The_Wanderer Exploring true medical cultivars from the ancient world, we journey now to the lush tropics for a time-tested cultivar trusted over millennia. This cultivar has witnessed the dawn of civilizations and shaped spiritual enlightenment in the Indian subcontinent.
This comes from the Idukki district in Kerala, southern India, along the Western Ghats mountain range. It has been part of the indigenous peoples' economy, spiritual practice, and used for medical purposes as documented in ancient texts. In the Vedic tradition, as per the Atharva Veda (1500-1000 BCE), it is revered as one of the five sacred plants, known as Vijaya, which releases humanity from distress and anxiety, bestows happiness, and is used in rituals. Ayurvedic medicine, drawing from texts like the Sushruta Samhita (~ 600 BCE) and Charaka Samhita, employs it for alleviating indigestion, chronic pain, inflammation, skin ailments, and to stimulate appetite and digestion, often as a sedative or analgesic in holistic healing. Mentioned in Rig Veda, Atharva Veda, Ayurveda and many other ancient Hindu texts. Some of the uses of Bhang that ancient Hindu scientists discovered thousands of years ago are: Dyspepsia, Nervous disorders, Severe pain, Insomania, Dysentery, Gonorrhoea, Loss of appetite because of illness and even poisoning.
According to the ancient texts, Bhang is one of the most effective, natural medicines available to mankind. It has known to be the cure for many nervous disorders, skin diseases and wounds.
A unique and potent high THC cultivar that stands apart in its pure expression. A testament to millennia of farmers that knew their craft. The flavor of tropical herbs and incense is immediate, followed by a light taste of carrot. Known for its world famous ganja, potency, and uplifting effect. Drawing from its Vedic roots, it aids in spiritual rituals for mental clarity and protection against malevolent energies, while Ayurvedic applications make it effective medicine and as a powerful aid for overall vitality among several other uses. This sample is from an exclusive seed archive and was collected before the 1970s and is no longer available.
Beware the deceptive offerings masquerading as "Kerala" cannabis in today's market, peddled to the unwise by opportunistic sellers. Often locally grown impure domesticates, they bear no resemblance to the pure, time-honored Vijaya of the Western Ghats, diluted by decades of crossbreeding that prioritizes commercial traits over medicinal integrity and spiritual depth. True seekers recognize the difference. These fakes erode the legacy, commonality without the profound healing rooted in millennia of tradition.
The_Wanderer A unique plant. Soft green color and soft green stems that are highly flexible. I can bend the top of the plants down in an arc to soil level with hardly any resistance and it just springs back up. Unusual. Hard to explain... it's almost like a gummi plant. Grows very fast, and just has an interesting structure.
Just after this picture I moved them to the flowering area. So this marks the end of vegetative stage.
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The_Wanderer Flowering sites are everywhere. These have outgrown their space already 2 weeks after pre-flowering ended. I'm going to have to use a trellis to try to manage them. These want to be giants.
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The_Wanderer These plants got huge fast. Giants! 2 females are too much. 1 female needs the entire space or humidity can be a problem. After initially bringing the trellis down, I spent time cutting out every other section until it started to get more orderly, just holding branches and trying to keep these off the walls. I already did LST bringing the top down then arcing around. Without the trellis, I would be quickly out of space. There is only 2 meters inside the Growbox and it's just not enough.
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Week 12. Flowering
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The_Wanderer At this point I realize it's not going to get easier. I try these indoors because I need to know what to tell people when they ask. To grow 2 of these I would say a minimum of 120 x 120 cm footprint is needed, and a height of 250 cm or so. Difficulty? Well it's not a beginner plant. This needs experienced growers, that are ready to respond. Using a larger space would make this much easier. I believe the average home hobby grower would find this challenging. There is not a whole lot of leaves, just a crazy amount of inflorescences on a plant that's growing form is tall and wide. As you can see a lot of training was done. These will stress each other out fighting for space. I'm going to let then flower a little longer, and then harvest one early to be used in cooking recipes and my favorite cannabis drink bhang chai. So there is no waste. Just an early harvest while the other gets the space to donuts thing. No complaints, just adapting to what is.
