[snuicide]

[edit from 01-02-2018]

Chefchaouen Heirloom
Thanks for all the positive feedback! Here are some quicklinks.

the grow:
grow overview 18 plants
360 ° Timelapse - started 14.12.2017
360° Timelapse - started 21.12.2017
on the bottom of page 5 you can see the males I select from

articles and reports:
https://prohbtd.com/visiting-a-moder...-rif-mountains
https://www.tni.org/files/publicatio...49_eng_web.pdf

video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4doVBeI7OM (german documentation 2002)
https://youtu.be/KLKTBsXu1FQ?t=4m46s (spanish documentation 2002)
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I was in the Rif Mountains and got 1/2 Kg of seeds which the locals call "Libre" - it is classic maroccan genetics. I was able to choose between Afgahni, Pakistani, Skunk and "Libre".

The germination rate is super bad. Im now having a try with Huminacid and Isopropyl desinfection before use. We will see.
As you can see in the picture, there is a lot of dirt in it.

What I saw at the different plantations was mostly Skunk and sometimes some bubblegum smelling strains. The few sprouted seeds look legit and promissing because of they apear uniform.

[snuicide]

[BombBudPuffa]

That is awesome! I'll be watching this one closely.

[troutman]

Nice pics and please save that Landrace pure.

[ahortator]

Hi. Moroccan landrace is called beldia by the people there. It was insanely low quality stuff. But a sturdy plant and perhaps one, if not the fastest no autoflowering strains in the world. It usually withstand severe drought. If you grow them properly as any other strain Moroccan heirloom grow tall and vigorously but the buds don't produce much resin. They produce more resin when stressed by drought.

Always is a pitty to lose a landrace.

https://prohbtd.com/visiting-a-moder...-rif-mountains

[Pepé The Grower]

I guess the right spell is "bledia", meaning "from the country"

Suicide picture are great, yet it looks strange for a traditionnal morroccan field, plants are not close enough, there is no male dying there and the plot looks well maintened...

[ahortator]

Hi, here you have a documentary film released on TV in 2002. In those times Moroccan landrace was still the most widespread strain there.

https://youtu.be/KLKTBsXu1FQ?t=4m46s

[snuicide]

Hi everybody! I'm glad to see you on board.

Originally Posted by Pepé The Grower

I guess the right spell is "bledia", meaning "from the country"

Suicide picture are great, yet it looks strange for a traditionnal morroccan field, plants are not close enough, there is no male dying there and the plot looks well maintened...

Oh wow thats good information. I understood libre.

There are not really traditional fields anymore. I was arround the Chefchaouen area.

They mostly grow skunk these days and also saw sativa dominant single plants they were really proud of just because of the size ^^.
They also told me that their deliveries to Europe get rejected if its not top notch coffeeshop quallity thats why they grow dutch stuff.

It is really bad for these people that they have to grow the modern strains because they are not able to water them and they are consuming much more water than the traditional plants.
On the other hand on the bus drive to Nador through the mountains I saw waterholes which looks like crater on the moon. So I guess times are changing fast these days. I mean they listend so much trap music in this area even the older people

I just saw one dying male plant on a close field but I was there in harvest time when they don't need them anymore. Every plant I saw was full of seeds anyway and ready in early september!

I have a Hash Passion from Seedsman flowering at the moment and it is really the fastest plant I ve had so far. Resinproduction is really not the best but not that bad at all. It smells like Maroccan blonde hash that one with a subtile lemon note. The plants on the fields I saw were mostly sweet and fruity.

[ahortator]

You can watch the video of the Strain Hunters in Morocco to realize that the landrace is gone.

[Pepé The Grower]

Hey Snuicide,

I forgot to say thanks for sharing, it's always great to see a cannabis field, no matter what!

"Libre" makes sense too, but for a diffferent thing. I bet it comes from the french word libre which means free ( as in freedom, not gratis ). Maybe that "libre" means seeds from open pollinated field of what remains from the old morrocan strain vs the paki/ghani/skunk.So in the end it's a mix of every cultivars grown there.
Yet it's surprising they 're able to reproduce the modern strains without much interference from each other...so maybe now they cull most of the males early on...

And so you got as far as Nador, did you ever reach the Oujda area? It's just a wild guess ( or wishful thinking maybe) but i'm under the impression that one should looks around there for the old school kif variety.There is supposedly no commercial cultivation in this area.So maybe more chances to find the real deal. I know if i could go strain hunting in Morroco, it would be there and south all along the Algerian border, even maybe the other side around Tlemcen.
But it may not be as safe as the Chefchaouen/Ketama/Al Hoceima area, for sure.

Anyway, that's enough for my guesses...if you got more pictures to share (those sativa you talk about) you're very welcome!

About the seeds you got, if they don't germ you might try to get them into live compost, it can help big time!

And here is a pdf link of the latest report (march 2017)about cannabis cultivation in Morrocco, by the NL Transnational Institute:
https://www.tni.org/files/publicatio...49_eng_web.pdf