Manar Ghazni

Manar, Ghazni （South-East Afghanistan）. （Lat: 33 74’N 67 42’E, Alt. 1300-1500 meters）. ILE team, during their Durand Line 2020 project, came across to a place called Manar within Ghazni, but located at much lower altitudes. And one of the more resilient cannabis populations can be found here, which survived the cold wave and rains from the monsoon rebound. The plant population from afar looks like a lucid painting. As the early morning and night time temperatures fall below zero consistently for over last 2 weeks, aiding in the production of profuse flavonoid production which represents some of the most magnificent and vivid hues of purples and reds in Nature. Very often it’s seen that colourful plants are preferred over the ones which aren’t and not just from an aesthetic point of view but also considering the fact that these beautiful fall colours in cannabis appear as a result of the flavonoid production in the plants. Hence, selecting for plants with flush and lucid colours ensures that we are also selecting a plant that is capable of producing and deploying flavonoids as a means of protection and surviving under marginal environmental conditions, while also being able to deal with stress, simply in a better way. An overview of the field we selected for picking out a few exceptional specimen or at least get a small piece from the best of the crop. Even at this farm located in Ghazni the cold wave did take its toll at a substantial scale however having a few different types of crops definitely came in handy this year for these farmers as certain populations held their own against the sudden and adverse weather conditions and in a similar way the genetic diversity present within these populations （intra-population） also offers an opportunity to pick out the best individuals as the selections. In this particular population at Manar, Ghazni. Typically the plants with visible anthocyanins production were seen to be performing much better compared to the ones which di