Midwest Ditchweed

[Fidel Castro]

Theres thousands and thousands of these 8-10 foot tall plants along gravel roads all over the midwest. I took these pics last fall and just unloaded them

ditchweed, hemp, ruderalis, feral weed? what is this stuff and does it have any cannadinoids? Is there anything worthwhile to do with it? Its got tons of crystals just no real buds form... just stringy seed pods

 

[Sinfuldreams]

Thats called HEMP.
You could TRY to Cross it with some better "Drug Strains" and TRY to get a Cross that is climitized to your area.
But that has VERY Little THC... it would take a long time to get anything worth while.
But heard of people trying at least.. don't know how successful they have been,

Sin

 

[Sinfuldreams]

By the way.
That HEMP is the Left over Crop my Granddad use to grow in Minnesota.. we where the Numnber 3 Hemp producing State. He told me that it grows wild now ALL OVER.
Made good rope he said.

Sin

 

[VictoryGardener]

it contains .oooo amounts of THC.. the only thing you'd ever get from smoking it is a bad headache

ruderalis is an unpopular autoflowering strain that has been crossed countless times for what's good about it.. although it by itself is fairly mediocre.. Sensi's skunk x rudi is pretty good however

what is interesting is that this ditchweed all over the midwest is that it is all the direct remnant of a time in the US when hemp was widely farmed.. unfortunately, propaganda, misinformation, lies, and corruption has made it illegal.. it's too bad.. it is an amazing plant for all the things that can be made from it.. I tell you, there'd be half as many poor and struggling farmers in this country if our government would see through the bullshit and make industrial hemp legal to farm.. What is the half life of bad propaganda??????

 

[Sinfuldreams]

Well it's a little more than .0000%
But not much. This was used for Fiber production in the early 1900's.
That got loose and has gone ferrle.
Any Males in an area might pollinate your outdoor crop.
Sure as hell don't want to smoke it.
As far as I know these are not Ruderalis.

Sin

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

Here in California, they are going to try hemp farming again...it is quite possible that hemp will produce more ethanol, clothing, oil and food products and grows faster then anything going now with less fertilizer.

I read that somewhere like 420.com or simillar.

minds_I

 

[Sinfuldreams]

North Dakota has allowed farmers to grow Hemp.. with LOTS of restrictions.. but you can grow it in North Dakota now.

Sin

 

[Pops]

Actually Cali will not be hemp farming as Arnold vetoed the bill, since it is illegal federally. The hemp that you see in the Midwest is leftover from WW2. Hemp was outlawed in 1937 along with it's stronger relative. In WW2, the U.S. could no longer get sisal from Malaysia to make ropes as the Japanese had taken that area. They then forced many farmers to grow hemp as a war crop. The hemp was shipped by rail to many areas of the country and seeds were scattered along rr tracks throughout the country.

In 2005, nearly 5 million plants in Indiana alone were removed by law enforcement, even though these plants would not get anyone stoned. The THC content is about 0.6% and the CBD and CBN are very high, high enough to negate any effect from the THC. Law enforcement spends millions each year on eradication of a beneficial plant. Great use of your tax money.

 

[Fidel Castro]

this shit ruins any outdoor crop around here. Its impossible to dent the ditchweed male population, so you cant get anything sensi....

if its true that this stuff came from hemp farms, I think that moving it to california would be a BAD idea, if it became feral it could ruin a a lot of grows

 

[VictoryGardener]

no I meant it contains .oooo350 or whatever.. I meant to say it contains almost none
its so small the DEA will almost un-schedule it

 

[Guest]

Haha,in high school and afterwards we used to buy a car with a HUGE trunk and go to belleville or Maryville Kansas,or several other small Nebraska towns,fill our trunk with buds,and go sell it to the blacks in D.C for their "loveboat",hell spray phencyclidine on anything it'll kick your ass,we just saved them a whole lotta money lol.Us whities smoked it on parsley but the inner city folk had to have the "loveboat",suited us nicely lol.I got busted in Maryville Kansas when I was 17,they fed me lectured me and sent me in my way.Stopped in the mid eighties,grew up plus it got hot,helicoptors and such.Beautiful plants to see growing,buds the length and girth of the hulks bicept lol.Boy this brings back memories.Big trunks and buds with mealy bugs lol

 

[Guest]

This stuff is everywhere around me. There's probably 300+ in my backyard alone and I live in the city. There's a field of 1000's just a few blocks away. Very purple/reddish, very crystaly and smell very fruity but buds are very airy and stretched along 10-15' of stem.

J.

 

[Guest]

Could this shit even be tumbled for what is there? Anyone tried to hash the ditch assuming it's not sprayed or poisoned?

J.

 

[Guest]

It wouldnt be worth the time,it was bred during WWII for rope and parachutes and thc was excluded according to the cop that busted me and grew up there,it's beautiful to see,worthless for thc content.Shit it was growing at the steps to the jail and the courthouse in Maryville Kansas,it's all over.

 

[Guest]

I lived in Grand Island Neb in the 80s. I had an acre growing in my back yard , pollen from that crap drove me crazy.

 

[Guest]

the corn fields in the county next to the county i live in was used during WW II to grow hemp for rope and whatever else.so occationally you will see hemp growing in the ditches.
pretty cool to see it growing but why bother to spend the energy converting it to anything...unless your into headaches.

 

[Haps]

I tried to grow a hemp hybred that I found a few years ago, it had a mild stone, but the seeds had nothing when grown out. It is not the male pollen that is the issue, the males go way early, and are long done before our 12/12 cultivars even think about flowering. It is the hermi pollen that is the problem, it persists throughout the summer.

It is possible for hemp to have a decent thc level, studies done at the U of I showed up to 7% thc in plants that had been stressed at several points in the growth cycle. Also, if you take this seed to the equator, in a couple generations, it will develop more thc as well, {I ain't proved that, OK]. It is still sativa.
H

 

[Pops]

The older varieties from WW2 had more THC content that the industrial hemp grown today in England, Canada and Germany. EU standards are 0.3% THC and U.S. standard,according to D.E.A. is 0.0, but the courts have issued a stay on the D.E.A. ruling as even they think the DEA is being absurd. There are legalization efforts under way to get hemp back in the U.S., but it is going to take a while. The DEA has already lost 3 times in court, so we are on the downhill slope now, it is just a matter of time.

 

[randude]

I remember when I was about 16 or so this fellow had done a road trip and passed Nebraska. Anyway, he filled our small town with that stuff and every once in awhile it would crop up at a party or something. I hated that period. We called the Nebraska No High.

 

[Guest]

^^^LOL^^^

Been There.
Thanks for the memories