Pure Sativa Landrace preservation and Pheno hunt with Rastafari Church in Antigua | Humboldt Seed Co
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Published 2024-02-13
This preservation landrace project is over 7 years in the making and today you get to come with us as we see the results of selective breeding and preservation of the Caribbeans Landrace Cannabis Strains.
A Pheno hunt film about the Rastafari Church on the Caribbean island of Antigua and Barbuda with the Humboldt Seed Company and Dr. Machel Emanuel
Film by Home Grow TV - @HomeGrowTV
Episode on Home Grow TV Channel: • How Rastas reclaimed Antigua (Pure Sa...
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We dive into the history of Cannabis in the Caribbean the history of Landrace genetics from the region and talk about the "Pure Sativa" aka "Caribbean Queen" Landrace Preservation Project.
Genetics from the Caribbean. For the Caribbean and pheno hunting for a better future.
We tag along with the Humboldt Seed Company as they pheno hunt through hundreds of the landrace preservation of the Pure Sative / Caribbean Queen. (Cannabinoid and Terpene tests with the NEO SPECTRA)
We get to sit down with Prophet Rohan from the Rastafari Church of Antigua and Barbuda and hear a little about the connection to cannabis as a plant and religious practice.
The Trip wouldn't be complete without getting to meet Regis Burton, the CEO of the Cannabis Authority of Antigua and Barbuda. We get the low down on the laws in Antigua (the first Caribbean country to legalize cannabis for religious purposes)
Cannabis was finally back in the hands of the Rastafari and the world needs to take a page from the book of Antigua and Barbuda's Cannabis Policy.
Pure Sativa Landrace preservation and Pheno hunt with Rastafari Church in Antigua | Humboldt Seed Co
Timestamps:
0:00 - What is the Global Pheno Hunt?
0:47 - Meeting the Caribbean Queen aka Pure Sativa
2:10 - Story of bringing ancient cannabis genetics back to the Caribbean
3:25 - History of Cannabis in the Caribbean with Dr.Machel Emanuel
7:02 - Finding a local connect and testing the Wadadli
9:18 - Meeting the Prophet Rohan from the Rastafari Mansion Bobo Ashanti (EABIC)
11:01 - Start of the Pheno hunt of Pure Sativa
12:24 - Finding the Prophet's Unicorn
15:02 - Why Humboldt Seed Co is breeding Caribbean Landrace Cannabis
16:05 - Findings from first landrace and pure sativa crosses in Caribbean
16:50 - How Ben found the Landrace from the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago)
20:40 - Terps and Aroma of the Caribbean Queen aka Pure Sativa Landrace
21:25 - Thoughts of the Caribbean Queen from the Authority
23:06 - 12/12 from seed, clean water, and volcanic soil
23:48 - Potency test, Cannabinoid, and Terp test of the outdoor Caribbean Cannabis
26:35 - Selecting the unicorn bud for catalogue and testing
30:11 - NEO Spectra tests of Cannabinoid and Terp of other island samples
31:55 - Roasting the Caribbean Queen aka Pure Sativa for Testing
35:56 - Interview with CEO of Antigua and Barbuda Medicinal Cannabis Authority
39:16 - Thoughts about the Cannabis Movement in Antigua and Barbuda
42:28 - Where is the Next Pheno Hunt?
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Humboldt Seed Company is a cannabis seed company based in the U.S. state of California. The company was founded by Nathaniel Pennington in 2001 in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California.
The company holds a database of Cannabis phenotypes covering thousands of individual plants, and an inventory of their seeds or living plants. Samples were obtained starting in 2018, in "phenotype hunts" with the participation of California growers.
In 2022, it was the first company to register autoflowering cannabis in Colombia.
Also in 2022, the company created the first scratch and sniff cannabis product packaging, incorporating terpenes matching the sealed contents.
All Comments (21)
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I havent smoked/vaped weed regularly in 2 years. Went from age like 15 to 35 being an almost daily smoker(vape flower) to not using anything anymore. One thing i miss the most about it is that compassion the rasta is talking about. I've been with my wife since i was 16 years old and a lot of the fights we used to have in our mid 20s that couldve broke us up were fixed by weed. I'd use marijuana and think to myself "Man i need to go apologize, that was messed up" when you're sober you dont really use that compassionate side of your emotions. It might creep in every now and then when you give a homeless guy a dollar or something but thats just for you to feel good more than anything. Marijuana gives you REAL compassion where you want to do good without anything in return. You just want to see happiness on someone else.
