this is the much sought after Highland Thai type strain with the "juicy fruit" aroma and the bright, soaring and heady psychedelic high so many people love - I'll have photos and so on with you shortly

in the meantime here are some pictures of the Highlands of Northern Thailand

Fan fuckin tastic pictures namkha..,bloody beautiful aint it...thanks for that.

Rather beautiful looking place it has to be said , what sort of flowering times will this be ?

Sounds interesting Namkha, please do tell us more

Lovely stuff Namkha...whereabouts in northern Thailand is that? Been lucky enough to trek ( well casual walk really) through some of thailands hills a few years ago... that and flying down a river on a bamboo canoe with a drunk thai at the helm will stick with me forever

Been to Thailand a couple times also... and the weed I got was one of the strongest smokes I have had.. Funny cause it looked like crap with all seeds and stalk, but I was seriously flying off it.. I remember walking through a market thinking I wasn't going to make it back to the hut at one point..

What sort of flowering time can you expect on your Highland Thai?

Thanks for the photo's and a great BIG WOW! Nice way to start my Monday morning. Peace

hey - great to see so much interest already

Highland Thai has 14 week plus flowering time - as late as 18 weeks

if you like a flying high kind of high I also recommend you check out the Pahari Farmhouse

it is true about the herb there - can be very strong - it is not always seeded though, you can still find plenty of seedless bud if you are lucky: got about a hundred g of nice goldeny light green Lao recently - found only a couple of seeds in the whole lot, basically sensi

our Highland Thai comes from highlands of NW Thailand near Burma - direct from farmers

here are some photos - the strain is from the Shan Hills in Northern Thailand, close to Burma

the strain has quite wide leaves and large dense buds with an asymmetric branched growth pattern - it is a pure strain from the area

there are some specific features of the area such as relatively low rainfall which may be connected its appearance

I'll get back with a fuller description later

another pic

lovely pics namkha mate

phil

and another

and another

Sweeeeeeet

Highland Thai calyxes

mahooosive calyxes

just to let the Thai fans out there know, as long as Seedsman is not too crazily busy and is happy to carry it, we should be able to have this strain available in about three weeks

if you're keen to see it sooner then just keep e-mailing and phoning Seedsman asking about the RSC Highland Thai (he won't mind, honest... muahahaha)

all best,

Namkha

will do

Seedsman now have the highland thai

2 hours after I made an order

poss 18 weeks damn!

any idea what kind of height this may reach... if you set it off to flower from seed?

18 Weeks !!!!!!!!

Woah

I've got them to do a poss cross with their Shebs.

Hoping for a new super dooper cross with not a hint of dutch genes

Jack and the beanstalk size?

Maybe have to do a bit of horizontal training

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Laz

That's exactly the kinda training i was thinking about

wow they look great kinda look like the burmese i have gonna have to get me a pack or two we loved the burmese. cant get enough of the soaring high. stanky

OooPs, seems I have made a mistake

I ordered the Lao, not the Thai.

OMG, another var I am gonna have to save up for

The misses is gonna go nuts

Hey no Thai yet!

Seedsman have the Highland Lao


the Thai will not be available for several weeks yet

both the Highland Thai and Highland Lao are short strains - under 2m

the Highland Lao will prob. be about 1.5m outdoors


Namkha:)

Hi Namkha

Could you explain any differences between the two highlands in terms of high etc?

Thanks mate

hey

I'm waiting for a full description of the Highland Thai from the source and post it here asap

I smoked a few buds with a friend of a friend who grows the local highland Thai strains in the area - had only been curing for about a week, but very well grown... smelled distinctly similar to the Wrigley's Juicyfruit I used to chew as a kid, but obviously more going on than just that... to my nose it belonged in the same carroty mango end of the spectrum, and by geographical association in my mind it as part of the Greater Himalayan drug strain genepool

the high was very bright, open and clear - very up and heady... this wasn't a proper sampling though... I'd already spent the first half of the day blazing a really heavy Lao strain which had that kind of wrecked psychedelic stupour effect that many SEAsian ganja strains have... but the effect of that particular Highland Thai this guy was growing cut right through that...

