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Identifier
The accession identifier is RSC-AFG-BAL-0520070001-R1: the identifier of the 2007 collection, RSC-AFG-BAL-0520070001, with the reproduction suffix -R1.
Sourcing
The RSC listing for Mazar-i-Sharif as it stood on 27 October 2026 and its 26 versions in the Wayback Machine from August 2019 to July 2026, the Kwik Seeds listing as it stood on 26 October 2026, and the GRIN-Global entry for G 33740.
Evidentiary scope
The sources establish that the seed on sale descends from the seed bought in Peshawar in 2007, kept by open pollination outside Afghanistan. They do not say where the generations were grown, by whom, or with how many plants, beyond the donor's note that a hobbyist kept the line indoors and that a crop was lost around 2013.
Typing
- Accession type: Reproduction, autochtonous
No, sourcing typeMulti-generation reproduction: the listing calls the seed the fourth generation produced outside Afghanistan. - Classification: Landrace, the class of the collection it was grown from.
- Generation count. Not entered. The listing says the fourth generation, the Kwik Seeds listing and RSC's listing until January 2021 the third, and the donor's note of 2023 about three generations. The three statements are reported, not reconciled.
- No coordinates. The sources do not say where the reproduction was grown. The collection's place is on RSC-AFG-BAL-0520070001, so the line appears on the map once.
- Traits are on the collection's page, after the model of the other RSC reproductions; the donor's observations of plants grown in North America and Europe are reported in the article here, because they describe the reproduction.
- Seed viability is left empty: neither listing reports a germination test.
Source discrepancies
- Generations. RSC: "the fourth generation" (since 25 January 2021); RSC until 19 January 2021 and Kwik Seeds: "the third generation"; GRIN donor's note (2023): "approximately three generations removed from the original 2007 batch".
- Height. RSC: "1 – 3 meters outdoors". Kwik Seeds and RSC's 2019 versions: "2 – 4 meters". RSC from August 2020 to June 2023: "2 – 6 meters". RSC from December 2023: "1 – 4 meters", then "1 – 3" from May 2024. The donor's note: "typically well in excess of two metres".
- Harvest. RSC: "October"; Kwik Seeds and RSC until 2023: "October through November"; RSC in December 2023: "late October through to early December in Afghanistan".
- Genetics line. RSC: "Mazar-i-Sharif Cannabis Landrace"; Kwik Seeds: "Mazar-i-Sharif Domesticate ("Landrace")".
Photographs
The infobox image and the gallery image are from the RSC listing, uploaded under fair use at reduced resolution. Neither carries a caption on the listing now. In the versions archived from August to December 2019 the listing captioned them "The Mazar-i-Sharif landrace outdoors in Spain exhibiting pink to red stigmas" and "The Mazar-i-Sharif strain outdoors in Oregon, 2017", and the captions here follow those words. Plants grown in Spain and Oregon are the reproduction, so the photographs are on this page and not on the collection's. RSC's post of 13 February 2023 shows a second Spanish photograph of the same plants as "our 2007 accession"; it left the listing in 2023 and is not used.
USDA genebank accession
The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System holds this seed as G 33740 (GRIN-Global entry), received on 22 August 2023 in a donation from Angus. The infobox lists it as the same lot as this accession:
- the donor's note describes seed "several generations removed from the original batch brought back from Asia in 2007", bought in Peshawar from an Afghan merchant, the seed this reproduction descends from;
- every archived version of the listing, before and after the donation, sells a reproduction of that 2007 seed, and RSC lists no other Mazar-i-Sharif reproduction.
GRIN's passport gives the origin as North-West Frontier, Pakistan, with the point of Peshawar, the place of purchase. The entry also carries measurements from the unit's 2024 field trial in New York; the article does not report them.