According to Wikipedia, “A landrace is a domesticated, locally adapted, often traditional variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture and pastoralism, and due to isolation from other populations of the species.”
“A significant proportion of farmers around the world grow landrace crops and most plant landraces are associated with traditional agricultural systems. Landraces of many crops have probably been grown for millennia. Increasing reliance upon modern plant cultivars that are bred to be uniform has led to a reduction in biodiversity, because most of the genetic diversity of domesticated plant species lies in landraces and other traditionally used varieties.”
Landrace breeding is the process of selecting plants or animals for traits that are adapted to local conditions. Landraces are the result of continuous multiplication under specific climatic, soil, and husbandry conditions. They typically have greater genetic diversity than types subjected to formal breeding practices.
Landrace cannabis sativa strains are generally taller, thinner, with red stems and long internodal spacing than indica or hybrid strains. They may also have longer flowering times and produce lower yields than hybrid strains.
A strain, or phenotype, is a unique genetic variety of cannabis. Landrace sativa strains include Durban Poison, Acapulco Gold, Panama Red, and Lamb's Breath (or Bread).
At Lamb’s Breath Seeds, our cannabis sativa plants are grown as isolated populations, with the best males and females selected for seed production, using natural M/F sexual reproduction. Through landrace breeding techniques, 3 phenotypes, or strains, have been selected and named, and are offered for sale.
The strains are derived from 2 females, the seeds of which were purchased from Lamb’s Breath growers in Jamaica. The Respect and Legend strains are from one female, while the Balance strain is from the other one.
Lamb’s Breath Respect is a breeder-selected legendary landrace cannabis sativa strain, bred from seed sourced from Jamaica. Respect is a potent, classic sativa, with energizing, creative and euphoric effects, when ingested. Plants are vigorous and do well outdoors or indoors, when given adequate space, light, and nutrients. Plants typically have red stems, narrow leaves, open structure, and respond well to pruning and training. Flowers for 60-75 days. Flowers are sweet, floral, sticky and skunky.
The Respect mother plant tested 18.9% total THC. Tests of plants grown from Respect seeds have shown cannabinoid levels up to 25.36% total cannabinoids. Tests have also revealed high terpene levels, with dominant terpenes including pinene, myrcene, caryophyllene, limonene, linalool, humulene, and guaiol.
Lamb’s Breath Legend is a legendary landrace cannabis sativa strain, sourced from Jamaica. Legend is a classic sativa, with energizing, creative and euphoric effects. Plants are vigorous and do well outdoors or indoors, when given adequate space, light, and nutrients. Plants typically have red stems, narrow leaves, open structure, and respond well to pruning and training. Flowers for 60-75 days. Flowers are sweet, floral, sticky and slightly skunky.
The Legend mother plant tested 16.49% total THC. Tests of plants grown from Legend seeds have shown total THC levels from 18.2% to 20.6% THC. Tests have also revealed high terpene levels of 3.6 - 4.5% total terpenes. Dominant terpenes include pinene (1.67%), myrcene (1.29%), caryophyllene (.47%), limonene (.41%), linalool (.30%), humulene (.17%), and guaiol (.135%).
Lamb’s Breath Balance is a low-THC landrace cannabis sativa strain, sourced from Jamaica. Balance plants are vigorous and do well outdoors or indoors, when given adequate space, light, and nutrients. Plants typically have red stems, narrow leaves, open structure, and respond well to pruning and training. Flowers for 60-75 days. Flowers are sweet, floral, resinous, and sticky. The Balance mother plant tested 3.42% THC and 3.89% CBD.
All Lamb’s Breath Seeds are grown in isolation using organic methods, natural pollination and selective breeding. The seeds are not feminized nor do they contain auto-flower genetics. Lamb’s Breath Seeds are straight-run landrace cannabis sativa. Seed packets contain 8 hand-selected regular M/F photoperiod seeds. As a naturally-bred landrace strain, plants will express some genetic variation.