What is a Landrace Strain?

[Real Seed Co]

In the world of cannabis, far too may aficionados still believe that landraces are wild plants – ‘wild’ in the sense of naturally occurring spontaneous creations of nature.

This is precisely wrong – in other words, not just inaccurate but exactly the opposite of right.

‘Landrace’ is an outdated technical term for traditional domesticates, meaning region-specific animal or crop breeds created by humans for products they want. There are landrace goats and pigs, and landrace strains of wheat and cannabis. Shaped by their specific environments – alpine Himalayan valleys, Central Asian deserts, tropical riversides of Indochina – nevertheless, all landraces are emphatically creations of humankind and human desires.

All real ganja and all the finest charas always come from landraces.

For more on why getting this right matters, see What’s the Real Meaning of ‘Landrace’?

Image shows our Kerala accession, collected in Idukki, South India, growing in Hawaii.

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[Rasterman]

In the world of cannabis, far too may aficionados still believe that landraces are wild plants – ‘wild’ in the sense of naturally occurring spontaneous creations of nature.

This is precisely wrong – in other words, not just inaccurate but exactly the opposite of right.

‘Landrace’ is an outdated technical term for traditional domesticates, meaning region-specific animal or crop breeds created by humans for products they want. There are landrace goats and pigs, and landrace strains of wheat and cannabis. Shaped by their specific environments – alpine Himalayan valleys, Central Asian deserts, tropical riversides of Indochina – nevertheless, all landraces are emphatically creations of humankind and human desires.

All real ganja and all the finest charas always come from landraces.

For more on why getting this right matters, see What’s the Real Meaning of ‘Landrace’?

Image shows our Kerala accession, collected in Idukki, South India, growing in Hawaii.

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Yes - I am sick of seeing all the spewed and respewed content online (and plagiarized endlessly) saying that landrace strains are wild. It's true that there are feral populations all over the world, but like chiles, it's likely that the original strain has been lost due to the actions of creative humans who came before.