Curious to know of any landrace strains that have excellent flavour and smell. So many landrace strains I've come across seem to have harsh smoke and little to offer in terms of flavour and smell.

much thanks,

GroMore

[burningfire]

real seed company nepalese

very hashy/acrid/piney with a hint of incense

nepalese rulezz i smoke this from my friend grow very good strain

[funkymonkey]

Landraces aren't about flavour and smell, they are about unusual and special highs, all this obsession with flavour and smell has only come about because there is little else to differentiate between modern hybrids, they all have such similar highs - pedestrian, boring ones.

[Mustafunk]

I'm feeling what funkymonkey said... but I'm also sure that many of those flavours and smells in the new hybrids, must come from somewhere... I mean, each landrace has its different smell too, for example most indicas use to stink a lot, opposing to some other very floral or citrus sativas.

[Mr. Greengenes]

It's common in higher THC strains for the (tastes and smells of the) resin oils to overpower the water soluable flavors. To me, there's often greater variation in the 'water flavors', but they can easily be buried under the more pungent turpenes, especially after selecting for higher potency for a few generations.

Lower potency sativas (like many landraces) often have delicate floral, spicy flavors that don't often make the transition when crossed with stronger strains that have peppery, or pine-ey flavors and smells.

I recently used some Durban Poison in a cross with a much more potent strain. Not only did the DP smells and flavors (and up high) make it through the cross, but they actually seemed amplified.

[funkymonkey]

Er, I think you're talking out of your arse, sorry to say. Peppery and Piney are very common in landrace sativas.

Also, landrace sativas are not lower potency, that is totally wrong.

It's got nothing to do with resin oil and water soluble flavours either, sativas tend to have lower terpene densities, crossed to an indica (which tend to have high terpene densities) you get plants with a range of terpene densities, some with lots of the terpenes from the sativa, and those ones will have the smell/taste of the sativa just in an 'amped up' form.

[Rinse]

The most amazing smells and tastes I have had are from landraces, what I have noticed tho is that they can burn hot hence the harshness and they need longer curing (esp sativa's)

[bun1]

Malana from RSC is nice.

[bodymind]

i've been really curious about the malana strain from rsc. can you give any more details about it? what it grows like, specific smells and flavours, high, etc.