RSC-MAR-HOC-0119900001-R1
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| 1990 RSC Ketama 'Beldia' IBL | |
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| RSC-MAR-HOC-0119900001-R1 | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Landrace IBL |
| Accession Type | Reproduction |
| Primary Purpose | Recreation |
| Flowering time | 7–8 weeks |
| Plant height | 2 m |
| Photoperiod response | Other ("semi-autoflowering") |
| Botanical Characteristics | |
| Branching | Weak |
| Leaflet width | Medium |
| Processing | |
| Method | Dry-sift |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Rif Mountains |
| Growing Area | Ketama |
| Location | |
| Country | Morocco |
| Province/State | Al Hoceima Province |
| Locality | Ketama |
| Traditional Names | |
| Local Name | beldiya |
| Collection | |
| Method | Seeds |
| Sourcing Type | Multi-generation reproduction |
| Autochthonous | No |
| Date | Early 1990s |
| Collector | Angus |
| Provenance Evidence | |
| Regional Corroboration | Economic Significance of Cannabis sativa in the Moroccan Rif (1975) Moroccan hashish as an example of a cannabis terroir product |
| Population Corroboration | Davis 50730 herbarium specimen, Ketama (1970) |
| Identity Confirmation | None recorded |
| Conservation | |
| Main lot | The Real Seed Company Seed lot: Urgent grow-out history grow-out history: grown out; isolation not recorded |
| Cultivation | |
| Cycle 1 Harvest | August–September |
| Preservation | |
| Seed Storage | The Real Seed Company |
| Genebanks and Sequence Data | |
Genebank accessions | |
| Genetic Relationships | |
Reproduction of | |
1990 RSC Ketama 'Beldia' IBL is an inbred line that The Real Seed Company (RSC) created from Ketama 'Beldia' General Population 1990, seed of the beldiya landrace collected in Ketama, Morocco, in the early 1990s. RSC lists it as Beldia and describes it as a Ketama heirloom, believed to be a pure Moroccan line that has never been outcrossed.[1]
Breeding
RSC uses the term heirloom for cannabis landraces that have undergone several generations of modern selective breeding without outcrossing. It reports that several generations of intensive breeding have made the line well suited to use as bud and adapted it to outdoor growing at northern latitudes.[1] Neither RSC nor the Kwik Seeds listing of the same line, on the shop RSC calls its other site,[2] says how many generations were grown, where, or by whom.[3]
In August 2023 Angus gave a packet of seed of this line, listed by the system as Rif Mountain (Ketama), to the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System, with a donor's note that it had been selectively bred outside Morocco for several generations before the donor obtained it. A second packet from the same batch, listed as Rif Mountain, followed in July 2024. The system holds them as accessions G 33756 and G 33887 at its Plant Genetic Resources Unit in Geneva, New York.[4][5][6]
Cultivation Details
RSC reports that the line matures very early, outdoors in August or September and indoors in about seven to eight weeks. It lists indoor, outdoor or greenhouse growing.[1] RSC notes that some aficionados call very early landraces such as Beldia, Lebanese and Sinai "semi-auto".[1] Versions of the listing from 2020 to June 2025 described the line itself as semi-autoflowering.[7][8]
A customer review quoted by RSC reports about 140 grams of dry-sieved resin and 2 pounds (about 0.9 kg) of bud from one summer's grow.[1]
Botanical Characteristics
RSC describes a short, compact and intensely resinous line. It reports that, as with unworked Moroccan landraces, the line reaches no more than 2 metres and that plants are typically no taller than 1 metre.[1] Versions of the listing from 2020 to 2024 gave a height of under 1.5 metres outdoors and described minimal branching and medium-width leaflets.[7][9] In 2020 the listing classified the line as Cannabis sativa subsp. indica var. afghanica × C. sativa subsp. indica var. indica.[7]
RSC calls the line a useful breeding parent and an example of what inbreeding can achieve with landraces such as Lebanese, Syrian and Sinai.[1]
Source accession
The founder seed was collected in Ketama in the early 1990s. The Rif geography, the landrace and its local name are at Ketama 'Beldia' General Population 1990.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Beldia – Rif Mountain (Ketama)". The Real Seed Company. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ "Hemp & Multipurpose". The Real Seed Company. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ "Beldia – Rif Mountain (Ketama)". Kwik Seeds. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ "G 33756, Cannabis sativa L., Rif Mountain (Ketama)". GRIN-Global. USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. Retrieved 3 October 2026.
- ↑ "G 33887, Cannabis sativa L., Rif Mountain". 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.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Beldia – Rif Mountain (Ketama)". The Real Seed Company. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ "Beldia – Rif Mountain (Ketama)". The Real Seed Company. Archived from the original on 12 June 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2026.
- ↑ "Beldia – Rif Mountain (Ketama)". The Real Seed Company. Archived from the original on 14 July 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2026.