genetics question

I just got to wondering... are there any plants (not cannabis) that share a genus with pot? If so, you could breed them together and get sterile hybrids, and that means no reproduction. I know for instance, that a horse and a donkey make a mule, and mules are sterile because their parents were different species (just like lions and tigers make ligers!!!)

soooo if theres a plant that meets these qualifications and would be safe (dare I say, even pleasurable?) to smoke on its own... we should breed it with pot to make an unfertilizable halfbreed.

Just toying with the idea, but who knows, it could be something worth doing.

By definition, no. Cannabis is the genus and encompases 3 species: C. sativa, C. indica (with a subspecies C. indica afghani that is still being argued over), and C. ruderalis.
If we want to get general and say that C. ruderalis isn't pot (it's not a drug-grade cannabis species), then yes, you can breed it. That's where LowRyder came from. C. ruderalis has the interesting trait of flowering based on calendar age, rather than season.

If you bump up one rung on the classification ladder, you find the other living member of the family cannabacea, which is Humulus lupulus, the noble beer-hop. Cannabis can be GRAFTED onto hops, but I don't believe that they have ever been reproduced sexually.

Hope that helps.

Stinky has the goods :thumbsup: ... a lot of grafting experimenting went on with hops/cannabis, trying to create a 'new' species, that might be technically 'legal' ... while the grafting 'took' alright, none of the psychoactive properties showed up in the hops plants ... cannabis is pretty unique in nature ... :jointsmile:

im glad i joined a site where people can answer all my questions and speculation. thanks stinky!