All cannabis strains from Indian Landrace.
Cannabis Plant Indian Scholars Important Life Medicine
- Introduction – India has known about cannabis from the very dawn of the civilizations at the indus valley and has since used the plant for important life saving applications such as medicine, food, and even shelter.
- Inked in the ancient vedas by the Indian scholars are some of the earliest documented accounts of cannabis used as a medicine that goes back to 2000 BCE, and even the people who invaded India couldn’t stay too far from this plant,e.g.
- the Portuguese who captured Goa in 1510, quickly learned how cannabis played an important role in Indian culture, day to day applications and especially about the narcotic effects of the plant.
INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION
Even during the British colonial rule in India which lasted over 200 years, in 1894 an extensive study was conducted and a report was published by an indo-british team known as Indian hemp drugs commission, which pinned down the Physical, psychological and socio-cultural effects of cannabis in india.
The plant itself is virtually found in every direction you go to in India However North India is widely cited as the biggest charas producing region,featuring the notorious and the elusive highland himalayan villages, spreading all the way from Kashmir to Himachal and down to the China border in Uttarakhand. Any kind of enquiry concerning cannabis in India is incomplete without understanding the role of north indian cannabis regions, such as – Jammu and Kashmir, himachal pradesh, haryana, punjab, uttar pradesh, uttrakhand, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, West Bengal, Andhara Pardesh, Maharastra, Bihar, Manipur, Mizoram, Shillong and Rajasthan.
JAMMU:
If we start literally from the top of the India, well known as the crown of India – Jammu & Kashmir is the first state that we can zoom into for the information on a few different sativa cultivars and an elusive Indica cultivar. Jammu which borders with 2 north indian states namely ; Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, and being intensely populated for the most part doesn’t have dedicated hash/Ganja regions within the Jammu region, although charas can be easily procured almost anywhere, since a high volume of good quality product keeps getting smuggled into the state from the notorious charas producing neighbour Himachal pradesh.
The Landrace cultivar found in jammu gives out a consistent, thin leaved sativa phenotype, which has a unique blend of flavours from spices to mint/eucalyptus.
Pulwama is also famous for Charas. Farmers is cultivated in guerrilla style by countryside farmers for mostly a special kind of charas known as “challi or Garda”, which is produced by separating trichomes from the dry buds with the help of screens and then pressed into fingers or bars.
Kashmir “Baramulla” Strain.
PURE SATIVA LANDRACE FROM BARAMULLA VALLEY, KASHMIR.
Kashmir is a sativa variety from I.L.E. and can be cultivated indoors (where the plants will need a flowering time of ±74 days) and outdoors. I.L.E.s Kashmir is a THC dominant variety and is/was never available as feminized seeds.
Kashmir Strain
This highland strain comes from the remote valleys of Baramulla in southern/central Kashmir, these plants are from the farmed population by the local farmers for hashish production. the plants usually grow very tall with heavy lateral branching 7and average to good yields. The flavours revolve around earth, floral, sweet, incense and temple hash, without much intra-population variation among individuals.
Himachal Pradesh
It is an indian state entirely perched in the laps of Himalayas is the undisputed champion of charas production. Himachal almost entirely has an alpine/highland climate as far as the cannabis growing regions are concerned, with a lot of speculations of an elusive indica strain, so far only narcotic highland sativas has been reported and collected. there are 3 main regions in himachal pradesh which cultivate and produce high quality landrace and heirloom cannabis – Chamba District (situated between Dhauladhaar and Peer Panjal ranges), Kullu Valley (its tucked away villages in the serene himalayan wilderness) and the notorious Parvati valley, which is also situated in Kullu district, but has a mark of its own when it comes to resin production.
Blue himalaya is a hybrid of the ever popular blueberry and a kush strain from nepal which helps to keep it nice and short. This is a highly resinous strain which stays very short and gives off a wonderful blueberry aroma.
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