I’ve been reading about how Himalayan growers use ice water and bubble bags to make hash these days as well as hand-rubbing and I was wondering if anyone knew how hand-rubbed charas landraces would compare wash-wise to dry sift cultivars.
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It’s a different method so I would think you would need to hunt out the better phenos for washing in those lines as it’s been selected to be rubbed or used in bhang so I wouldn’t expect it to be great for washing Vs other stuff it’s just what they have access to so they use it currently for bubble alot of India has hype stuff for that now too especially the cities I just hope the real Himalayan stuff is preserved for the future
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Came down from Himachal in 2005 after living there for a decade …
They have been doing ‘ice-o-later’ which is called ice since long and using the benifit of being able to make ice from fresh when unfortunate events (like sudden snowstorms or enforcement cutting) takes place to salvage what they can.
Ice from dry herb is not comercialy viable so is only made by conosiers or by farmers to fully utilise what’s left on the plant after rubbing season.
The dry shifting method was adopted by cultures which have dry enviornment and hand rubbing in wetter enviornment.
If you try to make charas in a dry enviornment very little will actually stick to your hand… a good percentage of the trichomes will simply fall to the ground or get stuck back onto the plant in the process of rubbing.
Can’t say how they would compare though.
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I don’t know Himalayan but I grew something probably suited to charas but washed it anyway. Good yield good product I’d do it again.
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In Malana, cannabis is made into charas by rubbing the fresh buds between the hands because of the unique climate, plant resin, and tradition. The high-altitude Himalayan conditions produce very sticky, oily resin that’s perfect for hand-rubbing but not as suitable for dry-sieving like in Morocco or Afghanistan. The rubbing concentrates the resin, making it more potent, compact, and long-lasting than raw flowers. In most other parts of the world, cannabis is dried and smoked directly because the resin there is drier, the tradition is different, and modern consumption habits developed another way.
And the people in malana make bubble hash in winters when it receives snowfall .They call it RED ICE.
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