Hey, I know I am new here, but I have been searching for information on this strain for a while.. seeing how Strainhunters has been to India, I figured there may be some insight. Here is the information I have: Name: Shilavati Genetics: Indica (South Indian) Origin: Near Hyderabad - Eastern Himalayan Region Height: Up to 1.8 Meters Other than that, very little information actually exists. Shilavati is known as "The most potent naturally occuring cannabis strain". The buds are extremely dense and seem to be larger than strains such as Big Bud. From what the grower has told me, the buds on this plant can grow to sizes larger than your palm. I am looking for any information other than what I have! Sincerely, Shepj

Good morning colleagues, regarding the queries about the period of light that begins to use, I did not find the original page from where I read it, but if I discovered that it is called photoperiod of Reinhard Delp, here is a brief description. Saturday, 29 January 2011 03:30 Written by Joseph R. Pietri How to reduce the cost of growing cannabis saving 30-50% on your electricty bill using the 12-1 lighting schedule. The biggest innovator in the history of cannabis in my generation is Reinhard Delp. Not only did he invent and is the holder of the patent for ice water extraction, he has been building flower forcers since 1992. His new solar powered Sun-gate is the leader of the industry. He was the first to feminize seeds and sell them in Europe in the late 90’s. His process was done naturally, without the use of any chemicals. No one is more copied but seldom matched than Mr. Delp, who to me is the top grower of our generation. The first time he impressed me he showed me 2 plants, planted next to one another, 1 completely covered in powdery mildew, the other completely clean and beautiful. He was developing mildew and mold resistant genetics. In the late 90’s Reinhard brought back the gas lantern routine that you find in any college grade horticulture book, and applied it to cannabis. Cannabis needs only 13 hours to stay in the vegetative growth stage. The 18-6 lighting schedule in vegetation, actually stress your plants, that never get that much light in one-day outdoors. Cannabis is an outdoor plant. Growing indoors you should copy how it grows outdoors. No Cannabis growing in Afghanistan gets 18 hours of light in growth pattern. Most strains today have some part Indica in their genetic pool. Even equatorial strains don’t get 18 hours of sun a day. The 12-1 lighting schedule is as follows 12 hours lights on, 5.5 lights off, 1-hour lights on, 5.5 lights off, and repeat schedule. The 1 hour on in between off period fools the plants that stay in vegetative growth state! Your immediate savings are 5 hours in energy costs daily, as well as your bulbs and equipment lasting longer. But how do the plants react to this lighting schedule? You see immediate growth response from your plants, they are happy from the added rest time. By day 14 the plants tripled in size. The plants are bushy with twice as many bud sites without topping or bending, In fact when you top and stretch your plants out, you get many more bud sites than you would have had under 18-6 using same procedure of topping and stretching plant, your growing bigger and better and faster. So your saving 5 hours daily in energy costs, as well as your excellerated growth pattern which also saves you time and energy and equipment use. In the flowering stage, never use 12-12, start your flowering period at 11 hours on 13 hours off. When your are growing outdoors each day you get less and less sun light, you should copy the way the sun acts naturally in your indoor grow. So first 2 weeks of flower you go 11 on 13 off, the next 2 weeks you go down to 10.5 on 13.5 off, next 2 weeks 10 on 14 off, next two weeks 9.5 on 14.5 off and the last weeks of flower you should be at 9 hours on and 15 hours off. You’ll get bigger and better buds by copying the way the sun light works on cannabis outdoors. Cannabis is an outdoor plant and you should copy the way it grows outdoors indoors. The only thing that 18-6, and then 12-12 lighting schedule's do is make the energy companies rich as well as the people who sell lights and equipment, the more you use the more you spend. 12-1 lighting schedule is a more natural way to grow indoors and you well have the best results you have ever had and save as much as 50% in energy costs.

(El Niño x Super Lemon Haze) El Niño: Haze, Super Skunk, Brazilian and South Indian.x Super Lemon Haze: Lemon Skunk (original skunk, citral) + Super Silver Haze (Skunk, Northern Lights, Haze) White Lemon Grow Report GH White Lemon is a very vigorous and very stable strain with a rubbery characteristic of the stem and grows tall, being ideal for SCROG grow setups and Supercropping. Two phenotypes are noticeable in this strain, with a third pheno much more ocasional. Leave shape is Indica-like despite the height grow rate of a Sativa. This factor, wide and dark leaves, will help this strain to deliver her dense and tight buds in flowering period. Bud's smell is distinctively lemony, the one from the genetic material of Super Lemon Haze and very frosty and compact from the El Niño side. Very easy to grow, ready in 8 to 9 weeks. High yeld ability. White Lemon Smoke Report Indica phenotype smells like herself, like a very good lemon, altough it comes with a twist of something more after grinding, it's a very sharp and strong spicy smoke inhaling and sweet lemony exhaling, with a oily after-tongue. High is workable but with a heavy brain and loose body high aswell. Sativa phenotype is more sweet smelling and tasting, think it realy resembles more the lemon haze side of the genetics then the indica one previously mentioned. Smokes as the first but with a sweeter tone. For a sour lover the indica pheno smoke will be better. The High of this pheno doesn't compare to the indica one, the stone setlles more on the body altough with same cerebral, but with lack of good awareness to do something besides couch, bed, hammok... Both are top notch smoke! Thank you, Green House!!! Take care http://www.strainhun...-smoke-reports/

Welcome to StrainHunters, wazim. Enjoy exploring the forum, feel free to read and comment in the various threads. After you have made about 6 or more posts, you will be able to begin uploading pictures into your own threads. We enjoy seeing the journals of members, so if you have a grow going, start a grow journal and show us what you got. PEACE

Nice Article,thanks Franco,Thanks......But there are some pretty large areas of Cannabis production in Pernambuco,Bahia and all the surrounding states(even when compared to other South American countries)....I have been there and seen some Massive area's with nothing but Ganja growing .

