COC-IND-HIM-0120190001
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| Grahan General Population 2019 | |
|---|---|
| COC-IND-HIM-0120190001 | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Landrace |
| Accession Type | General population |
| Primary Purpose | Recreation |
| Processing | |
| Made into | Charas |
| Notes | Also described as used for food, fibre, medicine and firewood |
| Hierarchy | |
| Regional Complex | Hindu Kush Himalaya |
| Growing Region | Western Himalayas |
| Growing Area | Parvati Valley |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Himachal Pradesh |
| Kullu District | |
| Locality | Grahan |
| Elevation | 2298 m |
| Collection | |
| Method | Seeds |
| Sourcing Type | Point of Origin |
| Autochthonous | Yes |
| Date | Winter 2019 |
| Provenance Evidence | |
| Regional Corroboration | Kullu police report cannabis destroyed on 6,175 bighas in 2019 against 2,700 bighas in 2018 Central Bureau of Narcotics destroys cannabis on 12,900 bighas of forest land in Kullu district |
| Population Corroboration | Police arrest 34 and find 2.83 lakh cannabis plants on forest land in the Manikaran valley |
| Identity Confirmation | None recorded |
| Conservation | |
| Population | Grahan population |
| Field grade | Data deficient · 0 of 23 items |
| Holdings | Data deficient |
| Main lot | Coco Genes Seed lot: no data yet Nothing has been reported about this seed lot yet. What this means |
| Preservation | |
| Seed Storage | Coco Genes |
Grahan is a landrace cannabis accession from Grahan village, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India, collected by Coco Genes and listed as Grahan Village in its catalogue.[1]
Geography
The listing gives the village's altitude as 2,298 m and a coordinate, "31.3830° N, 77.0094° E", and states "State : Himachal pradesh District : Kullu".[1] It describes the village as "[n]estled among Himalayan Montane Moist Temperate Forests" on the route to the Sar Pass trek, reached by a 10 km hike on foot from the town of Kasol in Kullu district.[1] It states the village has about 50 households and a population of under 500, with no cellphone towers or ATMs.[1]
The coordinate the listing gives does not check out: see the talk page.
Collection
The listing states plainly that "seeds are collected during winter 2019 expedition", directing readers to a YouTube channel and Instagram account for further images.[1] The same listing is filed on Coco Genes' site under the category "2020 Season" — a second, disagreeing date signal, recorded on the talk page rather than reconciled with the stated winter 2019 collection.[1]
Botanical Characteristics
The listing states that "[n]atives have grown cannabis in the higher slopes of the mountain for generations" and that the plants are used "for food, fibre, medicine, firewood and for making the handrubbed extracts", and that natives describe their own charas as "best in the valley even better than the infamous malana cream".[1] Two 2021 Overgrow posts, independent of Coco Genes' own listing, describe phenotypes of "his Grahan Village" as capable of growing "over 20 ft tall" and yielding "as good or better than a modern hybrid, and with chunky buds too".[2]
Notes
The listing states that "the inhabitants of this village are the only people who are allowed to touch the protected Malana tribes" — Coco Genes' own characterisation of Malana and its relationship to Grahan, reported here as the listing's claim rather than as established fact.[1]
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See Also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Grahan Village". Collector's Collective. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- ↑ "Search results for "grahan"". Overgrow. Retrieved 18 September 2026.