Feral Plants

To begin with, I'm well aware of all the hemp that grows across this state as well as others, and I know that it generally doesn't have the psychoactive properties most people desire to make it worth their time...

As for ripping someone elses crop, I know for certain this is a wild patch that grows back every year, there are both male and female plants visible, no one sexes them, and this shit grows in the middle of fields, hundred or more plants at least, and all I can say is it is a hardy fuckin' plant, because there is so much competition around it...

A friend of mine told me about this spot out int he country, and I checked it out. You can't see them from the road... but once you see one, you see 10 more... There were at least a hundred or more plants around us, most of them 5-6 ft tall but there were several that looked to be pushing 8 ft.

I could not find any male plants, because I was looking for GREEN males... Then my buddy pointed out a few golden, dying plants interspersed through the field. Upon closer examination, I saw a little pot leaf attached to one still, and I smushed the pods between my fingers...pollen.

So the males pollinate the females, they come to seed, which falls and then next year I'm guessing the plant takes hold before the nearby vegetation can strangle it. There is a river nearby, but so much vegetation to compete with I'm amazed its thriving.

There are branches and buds sticking out on every plant, spiky looking leaves. Some of the plants grow so close together and so thick it looks more like a bush, while the loners grow tall and a little more spindly. The only thing is, the buds are covered in seeds.

Now, the aforementioned friend also dried some out using heat/lamp, and I can tell you that if its hemp, it must be one of the extremely potent strains. One hookah bowl, three or four hits, and I was high. It was definitely not a dank buzz or even mids, but could this be because its still immature by two weeks, as well as the lack of curing?

The plants are also quite topheavy, the main bud usually causes the plant to bend over a little. After touching some of the buds, I could feel my fingers sticking together. Quite a few of the plants, seed pods as well, had glistening white hairs or an area where it looked like trichomes Several orange hairs could be noticed growing among the seeds and especially at the very tip of the bud.

Now, the above is all just a theoretical setting I came up with, of course.
Would you judge it to be feral hemp, and therefore not worth the risk of procuring it, or would you judge it to be at least worth the hash you could make?

It would be worth planting both males and females of a known drug-grade strain that is also known to be hardy outdoors in your area in amongst the feral ones to improve the genetic line.

This is if you are 100% certain that no one tends these plants. I'd check back around harvest time to see.

Wow- thanks for the quick reply.

My friend said he is pretty sure no one goes, but I'll check closer to harvest time. I think the projected first frost is Sep. 25 here-- is two weeks long enough time for them to produce larger buds? I mean a lot of them are hunched over due to the buds, but they are so seedy its crazy... you can twirl a branch in your hands fast and seeds pop off.

A lot of them are already popping open and falling to the ground, and I've never read anything about what a marijuana plant does towards the end of the flowering season, other than make buds. Is it normal for marijuana plants to be heavily seeded, and then lose them gradually as it gets colder and closer to harvest time?

One last question, a little off the topic at hand though, but about wild marijuana nonetheless... So man's been getting high for recreation or spiritual use for 11,000 years or so... Well wouldn't most of the plants he found, being in the wild, contain little THC? I'm guessing once we started farming he could grow and domesticate it, but it would still contain seeds and be pollinated in order for it to be grown the next year, right?

Also... since I found male plants among them, already having released pollen, do you think they are just extremely seedy females, or somehow became hermaphrodites?

do U have any pix of them.

and here is what I would do go there at the end of there flowering cycle and take all the buds U see I mean all of them. dry then cure them.
then next year is go out to the spot where u found them and take out the males cuz then u'll have much better buds with little or no seeds.

well good luck with what ever U do.:thumbsup:

I like Stinky's Idea:thumbsup: next year get some good genetics and plant them there in the spring. Come back a few weeks after June 21 and weed out all the natural males leaving only males from the good genetics to pollinate the females. If you keep doing this it will better the quality of the plants next year. Unfortunately you won't reap the benefit till the fall of 2010 at this point. Next do not show anyone the location of this plot!! If you keep it to yourself it will produce allot of buds for years to come. Give away the location and it will disappear.

As for you saying the quality of the smoke is good. You were right that MJ grown for hemp is very low quality when it comes to smoke. So the only scenario I can come up with is someone planted good quality seeds years ago and was abandoned for what ever reason, so they just went wild after that. MJ is a weed and will do that if left alone for years.

JG