Highland Lao

Genetics: Traditional Southeast Asian Ganja Cultivar
Type: Pure Landrace
Variety: 100% sativa
Height: 1-2 metres
Flowering: 14-18 weeks

A superb ganja sativa grown by the Hmong people of Lao producing a very high quality finished product. Buds have large calyxes and a sweet and tangy taste with slight sandlewood undertones. The high is very intense but not unpleasantly pushy or racey as some southeast asian sativas can be. Cures to a light green colour. Excellent mold resistance. Great breeding material. Indoors requires skill. Can be vegged on 14 hours light. Flowering is more profuse on 11 hours light. This is a late maturing strain that will require a greenhouse at northern latitudes.

GBP37.50 per 12 pack

hi men!

no one is trying this one ???

Looks like a green haze! One to make a few hack hybrids from perhaps

sad due to living in the states

yeah - Thais come in all kinds of shapes and sizes --- you will find low to the ground varieties with long alligator tail branching --- there is a great deal of biodiversity in the region, though it has taken a beating over the years, and continues to decline ---

this is a Lao strain, from across the Mekong from Isaan

there is a lot of diversity --- even on one hillside you will find different villages with different strains --- some with very dense buds, large calyxes and a hard-hitting stone --- others more like this variety pictured, strong and up high

if I find the kind you are looking for it will go on sale for sure --- let's see what happens!

Hey --- we will have a few more classy ganja strains available soon

there is this Highland (Golden) Lao already available at Seedsman

we will have a more Vietnamese style Lao available soon too

plus a Keralan strain from the Western Ghats in the next few weeks

as RSC is run by a couple of lazy layabout stoners all this is happening slowly and hopelessly, but it will happen sooner or later fear not - just don't hold your breath, unless it happens to be a lungful of something like the Highland Lao

very nice namkha, i'm very interested in the malana, and the kerala, i've been looking for pure indian landraces for about 10 years, more specifically the kerala, will it be available in 25 packs. i lived in southern india for a few years, i'm very excited about acquiring these genetics.
i am wondering about the laos, i think i would like to get a 12 of the highland lao also, but i would like to know if it has a much shorter stature than the more viet lao that will be available, and if the high is heavier , rather than racy.
thank you very much.
peace

Hey Kerala will be as 12s first of all --- from deep in the Western Ghats, will tell you more when I hear from the collector

The Viet-Lao strain I am pretty sure is one I smoked with that collector when I visited - very heavy high, big fat calyxed strain

I think both the Lao are short strains --- the Highland Lao available at the minute is very strong but not pushy --- it cures to a light golden green colour --- I recommend it for sure

thank you namkha for the quick reply, i spent some time in those mountains, north of kerala, thick jungle, beautiful area, awesome weed, great high. both of the laos sound great, i think i'm going for the highland, as you suggested, in the pic it looks like a good yielder, with pretty tight buds, and the smell and flavor descriptions are good also.
thank you again,
peace

hey - yeah, the Highland Lao will be a good strain to go for - it only comes round once a year and it is very good stuff

Hey - a few posters have mentioned "Meao Thai" strains --- Meao is actually a name for the Hmong, the same people who grow this strain -- there are probably as many Hmong varieties as there are villages and farmers, but our Highland Lao is a particularly good one - buds cure to a very golden soft light green, top ganja

Hey Namkha,

Is there any relationship between the Highland Lao and the Vietnamese strain Lieu Hanh, which i smoked yesterday with a wonderfull high.The Lieu Hanh was homegrown, not import!!

Namaste

hey I don't know anything about Vietnamese strains, but I have smoked Lao varieties from close to Vietnam - these ones had big dark calyxes and a heavy headfuck stupefying stone --- but it was basically a Lao type strain

but our Highland Lao is closer to what people would think of as an Isaan Thai (so the opposite side of Lao from Vietnam) --- not the chocolate Isaan type, but the golden and very light green type - great flavour and great high, top end ganja

we will have more Lao in stock soon --- we might drop the price a bit, as for some reason the Highland Lao doesn't seem to be selling, and it is a great variety

all best,

Namkha

Sorry to but in Namkha,

Lieu Hanh is an F1 cross between Neville's Haze and Vietnam Black as far as I'm aware, not sure if it's the same Vietnam Black that ACE used in their Orient Express or the Vietnam Black that used to be offered by Reeferman.

Must say though Lieu Hanh is an exceptional smoke.

Apologies Namkha

Ye,you're right about this and it is an exceptional smoke.

