Charas is totally unique, to caress a live plant totally ripe to collect trichomes in your hands is a beautiful experience. I spent quite a few seasons in India practicing the art in some seriously remote Valleys (Malana & Parvati), some of the best time in my life.
Do not devote a plant to Charas but caress lightly your whole crop 2 weeks before harvest, after you remove the biggest leaves around the buds. Charas making is a major waste of trichomes, at best you will collect 20-25% of it per plants. But if you do it gently and pick the right time you will be able to make a little without diminishing your harvest. Tricky to learn by yourself by the way.
The book is quite good, far from perfect or even accurate as often as not but a good learning start.
Laurence Cherniak " The Great Books of Hashish". There is 3 volumes and they are hard to get. Robert Connell Clarke "Hashish" is kind of mandatory if you are really into it, but there is mistakes and errors and few of the knowledge is personal, mostly collected data. Nonetheless quite good
Yes! lot of jungle (wild plants) and plenty fields, paradise!!!!!
I know those valleys the Strain Hunters visited better than my backyard my friend. I helped the Italian guide get his cave ready the first year he came to Malana. It really show you places that very few people know about and have been.
