention to the shape of the seeds,
your memory recognizes certain similarities
There is no doubt that your seeds are similar to these ones that I found in a small Mayan community in the southern part of Yucatan
Obviously, in the photographs, you can't say that they are very similar, because the details in the photos always create very presuasive effects, the type of photography is different as well, and the amount of light, but I am definitely sure that they are relative in some way
If both types of seeds were in the same photo (yours and mine) it would be difficult for most people to distinguish them
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My seeds
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Yesterday all the day i was traveling to isolated places to search more seeds
I spend almost three years here looking in vain, just hybrids seeds everywere
It was only when I rethought my method of looking for seeds that everything changed
Now there are interesting things to work with.
I found these seeds yesterday
Just the shape, size, color of what I really looking for
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Thank you for educating me I am very curious now if these will be some quality narrow leaf or broad leaf cultivar? Very excited! If you pop yours before I do mine best believe I will subscribe to your run