Marijuana "outside of the box"

[Internut]

Had an idle thought in the wake of today's Supreme Court decision banning medical marijuana...

I am not sure, since I never tried to grow it, exactly how "hardy" the marijuana plant is. Is it "weed-like" or does it require careful cultivation to grow?

If it can easily grow on its own, wouldn't it be interesting if some group of people decided to just spread the seeds all over (in the appropriate climate area of course). Let these plants grow in fields, parks, lawns, etc etc. I understand they are pretty decorative as well.

[merwin]

1. Given the proper location, they don't need to be tended to in order to

grow. That would be a very fun thing to do until you got the feds knocking at your door.

[Zhade]

2. It'll grow just about everywhere, and in fact used to.

A modern-day Johnny Happyseed may be needed - make them waste so much time and money ripping up the plants that they either 1) hire a lot of people (yay, jobs!) or 2) give up.

[wicket]

6. Johnny Hempseed:

http://www.johnnymarijuanaseed.com/legendof_jms.htm

:D

[wicket]

3. It's already going on:

http://www.johnnymarijuanaseed.com/legendof_jms.htm

[tridim]

4. People have been spreading the seed forever

It'll grow anywhere. The problem is polination and people picking it too early. At least that's what I heard. :)

[Asgaya Dihi]

5. It's hardy

They still have stands of wild hemp in parts of the US from when we grew it in WWII to replace lost sources of material. More or less it's a weed. To get good results from it you'd probably need to take better care of it than that though.

[Selteri]

7. It's really easy to grow

and even better, it still grows wild all over certain places in the US because there is too much of it for anyone to be able to get all of it.

A few years back in Arkansas I drove by seeing tons of wild hemp and Marijuana.

Around that same time they had a 'problem' in Colorado where they found in one of the valleys in the mountains a veritable forest of MJ growing wild.

[htuttle]

People have been doing that for years

Heck, I think High Times ran a campaign to do just that years ago.

I think it's been interbreeding with the native hemp here in WI for a few decades, so that our ditch weed is getting a little better as the years go along.

It's an extremely hardy plant. Very 'weed-like'. To get good dope out of it, however, it does like a little TLC (quarantine of the female plants to keep them seedless, plenty of water early on when it's gaining weight and height, little bit of enviro stress around August to bring the sparkly resins out, keeping the damned deer away from it, etc...).

At least that's what I've heard, anyway... :evilgrin:

[SteppingRazor]

8. Kinda both

Yes, weed will grow anywhere just like, well, a weed. But after a few generations of not being carefully cultivated it will lose potency.
In order to maintain high levels of THC, it requires constant care and the administration of the proper nutrients, preferably in a controled setting such as indoor hydroponics (not that I would know about these things)

[libertypirate]

9. It will grow anywhere...

There are examples on the internet of people using incandesent bulbs as their source of light to grow it. It will grow anywhere which means it will grow everywhere.

[patrice]

10. Hemp is also good food.

Hemp protein powder mixes well with almost anything savory or sweet.

[firefox]

11. The term is "Overgrow the Government"

Your thought is nothing new. "Overgrow the Government" is the reason for Overgrow.com- http://overgrow.com/ It is one of the largest cannabis cyber-communities on the Internet.

Growing laughing grass outdoors eliminates a lot of the problems you have indoors with mites. Indoor problems include an electric bill, moisture, and of course lighting.

It could be said the fundaMentalist do not like cannabis, because they have sex. It is only the female plant that is valuable for its bud. Indoors where resources are scarce, the males are killed off so that the female will never produce seed that robs it of its energy so to speak. Pot without seeds is sinsemilla and it is a good sign of genetics and care.

Mexican pot is planted like corn and not very well attended. It will have seeds and this in no way would be what the medical community would think of as medical marijuana or clinical cannabis.

The banning of hemp of course is absurd. But for people that grow outdoors, they are glad that the industrial cousin is banned. If there were hemp plants around, they would pollinate with some choice genetics to bring a not so wonderful result. Not only would it produce seeds, you would have a bastardized result.

[Kazak]

12. They don't call it "weed" for nuthin'...

;)

[ksilvas]

13. Was just talken about this yesterday

I always thought that just growing it in a proper location and
leave it. Dont go back. Repeat as neccessary until anti marijuana laws
become moot. The only problem I see is that most weed now
is hydro grown cuttings and finding viable outdoor harty seeds would
be difficult.