Hollow Stem??

wow ty for all the replies and looks like I got a few diff opinions too! :thumbsup:

when i was allot younger we used to carve little and large pipes from cannabis main stems because they were hollow.

you could make a pipe virtually as long as the plant was high.

i think it does this because of the type of plant it is. not sure of the family.

most fast growing plants are the same from nettles to cowslip to bambo to grass stems etc. like scaffolding.

if the plant had to grow and fill in all the gaps it would take allot longer to grow tall. loosing the height fight to other weeds in the wild.

its possible that sativas show this trait more than indicas because of there growth characteristics.

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Originally Posted by ForgetClassC

Any hydroponic plant has hollow stems, due to the excess of water, the plant doesn't fill that space up with the capillarious(totally made that word up but heres the definition, and it makes sense, I think Websters should hit me up) the "meat" as you would call it, or the fibrous material inside the stem which transfers the water from roots to the rest of the plant without using osmosis, it simply wicks the moisture up, in a hydro plant, or I guess the strain your dealing with, the plant just has everything it needs and can do it easier than others, making it produce less meat. This could be wrong, but its what comes to mind when I thought about this, read it somewhere in school a bit ago.

-C

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I second this explanation, all my strains develope hollow stems
even my lower limbs used for cuttings are hollow

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