How long is cannabis pollen viable in the wild?

[ahortator]

I think I can tell you a bit about pollen flying here from Morocco. We used to have tons of it but I have never seen a plant making seeds if there are no males near. Also Moroccan Kif (now called Beldia) landrace was harvested in August, so if you were growing tropical sativas (NLD) in Southern Spain they have not even sexed. But I began growing birdseeds when I had no NLD seeds and I have never seen them pollinated. Anyway they have replaced the strains and the growing methods so I guess they cull males there. Anyway it seems the pollen that arrives here is not viable.

https://www.researchgate.net/public..._from_North_Africa_to_the_Southwest_of_Europe

www.biblioteca.uma.es/bbldoc/articulos/16719712.pdf This link seems it doesn't work, just delete the http://

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23208276/

https://www.uco.es/rea/publicaciones/andalucia/malaga/Nadia_variations_2013.pdf

What about ditch weed in the Midwest?

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

I’m under the impression that only SEEDS germinate - and that you need the pollen *before* you can have seeds.

Clearly I misunderstand, could you help me out?

Sure

Pollen Germination
During germination, the tube cell elongates into a pollen tube. In the flower, the pollen tube then grows towards the ovule where it discharges the sperm produced in the pollen grain for fertilization. The germinated pollen grain with its two sperm cells is the mature male microgametophyte of these plants.

one ? about pollen - how much of the molecules that make up pollen is water ? how much water needs to be removed to make it, not pollen ?

No idea how much is water, but I do know drying it out helps it stay viable longer. If you want to destroy it, get it wet.

Yes, male plants definitely develop trichomes if they're any decent kind of genetics.

 

[Teddybrae]

That is very informative! (I wonder if Treevly is pissed for highjacking his thread?) Thanks for sharing yr experience!

The woman who told me the story was French, middle class, a little older. Seemed genuine. Certainly had been around. Could easily have done what she said. Met her in an out of the way town in West Australia where I get the impression she had fled to escape the rat race and set up a home and family far from the madding crowd.

Nice story. What you describe is a way to make small amounts of good hashish from fresh plants. No doubt they still dried and screened the plants. I'm guessing the technique came from Lebanon, the first hash makers in Morocco learned the tricks of the trade from Lebanese hashish growers. It wasn't until the 1960s that hashish was produced in Morocco.

I haven't heard of collection from fresh plants in North Africa and all the Muslim countries practice sieving as opposed to hand rubbing. I'm not dismissing the story, it's different then the Indian stories and there's no reason the Moroccans couldn't make hashish that way. Especially if it was before the sieved hash was ready. It could also be a bullshit story they told the foreigners, hash dealers do stuff like that.(at least they weren't beating the plants while naked) Flailing the plants does sound Moroccan or Lebanese.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXskL1jLQiM

(Found it. Came out in 2002. https://www.fandor.com/films/hashish