RSC-NPL-GAN-0120240002
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| Nepali Highland General Population 2024 | |
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| RSC-NPL-GAN-0120240002 | |
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| A dense, columnar plant in a field of similar plants (RSC listing) | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Landrace |
| Accession Type | General population |
| Primary Purpose | Recreation |
| Photoperiod | Short-day |
| Aroma | Mint, tobacco |
| Effects | Uplifting, energising, euphoric |
| Botanical Characteristics | |
| Growth Pattern | Bushy |
| Leaf Shape | Narrow |
| Processing | |
| Method | Ganja |
| Notes | Sinsemilla or semi-sensi |
| Location | |
| Country | Nepal |
| Province/State | Gandaki Province |
| Coordinates | 28.00, 84.20 |
| Collection | |
| Method | Seeds |
| Sourcing Type | Point of Origin |
| Autochthonous | Yes |
| Date | 2024 |
| Harvest Date | 2024 |
| Collector | Angus |
| Conservation | |
| Priority | High |
| Introgression | Minimal |
| Cultivation | |
| Status | Unknown |
| System Type | Unknown |
| Preservation | |
| Seed Storage | The Real Seed Company |
| Viability | Viable |
Nepali Highland General Population 2024 is a landrace cannabis accession from Gandaki Province, Nepal, listed as Nepali Highland in the seed catalogue of The Real Seed Company (RSC).[1] RSC describes it as a ganja landrace of the highlands of Nepal, "ultra-bushy" and narrow-leafleted, which it calls a semidwarf type.[1]
Geography
RSC places the collection in "the ganja-producing highlands of Nepal" at a latitude of about 28° N.[1] Its post of December 2025 says the line was collected in Gandaki Province.[2] An earlier post, of September 2024, describes the same landrace as in use "in subtropical mountain areas such as Makwanpur", which lies in Bagmati Province.[3] The listing describes the landrace as cultivated by farmers in the highlands of central Nepal, the Terai, and as far east as Tripura and Assam in Northeast India.[1]
History
In August 2024 RSC wrote that it had collected an accession of "this semidwarf ganja landrace type" in Nepal in 2022.[4] In May 2025 it offered Gorkha Nepali seed alongside "a landrace we're hoping is the same semidwarf ganja landrace we collected in 2021, Nepali Highland".[5] In September 2024 it called the type a Nepali domesticate used for illicit ganja production in the Terai lowland and subtropical highland regions of Nepal and in Northeast India.[3] In December 2025 it wrote that "genomic analysis and other evidence such as police crop eradication videos" suggest the line is a ganja landrace from eastern Bengal, probably from the Sylhet–Barak region, brought to Nepal by smuggling networks.[2]
RSC holds that the plants' bamboo-like form is probably the result of farmers' deliberate selection to avoid detection.[1] It illustrates the point with a photograph of plants clipped like tea bushes in Tripura.[2]
Collection Details
The listing gives the sourcing as The Real Seed Company, Nepal Himalaya, 2024 Harvest. It says the seed was collected "in the exact same region" of the highlands of Nepal as the semidwarf landrace, and reports a germination test result of over 80 per cent.[1] RSC states that the seeds "will produce the same ultra-bushy, narrow-leafleted, semidwarf type".[6]
Cultivation Details
RSC gives the purpose as ganja (sinsemilla or semi-sensi), the time from seed to harvest as about six months, and lists greenhouse or outdoor growing.[1] It states that a crop of properly finished ganja needs outdoor growing in the tropics, south of about 30° N, or light deprivation, and that indoors the line may be fussy about flowering.[1] A post of September 2024 reports that at 40° N the plants were unlikely to finish outdoors, and names long light hours as the main obstacle to flowering.[3]
Botanical Characteristics
RSC describes the plants as ultra-bushy and narrow-leafleted, "looking like ornamental grass or bamboo". It states that all plants in the landrace show the compact, leafy morphology, and that this is "not just one freak individual".[1][3] RSC's post of August 2024 says that classic tropical landraces, such as Thai types, are typically understood to be narrow-leafleted and tall, 2 to 4 metres, and presents this semidwarf type as unlike them.[4]
Aroma
RSC lists mint and tobacco aromas, like ganja from Orissa or Southeast Asia, and an energising, powerfully euphoric effect.[1]
Smoke Reports
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References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "Nepali Highland". The Real Seed Company. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Nepali Highland – a ganja landrace from east Bengal?". The Real Seed Company. 3 December 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Rare semidwarf ganja landrace from Nepal". The Real Seed Company. 3 September 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Semidwarf ganja landraces and Sativas". The Real Seed Company. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
- ↑ "New Landrace Freebies – Hmong Ganja (5s) & Gorkha Nepali (12s)". The Real Seed Company. 12 May 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2026.
- ↑ "Nepali Highland". The Real Seed Company. Archived from the original on 13 November 2025. Retrieved 7 October 2026.