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Pre-1970 Chitral Landrace IBL
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2 weeks. Purple coloration.
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The article does a decent job explaining anthocyanins and how cooler nights can bring out purple colors, but it completely skips over the real history of purple cannabis. It treats Granddaddy Purple from 2003 in California like it invented the whole thing, when purple weed has been around for centuries in places like the Chitral valleys of the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan. Local farmers there have grown these landrace plants for generations, selecting them for resin, early finish, and the ability to handle cold mountain nights. The purple phenotypes are a natural part of that population, not some modern breeding trick. Travelers in the 1960s and 1970s already talked about the aromatic, resinous Chitrali hash that often showed those reddish and purple tones from the plants themselves. There are preserved pure lines from before 1970 that still carry those classic traits, with dense hash-grade resin, berry and incense aromas, and solid cold resistance. Most of the commercial "purple strains" the article pushes are recent unstable hybrids. They throw all kinds of phenotypes, often need forced temperature drops or pH tricks just to show color, and lose a lot of the depth and toughness that the old landraces have. A real Chitral type expresses purple more reliably as part of its genetics and stays more consistent and resilient without all the fuss. It would be good if these articles gave proper credit to the traditional sources instead of acting like purple cannabis started in Northern California twenty years ago. The landraces were there first and still set the standard for authenticity. I'm currently running a pure purple Chitral IBL myself right now if anyone wants to see the real thing growing instead of just reading about modern hybrids. You can follow the whole diary here:
growdiaries.com/diaries/326499-grow-journal-by-the-7-club/week/1870767
Watch how an authentic landrace actually behaves, colors up, and develops without all the forced tricks the commercial stuff needs.
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The article does a decent job explaining anthocyanins and how cooler nights can bring out purple colors, but it completely skips over the real history of purple cannabis. It treats Granddaddy Purple from 2003 in California like it invented the whole thing, when purple weed has been around for centuries in places like the Chitral valleys of the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan. Local farmers there have grown these landrace plants for generations, selecting them for resin, early finish, and the ability to handle cold mountain nights. The purple phenotypes are a natural part of that population, not some modern breeding trick. Travelers in the 1960s and 1970s already talked about the aromatic, resinous Chitrali hash that often showed those reddish and purple tones from the plants themselves. There are preserved pure lines from before 1970 that still carry those classic traits, with dense hash-grade resin, berry and incense aromas, and solid cold resistance. Most of the commercial "purple strains" the article pushes are recent unstable hybrids. They throw all kinds of phenotypes, often need forced temperature drops or pH tricks just to show color, and lose a lot of the depth and toughness that the old landraces have. A real Chitral type expresses purple more reliably as part of its genetics and stays more consistent and resilient without all the fuss. It would be good if these articles gave proper credit to the traditional sources instead of acting like purple cannabis started in Northern California twenty years ago. The landraces were there first and still set the standard for authenticity. I'm currently running a pure purple Chitral IBL myself right now if anyone wants to see the real thing growing instead of just reading about modern hybrids. You can follow the whole diary here:
growdiaries.com/diaries/326499-grow-journal-by-the-7-club/week/1870767
Watch how an authentic landrace actually behaves, colors up, and develops without all the forced tricks the commercial stuff needs.
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Hey everyone, The oldest Chitral cannabis bred line I have access to was collected before 1970. It carries verifiable records of the acquisition of pure unhybridized seeds from the regions famous landrace. These display the cold resistant traits of the 1500 meter and higher altitude of upper Chitral. The accounts cover the collection itself including the logistics of getting them out of Pakistan and their careful preservation in a historical record. Later seed banks such as Cannabiogen/ACE/ whos unverifiable story begins in the 1990s and those that followed simply commercialized and mass marketed lines from the same valley. Their marketing claims do not rewrite or negate the factual timeline of these early collections of original material decades prior. The pre-1970 sample collection stands as authentic primary evidence of Western acquisition of pure Chitrali cannabis before modern hybridization altered the valley’s agricultural landscape. These genetics can be seen as the last pure examples possible to be collected. Documented and verifiable collections before this date are unknown to me and I have found no evidence that any exist. This is not another pack of the usual claimed PCK that has been worked and reworked since the nineties. This is material from a time when the plants still carried the full character of that high mountain region before outside genetics began to change everything. Holding seeds like these means holding something that almost slipped away completely. Most people will never even know this line existed in this form let alone get the chance to grow it out and see what the old pure expression actually looked and smelled like. I keep the paperwork, messages, the breeders packaging, postal packaging, the recorded calls to retain the intact chain of custody . The seed morphology that matches the regional data. Chain of custody matters if the goal is real preservation rather than just another story. I will grow this line out in full view and post the progressive updates the males the females and a proper smoke report. The plants themselves will show what they are. Anyone who understands how rare true old world material has become will recognize why this feels different. These are not seeds you find every day and they are not meant for casual curiosity. They represent a direct link to a moment in time that closed long ago. Watching them grow is a chance to reconnect with something that was nearly lost and to see for yourself why authenticity still matters.
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</span>, You may be right! In a few weeks we will know. :clap:
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</span>, Right. Perhaps 3 weeks or so. As long as there is a mix of males and females I will be happy! :+1::skin-tone-2:
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</span>, ainda bem que gerinanram todas... so falta saber quantoas machos e femeas... mas vai demorar...
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Yeah! 6 of 6 above ground! All 6 are sprouted. Time to in increase the light before they get too stretched out. MalumProhibitum could be the winner! Whoo hoo! <span class="link_user">
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ha jól voltak tárolva akár mind kipattanhat, ez esetben 60 - 40% hím - nőstény arány.. tippelek, mind kikel, és 5 fiú, 1 lány.
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