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RSC-LBN-UNK-0120080001 is an Accession — the atomic unit of documentation representing a specific collection event. All scientific data lives here.

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Evidentiary scope

The article rests on the RSC listing for Lebanese, the Kwik Seeds listing of the same line, RSC's Near East and CBD category pages, Kwik Seeds' Auto & Semi-Auto category page and four RSC blog posts (July 2019, March 2023, September 2023 and August 2025). Kwik Seeds is the shop RSC calls its other site (RSC, Hemp & Multipurpose). Every archived version of the RSC listing gives the same 2008 harvest in the Bekaa Valley, so all of them describe this collection. The listings name no village and no farmer, and describe the mountain region above the valley without naming it. The history of hashish production in the Bekaa is RSC's and has not been checked against other sources; the article attributes it. The chemotype figures are RSC's report of one plant. Éloise 03:55, 18 September 2026 (+07)

Georeferencing

The listings name the Bekaa Valley and give a latitude of about 34° N. The valley is not a single administrative unit: OpenStreetMap maps it across the Beqaa Governorate (relation 318174) and the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate (relation 7231015). So that the accession appears on the map, the coordinate is the midpoint of the two governorates' combined extent along 34.00° N (full polygons; 35.92° E to 36.35° E), rounded to two decimal places: 34.00, 36.14. Only Baalbek-Hermel reaches that latitude; the Beqaa Governorate ends at 33.94° N. OpenStreetMap places the point in Douris, Baalbek District. It is an inference from the listings, not a collection site, so the province field stays blank and the region code is UNK. Éloise 03:55, 18 September 2026 (+07)

Editorial treatment

• Accession ID. RSC-LBN-UNK-0120080001 uses LBN, the ISO 3166-1 code for Lebanon, and UNK because the listings name a valley that spans two governorates. The month digits are 01, and the year is that of the harvest the sourcing line gives.
• Name and type. Lebanese Reproduction 2008, with accession type Reproduction, sourcing type Multi-generation reproduction, pollination type Open pollination, selection type Multiple plants and autochtonous No, from the note on first-generation and third-generation seeds. The note stood on the RSC listing from August 2019 to April 2023 and stands on Kwik Seeds now; the current RSC listing does not carry it.
• Collector. Angus: RSC collected the line itself, with help from a local aficionado, and its July 2019 interview says so.
• Photoperiod. Semi-autoflowering, which both listings state in their characteristics line, which RSC's "semi-auto" paragraph explains and which Kwik Seeds' Auto & Semi-Auto category confirms. It is not the corpus convention here.
• Growth pattern. Columnar and Bushy, for the two architectures the listings describe; "near-spherical" is entered as Bushy, the closest value in the vocabulary.
• Purposes. "Hashish (sieved resin)" is entered as purpose Recreation and processing method Dry-sift, as on the other hashish accessions.
• Conservation priority. Medium: RSC describes the Bekaa Valley as a major centre of commercial hashish production since the early 20th century, which is a moderate population, and reports introductions of Afghan seed in 1974 and of hemp in the 1990s. The ratings follow the accession definitions in authored/planning/DESIGN.md: Critical rare, from a single farmer or micro-population; High limited population, few sources; Medium moderate population, multiple sources known; Low common, broadly available within its range.
• Lineage. The listings describe seed produced from first-generation and third-generation seed of the original 2008 accession, so this page documents a reproduction, which is what the accession type says. The lineage convention staged in authored/tasks/Accession_Lineage_2026-09-17/ treats a collection and a reproduction of it as separate accessions, the reproduction taking the suffix -R1. It is not applied here, because the RSC accessions already on the wiki use the older form and one pass should split them together. The wording is recorded so that pass finds this page.
• Not entered. Chemotype, because the listing describes a population segregating into three types rather than one profile; culling, although plants with negative traits were removed in the reproduction; leaf and stem colour, because the red and purple colours are described for senescence.
• Links. The valley is linked as Beqaa Valley, the usual English spelling, and displayed as the listings write it; a redirect from "Bekaa Valley" belongs with that page when it is written. The Levant, Russell Pasha and the Near East are left unlinked.
• Conventions. Introgression Minimal follows the other RSC accessions; neither listing states it. Éloise 03:55, 18 September 2026 (+07)

Source discrepancies

• Reproduction note. Kwik Seeds carries it; the current RSC listing does not, although RSC carried it until April 2023.
• Genetics line. RSC: "Lebanese Cannabis Landrace". Kwik Seeds: "Traditional Lebanese Hashish Domesticate (“Landrace”)", RSC's line from April 2021 to April 2023.
• CBD. RSC: "CBD can be exhibited in exceptionally high double-digit quantities in some individuals", with the three-chemotype sentence. Kwik Seeds: "Exceptionally high levels of CBD can be exhibited by this landrace, into high double-digit quantities", close to RSC's wording of August and October 2019.
• Plants. RSC: "Lebanese plants are typically compact and early maturing". Kwik Seeds: "Lebanese landraces are very compact and mature early", RSC's line until January 2021.
• Only on RSC. The semi-auto paragraph, the three-chemotype sentence and the note on crop substitution explaining high CBD.

The listings do not explain the differences. The article uses both and attributes each. Éloise 03:55, 18 September 2026 (+07)

Archived versions

The Wayback Machine holds 25 versions of the RSC listing, from August 2019 to March 2026, and all were read. Every version gives the 2008 harvest in the Bekaa Valley, so all of them describe this collection.

• Sourcing. "Personally collected at souce in Bekaa Valley (2008 harvest)" from August to December 2019, then the current line. The article cites the version of 19 August 2019.
• Reproduction note. Present from August 2019 to 4 April 2023 and absent from June 2023. The article cites the versions of 19 August 2019 and 4 April 2023.
• Classification. "C. sativa subsp. indica var. afghanica x C. sativa subsp. indica var. indica" from August 2020 to April 2023. The article cites the versions of 5 August 2020 and 4 April 2023.
• Bekaa note. Added in August 2020, with "Afghan landraces are said to have been introduced" until January 2021 and "Afghan seeds" since. The clause about crop substitution explaining high CBD was added in October 2024.
• Chemotypes. The semi-auto paragraph and the sentence on type 1, 2 and 3 chemotypes first appear in January 2025.
• Photographs. The 2019 versions captioned nine photographs (see below). The listing showed six photographs until October 2024 and thirteen since. Éloise 03:55, 18 September 2026 (+07)

Photographs

The infobox image and seven gallery images come from the two listings and from RSC's July 2019 blog post, and were uploaded under fair use at reduced resolution. The current listing gives its thirteen photographs no captions. The August to December 2019 versions (Wayback Machine) captioned nine photographs, hosted on kwikseeds.com and byte-identical to the files the listings show now: the compact plants as a fourth-generation Lebanese outdoors in Oregon in mid-September, the branched plant and the red-leaved top as outdoors in North America in mid-September, the single-stemmed plant as outdoors in Spain, and the hashish as Lebanese hashish from the Bekaa Valley, 2008 harvest. Those captions are used with the year 2019. RSC's blog post of September 2023 uses the single-stemmed plant again as an example of columnar architecture, and its post of July 2019 uses the plant whose sieved resin tested at 19 per cent CBD and 13.75 per cent THC. The hashish photograph is taken from the Kwik Seeds listing, which shows it at higher resolution than the copy the RSC listing carries; the two are the same photograph. The field photograph and the purple top have no caption from RSC. Five further photographs on the listing are not used. Éloise 03:55, 18 September 2026 (+07)