Thanks for that jats! I actually remember reading you saying that before. Your info helped me find the following post which sumarises the contents of the most accurate sounding posts;
Hi everyone. This is a touchy subject lol. It really comes down to the definition of a landrace, and quite honestly, its hard to say there to many places and lines that qualify as a landrace. I would call what we have here in australia , "australian Varieties".
One thing also that alot of pll forget or dont realise is that our genepool here in oz also has chinese indica genetics in it, and a fair whack of it too.
Lets take a real basic look at it.
First known cannabis into australia comes with european settlers, lets say 150 -200 years ago. As stated above the likely source of the genetics was india, and was known to be pyscoactive aswell as fibrous.
There is our base of genetics, no doubt crops of it got left to go wild, and survived.
The next genetic influence is the chinese indica brought over by imigrent workers( as well as some great vegetable varieties that are still here today aswell). The culture amongst these workers was to throw any extra seed into rivers, seed would be washed up on banks down river with an excelent silt layer of soil, hence our river side wild stands of cannabis, although mostly chinese indica genetics( thin bladed tall indicas, i know its againgst all the norm but its an indica still). My family on my fathers side lived in the exact area of some of said wild river side ppulations in the hunter valley, between raymond terrace and maitland, so i have extremely relaible info on them and their existance, till they where eradicated in the 60s.
Around the same time we also had afghan camel traders here aswell, as stated above by don, who brought more taller , longer flowering indica genetics from afghanistan, not the mountain regions containing most of the kush building blocks.
We also had genetics trickling down from south east asia, but it wasnt untill surfers from australia started to bring back south east asian seed and eventualy imported herbs, that the south east asian genetics hit our shores with a vengence, and merged into the already diverse genepool here.
Once the surfers pioneered the off the beaten tracks, the hippies of the 60s then took up the torch, and start at first bringing south east asian genetics into autralia, but ended up bringing things back from all the old school hippie trails around the world.
From about the 80s on the dutch genetics started to come into australia, and alot of dutch indica in the late 80s, that was dubbed by the old timers as " short termers".
Everyone marveled at the new fast maturing varieties, 8-10 week flowering was almost unheard of here. All the indica we did have here was either longer flowering varieties, or had been very quickly hybridized with the local genepool due to the low yield obtained with them in our enviroment.
Thats just my opinion obviously on the basic structure and time line of our wonderful genepool here in oz.
The major prob with our genepool is there is still alot of rope and garbage amongst it, and the herm issues that have been bred int the genepool unconiously by most growers back then, i call it the sly herm trait, and its amongst alot of the native genepool here, as the genepool has been as pointed out, mostly maintained by man and not nature.
Growers here for the most part never used to grow a seperate crop for next years seed, what they did was just collect the seeds from their best plants that just seemed to magicaly appear every year. Back then most bud had a few seeds, not many, but a few. This was due to the fact that even though the pulled their males, at least one of their fems would always throw a few sly , hard to detect nannas, lightly pollenating the crop. So by using the seed derived essentialy of this trait, they have perpetuated it, almost ingrained into some parts of the genepool. Granted it doesnt happen to much now, but back then it was he norm for a long long time.
On the zoid subject, no it could not be classified a landrace, but it has certainly be bred of australian native genetics, sourced from oldschool growers old stocks up and down the east coast.
I will post more on the subject when i have abit more time
much respect
moonunit
That was from international cannagraphic