First off @PanchoVilla you are obviously very well-read and thank you for all the great information you’ve given us! However, what makes a landrace a landrace is debatable. Some people site time periods of at least fifty years necessary, others a hundred years, and some others don’t believe landraces of marijuana exist in the Western Hemisphere at all even after five hundred years or more . There are records of Jesuit French priests that came during the first explorations and observed hemp growing in Nova Scotia and on the banks of the st. Lawrence River before French, English, or Spanish explorers had been here . Perhaps dropped off by the Vikings 500 years earlier??? We may never know . …=“PanchoVilla, post:392, topic:28367, full:true”]
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Other European colonists also brought Cannabis to New England to grow as hemp, but they were European hump strains very low in THC
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although for the most part this was true, and certainly true for the early hemp strains that were brought over , not all of what made it here were low in THC hemp plants… prior to World War II , whether a hemp plant had THC or not was not a priority . George Washington, a well-known friend of the Indians, wrote in his journal of separating the male and female plants of hemp,( and complaining that he was too late) which we know is not a practice in hemp farming. Jefferson spoke of sitting on his back veranda and smoking bowls of Indian hemp… which was slang for THC containing marijuana from the sub-continent of India… Lincoln enjoyed smoking his pipe of Indian hemp and playing his harmonica on his porch as well. In the late 1800s and the early 1900s Chinese Broad Leaf hemp was brought to this country. a variety from Japan was brought to the West Coast , and broadleaf hemp from China was brought to Kentucky becoming what we know as Kentucky hemp to this day. Chinese broadleaf hemp has the allele for THC production. All that is required to find a high THC broadleaf hemp plant is a bit of luck, as demonstrated in Columbia by a member of Instagram. Perhaps some of you’ve seen condor cannabis’s posts on instagram where they show a thc hemp plant.( I can’t locate my source of information right now but I remember Brazil or one of the Eastern South American countries briefly had broadleaf hemp) Indians were well known for their trading as well. Artifacts in New England have been placed as originating from Central America and South America. Important items such as seeds would surely have made the distance. I’m not positive where my buddies strain does come from, but I sure would like to find out ! The lawsuits of the Tuscarora Indians against the New York state government for not allowing them to grow their sacred plant are well known in our area. All I know is that it seems that this variety has been in my buddy’s family a very long time. Possibly pre-depression days or even much earlier. His family history in the area goes way back. I’m trying to locate the seeds. Either I was baked when I put them away or my wife moved them.( I vote Choice “A” LOL! ) since phylos isn’t an option I’m going to have to grow a few and get some opinions as to what they might be! I just wanted to raise the possibility of a North American landrace
