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These were obtained from The Real Seed Company.
https://therealseedcompany.com/product/helmand-afghan-cannabis-landrace-strain-seeds/
From their website:
Description
Genetics: Afghan Cannabis Landrace
Sourcing: Landrace Genetics, Helmand, Afghanistan (2022)
Purpose: Charas (sieved), Bhang
Latitude: 31° N
Harvest: October
Grow Type: Outdoor, greenhouse, or indoor
A cannabis landrace accession newly collected directly from the Helmand region of southern Afghanistan, winter 2022 harvest.
Most cannabis cultivation in this province is recent and emerged around 2008 following intensive eradication campaigns implemented by Governor Abdullah Abdullah across the traditional northern centre of charas production, Balkh Province.
The most popular landrace among Afghan farmers is the Mazari type, with perhaps 75% of farmers favouring this strain for its large yields, so there is a high likelihood of this accession being representative of the strain we offer as Mazar-i-Sharif or Mazar-i-Sharif #2.
Repeatedly tested for viability, these seeds show close to 100% viability.
More info forthcoming…
The Real Seed Company has not included this cultivar for their presence on Grow Diaries at this time. These were free bonus seeds you get when you order something else. The Nanda Devi, which they dio include, is in Grow Diaries. The Nanda Devi were also freebies when I ordered Turkish, which I still have not planted yet.
They are coming along on third week. One has a "dead end" mutation. Curious to see how it will overcome that
Afghan Helmand cultivar from The Real Seed Company. There is also a Nanda Devi, post harvest, re-vegging in the grow room.
Not much interesting to report other than the mutation.
Down to 13 hours.
Pre Flowering. The mutated plant that self topped, is a male and has been placed outside. Not sure, but hopefully the other four will be all female
The Afghans are flowering. There was one male out of five seeds. That leaves 4 females. I selected the female that flowered the earliest to breed with the male. There will be three Afghans which will be seedless l, one seeded, the male will be gone after a few days of breeding.
Did a big defoliation.
Flowers are dwelling up, so are the seeds in the one female that I pollinated. That plant has started adding a new layer of callexes over the seeded layer so those buds will have a basal layer with seeds and regular bud layers going upward. Perfect.
Oh no, at first I thought it was powdery mildew but I think it's leaf miners. Some tiny black insect was stripping off the top coating on fan leaves, leaving a windy white trail in its wake. So I plucked off most of the fan leaves.
It was the plant that I pollinated that introduced this pest. It got the miners from the make plant which picked them up when it was moved outside. Then it infected the seed girl who brought it back into the room.
No big. I put the seed girl under a table lamp which seems to work as a grow lite. The seed plant is quarantined from the others, it was the worse infected. It will grow it's seeds alone. I think I have the situation in under control. They are looking okay. I stripped off most of the fan leaves. The buds dint seem affected. I don't want to spray.
Seen better. Cola's are leafy and things are slow. Pest issues. No mold spotted yet but with these cool damp conditions outside will have to be wary of that. Not very impressed but not horrible.
The seed plant is producing seeds. Still more to go. A few were ready.
One of the plants is ready for harvest. The other two still need a couple of weeks.
I will probably harvest that one plant in a couple days.
Helmand Afghan very close to harvest. One plant partially harvested. Seed plant is gone, seeds are pictured. Enough seeds.
There are 2.5 female Afghans left growing.
Flowery minty aroma.
Pretty bad leaf infestation. Some sort of mite. The mites came from the male and female breeding oair which went outdoors. The mites spread to the other Afghans but did not infect the Nanda Devi, all of which was equally exposed to mites. The Afghan is attractive to pests and the Nanda Devi is not. I think the Afghan is more sensitive overall to stuff like oH and nutrient balance than the sativa is, which actually endured more abuse than this Afghan
Hydrogen peroxide solution foilure spray and root flush would solve this and would have prevented it
Not going to bother. They are almost ready and buds look good. No mold here. But next time I ever grow this I'll use new soil and have hydrogen peroxide in hand because this strain is more particularly suspectable and attractive to pests than sativa is
I think they get chopped in a few days. Maybe a week. I should cut it short with these bugs. I'll give them a good wash
Helmand.
This one occupies the center position of an Afghan mix. It is 100% green, red haired indica with a forestal, pungent, floral, skunky Odor. Dank. The vape and the smoke have a resinous hashy cannabis flavor with undertones of apple, spice, and mint.
The effects are relaxing, comforting body relaxation and a friendly mildly psychedelic state of being.
If I were buying buds off the shelf I would award it a 10 but the ratings are mostly based on your growing experience. My growing experience was a successful harvest but I had issues with the plants being attractive to leaf mites and they seemed sensitive to nitrogen and the acidic soil environment. Nothing I couldn't cope with but they do require close attention. Pure Indica growers will know exactly what I'm talking about
Helmand grows short and produces a fat top cola. It has a branchless phenotype and a straight angular basal radiating branch array phenotype that is only moderately branchy or bushy. These branches are thick and not curved or else not present at all The top cola is most of the yield in every plant. I would recommend not ever topping any of these, unless you really, really want to.
This is a pure Indica. Breeders may want it for that reason. The flavor is another attraction- it tastes like good weed The size is compact. Those are the potential cross breeding traits Helmand Afghan offers.
A small challenge to grow, good results.
I cut them at about 2AM. I'm going to have a visitor later this week so I wanted to have some ganja. They look ready enough. Milky truchs, red hairs, fat and smelly. It only takes a couple days to dry with the AC air.
Once it all dries out I'll post a few pictures of finished ganja.
Final jar only about 8.2 grams. Probably smoked 4 grams so the total dry weight of a bit under half an oz.
That is one sticky, dank skunky jar of buds
mikejm
