I've been reading up on the various Indian cannabis varieties that are available-we have access to so much right now, with all of the many India based landrace collectors, like the Indian Landrace exchange, Landrace Mafia, and Coco genes, among others. Coco genes is a more recent discovery for me, but they have some incredible stuff! Khalifa Genetics acquired their Kerala Chellakutti from the Cogo-genes collective. You can see some of their strains on Strainly (All of them are on Instagram too, I really should make an account and join modern society) and I'd like to try ordering from them once I build back up some discretionary seed $$$. That Kerala Chellakutti is a very interesting strain, supposedly very psychoactive...but it also is one of the longest bloomers, so not super practical unless I want to take on a major breeding project. I purchased a pack of Sheelavathi seeds from ILE last year on sale, and I just saw that they had rewritten their article on it, and it's quite interesting!
https://www.indianlandraceexchange.com/indianlandraceexchange/sheelavathi/
So I'm definitely going to collect more Indian Landrace sativas this year, but I think I'll start first by growing out a few of the Sheelavathi seeds next cycle, alongside the Chocolate Thai F4s from Hazeman. Sheelavathi is supposed to be as trippy as Kerala, but done in 14-16 weeks, vs 20-25 for Kerala. I'll also get some Orissa, either from Coco-genes or Landrace Mafia.
I feel like not much good Sativa breeding is being done nowadays, vs 20+ years ago in the USA. The industry is so focused on bag appeal and THC% that we've lost out on the quality of high and terpenes in general. So many of today's popular crosses either aren't terpy, or they are terpy, but it's the same old common "dispensary terps." It's definitely time to grow some Kerala or Orissa gold, but I'll give the Sheelavathi a try first to see why it has become so popular within India-I'm looking forward to experiencing those unique terpenes too. It's sort of like when you go on vacation and try some weird fruit for the first time-like when I tried durian for the first time, I was thinking "WOW, what the hell is this flavor I'm experiencing, does not compute!" (it tastes like sweet gasoline)