Hopar Valley ’23 Selection #4 Strain

Good yielding selection with intense purple colors from the Hopar Valley in Gilgit Baltistan, northern Pakistan. It features terpenes reminiscent of fresh pine paint thinner and mothballs. It has a short and closed structure with moderate lateral branching, completing its maturation in 8-9 weeks. The growing season spans from April/May to early October, when it is harvested to produce resin. Hopar Valley is a small bowl valley located at the toes of the Spantik and Hopar glacier. The indigenous population in Gilgit-Baltistan is known as “Balti” majority of whom are shia Muslims. The cannabis cultivation in Hopar Valley has shrunk significantly in past 3-4 decades from being prolific to cannabis being a secondary crop which is now sown on the sides/periphery of the fields meant for growing food. Unlike, some of the other cannabis hotspots in northern pakistan like chitral, that saw an increasingly stringent attitude of the administration on Cannabis, Hopar Valley in the wake of rapidly increasing tourism had an entirely different reason for slowing down the cultivation of cannabis so, Cannabis can still be easily seen growing on sides of the roads in the entire valley, without a shr