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The Heirloom Cannabis Of Dasht Desert, Balochistan

Balochistans Dasht Desert has a gray brown terrain, a piece of land having only dust and ashes beneath. The land does not favor any crop to be grown.
This sandy high altitude desert in Balochistan is labeled not fit for agricultural activities by the Government due to low irrigation.
But the Balochi farmers have been doing things miraculously. Especially with their Cannabis crops which thrives in the desert with no significant care provided.
Skillful cannabis farmers perform dry desert farming, having water readily available after the melted snow in forth coming spring to start the seed crop. The Plants are very resilient to survive drought and successfully complete their flowering cycle in such stressful environment.
To have an Idea of scarcity of irrigation compare the unwanted grass to the cannabis Plants of Dasht desert.
The plants have flowering period of 9-11 weeks maximum the plants remain very short in height with compact Christmas tree structure mostly narrow leaflet variant are seen with very defined inflorescence structures.
Plants giving off sweet, spicy like basil and low hints of fuel aroma.
The courage to survive and with the efforts of expert agriculturists of this region they made this desert a place to be called home.
As we have gotten to know the Cannabis culture, fondness and the taste of the Balochi people has been uncommon. Therefore, it requires working from way back to reach a certain position or satisfying results.
The most challenging task is to overcome the drought of the arid-desert region which is indeed in the modern day even with the tools and engineering can be a difficult task to achieve.
The Balochi agriculturists are smart, they invested their efforts in the right directions and with their repeated selection according to their preference they created this supreme cannabis crop seed to overcome their nemesis salinity, drought and highly alkaline soil of fine particles.