Hi all, i was gifted these seed and i’m very excited to grow them. This cross was made by a Moroccan Hash farmer and these buds were his own personal favorite smoke… his headstash !
How i came into these seeds is quite a nice story so i will briefly tell it:
It all started with a favor. I did a favor for someone i know and, whilst i am a great one for ‘quid pro quo’ type favors, this particular favor was the best type - where i asked for nothing in return.
We met up in London where i was working, favor was done, and the guy gifted me a small lump of hash - which i had a smoke of as soon as i got home. It was lovely… very lightly pressed blond hash that we might call ‘pollen’ or ‘blond hash’ in the UK. It reminded me of Red Lebenese (that used to come in the cloth bags) but when i was in contact with my friend he told me it was Moroccan, and that it came from his friend who’s dad had farmed the same fields for the last 40 years. (Most Moroccan that is imported into the UK is more heavily pressed and of lesser quality - what we used to call ‘Slate’ ) - Always the opportunist, i asked him to see if his friend could get hold of any seeds for those hashplants - he said he would try, and then i pretty much forgot about it because these things hardly ever end up with a result ime.
The guy is a member here, i won’t name him but he can pop in and say hi if he likes, and a couple of weeks later he messaged me to say that his friend’s dad had sadly just died, and that his friend’s uncles had taken over the hash farm and that he couldn’t ask them for seeds, but he had gone back for the funeral and bought these seeds back that were nothing to do with that hash - they were what his dad had smoked for himself for as long as he could remember and they has never been shared with anybody before, and here is the story of the cross itself:
His dad had travelled to Panama in the ‘60s and bought back seeds of the Panama Red he had smoked there. He loved the color, flavor, taste and smell of Panama Red but thought he could improve the structure and the high, and also make it more suitable for the Moroccan climate, so he crossed it with a ‘sativa’ hashplant with a very nice effect that was a landrace native to the Chefchauoen region of the Rif in Morocco. It smelt of herbal tea, woody, earthy, coffee and spice. People used to smoke the buds of this sativa but it was still classed as a hash producing plant (when the guy described it as sativa he put the word in inverted commas - ‘sativa’ - which may mean that we would call it a sativa because it had narrow leaves,or taller and bushier.. im not sure) he said it was a very different plant to the sort of indica hashplant used to make the ‘blond hash’ from Ketama and most regions in the Rif.
His dad went through a few hundred Panama Red plants and chose 18-20 of the red types that had the smell, structure and bud formation that he liked best, and pollinated them with a single male Chefchaouen sativa -
Ahmar was born, the arabic word translates as ‘Red’ or ‘Red gem’ - I was told these would go around 10-12 weeks indoors.
So the first thing i thought was that these F1 seeds are OLD ! - at least 30 years old but more like 40 or 50 years old… they looked kid of old too but also but also very good quality and well formed, I was given 15 seeds and told they should still germinate just fine because his dad knew how to keep seeds for a long time.
So i planted 9 of them and spread out between day 5 and day 9 i got 5 seedlings… and i have 6 seeds left.
About 3 weeks old...
Group shot:
and 3 different individuals:
These have already led a somewhat charmed life... and hopefully i can flower some out and see what they are like..
VG
How i came into these seeds is quite a nice story so i will briefly tell it:
It all started with a favor. I did a favor for someone i know and, whilst i am a great one for ‘quid pro quo’ type favors, this particular favor was the best type - where i asked for nothing in return.
We met up in London where i was working, favor was done, and the guy gifted me a small lump of hash - which i had a smoke of as soon as i got home. It was lovely… very lightly pressed blond hash that we might call ‘pollen’ or ‘blond hash’ in the UK. It reminded me of Red Lebenese (that used to come in the cloth bags) but when i was in contact with my friend he told me it was Moroccan, and that it came from his friend who’s dad had farmed the same fields for the last 40 years. (Most Moroccan that is imported into the UK is more heavily pressed and of lesser quality - what we used to call ‘Slate’ ) - Always the opportunist, i asked him to see if his friend could get hold of any seeds for those hashplants - he said he would try, and then i pretty much forgot about it because these things hardly ever end up with a result ime.
The guy is a member here, i won’t name him but he can pop in and say hi if he likes, and a couple of weeks later he messaged me to say that his friend’s dad had sadly just died, and that his friend’s uncles had taken over the hash farm and that he couldn’t ask them for seeds, but he had gone back for the funeral and bought these seeds back that were nothing to do with that hash - they were what his dad had smoked for himself for as long as he could remember and they has never been shared with anybody before, and here is the story of the cross itself:
His dad had travelled to Panama in the ‘60s and bought back seeds of the Panama Red he had smoked there. He loved the color, flavor, taste and smell of Panama Red but thought he could improve the structure and the high, and also make it more suitable for the Moroccan climate, so he crossed it with a ‘sativa’ hashplant with a very nice effect that was a landrace native to the Chefchauoen region of the Rif in Morocco. It smelt of herbal tea, woody, earthy, coffee and spice. People used to smoke the buds of this sativa but it was still classed as a hash producing plant (when the guy described it as sativa he put the word in inverted commas - ‘sativa’ - which may mean that we would call it a sativa because it had narrow leaves,or taller and bushier.. im not sure) he said it was a very different plant to the sort of indica hashplant used to make the ‘blond hash’ from Ketama and most regions in the Rif.
His dad went through a few hundred Panama Red plants and chose 18-20 of the red types that had the smell, structure and bud formation that he liked best, and pollinated them with a single male Chefchaouen sativa -
Ahmar was born, the arabic word translates as ‘Red’ or ‘Red gem’ - I was told these would go around 10-12 weeks indoors.
So the first thing i thought was that these F1 seeds are OLD ! - at least 30 years old but more like 40 or 50 years old… they looked kid of old too but also but also very good quality and well formed, I was given 15 seeds and told they should still germinate just fine because his dad knew how to keep seeds for a long time.
So i planted 9 of them and spread out between day 5 and day 9 i got 5 seedlings… and i have 6 seeds left.
About 3 weeks old...
Group shot:
and 3 different individuals:
These have already led a somewhat charmed life... and hopefully i can flower some out and see what they are like..
VG
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