Namaste

hey Felix - I have no problem with people discussing other peoples' strains here, no problem at all

do you know if the Vietnam Black is a pure landrace cultivar? does anyone know about its background?

as far as I know most of the serious ganja growing during the Vietnam War took place in Lao and Isaan

there are a lot of Hmong and other highland groups in the Vietnam highlands, but I have never visited there myself - at least the way I see it, it is the highland areas of Indochina which are the home of the serious ganja culture --- covering bits of Yunnan, Lao, North and Northeast Thailand (Isaan) and west from there through Burma towards the Himalaya

I have seen and heard of good bud from Cambodia, but don't know about it

Vietnam has a lot of Han Chinese influence - in the lowlands I would not expect to find serious ganja --- this is all prejudice though, not based on actual exploration

you can find black/purple colouration in Lao and Thai strains for sure

I'll stick some photos of some dry Highland Thai buds up in a minute

I'm afraid our favourite Aryan Brother's website is no longer around but maybe Dubi from ACE could shed some light on it's background.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help

Hey Namkha,

Khmer Gold is the strain from Cambodia you're talking about.

Namaste

hey ElManito - yeah Khmer Gold is the name given to a quality Khmer/Cambodian line collected from an expat grower there by Gypsy

but I was talking about just what I had heard about when in SEAsia myself --- good Cambodian grass does get exported to Thailand - a recognisable type I heard of is a particular very heavily compressed bricked ganja with a recognisable very light green colour, good plants and strong... I haven't had a chance to visit Cambodia myself though, except on visa runs, nor have I seen that ganja myself, only heard about it second hand from longterm expats in Thailand --- at one point Ubon was a good place to get it easily and cheap

hi!!


RSC lao highland in soil(2.4l pot)under 600 w hps ,six weeks old(in 12/12 since the start)
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hey Pantagruelion

great to see man!

quite wide leaves to start out - but that my be normal for all I know... I would expect the shade leaves to get pretty damn long, even in 2.4 litres

you could switch down to 10/14 later to make flowering more profuse

hi!



Once again with the laotian:
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Highland Lao are going back on sale at www.therealseedcompany.com

Hey Namkha, just wondering if you have any plans for any west african strains? (nigerian, sierra leone, congolese etc etc)

I'd be mad interested if you are going to.

Thanks man.

Hey - I'd love to offer Congolese or Angolan vars but we don't have any plans atm to get our hands on any... yet...

Thanks for the speedy reply man.

Just received my 2nd order from you, awesome service bro.......yet to get any going but when i do, i'll be sure to post results.

Thanks Namkha

few pics of rsc lao clones:
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these are from the same type of plant that produces the golden ganja in the pics --- if you can keep the clone, I would, as golden Lao ganja is hard to come by

a Lao x Lebanese cross would be worth a go I reckon if you can find two good parents

I think i will cross the lao with haze in a first time,and if i am able to keep them as mother(the lao) maybe i will try a cross with vietnam black, to stay in south east asia landrace trip!

Your idea sounds good,the leb seems to be very adapted for growing indoor in small closet,and the effect is special for an "indica",maybe a lao/leb cross will be easier than pure lao and retain the sativa high.



Good vibes!

I think if you were able to leave the Lebs till later they would give a very heavy couchlock stone as with red leb hashish - the effect is produced by terpenes that are produced by the Leb during later stages of flowering

you can also find Lao ganja lines with a very dense heavy effect - the Lao ganja I smoked which produced this effect had purple-black calyxes

but yeh with the golden Lao it is a very uplifting high - it can be very intense and trippy and there will be very powerful individual plants in there... the same is true of Leb blonde hashish - it can almost leave you gasping for breath during the initial stages of the high

crossing the either golden or purple-black Laos with the Leb would be a very good idea I think... you could cut the golden cross on the early side for a more uplifting heady high, and the black cross on the later side... the Black Lao x Red Lebanese could produce some amazing colours too... I imagine it would be a fantastic looking cross

Gert Lush is planning to cross his Assamese with a Leb... also could produce some great colours if the Assamese turns out to produce blue ganja, which I think it might... when I say "blue" I mean more complex than just that... with golden, light green and silvery tinges, but a heavy blue tinge to it... great potential for colour flavour and high

one a preservation note: if you are able to, I would keep clones of any pure heirloom lines you have and also produce new seeds with open pollination of pure lines from as many parents as possible... in order to conserve the genetics in pure form through clones, and produce lines which are adapted to your environment through open pollination and selection

Héhé,as always you are right!

About the leb,even if i have harvested her a bit early i can say this line has really good potential.The effect remind me a lot good moroccan hash,you can feel it's not a pure indica high but it remain really relaxing.Very good for nervous people,but can make you a little bit paranoid.The smell is interesting too,like sweet hash with floral (like wild moutain flower)hint.The taste is also on a sweet sweet hash side,needing less curing than other landraces.Generally speaking,hashish lines are not make for smoking "marijuana",however the leb is good in this form.IMHO,this line is the one who need less breding in order to adapt to modern growers expectations(accustomed to "dutch" strains).

At the moment i have mazari pollen,i think dusting it on the lao will give me awesome plants,with a great medicinal effect and very high yeild,but before doing it, i will make some test cross to see how the offspring react(how the mazari influence others lines).



