The Nigerian Silk and JJ’s Nigerian are a particular obsession of mine, as I understand it the NSilk was Seed Bank Nigerian x NL5Haze from one of the early years of Nevil’s sales, definitely pre-1990 stock. It could have been the pure Nigerian from the first year of the Seed Bank x the NL5Haze here in the US, I am trying to find a post by JJ talking with Nevil about it on the Mr Nice forums:
I did find this in @mufafa ’s transcript project, from the first third of the JJ PotCast episode, but I believe he’s referring to the Nigerian Silk cut that he was given in the early 2000s.:
“ people, I think, once they try it, they’re interested in growing it.
And my phenos are growing about 70 to 77 days.
So with the breeding that I have done, it originally started with NL5 haze times
the Nigerian, and then back crossed into the Nigerian,
and then crossed into the mango haze.
And that’s what made the mango Nigerian.
And that was basically an earlier sativa string,
because there was a little bit of indigo with the NL5 in it.
And then also the Nigerian was an early finishing sativa,
then crossed into the mango.”
The Nigerian landrace has recently been identified as an acclimated Uttakarhand genetic brought to Africa a very long time ago, my guess would be by Southeast Asian traders coming to the East Coast, likely Ethiopia or Eritrea, maybe the Sudan, sometime around 1200 AD or later in the Malian Empire period. It could be much earlier though:
https://www.icmag.com/threads/nigerian.322962/
There’s a grower in Maine who I’ve seen doing lots of work with the Ethiopian Banana from Bodhi and Doc D who’s got a more current Reddit account I think, but he might be the only person still holding the Silk, though I think it’s probably the Silk BX not the original cut unless that survived out there somewhere:
