The buds from Moshi sativa produce a combination of eucalyptus/pine and sweet floral scents. This landrace is found at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and is believed to be a phenotype of the famous Kilimanjaro Stomper.
Moshi sativa is a strong daytime sativa and produces long wispy buds. Here’s an article explaining how to cultivate it indoors…
You got some?
Yes, I have the seeds available
I would perhaps be interested in such things.
The price for the seeds are available on my website.
Oh yes I see
Oh I like the sound of this strain , a good daytime smoke. Will be making another order soon
You should be😁
I currently have 3x Tanzanian Magic from African Seeds going. 3x out of 7x germinated and developed nicely. They haven’t sexed yet but it looks like they’re all male so I’ll wanted to ask if anyone has some beans from Tanzania to share or trade would be much appreciated. I’ll try to keep them pure. I’m still hoping I’ll get one female at least.
all best
Dogtown
Thanks for the shoutout and I’m looking forward to seeing you harvesting and enjoying the Kilimanjaro
I’m sure theres a lady or two in there. Its the old Tanzanian Magic or its from Mike?
That’s a different strain from the Moshi sativa
@kidete Theres an old African strain called Tanzanian magic, ( its a Kilamanjaro) thats been around the states a number of years. I think it was from African seeds company. Sounds like he might be growing that one and not your Kilamanjaro. I just want to clarify which one it is.
Yes exactly it’s the Tanzanian Magic from African Seeds not from Kidete. I found a old member who has some Tanzanian Magic seeds left and he’ll send them to me. I’ll collect pollen and also made some clones already. Also ordered the Moshi sativa because I think it comes closest to the Tanzanian Magic.
I also have the Ethiopian Highland from Arfrican Seeds which is the same strain according to Ed Rosenthal.
Ed Rosenthal’s “Big Book of Buds #2” pages 58-9, Ethiopian Highland, African Seeds
“African Seeds obtained the original seed stock for Ethiopian Highland from the breeders in the Rasta community in Shashemene, a sprawling town located in the Great Rift Valley, about 150 miles from Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. The strain originated in the Highland region of southern Tanzania, and then was brought to Ethiopia where it was grown for many generations before reaching African Seeds breeders.
This pure sativa has never been crossed, only inbred. Outdoors, Ethiopian thrives when grown in a location with a long warm summer, but it will also do well at northern European latitudes and cooler high altitutde mountain climates. This plant can also be tamed for indoor gardens as long as the lighting is fairly intense. Ebb and flow hydro is a better choice of systems; this plant is difficult to grow in soil indoors.
African Seeds typically allows this heavily branched, shorter sativa strain to grow vegetatively outdoors for 12-16 weeks before flowering. In cooler climates with long summer daylight hours, 8-10 weeks of vegetative cycle is sufficient. Of course yield is partly dependent on how big the plants are allowed to get before they are flowered. Indoors, this strain should veg for at least 6 weeks before flowering is forced. Once forced to flower, ripening only takes about a month.
Ethiopian Highland buds are loose, long and fluffy, tucked between the slender, light green foliage. When smoked, it has a very strong, burley Turkish aroma wich a licorice aftertaste. The buzz is electric and energetic, good for recreation or daytime use because mental clarity in intact and potentail for couchlock is low. The strain is used by the local Rasta community and others in Ethiopia for religious and medicinal uses.”
And the description of the Tanzanian Magic from African Seeds:
Original seed stock from the highland tea growing region in southern tanzania, this short fast flowering sativa gives short stocky plants with sticky compact buds. Leaves pencil slim. Suited well to indoor growing under lights or behind glass, flowering starts in 4 weeks with large bud formation in 8-10weeks. Good for cooler outdoor climates. Very potent electric high.
Flowering Period: 8-10 weeks (condition dependent)
Height: 1-3 ft
Yields Outdoor: 3-4 oz
Yields Indoor: 1 oz
Will it clone? I was always intrigued by this Autoflower, so out of place in the tropics, but clearly living there for some time
You don’t mean Ethiopian Highlands and Tanzanian magic? They are very different
I cut clones yesterday, lets see. I will collect pollen anyways.
That’s what Ed Rosenthal wrote in his Big book of Buds. Or at least he writes that the Ethiopian Highland was brought from southern Tanzania to Ethiopia.
Anyway, I’ll get some Tanzanian Magic seeds from another member. He made a repro long time ago and stored them in the freezer, so I’ll should be able to keep the Tanzanian Magic pure!
@Kidete ever hear about a Tanzanian tribe that still hunts/ gathers? The Hadza or Hadzabe tribe…they smoke weed, and I’d bet they grow too. They live around a lake. Might be worth looking into.
Interesting about the Ethiopian Highland @Dogtown. I always figured it was Indian in origin myself. Some of the older crew, when it comes to landraces, got their info wrong. Ed also called Durban Poison a landrace, for example, which it is not.
They just assume today, upon old refections, that they were dealing with landraces, because making intentional hybrids wasn’t considered by them as being a thing until they thought to do it themselves. Kind of like how columbus discovered america lol.
Hybrids have been made for a long looooong time, and Westerners were the LAST, not the first to do it.
Some early examples…
West India x Tibetan, 1930s
Mediterranean x East Africa 1920’s
Durban Poison probably from colonial South African days
Panama Red, from early canal days or Parke Davis around 1900
Uzbekistan Was the center of south asian cannabis in eighteen fifty. Then it moved to Turkestan in China in the 1880’s. Migrated from there to India and Afghanistan in the 30’s.
Each time the growers moved they mixed their creation with what was growing in the new place, making hybrids in the process. These hybrids then became true breeding, we discovered them shortly after, and decided they were landraces that had always been there.
West India had the mango plants( mysore mango). In the 80’s the cops cracked down on growers, who moved to the East Coast of India where…you guessed it…mango weed popped up. Arakku Valley Mango.
In turn, the cops began to crack down on the growers in this area, and some growers fled to meghalaya in northeast india, where we now have Mango Shillong.
Police have been responsible for many a good hybrid lol. If ol’ Ed were to have visited these areas in the 70’s, he’d have called the plants landraces.
Yes I’ve heard about the Hadza tribe in Tanzania. I even watched a documentary on YouTube about their way of life
