Hello dear OG community,
My first tent-indoor-grow, which I started almost 3 months ago (at that time with autofems), is now nearing completion and I am very happy with the result. In the last few weeks, however, I have been reading and learning more and more about regular seeds and the topics I mentioned in the thread title. I’m particularly fond of landraces and have now acquired a small collection of seeds, which I’m going to start with now:
After some deliberation, I have decided to start with the following varieties, most of which have already germinated and are growing healthily and happily in my mini-“greenhouse”, namely the following:
White Widow (Dutch Passion)
KC 45 (KC Brains)
California Special (KC Brains)
Iranian #3 (Kwikseeds)
Since there was some interest in the Irani by some peole in another thread, I have now created this own new thread to document my plans and record it in words and pictures. 
5 days ago I planted all 6 Iranian seeds in potting soil, 5 of them have sprouted so far. The other plants had already emerged from the soil about a week earlier. 
(The Iranis are in the cardboard pots, the rest oft the seedlings are: bottom right 3 California Special, bottom left 3 White Widow, top 3 KC 45 )
Some information about the Irani landrace :
It comes from Kwikseeds / Real Seed Company. Unfortunately, there is hardly any information about the variety. In Iran there are many hybrids between sativas and indicas due to its geographical location, but this one is probably a fairly pure indica. According to a user who saw this same cultivar being grown by someone else already, this strain may have originated in the Tehran region. Everything else will become clear in the course of the grow.
Fortunately, I have an Iranian friend who knows a lot about cannabis in his homeland. I will probably come back to him from time to time for questions and advice. He is ethnically Afghan and is also familiar with traditional hash production in Afghanistan, so I will also be happy to come back to him and possibly share some information here. 
He got me interested in the Iranian landraces, especially as you rarely hear anything about them here in the west and I find it very exciting to have a few small exotic plants at home. 
The whole thing will certainly be a long-term project, but I will post regular updates and let you in on everything important that I do with the plants. 
My primary goal for the first run is to get a good amount of F2 seeds of all varieties. Unfortunately, I am somewhat limited in terms of space, which is why I can only grow a few specimens of each strain to start with. I hope it will be enough to get at least one nice girl and boy per strain. Otherwise I will have to improvise and possibly make directly crosses, which I will later stabilize and/or backcross (I still have 2 seeds of each of the KC seeds left in my collection)
I will then select the most pretty and promising plants for crosses. However, I definitely want to continue with the landrace in its pure form in every case.
At the moment, all the plants are still indoors and get sunlight as well as additional LED lighting in the evening (which is more like a better reading lamp, but certainly better than nothing), giving them a good 18 to 20 hours of light in total. I hope that this will give them a good start. ext week, however, I will move the first plants to the balcony, where they will be able to spend the rest of their lives in peace.
I am always happy to receive tips and suggestions about my plans! 
Best regards, I’ll post here again soon,
ossi_grower
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