Landrace Projects

As much as I love the new fire on the market, I’m working with some old lesser known landrace strains.

Kerala from south India
Nanda Devi from northern India
Kumaoni from the Himalayas
Tashkurgan from Western China near Afghanistan

First up are some pictures of Kerala. Super soaring almost too intense high. Thin airy buds typical of a landrace sativa. Terps like fresh cut Christmas trees and sweet carrots. 16 week flowering times.

 

I grabbed these from the real seed company. They specialize in landrace preservation so it seemed like a good place to start with something new. I’ve been breeding for a while and want to do something besides crossing our modern cuts to each other. Been sourcing some landraces and some of my old school favorites that are still around. Sent some of my gear to a grower in Thailand and he is sending some of their local genetics back. It’s definitely worth investing in genetic diversity if you are more than a casual grower. Sounds like you are a passionate grower. The hard part is finding the space to do a preservation run with each of these strains before outcrossing them. Someone used the comparison to painting where if you keep blending everything you just get muddy brown. Gotta keep some in their original form.

 

Thank you. I used to be a regular around here but it’s been a long time. Good to be back.

 

Been a long time but not long enough to forgot your name! Good to see you again. I’m glad this place still exists.

 

This is one of the Tashkurgan Females. Out of the pack of tashkurgan, we are doing an open pollination using multiple males and all of the females for gene preservation. But at the same time, putting a few of the sativa landrace ladies and a couple modern strains in the room with them to make some hybrids. Each run can be a generic preservation for one of the strains and outcrossing to a few others.

I like this lady with the extra leaflets. I’ve had some amazing plants that came with this trait.

 

Definitely. These old strains have longer lasting highs too. More pest and disease resistance. It’s the older smokers who have shown the most interest in these projects I’m working on. A sweet older lady was the first on the list to be a tester of the new crosses. I’m personally not even a big sativa smoker but I see so many people talk about how they can’t get smoke that reminds them of what they had years ago. Trying to go back to some of that.

I’ve heard rumors of crossing an auto to one of those long flowering plants and getting a plant that just keeps throwing flowers. Trim the tops and lowers become new tops and so on for weeks and weeks. Seems like it could be a fun experiment.

 

Elder Blade has a nice ring to it hahaha. Getting more grey hairs creeping in all the time but still feel young. Still act childish. Does that count?

 

Hi! You’re still holding down the fort. I definitely remember Clackamas Coot. How do you forget a name like that! I had a bunch of seizures around 2018 so my memory took a hit but most of it’s still there. Got on meds and I’m all good now.

 

I don’t think I wrapped my newborn baby with as much care as he wrapped up that bell pepper.

taken out of context that’s a really weird sentence ^^^

 

Interesting, mine are also nocturnal or right after waking up. It took a long time to get diagnosed because I wasn’t awake to know what was happening. I kept waking up dizzy, standing up and coughing up blood. Rushed to the ER. They couldn’t figure anything out. My mouth was swollen and ulcerated. They thought it was some infectious disease and were doing a million tests on my lungs. I was only coughing up blood from biting my tongue in my sleep and inhaling the blood. I asked them if it could be seizures and they said no! It only came out that I was having them when someone finally saw it happen. The first meds they put me on were horrible. They made me mean. I’m not a mean person. But for about a year or two I was a total asshat. Changing meds helped a lot.