[clorox]

i got some indian charas at ummagumma when i was in the dam, VERY spicey stuff

[ilife]

Originally Posted by zamalito

I got some tasmanian opium poppy seed from reeferman I can't wait to make opiated temple balls and then chew some khat leaves in the morning. GOOD TIMES!

I'll put some parvati landrace indica seeds up for auction when seedbay comes back.

Yes we all know Reeferman loves Opium and the Big H.

iLiFE

[YeshijaH]

I remember some grey parvati charas I got from a friend in Amsterdam around 2001 it came in moondiscs or chapaties that he had a huge block of pressed together. It was very pure creamy soft sticky when warm and hard when cold. It made a snaping or clickie sound when you pull it apart in the cold. The smoke was very smooth and tasted just like sweet hashy grey crippie thc.

[spicecowboy]

Great that my reanimation obviously worked!


Dkgrower:

It´s allways nice to read from people who´ve allready been to India,- interresting indeed!

I´m curious about the term "mal"(marl).

Do you know wheter this is related to the term Zamal, as they call the herb on Reunion Islands?


Clorox:

Yeah, I heard that you can still score some pretty decent stuff in Amsterdam, but unfortunately you can´t be 100% sure wheter it´s adultered or not, and the creme de la creme most probably stays in India anyway.

A spicy taste can be freaking awesome at times...


ilife:

Well, well,- I don´t know anything about reefermans private life, and to be honest: I really don´t care that much.


YeshijaH:

Grey Charras...- mhh sounds pretty nice,- hope it wasn´t the mold...?



One Love,



spice

[ngakpa]

Originally Posted by Dkgrower

also if one smoke jungel mal - jungel charas from wild plants growing freely in the himalyas - it can´t get any better- beats malana cream and all the manali charas that are dereived from big feilds where fertilizer and ect are used, tho compared to marokko it is still littel, but they use

The jungel mal, it mostly much more though and not so soft like malana cream and when at it best only black on the out side - yellowish inside. I always wonder why the jungel mal is stronger and better tasting but not that soft - some indian say that when the plants are very close like a field the charas tend to get more soft in teksture compared to plants that have space.

some wild plants form natual felids and i have learned to called them dutch
the indian sell the info on where to find these, to hash making turist - who come in big numbers in rubbing season, and go camping in the wild and make there own charas,

Halek bom shankar, and 2 mathes get lit -

Nam- es- kar - see you next time

hey - yeah I agree that jungli maal is often waaay superior to Malana first rub - it has a lot to do with the strains used... in Malana they are using domestic farm strains... I forget what they call them there, but there is a name for the plants - bigger and more superficially resinous than the jungli strains, but often less aromatic and with a less impressive high

North Indian jungli charas is the darker righthand piece

[Dkgrower]

High ngakpa nice with a picture off the jungli -

I love how they shape it and jugde by that it looks like it could be from around almora, that side off himalayas ?

- around almora they always make those thin fingers and spin them into diffent shapes like flat disk´s or like you show and many other shapes but always those thin fingers as basis

[ngakpa]

hehe yeah - the ball is from right near almora (basic Kasar Devi/Jageshwar stuff) just from some basic home plants; the other rough piece is from a more remote area far deeper in the mountains, as with the jungli piece - a favourite trip of mine

the jungli pictured here has to be some of the most powerful charas I have smoked - totally blew my lid after smoking that, really put me into orbit in a ridiculous way

[Burt]

the best charas i had was a deep red/burgundy in color and actually came from NW frontier or afghanistan
potentcy was there with 15-20% THC USA nugs-no burnout, spiced/cardamony
this was the cream of the crop i'd say-dude was actually stopped by swiss customs and they let him through-with the charas!

[Dkgrower]

Originally Posted by ngakpa

hehe yeah - the ball is from right near almora (basic Kasar Devi/Jageshwar stuff) just from some basic home plants; the other rough piece is from a more remote area far deeper in the mountains, as with the jungli piece - a favourite trip of mine

Year those finger´s are a almore trade mark - love to hear about that trip - getting charas in himalyas is pure adventure and i love it -



High burt - that was proberly dry shift and not charas - gardar - The dust.
Some nice icmag member have informed me that they only dry shift in afghanistan and pakistan.

[ngakpa]

yeah it is 99.99% only sieved hashish in NWFP, Afghanistan etc. but they do still call it all charas too (contrary to what some pages of Clarke seem to imply) once it has been worked

it may be hard to see, but the Sheberghan garda I posted on the other thread has a very distinct red tinge...

except for the best Chitrali, the nicest charas I have had from NWFP was some golden coloured dry sieve from the Orakzai region of Tirah Valley in the FATA... head-numbing terpenes, and for the first few days of smoking pure existential overload... to prepare it for smoking it required molding in moist palms, and turned a more brown colour

handrubbing does still occur in these regions - by Malang and poor charsees for example - you will see feral female plants which have clearly been used... for example a lot of feral sativa-type plants grow on the waste ground between Islamabad and 'Pindi, and even as early as June there were females in flower which had been selected for this type of charas

with handrubbed charas close to Almora - I found the high itself to this charas was beginning to show some potential, but that the plants still had a slightly "green" aroma to them - it was only deeper into the mountains that I would say we found anything really special

bottom right - sieved garda ('dust')
top and bottom left - same garda hand-pressed into charas