Question .. Can cannabis pollinate a non cannabis plant or vice versa?

[Bud Jones]

My girlfriend asked me .. She's a little nutty , I love her to death but I didn't have an answer other than the chromosomes don't line up for an ovule , egg or, pistil to be fertilized .. Anyone ? Thx

 

[Tynehead Tom]

it's not such an odd question it seems..... my wife asked me the same thing just recently LOL
I would go way out on a limb and say not likely

 

[Bud Jones]

it's not such an odd question it seems..... my wife asked me the same thing just recently LOL
I would go way out on a limb and say not likely

thx for validating what I tried to explain to her .. Lol

 

[Weezard]

In short, no.

Aloha,
Weeze

 

[ZIO GREEN]

Can happen,but only with her cousin the hop

 

[Chimera]

Can happen,but only with her cousin the hop

Not true, cannabis has never been hybridized to hops, and the very different genome sizes make it very, very unlikely.

 

[igrowone]

the answer seems to be no, but there is a route i'm curious about
can cannabis can be grafted onto a hops stalk?
one strange thing that can turn up in grafting is something called a 'sport', the graft mutates and something new emerges
it's quite rare to happen, but it would be wild to get such a thing with pollen, perhaps pollen that has both cannabis and hop genetics

 

[WelderDan]

the answer seems to be no, but there is a route i'm curious about
can cannabis can be grafted onto a hops stalk?
one strange thing that can turn up in grafting is something called a 'sport', the graft mutates and something new emerges
it's quite rare to happen, but it would be wild to get such a thing with pollen, perhaps pollen that has both cannabis and hop genetics

You're thinking of a graft chimaera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graft-chimaera

 

[igrowone]

You're thinking of a graft chimaera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graft-chimaera

thank you, i think that would be a 'no' to my question

 

[Tonygreen]

I haven't found anything... was looking at it as one way of trying to produce double haploids ha!

Have you done any work with irradiated pollen Chim?

 

[WelderDan]

thank you, i think that would be a 'no' to my question

I was told the two can be grafted by someone that allegedly did so. But I did not see it, so take that with a grain of salt.

Maybe Chimera can clarify if Hops and Cannabis can indeed be grafted.

 

[Tynehead Tom]

years ago I had some old hippy booklet about growing weed. It was like a comic book. I don't remember who wrote it or where it got too. it had a small chapter on grafting hops and cannabis. never tried it or investigated. wish I still had that book..... would be a good chuckle.

 

[igrowone]

i have read credible posts that hops and cannabis can be grafted
but there isn't much value to it
a cannabis top on a hop base still looks like cannabis
although you might be able to graft in a side branch, where the cannabis branch would be obscured by the remaining hop vine
but these grafts need to be done on young plants, otherwise the grafts fail

 

[rod58]

from the book ..THE CONOISSEUR'S HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA ..by WILLIAM DANIEL DRAKE JR quite a bit written with illustrations on grafting weed to hops ...

 

[Tonygreen]

pretty cool rod.

 

[mr.brunch]

So I have been told, you can graft a hop vine onto a cannabis rootstock but there is little point, as all the valuable chemicals are made in the buds, not the root

 

[Weezard]

years ago I had some old hippy booklet about growing weed. It was like a comic book. I don't remember who wrote it or where it got too. it had a small chapter on grafting hops and cannabis. never tried it or investigated. wish I still had that book..... would be a good chuckle.

Google Bill Drake. If I remember right.
Edit:
Never mind, too late.
It had gems like this;




Cut my cannabis teeth on that book.

Aloha,
Weeze

 

[Jhhnn]

So I have been told, you can graft a hop vine onto a cannabis rootstock but there is little point, as all the valuable chemicals are made in the buds, not the root

You're right. It was a common mis-perception years ago, however, so I'm sure people tried grafting hops & maybe other tops onto cannabis roots.

 

[Huckster79]

But if it could be done... I may go back to having a few beers! But the hop the Brewers use is the bud of that plant is it not? It's not the root...

 

[Tynehead Tom]

from the book ..THE CONOISSEUR'S HANDBOOK OF MARIJUANA ..by WILLIAM DANIEL DRAKE JR quite a bit written with illustrations on grafting weed to hops ...View Image

yes, that's the book! man that brings back some serious flashbacks LOL
that and ram dass , "be here now" , man my 20's were just drenched in thc, lsd and pcylocybin hahaha and some funny readin