Ruderalis lines come from the far north, where extremely long summer days that shorten fast before and early first frost make the long-flowering and photoperiod-sensitive habits of the indicas and sativas a death sentence. They produce trace amounts of psychoactive chemicals and aren't worth growing for anything but hemp, but as breeders they have more value. These Siberian ruderalis lines have been bred into more traditional 'drug' lines to introduce the autoflowering trait, and then stabilized into the lines we know as Lowryders.
Under very specific circumstances, autoflowering is very desirable- for example, if you live in the very high latitudes, or if you would like to run a perpetual crop but only have a single room in your house to do so, or if you want to start them indoors in February and have a harvest in by May, and run 2 or even 3 crops per growing season, depending on its length.
In general, however, the very limited variety of auto strains, and the fact that you can't propagate them asexually, makes me not like them.
stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on . Ruderalis alrite peeps, whilst reading on UKCIA - UK Cannabis Internet Activists - Legalise Cannabis! a wikid uk cannabis activist site i came across this type of cannabis plant, Ruderalis. well the name at least. it said cannabis plants can be divided into sativa indica and Ruderalis as its three main subtypes of thc proucing plants. i was just wondering if anyone new anythign about these types of the plants and wether any strains where commercially produced from its category, becuase up until a few Rating: 5