@Upstate has a thread about Jamaican longtime. I think he is even doing a preservation run. Sorry I’m half awake and having trouble linking.
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Two per year is nothing to sniff at! I’d be very proud of that, it sounds like you’re already doing good work with what you’ve been able to get. For reference, two seed runs a year is the sweat equity requirement for membership in the FBSC, one per year if it’s a long-flowering variety. So I’d say you’re doing pretty great, what have you reproduced/preserved so far?
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Tahoe area OG Kush cut that I am almost certain is the original OG Kush, and different than pretty much everything else people have claimed is Tahoe OG. Big golf ball sized rock hard minty gassy nugs on a neverending sativa growth pattern. Extreme frost and mold resistance. Killer high that has couch locked me before and that always works. I have given it to others going through opioid treatment and it works for them. Highly medicinal. I have had it since 2011.
A pack of Malana Cream I procured on the original Silk Road at about the same time, 2011. I also scored a pack of Alien Kush from Obsoul33t then too.
I have had other things but I lost my original seed collection at the 2008 Wyoming Rainbow Gathering. I had original BOG gear from the early 00s as well as some Nirvana stuff, etc.
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That’s more then double what they were charging for beans when I went threw them , I wonder if there charging more for specific strains, either way that’s just to much to ask for beans.
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Reality changed the rules on us. Many people don’t have the ability to do 2 runs and also provide their own headstash each year. One run is all you need. In order to keep the allure of choosing a more long flowering strain to preserve, there was talk of perhaps giving more seeds of all the Freakers reproductions to the people that do the long flowers…
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For a seedrun i have seeds for you.
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I Just spent over $400 for 20 seeds from them. Extremely expensive for landrace seed, much of it unworked and many of the others are typically acquired in a less than genuine manner. I don’t care who you are, at the very least it’s nice to be recognized.
I think its related to Vibes Collective Lambsbread. Same high. Same smell.
It’s a Lambsbread preservation, but I did grow Jamaican Longtime at the same time. Managed to screw that grow up pretty badly.
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It’s unfortunate that they are charging so much for something that most people will have a very hard time growing. I would expect true preservationists to want the genetics to reach as many people as possible and with those prices it’s rather limiting who can or would be willing to take a chance at growing them. I got the punto rojo and Vietnam strains from them but I’m almost sure I dident pay anything near that amount.
Some of there strains were acquired directly from members here like the png and cabeca. I’m wondering if they are just selling seeds they received or are actualy doing reproductions runs themselves.
If you want $200 a pack for something somebody sent you to get into the communities hands that just seems wrong, if they are doing reproductions that take four months or more to finish I could see charging more then a fast 8-10 week strain but not double the average cost of a seed pack.
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Imagine dropping 3k for 100 seeds and then having to hunt through runts and hermies for 6 months on your dime to find a few good plants. 
This can become a pricy hobby quick uh
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Yeah even at $50 a pack it would be $400 for 80 seeds , when you think about it that way some of us have a lot invested into seeds that may or may not germinate by the time we get to them.
For me I’d rather gamble on seeds then the casino but it’s not something everybody has the time ,space or money to do.
Still the most I’ve paid for seeds was $75 for 3 pumpkin seeds from the prior years world record pumpkin, only two germinated and one died shortly after. The one that grew rotted before it could get to maturity 
This year I will try again with equally expensive seeds and some that were gifted to me from county record holder.
Genetics can get realy expensive depending on what it is you decide you want to grow.
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I don’t mind having to pay extra for something proven, be it tools, furniture or seeds. Going through long flowering landraces is a numbers game if you want to find something exceptional… but then charging big bucks hinders that for most…
Anyway, I bought 300 nepalese seeds, flower time 15-20 weeks. I’m a sucker for punishment LOL
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It was a bit of a stretch, fitting in two rounds, but I think I can continue to pull it off. This was the first year I tried doing two, the year prior I only did one round, and then felt a little silly for not doing a second. I did an old pack of Petrolia Headstash the first round, simply because it was getting old. The flower I’ve tried was kinda meh compared to other options, but whatever. Last year I ran Bodhi’s Black Lotus as it was one of my older Bodhi packs, and then Sour Boggle, which was also a few years old. The Sour Boggle vegged pretty slow and never really took off, but at least I got some seeds from it, though not nearly as many as I had hoped. I’m hoping to play with some of the Sour Boggle seeds outdoors this summer, last time I ran SB outdoors they were great.
