The_Wanderer Welcome. This is a true medical cultivar from the ancient world. Time tested and trusted over centuries. This bred line has seen empires rise and fall and shaped a civilization.
This IBL comes from north Afghanistan along the Hindu Kush mountain range. It has been part of the indigenous peoples economy, spiritual practice, and used for medical purposes as documented by Avicenna in The Canon of Medicine of 1025 CE. (Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb) The locals often call it Balkhi. My name for it is Rosie.
A unique and potent high THC cultivar that has a terpene profile where the dominant terpene is linalool. Other cannabis varieties may contain linalool in some amount, or may have linalool as the dominant terpene in their terpene profile in some, but are hybrids that are variable and inconsistent, not cultivars. This is unique as no other cultivar has this quality. A testament to centuries of farmers that knew their craft. Linalool is known as the flower terpene, it has a fragrance that gives roses, lavender, and lily of the valley flowers their pleasant and inviting aroma. It also contributes greatly to the taste. The flavor of roses/floral is immediate, followed by a light but very present spicy flavor resembling peppers and chili that is felt in the mouth. Known for its world famous hashish, potency, and accumulative narcotic effect. This cultivar has nothing even remotely similar to it today. The linalool makes this medical cultivar effective for treating symptoms of PTSD, depression, anxiety, anger, and as a powerful sleep aid among several other uses. This sample is from an exclusive seed archive and was collected in the late 1960s, before mass hybridization changed cannabis genetics forever, barely escaping being lost altogether. Kept pure over decades by a handpicked team under the guidance of master grower and breeder who would make mindful selections from large scale grows so the line remains the best it can be. In the final post, I will give my thoughts, as it has become my companion plant, and medicine I can rely on.
The plant is often described as a giant, growing 3-4 meters in height outdoors. Its reliable, consistent, and breeds true with very little variation between plants. Wisely, it has never been feminized. It's a robust plant that can thrive in a variety of environments. The seeds are large as you can see on my ruler (almost 5 mm long) making them useful as food and for making oil. This multi purpose plant is truly empowering. I confirm Mcpartland and Small in their publication data. There are recognizable characteristics, like pistils that turn pink in late flowering, and blood red color from anthocyanin production when exposed to cold temperatures. The locals would remark, "Mazar bleeds red"
Thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read and look.
P. S. If you are seeking the fake version that appropriates the name/word "Mazar" as a sales tactic from a commercial mass seed supplier that is described as a skunked hybrid of an unknown "afghani"... this is not that. Please, move along because there is nothing for you here.
Stay rooted, stay growing.
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Week 3. Vegetation
23d ago
1/5
15 hrs
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24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.0
pH
No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Solution Temp
22 °C
Substrate Temp
19 °C
Night Air Temp
10 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
Fish Emulsion homemade
2 mll
Used Coffee Grounds
1 mll
Vitamalz leftover from the bottle
1 mll
The_Wanderer Healthy. I have a dog, and since these are at ground level out in the open I did dust the area with DE in case insects explored the plants. I also use a pet safe foliar spray that is made of sunflower oil, some rosemary essential oil, and a emulsifier. I spray them every 10 to 14 days, and it prevents a lot of plant pests that swim in the soup here. As other spaces become available after a few weeks, these are put into flowering. Rotation.
The Starlight Reflector is my favorite lamp I still have. I am the second owner. It's going to outlive me for sure. Powder coated, ventilated steel hood. Hammer finished aluminum reflector. All Philips components. Vegetative spectrum, with some UVA. The plants always love this light. It doesn't produce much heat so I can keep it very close to the tops of the plants without risking burning them, allowing me to utilize a space under a table and out of the way.
Not very glamorous, but I am in no competition, and everything is going ok.
