Afghanistan

Afghanistan gave the western catalog the indica side of the family tree. The Hindu Kush mountain range runs through the country at altitudes between 3,500 and 7,000 meters. Cannabis growing wild there for two thousand years selected itself for short stature, density, and the heaviest trichome coverage on any landrace.

When travelers in the late 60s and early 70s came back from the region with seeds, the seeds did three things western breeders had never seen at scale. They finished fast (8 to 10 weeks). They stayed short (under 120 cm). They were caked in resin. Those three traits drove the next thirty years of indica breeding.

Two strains in our current catalog trace to this region. Hindu Kush is a pure landrace pulled from the mountain range itself. Mazar I Sharif is a hash-grade Afghani from Balkh province in the north, traditionally sieved for charas-style hash.