It was a toss up between it and cannatonic. This being (THC/CBD) 22/5 and cannatonic being 15/12, so i took the 7% more THC instead, as 15/5 is closer to natural in my research. Some people say cbd can bring you down when you intake too much THC. And I wouldn’t 100% disagree with them, I’d just argue that it probably brings you closer to the desired buzz your ancestors spent 1000s (if not tens of thousands) of years on, before we began 100 ish. Any true landrace has cbd in it. But it’s an arguable term, landrace… technically I could throw any regular seeds out there. Say blue dream. The crop self sustains for a couple years… it’s now technically landrace… but to me. Landrace means practically pre dark ages. When the ancients cultivated, and chased the best parent plants to create the strains that where re-discovered in the then western world (Europe), after the dark ages. Note, they are only called the dark ages because we have very limited written records (for Europe). When the roman empire fell, no one, short of clergy, was documenting anything. Mostly because without Rome, there no longer was civilized life. Everything fell back into neighborhood wars. Only education was the sword, not the pen. Only bishops and other clergymen where literate. But that’s only in Europe… And yes, while we say indica came from the European region. But that’s false. Technically. The whole scientific system for naming was thrown out the window with cannabis. Since we’ve basically just went with made up stoner terms like indica… here’s where, if you know how things get their scientific names, usually in Latin… Usually… lol. Not the case with family name sativa… now indica, what’s that? Well… the scientific name for it is Indica Sativa. Sativa? Well… it’s Sativa Sativa. Because scientifically… it’s only sativa. The cannabis plant comes from Asia. It was most widely spread by Genghis Khan. Who during his conquests brought it all the way into eastern Europe and the entirety of the Mediterranean. Some of these ancient strains have been preserved and rediscovered, they are difficult to find, best place I’ve found is RSC ofc. When you start looking at the non India (hashish heads, hash plants), go more twords steppe n such. They all have CBD and or CBG… anyway… I wanted the higher THC but still CBD… I copies this from rsc about their afhani, which is a hash landrace, but explains that it could be either CBD or THC gen 1… then you breed… Oh almost forgot. The mongol horde didn’t smoke it. They used a gaint cauldron either outside or presumably in a tent and just burned it. Like large/bonfire/hotbox style and everyone was effected. According to their captors/cohorts. The Mongols only killed everyone if they really pissed of the Khan. Otherwise if you where useful in any way, you where put to use. Its a little known fact that over half of China was captured by Khan using mostly captured and turncoat Chinese… horsemen are no use against walls, the horde conquered the near east while the great Khan conquered China with Chinese. I know… I went way off on a tangent. Just excited a little, wish I had a way to test the final . Anyway, this describes what to expect and how it could go either way but one can only assume it to have both. As I believe it probably should.
" Description
Genetics: Traditional Afghan Domesticate (“Landrace”)
Sourcing: Landrace Genetics, Balkh, Northern Afghanistan (2019)
Purpose: Charas (sieved)
Latitude: 36° N
Harvest: October
Height: c. 2 metres
Characteristics: Intense aromas, heavy branching, medium to broad leaflets
Classification: C. sativa subsp. indica var. afghanica (x C. sativa subsp. indica var. indica ?)
Grow Type: Outdoor, greenhouse, or indoor
A traditional domesticate from Balkh, the hashish heartland of northern Afghanistan, a crucial centre of cannabis culture and biodiversity.
This is a resinous and heavily branched strain with intense aromas ranging from citrus and lime to pine, sandlewood, and burnt rubber. Semi-dwarf, often with almost spherical architecture.
As with all resin cultigens, expect to find chemotypes ranging from THC- to CBD-dominant, as well as other cannabinoids such as THCV.
This accession differs from the very large north Afghan strain sold by Real Seed Co as Mazar-i-Sharif.
Highly recommend to breeders. Essential for collectors.
NOTE: A recent test on three exceptional plants from a small grow of this accession in New England showed alleged THC levels ranging from 14% to 24%. This would be unusual for a pristine first-generation Afghan plant. It’s not yet clear what explains these results, but most likely an unreliable lab. Nevertheless, collectors should be aware that a potential explanation for such high THC levels is that this population may have been affected by introduced hybrids. That said, more likely this is simply an exceptionally potent Afghan domesticate.
(Landrace hyperlink copy/paste, all hyperlinks removed to keep with TOS, I left in the translate and mirriam Webster (because I think those may be okay?, Also left in the YouTube hyperlink, because I know YouTube is.)
WHAT’S THE REAL MEANING OF ‘LANDRACE’?
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‘Landrace’ was once an obscure technical term employed only by botanists and other experts who understand what it means. Now it’s used worldwide by non-experts who mostly clearly don’t.
Confusion has been the status quo since cannabis aficionados latched on to this jargon a few years ago, three years of which I’ve since spent doing what I can to drive home that the core meaning of landrace is in fact ‘domesticate’ – in the sense of a traditional strain created by people for products they want. As Dr. Ernest Small writes in Cannabis: A Complete Guide : “The term landrace (land race) refers to populations of domesticated plants that were selected over many generations by farmers in a region.”
But Google ‘landrace’ – in the context of cannabis – and you still get deluged with claims that these are wild plants.
The equation that’s led to the current chaos seems to be land + race = wild. This widespread mistake is a problem, not least because it erases the central role of the peoples who created these foundational strains and the marginalized farmers who’ve kept this ancient biodiverse heritage alive through the nightmare of prohibition.
Misleading as it is ugly, the English ‘landrace’ translates terms such as the German ‘Landrasse’. Rasse and its equivalents in other languages of mainland Europe carry two related meanings: race and breed. By contrast, race in its equivalent sense in contemporary Standard English only ever means race. ‘Land race’ is occasionally the orthography in academic literature, a spelling that like the term itself is a relic of an archaic sense of ‘race’ (see Merriam-Webster link above) and serves to sow further confusion.
This confusion drags other stuff with it. Folks are taking that ‘race’ to mean, well, race, when popular understanding of the science of race is stuck somewhere back in the 1930s. With ‘land’ to drive this misconstrued meaning home, the connotations of landrace become perhaps a touch concerning , not least given the long history of racializing cannabis to ‘other’ and degrade marginalized social groups – the very same communities who’ve born the brunt of cruel and misguided drug laws. Recall the history of the name marijuana. Or Xinjiang, where the ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Uyghurs by the Chinese state began in the 1930s with the targeting of cannabis cultivation. This plant has been relentlessly coopted for racist agendas.
God only knows, in our addled era, what deranged notions ‘landrace’ is now reinforcing as it cycles through countless iterations on the Internet. Cannabis should be about anti-racism, not perpetuating the dimwitted race fantasies of bigots and white-supremacists, [none of which have any basis whatsoever in science]
But, unfortunately, it seems for now we’re stuck with this very ugly and very misleading word.
Then finally. The two options I had narrowed down to. Chose the critical.