For people wondering, or have a bit of autism activated at the moment like I have sometimes, the seedlings off to the right emerging from the grow plugs in one of the photos are the new comers of a different type of cannabis for part of the next rotation. (Not Mazar) Being small, they can slide in easily on the side. The black wire is a feeler, a temperature sensor that regulates a heating mat to simulate the warmth of the earth and keep them happy. I'm familiar with the genetics I have and since most everything I grow is either predictable or I know it well enough to understand how to plan things that can work out without being problematic in mixed grows. If I know a plant is a giant and aggressive fast grower, and I will be running something unrelated at the same time that is not like that, I will give the smaller or slower plants a head start. Maybe 2 weeks, or whatever my best guess is. I am not a big fan of mixed grows, but somehow it always seems to be the case. That jar is low, that jar has been empty for 2 or three weeks, and that seems to be the main reason. There is of course my medicine (Rosie) that I try to keep topped up diligently, and also in my pocket wherever I go. I need it on tap, on demand. That's how important and special Rosie is to me. My companion plant that improves my quality of life. She helps me get through. Helps me hold on. Without that support life would be very different and not very pleasant. I want to stress this real medicine, not a toy, not some low value learner plant sold to just anyone who has some money. It's not. Just to aquire her cost me a good deal and more than just money. At that time I was searching for the right medicine. The entire collection I was going to test out cost me a small fortune (for an average poor peasant) due to the quality and rarity of the propagation materials, the shipping, the taxes, the stress and anxiety of waiting, going to pick it up which was sort of a gray area as laws were changing... and I would have gladly paid double simply for the experience alone, and the knowledge gained. After going through this and that, I was putting off growing Rosie because I was a little afraid I wasn't going to find the right medicine and wanted to put the possible disappointment a little further away so I could still have some hope for at least some number of months. Trying a few things, I wasn't very happy with the effects. Some would make my anxiety worse, sending me headlong into uncomfortable states of mind, others were ok, but just not right, a little off. Something missing. Finally, I had to go with my initial instinct and try the Mazar as I was slowly running out of choices. Bam! Once I experienced Rosie, it was clearly and instantly the perfect medicine. It was unmistakably right feeling. It was like being reunited with a cannabis from distant memories that I have been missing all this time. seeing how she changed my life, raised the quality of my life, I see that the price I paid was actually meaningless and trivial. Without Rosie, I was ready to give up cannabis altogether because it just wasn't enjoyable anymore. People close to me couldn't understand that getting stoned or getting high wasn't enjoyable for me. Rosie changed all that. It was incredibly uplifting to find the perfect cultivar for my chemistry, and helped with my symptoms. My enjoyment of cannabis came back. This gave rise to me be interested growing other cultivars, bred lines, and even some award winning hybrids for a loved one, and also other people that I'm in contact with. The chance that they may experience that magic resonance like I did with these other varieties. It also made me take my self education in plant biology, and gardening more seriously and my understanding and skill has improved because of that. There is a deep and constant gratitude that now resides in me and it is triggered by the sight of Rosie, the smell, the taste, and that wonderful feeling that's like a blanket put over my shoulders to comfort me. Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you!
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Week 5. Vegetation
22d ago
1/2
15 hrs
Light Schedule
24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.0
pH
No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Solution Temp
22 °C
Substrate Temp
19 °C
Night Air Temp
10 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
Fish Emulsion homemade
2 mll
Used Coffee Grounds
1 mll
Vitamalz leftover from the bottle
1 mll
The_Wanderer Started LST by using gardening wire and the plants responded well, adjusting and correcting their new posture towards the light in about 4 hours which is right for healthy plants.
In not a big fan of nutrients that come in plastic bottles and are 90% water. That water weight has to be shipped around, and when scaled up for large grows a simple accident where a pallet gets dropped or damaged that liquid runs straight for the drain and it could be an ecological disaster. So it's not responsible or smart ecologically for several reasons. A dry nutrient one mixes themselves is just wiser, and has further benefits that I will spare you the boring details of. I'm actually casually waiting around for something like that to become available in the local shops, but until then I'm still letting fish corpses swim in the water to make the fish emulsion as needed.