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Pre 2000 DJ Short Blueberry - I am planning on crossing my fingers and getting some to pop and doing an open pollination outside this summer !
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Got a pack of these, not as rare as many at 1/252, but for me this was a huge one to score, with the potential in there for so many possibilities from DJs lines:
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No doubt. Way too much in some cases. $16/ seed for Oaxaca. I can’t look at myself in the mirror for paying that. But I did. I gave away 2,500 + Oaxaca seeds and I’m buying Oaxaca seeds. Seems ironic. Well, what can I say. I’m a Oaxaca junkey. I need more. 
i sure hope its a new Oaxaca strain.
Maybe they are resellers in some cases? My Kalamata Red from them came in a Greco Seeds pack. The prices in that case would still be too high but resellers have to make something. I try as a landrace lover to support any and all venders, but overpriced is hard to justify. Like you said, it excludes a lot of people from getting to explore this stuff.
20 of us pooled in for one of the tlt strains. Thats a great option to spread the pain.
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Good point.
Wow. Is this a Lowland Nepalese? Very nice. Probably a tree.
You didn’t like it? I’ve heard such good things about it.
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By my understanding you really needed to do a search to find a good one, probably at least two packs. I only had the one pack so there wasn’t much I could do, at some point I’ll try to take a look through the F2s and see if there’s anything worthwhile in there. I do have a Nierika pack of Petrolia Headstash, I think Bodhi did a little work with it and then stopped using it, but perhaps he did a broad enough search to find good plants to work with?
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2700m I think I read…
3 to 5+ meters ! (10 to 16+ ft)
Here’s a description I found while digging deep.
Genetics: Pure Nepali Landrace
Latitude: Nepal 27°N – USA 37°N
Sourcing: Provided by a reliable acquaintance in Nepal with strong familiarity and contacts in the country.
Traditional use: Extensive. Primarily the creation of hashish.
Regional Harvest: Long growing/flowering season 18-20 weeks. October/November in Nepal.
Height: Usual height 3+ metres but can go 5+ metres.
Aromas: Sweet spices; cardamom, cinnamon, fennel, clove, flowery/fruity scents and incense, sandalwood.
Effects: Intense cerebral effect and an overall physical euphoria
Characteristics: Plants are very robust and females and males have been known to live 2+ years.
Grow type: Outdoor, Greenhouse, NOT suited for indoor unless very experienced.
Very small, very dark seeds, brown to black. Vigorous sprouting from fresh stock. Robust seedlings, fast grower. plants have wide leaves that narrow over time, very large plates. Stalk is green, often tinged with pink and purple, some are VERY purple. Wide internodes, long spacing between leaves on stems. A towering plant that exceeds 5 metres with optimum conditions. These plants are robust and vigorous, resistant to pests outdoors to a high degree, no mildew issues, and a fantastic cloner, sprouts very rapidly.
Flowers are fluffy, not compact, with two forms noted: a nodular, conical flower with pronounced airiness, and a longer flower, more compact (but still quite airy) and longer in its structure, not as nodular. The nodular one tends to be spicier, more clove/cardamom/chocolate notes, the longer one has floral and incense aromas and flavor. Aromas are quite pronounced and strong. A positive for this strain is its unique flavour components and how overt they are.
Crystal production is profuse, but very tiny caps on the trichomes, REALLY tiny. Effect is said to be quite strong if you smoke a lot of it, with both an intense cerebral effect and an overall physical euphoria that is relaxing and calming at the same time.
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Oooooh. Its Landrace Team Nepal. It does sound like a good one. You have 50 seeds to go thru?
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