I was recently on a walk along a gravel road and took notice at how often I'd see ditch weed growing. When I looked at it it was all very obviously seedy, but when I touched it and smelled my fingers it still smelled good. Has anyone ever taken ditch weed seeds and grown them under proper conditions? I know it's obviously not going to produce stuff as good as solid, well developed genetic lines, but could it still produce decent quality bud? I'm not hurting for genetics, but I thought it an interesting idea.
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Ditch weed strains?
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The plants we refer to as "ditchweed" are remnants from the hemp farming boom during the world war. These are hemp varieties. Not to say you might not fins some recessive traits that might be desirable or something like that, but know that these are hemp plants, that were used for their fiber, not their cannabinoids.
That makes sense. I wonder what the THC percentage is in them, I know they still have some.
Years ago a few friends and I would make hash oil out of ditch weed, and it got us high as hell. We'd basically go fill garbage bags full of it, shake loose what seeds we could, then pick off the sites where the buds would normally be and put it into a container. We'd then fill the container with rubbing alcohol until everything was covered, mix it up real good and let it sit for a day. Then we'd strain out the pulp and put the alcohol in a an electric double boiler. The oil it produced smoked better than good bud we could get at the time, and we'd add a bit to bowls of brick weed to make it better. Not saying it's the best idea but I know for sure from doing that that even if it is just hemp, it can still get you high.
Years ago a few friends and I would make hash oil out of ditch weed, and it got us high as hell. We'd basically go fill garbage bags full of it, shake loose what seeds we could, then pick off the sites where the buds would normally be and put it into a container. We'd then fill the container with rubbing alcohol until everything was covered, mix it up real good and let it sit for a day. Then we'd strain out the pulp and put the alcohol in a an electric double boiler. The oil it produced smoked better than good bud we could get at the time, and we'd add a bit to bowls of brick weed to make it better. Not saying it's the best idea but I know for sure from doing that that even if it is just hemp, it can still get you high.
Meh. Recalling ancient personal history, I can safely say that if you thought you got high from Nebraska ditch weed, you didn't know what high was. Kentucky ditch weed would get you high, if only barely.
Back in the 70's we called it beater weed- if you bought any, you got beat by charlatans, or you paid damned little for it so you could use it to beat other people out of their money.
Truth is, getting busted with the stuff is the same rap as getting busted with some of the best. Back then, local country LEO's with little to do would stake out prime patches, bust the city kids who were dumb enough to pick it. Disgusting.
Back in the 70's we called it beater weed- if you bought any, you got beat by charlatans, or you paid damned little for it so you could use it to beat other people out of their money.
Truth is, getting busted with the stuff is the same rap as getting busted with some of the best. Back then, local country LEO's with little to do would stake out prime patches, bust the city kids who were dumb enough to pick it. Disgusting.
I'm going to have to say I beg to differ...I knew what getting high was and at the time had access to brick weed, nugget/kind bud/hydro (whatever you locally call it), and real hash oil. It also wasn't just me that felt it, the other experienced smokers also liked it. It was also a 'clean' high, much like good nugget. I'd agree that you probably couldn't get high by smoking the stuff in base form...but we were making an extract out of probably the equivalent of a few pounds of it.
Some people hand rubbed that ditchweed you think can't get you high and got better hash than commercial 80's was. If you stop making generalizations and start testing individual plants, you'll find that some populations are total bunk and others nearby aren't. Generally there are a few plants that are decent, probably at least a couple percent, and the rest are garbage. Maybe some bagseed has been introduced between now and the 60's. Just because some was grown for hemp doesn't mean its genetics were garbage, there were several farmers growing Indian Hemp for big pharma, and Agricultural Experiment Stations were growing Cannabis from all over for research.
As you say, you need a lot of it to make passable concentrates. Off the stalk, it's rarely any good at all, imho.
With hemp strains, potency is often deliberately de-selected, and generally not something they select for. OTOH, there's really no reason that hemp plants have to be low potency, either, other than selective breeding. That's the lineage of almost all wild pot in the US. I suspect that more than a few have tried to add genetic diversity to their local wild strains over the years, with varying degrees of success.
If it's the same stock that went wild after the hemp growing years of WW2, it's generally not worth any risk to obtain it, that's for sure.
10 pounds of ditchweed and ten pounds of primo simsemilla are basically the same bust, and lots of rural LEO's want the excitement. Local heads know the pitfalls, know how to deal with it if they want, but outsiders really don't.
SirSteely
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In the 90s when we would have local shortage on smoke me and a couple of friends would make a 30hr drive to Missouri in the fall and load up on what we called K-pot.(picked off of highwayK) It was mostly a very low thc, seedy and basically worthless flower. BUT we did find several stand out plants in a few of those old hemp fields that had some good midgrade potentcy. And one plant we found roadside that was phenomenal. Bet if we would of made concentrates out of the bulk of the Kpot it would of been decent. Id say there are some ok genetics growing wildly around the US.
ditch weed could include a wide variety of genetics. sometimes someone throws out some seeds and stems and a few volunteers take root. that stuff in first or second generations could be good.
what you thought was ditch weed in your walk along a gravel road could very well have been a cleverly disguised od guerilla garden hidden in plain sight.
i'm from kansas and everyone was very "hip to hemp". the kansas k-weed gave you a headache. people tried making oil from it and it still gave you a headache. this weed was dominate in crosses so eventually all canna-weed near hemp weed would become shit within a couple of generations due to the vast amounts of k-weed pollen in the air. there are still hemp patches along the kansas river 100's of miles along that are almost impossible to eradicate. nobody messes with them except for pretend brick weed scams.
the missouri ditch weed was was a little better but still not marketable.
ditch weed in south america, india, africa etc. can be some of the best cannabis genetics in the world.
what you thought was ditch weed in your walk along a gravel road could very well have been a cleverly disguised od guerilla garden hidden in plain sight.
i'm from kansas and everyone was very "hip to hemp". the kansas k-weed gave you a headache. people tried making oil from it and it still gave you a headache. this weed was dominate in crosses so eventually all canna-weed near hemp weed would become shit within a couple of generations due to the vast amounts of k-weed pollen in the air. there are still hemp patches along the kansas river 100's of miles along that are almost impossible to eradicate. nobody messes with them except for pretend brick weed scams.
the missouri ditch weed was was a little better but still not marketable.
ditch weed in south america, india, africa etc. can be some of the best cannabis genetics in the world.