I'll need to check that this is the same cultivar first - I'll get the full description up here asap

btw we also have a Highland Malawi in the pipeline too - different from the Nkhotakhota Malawi Gold --- ours is a very fast flowering highland equatorial (remember the African Seeds Tanzanian Magic) --- ours will have an 8-9 week flowering time, very long thin leaves, short plants of about 60 - 90cm height... crazy eh?

all best,

Namkha

Sounds lovely, as do all your strains Namkha

Update please? i e-mailed seedsman and his response was "rsc have two strains from this region, golden triangle and highland laos" so i am not sure if they know any thing about the thai. any info would be appreciated namkha, also are their any plans to introduce south american lines in the near future?

ah sorry man I just misinterpreted your other post! I thought you were being a plonker, forgive me

yeah - Papua NG strains are very interesting to me --- I have smoked some 303 hybrids (303 is a PNG strain I think --- 100% pure or not I don't know) and they were pretty impresive

I would love to go collecting there, but at the minute I simply don;t have the time or money --- what I get from this "job" at the minute is just pocket money, enough for me to research a book on dope, just about

yeah, there are tall and short strains native to the hill regions of Indochina - some with quite dense buds, some not etc... basically I will collect what I and my friends can find, sadly it's not easy to work to order

I have a good friend who is a big fan of PNG weed, so who knows maybe when he takes a break from work he will make a trip - fingers crossed

all best

Namkha

oh yeah - just to say, these will go on sale in December

they are similar to Burmese strains --- the pictures show the kind of plant as well as any words can --- in real need of conservation these ones --- not easy to come by!

303 from a seedbank that closed down just before i was going to buy it was crossed with a "wide leaf strain" at some point very interesting strain though.

hey namkha,
reading about all the land race sativas,the afghan hashplants and of course Malana...
makes my imagination run wild with exoctic possibilities .
maybe a pure sativa F1.... Real Shiva Sativa ,no? something like Pahari Thai, Pahari Lao,
im just counting the days until theseed is ready...
peace man

scorpion

Hey Scorpion - fulling feeling the enthusiasm man --- these should be online by Christmas

there' definitely real potential there fro seom great crosses

a friend of mine just dusted a Sam Skukman Kerala x Haze with some of our Mazar-i-Sharif males... the combination could be really something

as soon as I have half a chance these will be going online - just watch this space

all best,

Namka

Hey Puffin -

the Lao is what some people have called a Golden Lao - it cures Gold --- the high is very strong, but I have only smoked it once, had about a 100g a while back... it is some of the best bud in SE Asia... comes from nearby the classic Isaan growing regions

the Highland Thai is very close to a Burmese in appearance --- the high is very heady and trippy, quite paranoia inducing for some people

sorry it's taking a while to get the HT on sale - it's all down to when we get the site running

we'll have a more Vietnamese style Lao on sale soon too

Namkha,

I plan on grabbing some of the Highland Thai as soon as it's available.

I want to use a male as a pollen donor for some cuts I have going.

How long do you think I'd need to flower a male until I get viable pollen?

No idea man, sorry, but I'll see if I can find out from the source

I now have the Highland Thai stock ready to go - please see the strain description section of this forum for complete details

all best,

Namkha

@Namkha
Is it possible to find purple pheno's with this Highland Thai you're gonna sell?

Namaste

hey - you can check the strain description in the subforum called "The Real Seed Company Strain Guide" --- I have seen purple/blue and light green phenotypes --- I am not sure to what extent that is cold related or straight genetics, but in cold conditions about 50% of plants will turn purple

I will send in some packs to seedsman this week - otherwise you can write to me at my gmail address

That would be cool if 50% of the plants will turn purple.This will be my strain definitely the one i wanna have for breeding purposes.
Let me know when they are available!!

Namaste

seconds that..

Hi namkha i had a look at the discription of the highland thai and it sounds great, sounds like a lemon thai? any way i tried to open the pics in the "The Real Seed Company Strain Guide" and was unable, can you post the pics in this forum mate.

there are pics earlier on in this thread

yeah - the main aroma I got on the ones I tried this season was musky citrus, esp. the light green pheno

there was a green plant I tried which was more mango/carrot and had a very clean expansive high - was strange, all in the head, very clean, strong in a strange way

the light green musky citrus pheno I remember as being the strongest and having the best high -- I can't remember what the purple pheno smelled like, I think it was citrusy too

hi namkha!!!

does your thai is related to meao thai???

Hi - Meao is a word used usually by Chinese to refer to the Hmong (hMong) ethnic groups - Meao is actually quite rude/derogatory and means "barbarian" - it's best to say Hmong really, and many Hmong strains are great --- our Highland Lao is a very high quality light green and golden Highland Lao strain --- it is similar to the high end strains grown in Isaan, Thailand in the 60s/70s

but in answer to your question, no - our Thai is not related to Hmong strains - it is closer to Burmese varieties, and is often grown by highland ethic groups living in the Highland areas that cover some of Northern Thailand and Burma - people like Lahu, Lisu and many others --- you don't find many Hmong in these areas, though there are some --- most of SEAsia is divided in to highland (mountain top), midland (mountainside) and lowland groups - the Thai and Lao are lowland valley floor dwellers who specialise in irrigated rice cultivation

If you want a Meao/Hmong Thai you should try the Highland Lao - it is different, but it is a damn good genepool - if you want something quite Burmese you should try the Highland Thai