Synonyms: Meun Sri
Genetics: Southern Thai Landrace
Type: Point of Origin, Open Pollinated
Style: Ganja, Seeded Flowers
Farmer: Khun Lin Lin 
Sourcing: Éloïse & Isabella (2025)
District: Lan Saka
Province: Nakhon Sri Thammarat
Area: Khao Luang Massif
Region: Southern Thailand
Appellation: Meun Sri 
Country: Thailand
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Cultivation Details:
Regional Planting: July - September
Regional Harvest: January - March
Height: 2-3 metres
Classification: NLD type Landrace Population
 
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Description:
 
The Meun Sri landrace from Lan Saka is a living fragment of Southern Thailand’s lost cannabis heritage. Tall, slender, and adapted to the humid slopes of the Khao Luang Massif, these plants are true tropical sativas: wild, vigorous, and untamed. Their frames stretch upwards with long internodes and narrow, blade-like leaves, thriving in the heavy rains and thick mists of the southern mountains.
The flowers are loose and open, designed by nature to resist the region’s relentless humidity. Aromas pour off the plants in a rush of overripe tropical fruit - mango fermenting on the forest floor, sharp bursts of kaffir lime, and a grounding, earthy spice. The effects are equally vivid: soaring, clear, euphoric. Meun Sri was never about sedation. It was about movement, creativity, and a mental lightness that carried farmers through long days in the jungle.
 
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Context:
 
Lan Saka sits tucked against the western flanks of the Khao Luang massif, a district shaped by rivers, ridges, and the deep green hush of rainforest. It’s a place where nature dominates and where for generations, farmers carved small lives among the trees, raising fruit, tending fields, and planting ganja in hidden gardens.
 
During the insurgent years of the 1970s and ’80s, Lan Saka became a refuge. In the high gullies and clouded valleys, cannabis farming wasn’t just a livelihood - it was an act of survival. Meun Sri was grown beneath durians and mangosteens, hidden from helicopters, carried by foot along winding trails to market towns below. Its seeds passed from hand to hand, from father to son, from friend to friend.
 
But time has not been kind. Legalization came too late to save the old ways. The landraces that once thrived here were pushed aside by modern hybrids, and the memories of Meun Sri faded into the background of a changing world. Only a few farmers remember. Only a few jars of seeds remain.
 
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Accession Details:
 
Lan Saka ‘Ban Kachon’ General Population (2022)
Notes: One of the last pure accessions of Ban Kachon Landrace, collected by Éloïse & Isabella from an (ex)farmer in 2025 from seed stock dating to the last large open pollinated field grown by the farmer in 2022.
Type: General population, Hybrid
Altitude: ~50m
 
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Current Status:
 
Today, Meun Sri is functionally extinct in its home district. No active farms in Lan Saka maintain pure landrace fields. The surviving seeds we carry were collected just before the last open-pollinated field disappeared in 2022 - an echo of a nearly vanished genetic lineage.
We hold these seeds as caretakers, not owners.

5 limited seed packs are available for growers who believe in conservation through cultivation.
Our nearby research station in Ron Phibun district is dedicated to reviving Meun Sri and other endangered Thai landraces: one seed, one season, one story at a time.
 
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