Seed Co. on the hunt in the himalayas

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Just back a few days ago from a seed collecting mission in the Himalayas. Here's a few pics of our adventure.029.jpg
This little plane flew us into the mountains from Delhi to start our adventure.
 
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When we arrived we had to relax for a few days before taking our first big treks on. What an amazing place to relax in. And some of the local medicinal relaxants...

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On the way up to the cannabis fields for our first look around. Its definitely a tough trek.

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What a Fu@king Awesome Adventure....Nice Pics...

This is like the Coolest Post Ever!

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hello folks, cheers for the feedback. That hashish is called cream and is handrubbed from live plants. The older the cream, the more flavour it has. God that shit is sooo tasty. Here's a few more pics from the expedition .....075.jpg081.jpg
 
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The second pic above is from the inside of one of the many hot box cafes in the mountains. Pop in, order a chai and get rolling. Also above we have a pouch of fresh cream weighing approx 40 grams or 4 tolas. 1 tola is 10 grams and everything is sold in em. What a place.
 
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To collect our seeds, first we had to trek over 6 hours almost vertically to where the cultivated fields are. Wild sativas grow everywhere in this valley and the locals call them jungli. They make jungli cream from these natural plants but the real cream comes from the hybrid plants being farmed over 3000 meters. The jungli has such a unique flavour and is a bit cheaper but if you find a good local maker, the jungli quality is fantastic. Here's some more shots from our ascent into the first fields.....I couldnt walk for 2 days after this climb. Fuckin steep as a bastard. Well worth the climb though.....and the sunburn.

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In the first pic ya can see some wild jungli sativa growing along the path. These were already well rubbed by the locals coming up and down the valley. Second pic is a selection of creams and charas from different villages. You can also see the valley we came up. This was half way up to the real fields and we still alot of climbing to do.
 
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Here is my first encounter with cultivated hybrid plants. The higher we climbed, the bigger and more resinous the buds became. Also, we could always smell the fields before we found them. Following our noses like the Bisto kid.

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Alot of the plants in the last pic had already been stripped for rubbing. The field stretched all the way up to the mountain top and was a pleasure to wander about and try to find different aromas and flavours. So much variation in size, smell, colour, resin build up and bud structure.
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Did you have a guide...how did you arrange something like that? Are there things to worry about on a trip like that?
 
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bird dog said:
Wow horn...what an interesting trip. That second picture looks like a large scale scrog. Is that ropes I see in there? What kind of beans did you get, what does one expect to pay for them.
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Hello Bird dog, t'was indeed an interesting trip lad. They don't scrog up here they just throw thousands of seeds and let nature work its magic. We climbed to many different areas to collect seed, We have many hybrids from the pictures above and we also took from some amazing plants we just came upon that had beautiful characteristics. I pulled about 100 seeds from a purple/pink sativa that was covered in crystals and stank of candy floss. We also found a very cheesy lady too. So many smells to choose from. We are currently sorting out our stock and hope to be very competitively priced. The seeds would be excellent for breeders or people who just wanna try something different, or maybe wanna make a new cross. Here's a small bud from the stinky sativa for ya. The leaves have been plucked so it's easier to rub. Smaller bud but you get the idea....this site needs smellavision.....

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bird dog said:
Did you have a guide...how did you arrange something like that? Are there things to worry about on a trip like that?
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Didn't have a guide lad, but I been up in this area before and you just meet locals. It was harvest time so every local is up rubbing cream and if ya chat to someone, they will have family who own fields and you can trek up with them and have a look. Maybe try making some cream. The only dangers are falling off the mountain or in my case jumping through the window when I see a spider bigger than my foot....and I have big feet. The falling off the mountain bit is actually a serious hazard because it's unreal steep up there. We had to climb with our hands and feet for the last 1 hour of the trek. And we hadn't prepared ourselves for it physically either, that's probably why i couldn't walk properly for 2 days after.
 
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