Green Squall
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I'm curious, did he mention what their main food crops are?
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'In Search of the ULTIMATE SATIVA and INDICA'....(Rare Land-Race Hunting.)
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I'm curious, did he mention what their main food crops are?
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
Yak with chilly pepper. Sounds great! So chillies for sure. I'd be surprised if they didn't have a very high protein/carb diet.
Ibechillin
Masochist Educator
Awesome to finally hear from him, Hoypare. is a legend and inspiration.
He's having a real blast - venturing into remote areas - on a quest for good seed - and many of us wish that we could be there too.
I will convey your best wishes to him Dog Star.
Most people would consider how these people in Nepal, or throughout the Himalayan mountain country live as being 'Off Grid' - in many respects -
Yeah! - gets the wanderlust going in many of us.
No he didn't say but : Nepal is richly endowed with agro-biodiversity. Rice, maize, millet, wheat, barley and buckwheat are the major staple food crops. Similarly, oilseeds, potato, tobacco, sugarcane, jute and cotton are the important cash crops whereas lentil, gram, pigeon pea, blackgram, horsegram and soyben are the important pulse crops.
Most will certainly not be consuming much if any western processed foods - that's a given.
Lovely stuff, glad to see the big man is safe.
If I was chilling out in a bath on a mountain side, possibly slightly medicated, I don’t think I’d be worried about a WiFi connection either....that’s living the dream right there. Hats off.
For sure - he's just enjoying the trip - although the altitude does have some effect on him - and he gets out of breath easier than at sea level - which is quite normal.
That's the plan - but naturally we won't know until what he finds has been cultivated - and selections made.
Will there be sales of the collected seeds or do we have to wait for a breeding project?
I suspect that the collected seeds will be available to anyone who might want to work with them.....
It really depends on what arrives back at base central in Europe, unmolested, and viable.
It really depends on what arrives back at base central in Europe, unmolested, and viable.
regards to him and the crew.
Yes - The Seed Hunter has been busy sending us some more cool pictures of his first impressions in Bhutan - Looks like he had to clean his act up a bit and get his hair trimmed.
*words in bold text are from The Seed Hunter.
Just been having a chat with the lads down the barbers,shave and a trim,got a date with a hot yeti momma tonight!!
*words in bold text are from The Seed Hunter.
Just been having a chat with the lads down the barbers,shave and a trim,got a date with a hot yeti momma tonight!!
Tell Gypsy I have latitudes and longitudes I will give him later ,.. I am eating shit, yes I am about to have sun dried yak meat fried in yak fat and chillie-cheese..........AGAIN Bhutan's main export is hydro-electricity which they sell to India,incredible country.
It's FREEZING up there at these altidudes , the hot stone bath I had they heat the rocks under corrugated tin sheets in a fire pit,fill the bath with water from the stream,drop enough glowing hot rocks in and voila instant hot-tub with incredible views, pull the plug when finished, but enough of the tub,here's the toilet.
*Now that's a dodgy looking Khazi - if ever I saw one - lol
'Khazi' is slang for toilet, possibly being derived from the Cockney word 'carsey'. It is also speculated that it could come from the African language word, Zulu or Swahili, 'M'khazi' that is used to refer to a latrine. It is now most commonly used in Liverpool.
It's FREEZING up there at these altidudes , the hot stone bath I had they heat the rocks under corrugated tin sheets in a fire pit,fill the bath with water from the stream,drop enough glowing hot rocks in and voila instant hot-tub with incredible views, pull the plug when finished, but enough of the tub,here's the toilet.
*Now that's a dodgy looking Khazi - if ever I saw one - lol
'Khazi' is slang for toilet, possibly being derived from the Cockney word 'carsey'. It is also speculated that it could come from the African language word, Zulu or Swahili, 'M'khazi' that is used to refer to a latrine. It is now most commonly used in Liverpool.
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Got some Coffee direct from the source,and they even grow weed.
Below is a pictorial of coffee processing in Bhutan - from fresh picked coffee berries to dried coffee beans (before any roasting takes place.)
Below is a pictorial of coffee processing in Bhutan - from fresh picked coffee berries to dried coffee beans (before any roasting takes place.)
Footware is important up here Lowas is the choice of boot ,great boot for mountains,ran down piles of scree wearing them gaining momentum and speed and they stick like gecko toe-pads on a wall,this is them....or rather one of them.
And another pic showing one beside a pile of shredded leaf,bud,and stem I laboriously de-seeded.
And another pic showing one beside a pile of shredded leaf,bud,and stem I laboriously de-seeded.
Got up to a monastery just below a ridge,maybe 2700 meters,they had just cremated a monk,and were putting ashes of his burnt photograph and a smidgen of his human ashes in balls of dough they were about to bake,I never hung around for lunch!
Another 200 meters up a steep incline above the monastery is a shack,inside the shack is a trainee Lamma on a 3 year 3 month enlightenment quest, he sees no one,he speaks to a higher Lamma once a year for teachings so I climb the goat track,and I am near his shack sitting soaking up the silence and the view,the solitude even,when I see a plant,withered and brown,but it's cannabis,tiny thing no bigger than a couple of feet tall,I get a couple of small heads and start dropping down to the valley floor,look at the seeds I got from it,tiny in comparison to standard sized seeds.
Another 200 meters up a steep incline above the monastery is a shack,inside the shack is a trainee Lamma on a 3 year 3 month enlightenment quest, he sees no one,he speaks to a higher Lamma once a year for teachings so I climb the goat track,and I am near his shack sitting soaking up the silence and the view,the solitude even,when I see a plant,withered and brown,but it's cannabis,tiny thing no bigger than a couple of feet tall,I get a couple of small heads and start dropping down to the valley floor,look at the seeds I got from it,tiny in comparison to standard sized seeds.
Ibechillin
Masochist Educator
Being Higher in the mountains "off the beaten path", probably means more isolated populations closer resembling an unadulterated land race than plants lower in the valley susceptible to wind carried pollen/human intervention over time.
Here is some info on trait inheritance and calyx/seed size.
Does A Male Or Female Pass On More Genetics To Their Offspring?: From February 2018
Link To Thread:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=350271
Those withered brown plants probably have healthy viable seed!
Here is some info on trait inheritance and calyx/seed size.
Does A Male Or Female Pass On More Genetics To Their Offspring?: From February 2018
Link To Thread:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=350271
It makes absolutely no difference which parent in a cross is male and which is female. The genetic potential of the offspring is the same either way. The only practical difference is the resultant seed size may vary depending on which parent is the female, and this is due to the size of the calyx on the female.
The phenotypes seen in the offspring from any cross or pollination are the result of the dominant alleles inherited from each parent.
Hope this helps.
Those withered brown plants probably have healthy viable seed!
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romanoweed
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I Keep Hearing about very Special Traits in some of the wilder Plants, like autoflowering equatorial sativas, or perpetual Plants flowering for years; cloning themselve trough Rootsystems or Branches producing roots.... Such traits are completly gone today. It sounds like new species, but actually this is Cannabis, what we are talking about.. A completly transformative plant, if this Stories are true.
