RSC-AFG-BAL-0520070001
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| Mazar-i-Sharif General Population 2007 | |
|---|---|
| RSC-AFG-BAL-0520070001 | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Landrace |
| Accession Type | General population |
| Primary Purpose | Recreation |
| Plant height | 1–3 m |
| Photoperiod response | Short-day |
| Botanical Characteristics | |
| Leaflet width | Broad |
| Stigma colour | Pink, red |
| Processing | |
| Method | Dry-sift |
| Notes | Sieved charas |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Northern Afghanistan |
| Growing Area | Balkh |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province/State | Balkh Province |
| Collection | |
| Method | Seeds |
| Sourcing Type | Commercial |
| Date | May 2007 |
| Collector | Angus |
| Conservation | |
| Main lot | The Real Seed Company Seed lot: no data yet Nothing has been reported about this seed lot yet. What this means |
| Introgression | Minimal |
| Cultivation | |
| Status | Unknown |
| System Type | Unknown |
| Cycle 1 Harvest | October–December |
| Preservation | |
| Seed Storage | The Real Seed Company |
| Genetic Relationships | |
Reproductions of this accession Related accessions | |
Mazar-i-Sharif General Population 2007 is a landrace cannabis accession of seed that The Real Seed Company (RSC) bought in Peshawar, Pakistan, in May 2007 from an Afghan merchant who said it came from Balkh, in northern Afghanistan.[1] RSC lists the line as Mazar-i-Sharif and sells a reproduction of the 2007 seed grown outside Afghanistan, which is recorded at 2007 RSC Mazar-i-Sharif Reproduction.[2] The line is on sale at RSC and on its Kwik Seeds site (checked 27 October 2026).[2][3]
Geography
RSC places the origin of the landrace in the Balkh region of northern Afghanistan, beyond the Hindu Kush, in what it calls a region once known as Afghan Turkestan, and gives a latitude of 36° N.[2] It calls Balkh the historic heartland of Afghan cannabis culture and connects northern Afghanistan with old centres of fine resin such as Bukhara.[2]
History
RSC writes that Afghan farmers know the landrace as Mazari, Balkhi or Mazar-i-Sharif, and that they harvest it from October to early December to make the charas called Shirak-i-Mazar ("Milk of Mazar").[2] In a post of July 2023, RSC wrote that the harvests of 2006 and 2007 in northern Afghanistan were on an unprecedented scale, and that Atta Muhammad Noor, then Governor of Balkh Province, ended them with a crackdown on cannabis after the harvest of winter 2007, which it says pushed the crop south.[4]
Collection Details
The listing gives the sourcing as "The Real Seed Company, via Afghan charas and seed merchant, Peshawar, 2007".[2] A donor's note that RSC's collector filed with the USDA genebank in 2023 dates the purchase to May 2007. It says the merchant sold charas that he said came from Balkh, that he said the seed came from Balkh too, and that he called his charas Balkhi and insisted that the seed was of the strain used to make it. He described the strain as large and best harvested at the onset of winter, and said that farmers in the north leave their fields standing until the cold of early December to get the best resin. The note adds that the merchant's family had moved from Balkh to Peshawar in the 1970s.[1]
Cultivation Details
RSC gives the purpose as charas (sieved resin) and the harvest as October, and lists outdoor, greenhouse or indoor growing.[2]
Botanical Characteristics
RSC describes a large, resinous and high-yielding landrace with mostly broad leaflets, red stems and pink-red stigmas, 1 to 3 metres tall outdoors, with Indica and Sativa types among its plants. It writes that Mazari may have originated from a hybrid between Indica and Sativa types, and that its chemotypes range from high-THC to high-CBD.[2] The listing describes the plants of the reproduction RSC sells; no description of plants grown from the 2007 seed itself is published.[2]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "G 33740, Cannabis sativa L., Mazar-i-Sharif". GRIN-Global. USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. Retrieved 27 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 "Mazar-i-Sharif". The Real Seed Company. Retrieved 27 October 2026.
- ↑ "Mazar-i-Sharif". Kwik Seeds. Retrieved 26 October 2026.
- ↑ "Balkhi first garda, primo Afghan hashish – 2007". The Real Seed Company. 22 July 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2026.