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Week 13. Flowering
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10 mll
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Banana Water
10 mll
The_Wanderer A week later. Canopy too dense to keep going for long. One has to be harvested early.
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Week 16. Flowering
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The_Wanderer So down to one plant now which has filled the entire space. Luckily it has reached terminal flowering and isn't creating more stem. The early harvested plant has been drying. Still a nice smoke because I was just curious. She gave me a lot of medicine for the food and drinks, and I am grateful.
The remaining plant has matured its seeds. Crossed with the IBL Mazar cultivar, and a Bred line heirloom from Pakistan... these seeds are going to be amazing. When 2 stable and true breeding lines that are genetically different are crossed together the offspring is the first generation of a hybrid and can exhibit a steady 50/50 mix of parents resulting in a rather uniform crop, but not always. In plant breeding we call that an F1-Hybrid. This results in heterosis sometimes called hybrid vigor. These F1-hybrids are known to be better performing than either parental line. More potent, more vigorous, faster growing, larger yield, more flavor. That's why the F1-hybrid seeds at the garden center for flowers or vegetables cost the most. It's the pinnacle of plant breeding, and is the most desired. 2 stable parental lines have to be cared for and crossed together to make the F1-Hybrid seed which naturally drives up cost, and they perform the best. The best is never cheap. Gardeners that use F1-Hybrids often do not breed them further but rather buy new F1-Hybrid seed. The subsequent generations retain some of the vigor, but the recombination of dna results in plants with increased unwanted variation. If one is dedicated and patient sometimes nice combinations show up in the subsequent generations with nuanced flavors and effects which can then be bred to lock in these traits over several more generations, generally 6 or 7 generations is needed to stabilize the special hybrid finds.
So the seeds she has given me will be some really amazing plants.
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Week 18. Flowering
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The_Wanderer She did well. Interestingly, the 2 different males resulted in 2 different seed sizes. Adjacent branches on this plant were pollinated on the same day, same position on the plant. (Something for you to think about.) Kerala seeds are very small. She shrank the Mazar seed, but the Pakistani seed size remained seemingly unchanged. Both F1-Hybrid seeds larger than the Kerala seeds.
The_Wanderer One plant hanging upside down here and it's been drying and it turns to gold. Kerala Gold is made. I dont weigh or measure, I'm not interested. It is what it is, and I'm happy to recieve the gifts of this truly amazing plant.
Something worth noting is that before harvesting I stripped off only a few remaining big fan leaves. I have a branch cut off laying next to a plate. The next picture is the tiny amount of trim that came off of it. Branch by branch the jar filled and it's no small jar. That filled jar resulted in that small amount of trim on the plate. So its fast and easy because it's not so leafy. Saves a lot of time. Easy pleasant work.
Huge yield on one plant.
I smoked a little and it is very very strong. Tingle on the scalp, feels like the top of my head is effected, lit up. Scalp feels peeled back. Very pleasant and euphoric, deep, happy and beautiful thoughts. Great for activity. Complex taste. Spices, Incense, herbal, ending with interesting carrot taste in the mouth. Much more can be said.. but just not right now. Perhaps added later.
This would be an impressive and unique gardening experience, even for very experienced gardeners. The power packed in that tiny seed. The growth, the yield. For the people that like this type of euphoric happy and spiritual type of high, it's an experience that shouldn't be missed and likely never topped by anything else. If you want to be absolutely jaded. Try this.
Those seeds! I can't find any mention of these crosses anywhere. No records. Kerala x Mazar, Kerala x Pakistani Hashplant, true F1-Hybrids. It's a complete unknown as I have not grown them myself. Which one would you grow first if you had to pick? Or would you run them side by side? Its wild to think about.
I really put my back out on this grow, so hot that like button for me. Have you tried Kerala Gold? What was your experience like? Have you ever seen this grown by anyone before? What's your thought? Leave me a comment. I love to get your thoughts and opinions.