I will eventually be able to provide more information. I have done a little strainhunting myself and came across these genetics straight from South India, what I know is limited, but will hopefully expand soon!

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This article is the seventh of a series focused on the most important landraces of cannabis. All the thousands of strains of cannabis we use today are derived from a limited number of landraces, which have been used for medicinal, religious and recreational purposes during centuries. Cannabis originated in central Asia, and from there it has spread to all corners of the world. Sometimes helped by nature, sometimes by man, cannabis seeds have conquered unimaginable distances, spreading their genetics, adapting to new environments, changing their characteristics, and therefore resulting in countless combination. Some of these combinations stabilized themselves through inbreeding, and resulted in landraces. Some of these landraces have preserved themselves, isolated in remote areas of the planet with no contact with other cannabis strains for long periods of time. My name is Franco, my passion is cannabis, and my work is strain hunting for Green House Seed Company. And this is the history of: Himalayan Mal During my last trip to the Himalayas, I discovered that cannabis isn’t just another strong plant. It can outperform most crops in some of the harshest areas of the globe. Why? The answer is: adapting to the local environment. No other species of plant has evolved and adapted to new challenging environments the way cannabis did over the last 10,000 years of the planet’s history. The interaction between animals, man and cannabis made possible the worldwide diffusion of the plant. Cannabis made its appearance in central Asia, and from there it has spread to every continent, to every climate, with the exception of the poles. The slow process took thousands of years, and was made possible by two prominent factors: human intervention and cannabis adaptability to new and diverse climates. The first factor is very easily understandable: humans have used cannabis since the dawn of civilization, selecting and breeding for fibre (hemp) or resin (marijuana). The second one presents somewhat trickier answers: cannabis has been able to adapt to new environments fast, efficiently and with great success. How? The answers are still unclear to scientists and botanists, mostly because the illegal status of the plant has hindered research and discouraged people from investigating the truth. In my travels I had the chance to see cannabis perform in all kinds of environments, and I always felt I could explain the adaptation process with simple, logical assumptions on slow evolution patterns. But on the Himalayan mountain range, for the first time in my life, I have witnessed how adapting to new environment is a capability that the plant can manifest directly, without need for time, for slow morphological changes shaped by hostile factors over many generations. On the Indian Himalayas I have seen cannabis plants that are able to modify their appearance, growth pattern and general traits based on altitude on the sea level. Obviously with climbing of altitude, the summer season gets shorter, and temperatures can drop close to the freezing point at night, even in the warmest months. Cannabis from the Himalayan region is able to structure and shape some of its traits based on the altitude factor, creating what I came to define as different phenotypes. I have witnessed seeds from the same genetics becoming very different looking plants depending solely on the altitude at which they were planted. The higher the altitude, the more the plants look indica, with shorter internodes, thicker leaves, wider leaflets, and shorter flowering time. At lower altitude, down in the valleys, the traits are far more sativa: longer internodes, longer and thinner leaflets, longer but less dense colas, longer flowering time. The scientific definition of phenotype explains it as a genetic as well as environmental expression of defined plant traits. But before travelling on the Himalayas I always attributed the expression of phenotypes to transmission of characters and genetic code. Now I know that the story goes on. Environmental factors can play a huge role in determining the expression of phenotypes. There are many types of cannabis growing on the Himalayas, and none of the imported strains shows signs of change due to altitude. It is a peculiarity that is exclusive to the local landrace, one that becomes more and more visible when we start paying attention to it. Thanks to precise and clear indications from people who lived and worked all their life with cannabis in this region, I started understanding how to spot the local landrace and then it became very clear that the phenotype expression had a direct correlation to altitude, and all the factors that come with it. Few other regions of the planet present such a change of climate in such a small geographical extension as the Himalayas. Here we go from a fully tropical climate in the valleys, to almost artic conditions in a few hundred kilometres, sometimes less. What triggers such a change is simply altitude on the seas level. Plants grow up to 3500 meters on the Himalayas, and cannabis is one of the best high-altitude crops of the region. It would be very wrong to assume that altitude is the only factor involved. But certainly altitude is one of the key factors in one of the most interesting phenomena I ever witnessed in cannabis. Many experts and scientists will disagree with my vision, or with my choice of words to identify the phenomenon. Maybe these variations are not different phenotypes but just different expressions of the same landrace. It is not on the words and definitions I will argue. I have learned another very valuable lesson from the plant I love the most: staying flexible is a key to success.In the Himalayas cannabis is the main source of income for many isolated communities, people who live in harmony with the mountains and the environment, and use the cannabis as the only real cash crop. Himalayan Mal, the strain that gives birth every year to the best charras in the world, should be a protected cultural heritage of the region. Instead it is prosecuted and eradicated by local police forces, with contributions in money from the European Union and the United States of America. Franco – Green House Seed Co. This content is copyright of Green House Seed Co. © Green House Seed Co. All rights reserved. Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. 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This is such a stinky resinous strain. I did it in a greenhouse in cheap soil with poor drainage and bio bizz nutrients it stayed small due to low light conditions but it was really nice shit. Good luck with yours ?

Welcome Cannabissapean, Anytime Bro. Ping me whenever u plan. I will make sure its a memorable trip for u.