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Week 6. Vegetation
22d ago
1/2
15 hrs
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24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.0
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No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Solution Temp
22 °C
Substrate Temp
19 °C
Night Air Temp
10 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 3
Fish Emulsion homemade
2 mll
Used Coffee Grounds
1 mll
Vitamalz leftover from the bottle
1 mll
The_Wanderer This time a video with Afghani folk music and recieving the first gifts. End of vegetative stage.
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Week 9. Flowering
21d ago
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24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.0
pH
No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Solution Temp
22 °C
Substrate Temp
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Night Air Temp
30 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Fish Emulsion homemade
2 mll
Banana water
120 mll
The_Wanderer There is a common superstition in neo cannabis culture that red stems signal deficiency. The truth is it is normal expression on some plants. If it is accompanied by other symptoms on the leaf, then it's more clear. If it's a consistent predictable cultivar like this then there is no confusion. With unstable hybrids showing all kinds of variation... I can see how these superstitions arise.
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Week 11. Flowering
21d ago
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11 hrs
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24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.0
pH
No Smell
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
22 °C
Solution Temp
22 °C
Substrate Temp
19 °C
Night Air Temp
30 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Fish Emulsion homemade
2 mll
Banana water
120 mll
The_Wanderer Pistils turning pink signaling she is ready for pollination. I isolate a branch and hand pollinate just that site. Response to traing is very good.
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Week 12. Flowering
21d ago
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24 °C
Day Air Temp
6.0
pH
Weak
Smell
55 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Solution Temp
20 °C
Substrate Temp
19 °C
Night Air Temp
30 cm
Lamp Distance
Nutrients 2
Fish Emulsion homemade
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Banana water
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The_Wanderer I mark the pollinated branch, here with a white twist tie on the lower area so I can easily identify it later, and also keep track of it for inspection.
The_Wanderer 🌹Nobody asks me which one I like the best.🥀
🥀I dont weigh or measure it or anything. It is what it is. It will be enjoyed. That's what it's really about.🌹
Think of ice water hash like skimming the cream off milk - you’re not making more THC, you’re just keeping the parts of the plant that already have it and ditching the rest.
When you run cold water hash, you’re basically knocking off the trichome heads (where the good stuff lives) and leaving behind a lot of junk: plant fibers, chlorophyll, sugars, and most of the leafy material. That alone is why hash hits stronger than flower - it’s cleaner by default.
When people talk about “refining it more,” what they really mean is cleaning it up, not boosting THC out of nowhere. You’re removing leftover bits like broken stalks, tiny plant fragments, and heavy waxes. As you get pickier, the percentage of THC goes up because there’s less non-resin weight in the mix. The trade-off is you lose some material along the way - higher quality, smaller pile.
Also worth knowing: most of what’s in hash is THCA, not THC. Heat turns it into THC, but refinement alone doesn’t change that - it just makes the resin purer. That’s why some stuff tests higher or melts better even though it came from the same plant.
So the advice I’d give a friend: don’t chase numbers too hard. Clean, intact trichome heads with good flavor usually beat slightly higher THC that lost all its character. If it melts clean, tastes good, and does what you want, you already did it right.
Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down
Where pretty buds are, well you know that I'm around
I kiss 'em, and I smoke 'em 'cause to me, they're all the same
I am very tempted to run this next, but there is something else I need to attend to before its too late. Looking forward to see what this cross is like.
@UnorthadoxDude, Haha! Sometimes it's like, Autism Activated! Then I really put the letters down. There is not likely anybody ever going to be writing in depth about these unique ancient varieties. In case someone ever shows up looking for facts, at least they have something. Did you learn something you liked? Perhaps the next one will be even longer/more because I'm thinking about doing the next one on something from india. It's more of a spiritual weed. So yeah, what did you like best or want to see more of? Did you like the video/recipe? I want to make the next one better so feedback can help. Thanks for the kind words.
