The Durand Line Project 2020

The Indian Landrace Exchange posted their complete Durand Line project tourbook on their website. It's 100 pages of awesome!

https://www.indianlandraceexchange.com/projects/durandlineproject_2020/

Can't wait for the printed book and seeds to come in. I have to decide if I'm going to sit on them for awhile or try and start preserving this year though...

I'm already dreaming of Afghani/Thai/Haze crosses... or African crosses. I'm guessing there will be more than a couple good Afghani bases to start working from. The interesting thing is that the different farms have different selection methods and operating criteria. These aren't true landraces but they have most likely been improved over time for sure. We baby our grow soils but look at that parched, tan dirt with almost no organic matter. And these genetics can still pull through? I'm excited to see what can happen when conditions improve dramatically!

Of course, I'm really excited about the Red Maruf too.

An awesome interview with Indian Landrace Exchange and Alex Harti on FCP

GrownAtHighAltitude said:

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Is this off their website or seed bank?

BOY GENIUS said:

Is this off their website or seed bank?

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It was only available by pre-order and you had to email them. They've since sold out, though there was a drop on 4/20 of 3 strains with the tourbook on https://wellgrownseeds.com/ which has also since sold out. There may be more available in time.

GrownAtHighAltitude said:

It was only available by pre-order and you had to email them. They've since sold out, though there was a drop on 4/20 of 3 strains with the tourbook on https://wellgrownseeds.com/ which has also since sold out. There may be more available in time.

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Thanks. I appreciate the information. Have you tested any of those packs?

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Thanks. I appreciate the information. Have you tested any of those packs?

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Only 1 each of the Red, Black and Green Maruf Kandahars. All three popped open but the black died off before it could sprout. I think it's probably my fault. The other two are doing the seedling thing now.

Seems your not the only one to have die off after germination. Out of two packs of Maruf one green one black we only ended up with three plants. About 70 percent germ on the black and 80!on green. Plants got first set of leaves and just stopped growing never got another set. Sent emails and such about the problem and the reply I got was it was soil or enviro problem.
hermed ten other cultivars same time and the Maruf were the only ones that did this.
So yeah it was our fault. Lol.

It may be that these genetics aren't used to rich soils... just judging by the pics of those farms, those soils are tan colored and nearly barren.

An update on this, I killed off the two Maruf's that popped because they were male and I didn't have time to deal with them. They were nice, healthy plants however.

Damn, I'm sad I missed out on these Maruf Kandahar seeds!

We used green and black Maruf males on a green pheno female. Nice mature extra large seed Way diff than the orig batches we rec from the source

As there field collected seeds if yer having issues after they pop with em just dying off shortly after sprouting try cleaning them a lil before you germ them with some water and hydrogen peroxide that way your sure theres no pathogens on the outside of the seed coat that can mess with em once they have popped id say that should be standard practice with any field collected seeds it could be soil is too rich id use normal seedling compost for them not super rich stuff to er on the safe side

Here is our Maruf green mom. She about doubles her size when put into flower.

Man, arghandab black is a beautiful smelly plant. It smells like dirt earthy hasty with like roasted pistachio and maybe a fruit or citrus at the backend...it has little trichs. But I'm flower for Sept 18th, got a shit ton of seeds from one plant cause I picked it. But got like 20 from another I haven't begun to pick through, I'll pic it, but that plant is chunky and beautiful, gonna cure it when it's done. And I'll take a few pics later today

Those seeds have girth to em, I'll take some pics of the buds soon

Comparison to a c02 plastic o ring, sob has veins n shit

Sorry for the disappointing view of these ladies, I didn't have a great soil mix on le run, but they're still chugging along, and the buds are hard when I give a Lil squeeze, I dunno if they'll stay that way after their finished n dried, the terp are fuckin strong though