Article and good photo of Minnesota landrace ditchweed in bloom.

[Cappy]

I was 9 and on a hike with my scout troop when we came across like 1/4 mile of 6' hemp growing along a roadside fence. I was the only one who knew what it was, even the scout leaders (this was the 1970s). The only one excited by it. I snuck out of camp later that night to try and find it, but no luck.

The stage was set though....

 

[Kimsan]

Currently growing from seed indoors (cute little bugger), as I've never had the pleasure of testing 100% non-seeded, properly grown bud samples. Nor have I heard of anyone doing this, just a whole bunch of blablablabla about hemp being completely worthless as smoke with no actual evidence or experimentation. There's more to herb than thc and cbd...

Anyone actually try this? Wild (possibly hempy) strain indoors?

 

[EastFortRock]

I know some one that took Minnesota wild hemp grew it out indoor. You can't change genetics by growing something well. It was still weak. I have tried wild hemp from many patches when I was a kid in the mid west USA . Most will not get you high no matter how much you smoke . Most has an incredibly bad taste also. I found only one patch that had a decent buzz for the time period. It took about 4 hits to equal one hit of average nowadays good weed. If you have a bunch of time and maybe a way to test , breed it . I wouldn't mess with it unless it was legalized and had large area to grow many plants.

 

[sprinkl]

Currently growing from seed indoors (cute little bugger), as I've never had the pleasure of testing 100% non-seeded, properly grown bud samples. Nor have I heard of anyone doing this, just a whole bunch of blablablabla about hemp being completely worthless as smoke with no actual evidence or experimentation. There's more to herb than thc and cbd...

Anyone actually try this? Wild (possibly hempy) strain indoors?

Most hemp is completely herma though? I wouldnt try hemp, wild strains dont have to be full on hemp though..
We passed by a hemp field some time ago. Beautiful to see, those millions of 7-9 foot stems with no branching at all, just a fat, fully seeded top.
The notice saying 0,2% thc kept us from taking a top home.
The idea of a stable, early, feminized drugstrain being grown in sog like this made me dream though. 1000 plants wide and in length, 10 cm apart on a 100*100m^2 area, yielding a million tops of x grams, or x tonnes of cannabis. On top of the million branches for fibre production!

 

[Kimsan]

I know, this may be a pointless experiment, sometimes monkey just has to try to believe xD
They are still quite beautiful..

 

[mexcurandero420]

StRa posted this in the vintage cannabis photo thread

Nebraska 1974

Keep on growing

 

[HemperFi]

Well these plants are better to use to make early hybrids than Ruderalis.In the past the ancestors were planted for seed, but not for marijuana, so you can't expect very easy to find ditchweed with a high THC-content.You must have the knowledge or experience to find a good pheno in the F2 to breed further.It would be nice to have some of those seeds.

Kentucky Fayette 1942

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Keep on growing

Does this stuff autoflower like Ruderalis?

 

[Thule]

Does this stuff autoflower like Ruderalis?

Being that big, I doubt it. Ruderalis autoflowers at 7 weeks. Imo that makes rudy a better candidate for crossing. It's ofcourse a matter of thcs and cbds as well, some ditchweed is part chinese.

 

[Thule]

Nebraska ditchweed!

http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/08/wild_hemp_grows_everywhere_in_nebraska_photos.php

 

[2 Legal Co]

Keep in mind that not All ditchweed is fiber hemp.

Some patches have had 'round up' applied, and 'bagseed' planted. lol If you know where it has been done, and the land has changed hands since then. It can be a good 'cash crop'.

If anyone asks: "Just getting rid of noxious weeds, Osifer."

After a few years, the 'patch' is "better". Not many are aware of the changes.

 

[mexcurandero420]

What i read is that Kentucky ditch weed can be quite potent, but that has to do that in the past they bred long-flowering cannabis strains from the south with hemp so that the hemp started later with flowering.Anyone more info about that???

Keep on growing

 

[Jhhnn]

Beater weed. Ugh. I remember back in the 70's when crooks & liars peddled it & used it to cut red colombian. Left to stand until the frost hits it, the stuff has a nice reddish brown color & smallish black seeds, along with a somewhat peculiar odor. Stuff from Kentucky was better, still a couple of notches below mexibrick of the era.

Ditchweed is obviously well adapted to its photoperiod, & its environment in general, otherwise it wouldn't persist. It's a tough customer.

I sure as hell wouldn't try to breed to it, certainly not where it thrives naturally. Foreign genes would be rapidly subsumed into the larger gene pool. OTOH, establishing the right strain in a patch remote from the wild stuff might be a plan. Nebraska cops are accustomed to the stuff, pay it no mind, for example, other than using it to bust the unwary. seeing similar strains in remote areas wouldn't tweak their interest at all, I suspect. Hybridizing it under controlled conditions might work, but it'd have to be repeatedly backcrossed to the desired gene pool to arrive at anything worthwhile. It'd have to be a sativa to get the right look- maple leaf indica would be pretty easy to differentiate from wild midwest sativas.

 

[OLDproLg]

Good thought!

Sativas,i was wondering about using these too?
The vigour is outa control on some!
Lg

 

[jahrastafarii]

hollow out a patch and plant some DANK

 

[Junkhead]

I went back to a patch of these just starting out this year. They were about 3 inches tall thousands of them. This was in late may. I went back on 3rd july and saw them again. Some are 5-6 ft tall, other very crowded ones are 2-3 feet tall. Some of the big males are already flowering some just starting to release pollen.

Some of the smaller ones had been sprayed partially by the railroad track sprayer. Didn't hardly put a dent in them. Just some warped\ruined leaves. You should see the sandy rocky crap soil they are in. I think the soil and the spray damage show up in some of the photos I took. I wan't to post them but I'm dubious about postin pics.

Oh yeah somebody back in the thread posted about hermies. I haven't seen any yet just males and females. They stink too in a good way.

 

[OLDproLg]

Post pics!!!

Dont worry,pigs cant use pics an dont even care!
unless someone gives them your handle,real name,site you post on,
and has real fresh 6 month or less evidence to use,
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT!!!!!
have fun posting an learning..
peace