Amazing thread… I’ll be traveling to Thailand this year, eventually working there! The guys I’m involved with have vested interest in exploring the region and surrounding countries for landraces and other goodies… I’ll have to get a locals’ perspective and share any findings here now!
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@where-the-fries-at Is it Zomia? Just listened to and interview and they seem pretty cool. I like their goals and the path they are taking
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@saxo Do you maybe wanna share some sites off the book with US? I lost Our family Edition years ago as i left it in the bath room as a pipe broke.
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very interesting that they let the dew collect and then set the weed in the sun. It reminds me a lot of sweating cobs, which makes sense, their end product is basically the same thing. I wonder if the point is to make the hash stickier with the water to make the pressing easier, or to enable fermentation?
Even for more pure resin, Frenchy said he thought water had an important part to play in the traditional pressing process, although wasn’t 100% on what part exactly (afghans add water to sifted resin right before pressing). He also claimed the terpene Hashishene, very rare in nature and almost exclusively found in traditional hash, is created when farmers sun dry their plants, e.g. on corrugated steel roofs in spain.
Ah, the mysteries of hash…
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LOL I remember his other book: Grow your own Stone
Cheers
G
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Episode 47 ft Irrazinig of Indian Landrace Exchange by The Pot Cast (soundcloud.com)
great discussion of traditional hash culture and the transition to modernity
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oh sorry its not mine,just to show how expensive it is today
Unlike himachal out here in India, tirah get dry in the winters and the whole process let’s the plant get bone dry which what is ideal for sifting, the local plants grown by the Afridi tribes are very similar to himachal variety which is ideal for rubbing the plant (sticky resin unlike dry resin in afghan), while rubbing is an art in itself it’s not ideal, since it’s time Consuming and the yield is not great, so the tribes in tirah adopted their other nieighbours technique - sifting from afghans and had to invent new techniques for the same process.
With respect to the dew, It’s more of snow than dew that settles on the plants, Afridi people belive that the snow makes the plant have a distinct red colour and more pronounced effects, what is interesting is in Himachal India the best cream is rubbed late in the season which turns out with a redish hue to it, often times after the first snow (though the snow in this case reduces the quality), so both places strive for the same end product which is hash with more amber trichomes than milky, but have different processes.
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I recently rubbed hash in the himachal last harvest season, you should look up landeacemafia on instagram they have video detailing the whole process
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Ketama hashish production
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Hey @ShivamGrover . That is very interesting about the red color you describe. I have a plant that turns red in the cold. I mean the resin glands turn red. Like they are pumped full of red dye. Its not the resin turning amber. It is dark red pigment.
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I wonder if anyone on this board has actually rubbed charas and made temple balls. I remember those are being pretty spectacular but never seen after the 70’s.
As much as we grow there ought to be someone rubbing charas on here.
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I condider my scissor hash charas
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I have never condidered.
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I cant in good conscience, especially when i know how much bubble i could be getting
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I used to make hash out of everything I grew. I stopped when I realized I had 20-25 little rocks of hash that I probably am never going to smoke as I like growing it even more.
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Give it away away to the homeless/less fortunate.
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I will condider it.
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