ILE-AFG-KAN-0120200002

Maruf Black Selection 2020
ILE-AFG-KAN-0120200002
At a Glance
Classification	Unknown
Flowering time	10–11 weeks
Aroma	Diesel, naphthalene, paint thinner
Effects	Sedative
Hierarchy
Growing Region	Southern Afghanistan
Growing Area	Kandahar
Location
Country	Afghanistan
Province/State	Kandahar Province
District	Maruf District
Coordinates	31.45, 67.25
Point type	District point
Uncertainty	about 32 km
Collection
Method	Seeds
Sourcing Type	Unknown provenance
Conservation
Main lot	Indian Landrace Exchange Seed lot: At risk handed out handed out: handed out (sold) replaceability unknown, may be Urgent Next: Test for the first time; Confirm whether a backup exists as of 2026-11-10 · method v0.3
Cultivation
Status	Unknown
System Type	Unknown
Preservation
Seed Storage	Indian Landrace Exchange

Year at a glance (computed)

Point

31.45° N, 67.25° E

Elevation used

2,024 m computed, GMTED2010 (1 km), at this point

Köppen class

BSk

Clock

UTC+4:30

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Day and night
First light	06:34	06:18	05:48	05:08	04:38	04:28	04:39	05:01	05:20	05:39	06:03	06:26
Sunrise	07:00	06:43	06:12	05:33	05:05	04:56	05:06	05:26	05:45	06:03	06:29	06:53
Sunset	17:19	17:47	18:09	18:29	18:49	19:07	19:07	18:45	18:08	17:30	17:03	17:00
Last light	17:46	18:12	18:33	18:54	19:16	19:35	19:35	19:11	18:32	17:54	17:29	17:27
Daylighth	10h19	11h04	11h57	12h56	13h45	14h11	14h01	13h19	12h23	11h26	10h34	10h07
Changemin/day	+1.0	+1.8	+1.9	+1.8	+1.3	+0.3	−0.9	−1.7	−1.9	−1.9	−1.4	−0.3
Temperature
Avg daily high°C	6	8	13	20	26	31	32	31	27	20	15	9
Avg daily low°C	−5	−4	2	7	13	17	19	18	14	8	2	−2
Swing°C	11	11	12	13	13	14	13	13	13	13	12	11
Water and light
Rainmm	58	62	71	38	10	4	9	8	1	5	13	42
VPDkPa	0.3	0.3	0.6	1.0	1.6	2.2	2.2	2.1	1.7	1.0	0.6	0.4
Sunlightmol/m²/d	28	35	42	53	59	61	57	54	49	41	32	26
Field cycle
Cycle

• Planting
• Growing
• Harvest
• Not recorded / off season

No field cycle is recorded on this accession's page.

Day and night computed from the sun's position on the 15th of each month; climate normals 1981–2010 from CHELSA V2.1 · About these figures

Maruf Black Selection 2020 is a seed accession of the black selection that the Indian Landrace Exchange made in a farmer's field at Maruf, in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan, during its Durand Line project of 2020. The online shop Full Power Selections listed it in April 2025 as Maruf, Black selection, in the HKX 24 collection, whose box set it said included classics such as the Maruf selections, out of stock when checked on 9 November 2026. Seeds Here Now presents it as part of the group's 2025 collection, and the Spanish seed company ACE Seeds also sells it.

Collection Details

According to the group's book, the farmer selected his plants through the males, leaving about five males for every hundred females, and said that he had brought the seed from the Andrabi district, in the north-east of Afghanistan, fifteen years earlier. The plants in his fields were over 12 feet tall on average, and many were a deep purple that looked almost black. From a large sample the group selected a black, a green and a red plant.

Botanical Characteristics

The book describes the black selection as black from the leaves to the flowers, with a good ratio of flower to leaf and large yields of dense, resinous buds that stand up to the harsh outdoors of southern Afghanistan. ACE gives a flowering time of 10 to 11 weeks, a structure of 2 to 2.5 metres, smells of diesel, naphthalene, paint thinner and foul odours, and a sedative effect.

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See Also

• Indian Landrace Exchange
• Landrace Cannabis
• Accessions