RSC-AFG-HEL-0120220001
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| Helmand General Population 2022 | |
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| RSC-AFG-HEL-0120220001 | |
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| Female plant of the Helmand accession (foreground) at 40° N in mid-July (RSC listing) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Landrace |
| Accession Type | General population |
| Primary Purpose | Recreation |
| Photoperiod response | Short-day |
| Botanical Characteristics | |
| Leaflet width | Broad |
| Processing | |
| Method | Dry-sift |
| Notes | Sieved charas; also bhang |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Southern Afghanistan |
| Growing Area | Helmand |
| Location | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province/State | Helmand Province |
| Collection | |
| Method | Seeds |
| Sourcing Type | Point of Origin |
| Autochthonous | Yes |
| Date | 2022 |
| Harvest Date | 2022 |
| Collector | Angus |
| Conservation | |
| Main lot | The Real Seed Company Seed lot: At risk handed out handed out: handed out (sold) |
| Introgression | Minimal |
| Cultivation | |
| Status | Unknown |
| System Type | Unknown |
| Cycle 1 Harvest | October–October |
| Preservation | |
| Seed Storage | The Real Seed Company |
| Seed viability | Viable |
| Genebanks and Sequence Data | |
Genebank accessions | |
Helmand General Population 2022 is a landrace cannabis accession from Helmand Province, Afghanistan, listed as Helmand in the seed catalogue of The Real Seed Company (RSC).[1] RSC describes it as an Indica-type Afghan landrace.[1] The Real Seed Company offers the line for sale on its Kwik Seeds site (checked 17 October 2026).[2]
Geography
RSC places the collection in the Helmand region of southern Afghanistan, at a latitude of about 31° N.[1]
History
According to RSC, most cannabis cultivation in the province is recent. RSC dates its emergence to around 2008, after intensive eradication campaigns implemented by Governor Atta Muhammad Nur in Balkh Province, which it calls the traditional northern centre of charas production.[1]
Collection Details
The listing gives the sourcing as Landrace Genetics, Helmand, Afghanistan (2022). It describes the accession as newly collected directly in the Helmand region from the winter 2022 harvest.[1] RSC reports that the seed was re-tested in summer 2025 and showed germination rates of about 80 per cent. The Kwik Seeds listing of the same line, on the shop RSC calls its other site,[3] reports good germination rates in that retest and close to 100 per cent viability in repeated tests.[4] RSC's own listing reported the repeated tests in 2023.[5] In June 2025 it offered the seed at a discount, noting that it came from the winter 2022 harvest and that its viability might have dropped below 80 per cent.[6]
In August 2023 Angus gave two packets of Helmand seed to the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System, with a donor's note dating the collection to the winter 2022 harvest in Helmand Province. The system holds the seed as accession G 33706 at its Plant Genetic Resources Unit in Geneva, New York.[7][8]
The Kwik Seeds listing adds that the Mazari type is the most popular landrace among Afghan farmers, favoured by perhaps 75 per cent of them for its large yields. It therefore considers the accession highly likely to represent the strain sold as Mazar-i-Sharif or Mazar-i-Sharif #2.[4] RSC's listing made the same comparison in 2023.[5]
Cultivation Details
Botanical Characteristics
RSC describes plants with a semi-dwarf architecture and Indica-type leaflets.[1] Versions of the listing from July 2024 to June 2025 described the leaflets as broad and reported customer feedback that the accession is a broad-leafleted Indica landrace.[9][6] The listing's photographs show male and female plants of the accession growing at 40° N in mid-July.[1]
Smoke Reports
Gallery
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Male plant of the Helmand accession (foreground) at 40° N in mid-July (RSC listing) -
Helmand plants (foreground) at 40° N in mid-July (RSC listing) -
Helmand seed (RSC listing)
See Also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "Helmand". The Real Seed Company. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "Helmand". Kwik Seeds. Retrieved 17 October 2026.
- ↑ "Hemp & Multipurpose". The Real Seed Company. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Helmand". Kwik Seeds. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Helmand". The Real Seed Company. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Helmand". The Real Seed Company. Archived from the original on 12 June 2025. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- ↑ "G 33706, Cannabis sativa L., Helmand". GRIN-Global. USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
- ↑ "Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)". GRIN-Global. USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
- ↑ "Helmand". The Real Seed Company. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2026.