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The Lamb’s Breath Story

Lamb’s Breath, aka “Lamb’s Bread” or “Jahweed,” is a legendary landrace cannabis strain from Jamaica. It is a classic sativa, with energizing, creative and euphoric effects. Authentic Lamb’s Breath landrace seed has been hard to find – until now!

Between 2014 and 2018, my wife and I spent 3 weeks each year doing volunteer work in Jamaica, helping farmers understand and adopt organic farming practices and establish on organic certification program. We spent most of our time at the Source Farm, in Johns Town, east of Kingston. On
our last visit, in 2018, we decided to spend some time in Negril, after we had
finished our work. We took a bus from Kingston to Negril. When we arrived in
Negril, I met a grower named Jack. I let Jack know that I was a backyard grower
from Minnesota, and was looking for Lamb’s Breath seeds.

Jack replied, “We grow Lamb’s Breath! Let me take you to the plantation!”

On Easter morning, Jack picked us up and we drove up into the hills above Negril. We parked, and hiked up a long narrow path, until we came to the “plantation,” which was an area full of ganja plants, about 4 acres
in size. We toured the site, met Jack’s team, and saw an area, in the corner of the field, where a few males were allowed to go to flower to pollinate a Lamb’s Breath seed crop.

 

I bought a few Lamb’s Breath seeds from Jack, which I grew outdoors in MN for personal use. I found the strain to live up to the legend, with energizing, euphoric, and creative, yet clear-headed, effects. No wonder it is known as Bob Marley’s favorite! Great for cross country skiing, hiking,
writing, fishing and volleyball!

In 2020, we moved from Minnesota to New England. I had 6 Lamb’s Breath seeds left in my possession. Knowing that Vermont had recently legalized personal cultivation of cannabis, I contacted a certified organic CBD
grower to see if he would be interested in growing my remaining seeds in an isolated location as a seed crop. He was! He found an isolated location and grew out my six remaining seeds. Of the six, 4 were male plants. The top female has served as the basis for my Legend, Respect and Irie Select breeding lines. The other, with 3.55% THC and 3.5% CBD, is Balance.

The original top mother plant tested 16.49% total THC. Now, after 6 generations of line
breeding, I’m getting total THC levels around 25% and up to 29.1%. These improvements have been made using selective breeding, based on strict criteria (vigor, potency, terpenes, and sativa traits) and lab test results. Tests have also revealed high terpene levels of 4.88% total terpenes by weight in the Irie Select line. Dominant terpenes include pinene (1.67%), myrcene (1.29%), caryophyllene (.47%), limonene (.41%), linalool (.30%), humulene (.17%), and guaiol (.135%).

Lamb’s Breath seeds are grown in isolation outdoors in full sun and healthy, living soil using organic methods and natural, M-F pollination. Lamb’s Breath seeds are classic landrace cannabis sativa. Seed packets contain 10 hand-selected regular M/F photoperiod seeds. As regular landrace seeds, plants will express some genetic variation. Enjoy!

How We Found Lamb's Breath