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By far the most epic pheno hunt I've ever witnessed... quickly went from excitement to eye opening inspiration when I seen the way the government authorities of Antigua and Barbuda are interacting with the Rastafari Church... Mad respect and much love for this gorgeous island and its people
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Imagine having a field like that where you can grow your own stuff, heaven.
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The beauty of the cannabis plant is that when you use it correctly, you feel attuned to nature and become more conscious.
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This was great, thank you. I still hate seeing these rare landrace populations becoming extinct and foreigners polluting the few remaining landrace areas with Cookies garbage. The world has more than enough Gelato x Gelato x Gelato x Gelato x Gelato. We don't need to erase every remaining unique genetic by crossing it with the same boring purple weed you can't escape. "This stuff is amazing, so I crossed it to Gelato/OG, now it's just like Gelato/OG..."
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What’s crazy is I watch your video everyday, what’s even crazier is you and your crew stood right behind me in my village supermarket yesterday and I wasn’t aware until this morning😂
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have wanted to spend the rest of my life doing this ever since the legendary Strain Hunters vids
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I grow outdoors at 5k feet in the high desert. Usually a very short season and I would put my bud up against any indoor bus. I have tried to enter the Cannabis cup, but I'm usually just getting ready to harvest at that time. I am usually finishing up mid to the end of November. My strains are mostly Indica with a little sativa and are acclimated and will survive temps to down to 20° F as long as they dont get wet. I use local soil, sand and rocks w/ organic liquid fertilizers in a very weak tea about once a month. The rocks and lake bottom sand take care of the trace minerals. I also add some of the shale that is on my property. I have a Green Crack strain that is x with Lemon Haze that I am gonna try this year. The Green Crack I grew needed to go longer so I'm hoping the x with the Lemon will make it finish faster. It came out okay, but the buds could have filled out a lot more. About 40 years ago when I first started I had seed that I had collected and were given to me. 1 Plant was a pure Sativa that grew over 15' and had all these dense little purple buds all over it. It was probably the best sativa I have ever smoked and I have never seen it again, and probably won't since everything is crossed with something else. It must have been a landrace from Thailand or India is my feeling. Somewhere in that area. Cold temperatures and dark nights make magic happen. I used to come to Redway a lot around 20 years ago.
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Yo! excited to watch this... I'm in Cali, and the first crossing I facilitated a few years ago, was when I grew a bunch of "Guatemala Quetzalita" beans from Cannabiogen, and they all turned out male. I kept them on my sideyard and eventually collected as much pollen as I could from all of them. Then I took a flowering XJ-13 clone I got from Harborside dispensary years ago, and dusted its pistils with the pollen. The plant was pregnate with seeds and I had my first, very sativa cross, with Jack-like traits which I love. I still have some of those seeds, but have since woven its descendants together with some TGA Galactic Jack plants, and maybe another strain or two. Now I have some weird collections of seeds that I am endlessly excited about growing, with very JAck-ish tropical/candy terps, and better PM resistance than any "clones" I tried to grow in the early gardening years. Let me know if you guys want some of my beans!!! No strings attached, just want my seeds to have a future and contribute to the great weaving of Cannabis and its evolution into greater and greater surprising awesomeness! 💖
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We left prohibition and entered medication/taxation mode here in Australia. It is so hard to watch this, but I am happy someone gets to enjoy the benefits. You guys are so lucky to have the freedom to do these things. God speed lads. 👍
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I love seeing what other cultures and people live out and make of the cannabis culture. Great stuff!!!!
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Y’all boys better have payed up for them seeds. One of the most organic buds you can find on earth!
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Beautiful flowers and beautiful place. Keep up the amazing journey you are on.
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I think i smiled all through this video ..... June 1980 was when i last smoked it ..... at the Bob Marley Tuff Gong concert at Crystal Palace, London. Everyone was stoned. Everyone was happy.....
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Love HSC, you will always have a place in my garden. Great job Home grow TV, my fav cannabis channel.
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So happy to see my boy from Homegrown tv. It's awesome that we can all come together and watch this stuff happen in real life
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"Man connect to earth, earth connect to man" such beautiful, profound and simple words. This documentary is dope AF!
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Glad that people like you are out there finding land race strains not many left
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Fantastic job on this, we need more of this than just the typical corporate money gain stuff we've been bombarded with last few years. Beautiful plants with some much needed diversity from the mainline industry.
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I love how that strain of sativa grows out there , some seeds to grow some in Barbados and see how it grows along side my strain of sativa
