Talk:RSC-PAK-KHY-0120210001

Talk

Discussion for: RSC-PAK-KHY-0120210001 • View • Links • Related changes

Use this page for verification notes, disputes, and action items. Keep narrative content on the article.

Page scope

RSC-PAK-KHY-0120210001 is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

Data verification

Check the main page for documentation tier status. Discuss coordinate accuracy, photo quality, or collection details here.

Discussion

Province code: KHY (first Pakistan accession)

First RSC accession from Pakistan added to the Wiki. Province code established as KHY from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, following the first-3-letters-of-province convention used elsewhere (BAL from Balkh, BOK from Bokeo, CHA from Champasak, HOC from Al Hoceima). An alternative convention would be the common abbreviation KPK. Future RSC Pakistani KP accessions should use the same code. Éloise 14:40, 17 April 2026 (+07)

Coordinate approximation

RSC provides a regional latitude anchor of 35° N, which is accurate for Chitral town (around 35.85° N) but low for Upper Chitral. Coordinates entered as 36.3000° N, 72.5000° E, approximating the central stretch of Yarkhun Valley rather than a specific collection point. Éloise 14:40, 17 April 2026 (+07)

Growth pattern: left blank

RSC describes a biodiverse population containing both compact Indica-type and taller Sativa-type plants, with broad-to-narrow leaflet variation. The controlled vocabulary ("Columnar", "Bushy", "Christmas tree") assumes a single habit per accession, which doesn't fit a genuinely heterogeneous population. Left blank; the phenotypic range is documented in the Botanical Characteristics prose instead. Éloise 14:40, 17 April 2026 (+07)

Conservation priority: High (RSC-supported)

Unlike the Lao accessions where "High" rested on inferred regional pressures, RSC directly supports the "High" rating for Chitrali: the listing states the pure landrace is "precariously rare," that commercial cultivation ended with the 1970s government crackdown, and that continued police pressure has restricted cultivation to garden plots and small fields. Rationale quoted on the accession page. Éloise 14:40, 17 April 2026 (+07)

Regional-level claim: mold resistance

RSC reports that "two accessions from Chitral have shown very impressive resistance to mold, including when grown in a jungle climate in Hawaii." Recorded in Notes with attribution framing ("RSC reports..."). The two accessions referenced are not named. Éloise 14:40, 17 April 2026 (+07)

"A classification of endangered high-THC cannabis" reference

RSC cites a study by this title in framing Yarkhun Valley as a Central-South Asian intersection rather than a strict Indica origin. Cited indirectly through RSC rather than as an independent source; the specific paper has not been verified for this page. Éloise 14:40, 17 April 2026 (+07)

Evidentiary scope

This pass compared the article with the current RSC listing and with the Kwik Seeds listing of the same line. Kwik Seeds is the shop RSC calls its other site (RSC, Hemp & Multipurpose). Both give the sourcing as "Landrace Genetics, Chitral, Hindu Kush, 2021 Harvest". Both name the Yarkhun Valley as the collection area and name no village or farmer. The notes above on the province code, the growth pattern, the conservation priority, the mould-resistance claim and the cited study still apply. Éloise 23:19, 16 September 2026 (+07)

Georeferencing

The coordinate recorded above, 36.3000° N, 72.5000° E, lies in Mastuj Tehsil, Upper Chitral District (OpenStreetMap reverse lookup), which contains the Yarkhun Valley. It is now entered as 36.30, 72.50, the two-decimal precision the wiki's privacy policy calls for; the point itself is unchanged. Éloise 23:19, 16 September 2026 (+07)

Editorial treatment

Conform pass of 16 September 2026. The article was rewritten so that each statement is attributed to one of the listings, with CS1 citations.

• Maximum height changed from 3 to 4 m, the fuller range: Kwik Seeds gives 1–4 m and RSC 1–3 m.
• Removed from the article, because the listing does not say them:
  • that the Yarkhun Valley lies "in the far north of the Chitral area";
  • that cultivation is at "household scale", "a pattern that has characterised Upper Chitral since" the 1970s;
  • that police pressure "has prevented the return" of commercial growing. The listing says there has been "only minimal large-scale commercial growing".
• Wording corrected: "solvent-like tones" (the listing says "gasoline") and "two earlier accessions" (the listing says "two accessions").
• Removed: a causal link between the 1970s crackdown and the line's rarity, which the listing does not draw.
• Removed: the administrative placement in the prose, which the infobox carries, the named collector in the prose (the infobox value is unchanged) and an empty Grow Reports section. Photoperiod Short-day and introgression Minimal follow the other RSC accessions; neither listing states them. Éloise 23:19, 16 September 2026 (+07)

Source discrepancies

• Height. RSC: "1 – 3 metres outdoors". Kwik Seeds: "1 – 4 metres outdoors". Both bodies: "from 1 metre to over 3 metres".
• Rarity. RSC: "A rare Hindu Kush cannabis landrace". Kwik Seeds: "A rare pristine Hindu Kush landrace strain".
• CBD. RSC: "a high proportion of plants will exhibit considerable amounts of CBD". Kwik Seeds: "a high proportion of plants exhibit CBD".
• Only on RSC. The mould-resistance report from Hawaii.
• Genetics line. RSC: "Chitrali Hindu Kush Cannabis Landrace". Kwik Seeds: "Traditional Hindu Kush Domesticate".
• Archived versions. The Wayback Machine holds 26 versions of the RSC listing, from August 2019 to May 2026; 24 were read. The listing has offered four stocks:
  • "The Real Seed Company, personally collected at source in Yarkhun Valley, Chitral, Hindu Kush, 2015" (August 2019);
  • the same with "2018 harvest" (October to December 2019);
  • "Landrace Genetics, Yarkhun Valley, Chitral, Hindu Kush, 2019 Harvest" (August 2020 to May 2022);
  • "Landrace Genetics Chitral, Hindu Kush, 2021 Harvest" (from October 2022).

Only the 2021-harvest versions are used in the article. They give "Height: 1 – 4 metres outdoors" from October 2022 to May 2024 and "1 – 3 metres" from September 2024. They classify the line as "C. sativa subsp. indica var. afghanica x C. sativa subsp. indica var. indica" until February 2026; the May 2026 version has no classification line. The article cites the versions of 3 October 2022, 25 May 2024 and 9 February 2026. Éloise 02:50, 17 September 2026 (+07)

Photographs

The captions were checked against RSC's own captions on the August 2019 listing (Wayback Machine), which offered earlier stock. That listing captioned copies of two of the photographs, hosted on kwikseeds.com under the same file names:

• Chitrali-20th-September.jpg, the infobox image: "the Chitrali landrace strain collected by The Real Seed Company, outdoors in Oregon, 2017";
• Chitrali-Yarkhun-Mastuj-2006-mriko-cropped-1.jpg: "the Chitrali landrace strain outdoors in Europe, 2008, collected by Mriko".

Both show plants grown outside Chitral years before the 2021 harvest, and their captions now say where and when. The other existing images have no archived caption, and their captions now say only what each image shows. Mastuj-1.jpg no longer names a place, because only its file name places it at Mastuj. The gallery adds two photographs from the RSC listing, uploaded under fair use at reduced resolution. One, a flower, has the file name Chitrali-3rd-gen-Green-Hawaii-5.jpg; the listing gives it no caption, so its caption does not repeat the file name. Every image now has alt text. Éloise 02:50, 17 September 2026 (+07)