The Real Seed Company is a group of collectors dedicated to releasing traditional connoisseur cannabis strains in their pure, unhybridised form. Global ecology has reached crisis point, and cannabis is no exception: the biodiveristy of one of the world's most ancient crop plants is now under serious threat. Founded in 2007 in response to the damage being inflicted on top-end cannabis cultivars by prohibition, The Real Seed Company has taken an unprecedented step in the history of cannabis seed banks by offering an extensive and open catalogue of rare and authentic heirloom cannabis varities that can be owned by everyone.All of our lines are fully authentic ganja, charas and hashish cultivars from the ancient heartlands of cannabis culture. With a wide range of varieties from high CBD potential genepools for medical users and breeders, and fine representives of renowned high THC ganja and charas lines from legendary regions like Kerala, Thailand and Mazar-i-Sharif, The Real Seed Company catalogue is already unparalleled - and it's growing all the time.

Region: Hindu Kush

Genetics: Pure North Afghan Charas/Hashish Cultivar
Variety: "Indica Giant"
Latitude: 36°N
Harvest: October to November
Height: 3-4 meters in natural outdoor environment in Mazar-i-Sharif.
Yield: 1.5 to 2 kg of dried flowers in natural outdoor environment
Aroma: Pungent, intense terpene aroma; classic Afghan, with some sweetness
Characteristics: large lowland desert cultivar with classic wide leaved characteristics and hashy aroma
Grow Type: Greenhouse and outdoors

A legendary line grown around the lowland desert oasis towns of Balkh and Mazar-i-Sharif in the far north of Afghanistan, just beyond the Hindu Kush mountains. This Mazar-i-Sharif cultivar produces the famed sieved hashish known as "Shirak-i-Mazar" and "Milk of Mazar". The people of this ancient hashish producing region are a patchwork of Turkic, Tajik, Pashtun and Afghan tribes, and the history of Mazar-i-Sharif strains is likely to be equally complex. In fertile and well-irrigated soils these vigorous giants are capable of reaching 4 metres in height or more, and will produce a similarly immense yield of intensely resinous flowers. Traditionally harvested when fully ripe to over-ripe, sometimes even as late as first half of December in the brutal Central Asian winter, Mazar-i-Sharif plants will enjoy cold conditions, including snow, and will turn a deep blood red in low temperatures. Expert hashish producers favour leaving harvest as late as possible. Sieved "Milk of Mazar" garda is very resinous and so can be hand-pressed to make hashish/charas; it has a distinctively deep reddish tinge with a pungent, sweet aroma and a dreamily mellow, decadent high. Over-indulgence produces a mind-warping, immobilising and narcotic effect. One of this strain's phenotypes has been described as producing "very potent physical relaxation"; this is likely to be indicative of high CBD levels. Others have described their experience with this Mazar-i-Sharif as "like being transported back to the '70s".