Once again you are right.But as you know i haven't any males from this batch,that's why i thinking cross it with vietnam black which is a landrace hydrid(that is vietnamese black crossed one time to a northern viet/closer to china, almost[but not] indica strain").
In an other hand,it's hard for any indoor grower to make real selection(with huge number of individuals) or just grow more than ten plant of the same strain(for sativa's of course).Generally, people keep the seeds only from the best female(the one that better suit their surrounding conditions) and then loose a lot of possible beneficial genes from other plant...
IMHO,the best to do his keep clones from the best one(to do some killer crosses or smoke killer buds),but also doing the more possible seeds in an open polination with all the p1 without any selection.This way we are able to conserve the originals genes of the strain in case of extinction threat.



Best vibes!

more buds of nice Highland Lao ganja

First I must say thank you Namkha. First grow so forgive me...right now I'm 12/12 with 2 Highland Thai, 2 Lebanese, 1 Bubblicious, 1 White Widow and 2 Thai x Skunk in a RDWC... When it can remember how to do the R bit Sometimes things just work out that way
The Highland Thai didnt germ that well, most of the beans came to nothing and the 2 that popped are touchy with nutes... but i want that Thai vibe again and they've been 8 weeks in veg now!! I'll be pretty pissed if they are both male! The Lao looks the real deal so i bought them too but i'll have to plan what to grow next just so i got something to smoke!! The Mazar,Leb,Kerala that came with it.. FOR FREE is a fantastic bonus (why no Sherb ?!!.. Just kidding)

The Lebanese look like an amazing batch. TIGHT nodes, seriously compact . In fact one looks like it will be one huge bud from top to bottom.. If its female(which i think it is)

You're doing something very special Namkha

Respect

hey - thanks for the positive words amigo, appreciated

glad that you have had some positive experiences, and don't hold back on letting me know about any issues --- I'm not happy about the germ rates you've experienced on the Highland Thai --- I'll do a second round of pinch tests on the remaining stock to check that the seeds are fit for sale [edit: and please pm me or e-mail me at realseedco@gmail.com and I will send you some replacement stock - it might have to be from the new Highland Lao stock]

how long have you vegged the stuff which you now have in 12/12?

if you do get males of the Highland Thai it's not the end of the world --- I would strongly recommend keeping some pollen - e.g. to dust onto the Lebanese

Highland Thai dusted onto Lebanese would be really something! especially if you can get a green pheno Highland Thai x Lebanese hybrid

The germ rates may not have been good but the ratio certainly is. No gonads anywhere! I've been reading your thoughts of a Highland Thai x Lebanese hybrid. The two now in flower appear to be the green pheno so i'll have to try again to find a male.
The lebanese and Highland Thai have all been vegged for 8 weeks with the latter remaining a manageable height (so far). The HT are showing pre flowers after only a few days 12/12 but have obviously been ready to flip for some time now. The Lebs are doing well but are not as advanced yet, but i expect that to change soon. Everything was vegged 24/0 with a 250w dual spectrum enviro type lamp and a 125w blue envirolite added to the veg room at around the 5th week producing NO MALES... so far

Hi !



Just a few pics of the faster one,38 days since she's rooted,but 97 days old( when i started the seeds... )


She's in a 2.4litre container in soil.The photoperiod is 11/13 since approx three weeks.

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Sorry for the bad pics...

woooh Pantagruelion --- have you checked carefully to make sure there are no tribal insurgents hiding in there?!?

nice one man

so this clone appears to be "hermie" free at the minute?

any descriptions of the aromas?

good luck with them, I hope you have found a specimen which is happy to be indoors, it looks like you have

edit: the pics may not be great, but that looks like excellent growing, they look very happy

Golden Lao indoors

Golden Lao indoors by Pantagruelion

Golden Lao

damn, that's beautiful, do you still offer seeds? a few weeks ago there was golden lao and highland lao, is it the same seedline ?

I love the structure on that.. I'm still unsure what freebies I'll ask for but I might just have to get some of those

there will be more of these Golden Lao at some point

right now there is just a mix Highland Lao... you will be able to find these phenos in the Highland Lao mix... there will also be black-purple and light green phenos

the mix Highland Lao are all Hmong genetics

(originally we were selling the Golden Lao as Highland Lao, apologies if this has caused any confusion)

3 Golden Lao about a week into 12/12

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It looks like the 2 on the left are female and the 1 on the right is male - there's 1 definite female, not absolutely certain about the other 2 yet.

They're in Westlands Mp with added JI with about 40% sharp sand. I think this mix was a bit weak for them as they were looking a bit pale - they've had 2 feeds of 1ml/l biobizz grow and they've perked up no end.
Unfortunately I can see the first signs of LSF which has been trashing the rest of my plants - I've got some more essence on the brew at the moment so I'll see how it goes.