COC-IND-HIM-0120210002
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| Tosh General Population 2021 | |
|---|---|
| COC-IND-HIM-0120210002 | |
| At a Glance | |
| Classification | Landrace |
| Accession Type | General population |
| Primary Purpose | Recreation |
| Hierarchy | |
| Growing Region | Western Himalayas |
| Growing Area | Parvati Valley |
| Location | |
| Country | India |
| Province/State | Himachal Pradesh |
| Kullu District | |
| Locality | Tosh |
| Elevation | 2000 m |
| Collection | |
| Method | Seeds |
| Sourcing Type | Point of Origin |
| Autochthonous | Yes |
| Farmer | Maamu |
| Provenance Evidence | |
| Regional Corroboration | Kullu police report cannabis destroyed on 6,175 bighas in 2019 against 2,700 bighas in 2018 Police arrest 34 and find 2.83 lakh cannabis plants on forest land in the Manikaran valley |
| Population Corroboration | Joint teams destroy cannabis on about 25 hectares at Tosh and Malana in the Kasol forest range |
| Identity Confirmation | None recorded |
| Conservation | |
| 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 |
Tosh is a landrace cannabis accession from Tosh village in the Parvati Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India, listed as Maamus Tosh Village Landrace seeds in the catalogue of Coco Genes and filed there under "2021 season".[1]
Geography
The listing describes Tosh as "[l]ocated above 2000m" and "on the list of every Herb lover's bucket list to visit during their visit to Parvati valley".[1] It gives no district or coordinate.
Collection
The listing describes a first-person introduction to "a village elder who had migrated from Kathmandu in nepal to Tosh village" some 40 years earlier "to expand his jadi bhooti aka herbal medicine business", naming him "Maamu, a term for uncle in the pahadi language".[1] It states Maamu "has been maintaining a high-altitude cannabis farm spread across multiple acres" alongside kidney bean and moong bean crops, and recounts that he paid the village heads a fee and sought acceptance from the village's local deity, "an avatar of sun god", to become "a respected member of Tosh village" despite being an outsider.[1] It credits Maamu's son-in-law, "Hemu: aka the ice king", with helping during "this seed collection journey".[1] No exact date is given; the listing is filed under "2021 season", treated here as an identifier, not a stated collection date.
Botanical Characteristics
The listing states the seeds "have a history of years of selection and breeding" and that the village's "hippie culture attracts crowds from all around the world", such that "foreign genetics have been introduced to the native gene pool".[1] It reports that "[s]ome people attribute high mango aromas to being influenced from foreign genetics", while "the village hashashins describe the native genetics smells peculiarly like 'bhaang', a slang term for cannabis smell".[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Maamus Tosh Village Landrace seeds". Collector's Collective. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2026.