Lets go back to when I first learned to smoke the chillum. Traditional clay pipw which you have to learn how to properly hold, and draw in slow. January of 2026.
Nepali sativa giants, Kathmandu Valley line. Narrow leaflets, long internodes, airy cola, resin meant for the hand, not the bag.
Flower is the same line. Drone shot over Dakshinkali: temples and statues in the cleft where two streams meet, south of the valley where these plants still stand in courtyards and on the terraces.
Harvest is starting soon. The Himalayan Genome expedition runs 26 October to 9 November. One week west to Pokhara, or two weeks on toward Rolpa. Small group.
Family farms, roadside giants, temple corridors.
If you want a seat with a chillum, or stand under a valley sativa this tall, Nepal is where it at, and who else to go with than Landrace Bureau?
This view is from our newsletter is about. Documenting Plants still standing wild on the slope, not in a catalog or a shelf of a commercial shop. Some of the old lines are slowly disappearing.
With legalization looming in Nepal, our work is more important now than ever. What replaced them is feminized photoperiod and feminized auto, in bulk, sorted by what the flower is actually for. Hash 5 washes. Hash 4 washes and still holds as flower. Hash 3 is grape, lemon, apple, banana, candy.
The road past this ridge is already dated. Nepal harvest seats, 26 October to 9 November. One week west to Pokhara, or two weeks on toward Rolpa. Thailand as the medical rules stand now. Colombia in December, a cannabis-friendly stay in BogotΓ‘ while we learn the program. Morocco in February, samples for the farms. After that the road is still open. Uganda. Far East Russia. Uzbekistan.
What places world wide still hold unhybridized strains, and what month can we leave?
Red Bloody Afghan original smells like rotten meat
The leaf goes almost black red under full sun on bare rock. Anthocyanin locked through the fan and into the sugar leaf, not just a cold-night blush. Structure stays upright and resinous while everything around it is dry grass and stone.
This is the expression you get when the pigment is fixed in the genetic line instead of being a stress response. Same plants can run dark year around with out high uv exposure or cold nights.
Where have you actually seen a landrace hold this level of red/black-purple ?
These large cakes come out of the Pakistani/Afghan highlands, where the resin is made by hand and left to cure. The break is how you tell the grade: soft centers still give under the edge, dry outer layers snap clean and leave the fine dust on the cloth. Same motion from the Parvati side to the Afghan passes β one tool, silk sheets, density decides.
Have you ever wanted to visit Afghanistan/Pakistan ? Watch a multi-kilo cake get chopped like this with an axe πͺ
These large cakes come out of the Pakistani/Afghan highlands, where the resin is made by hand and left to cure. The break is how you tell the grade: soft centers still give under the edge, dry outer layers snap clean and leave the fine dust on the cloth. Same motion from the Parvati side to the Afghan passes β one tool, silk sheets, density decides.
Have you ever wanted to visit Afghanistan/Pakistan ? Watch a multi-kilo cake get chopped like this with an axe πͺ
A gray-market Cali plate, not a licensed California product. Nothing under the name Scous-Ass Extracts shows up on dispensary menus, the DCC brand list, review sites, or X.
Honey Banana is a real dessert cultivar. Elemental Seeds built it as Honey Boo Boo (Bubba Kush Γ Captain Krypt OG) Γ Strawberry Banana. The profile people chase is overripe banana, brown sugar, and bubblegum, with a clear-headed, heavy-lidded finish.
Full-melt single-grade washes are usually isolated at 73β120ΞΌ or 90β120ΞΌ. That is a bulk blend, not a heady first-pull.
Itβs addicting watch the surface bubble. No dark residue collecting at the edge. It liquefies, then the film thins and clears.
This is the behavior you get when the starting material was mostly intact trichome heads and the cold cure was long enough for the lightest fractions to settle and the rest to bind. Shorter cures stay greasier and more opaque under the same heat. Longer ones can go almost glassy before they release.
Most full-melt claims are just βit bubbles.β The real tell is whether it leaves a clean film or starts depositing.
How long are you actually cold-curing your solventless before you call the melt finished, and does the surface change the way you smoke it? this is 4+ months cure and its already really dry - this is not top quality.
π± Jokerz Hash
4-month cold cure on these WPFF and bubble slabs.
Frozen Gelato, Grape Citrus, Soda β 75-150Β΅ cuts.The surface has that dry, almost crystalline separation that only shows after the lightest terps settle and the heads finish binding.
How long do you actually leave your solventless before itβs ready and does the texture change the way you smoke it?
BC Green Grower CNX. The whole flower room is pressed against the glass. Chiang Mai, Thailand πΉπ
Air pots on the sidewalk side, LED bars overhead, dense frosty colas under the lights. You can stand outside and count nodes. Most shops still hide the plants. Here the grow is the storefront.
How often do you actually see the room from the street where you are, and does the visible setup change how you judge whatβs inside?
Itβs addicting watch the surface bubble. No dark residue collecting at the edge. It liquefies, then the film thins and clears.
This is the behavior you get when the starting material was mostly intact trichome heads and the cold cure was long enough for the lightest fractions to settle and the rest to bind. Shorter cures stay greasier and more opaque under the same heat. Longer ones can go almost glassy before they release.
Most full-melt claims are just βit bubbles.β The real tell is whether it leaves a clean film or starts depositing.
How long are you actually cold-curing your solventless before you call the melt finished, and does the surface change the way you smoke it? this is 4+ months cure and its already really dry - this is not top quality.
π± Jokerz Hash