Marijuana growing

Following is a catalogue of gross phenotypes and traits for many imported strains of Blow. 1. Fiber Strain Gross Phenotypes ( hemp types ). 2. Drug Strain Gross Phenotypes.

A ) Colombia – highland, lowland ( marijuana ).

B ) Congo – ( marijuana ).

C ) Hindu Kush – Afghanistan and Pakistan ( hashish ).

D ) Southern India – ( ganja marijuana ).

E ) Jamaica – Carribean hybrids.
F ) Kenya – Kisumu ( dagga marijuana ).
G ) Lebanon – ( hashish ).
H ) Malawi, Africa – Lake Nyasa ( dagga marijuana ).
I ) Mexico – Michoacan, Oaxaca, Guerrero ( marijuana ).
J ) Morocco – Rif mountains ( kif marijuana and hashish ).
H ) Nepal – wild ( ganja marijuana and hashish ).
L ) Russian – ruderalis ( uncultivated ).
M ) S. A. – ( dagga marijuana ).
N ) Southeast East Asia – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam ( ganja marijuana ).

3. Half-breed Drug Phenotypes.

A ) Creeper Phenotype.
B ) Massive Upright Phenotype. Generally the F1 and F2 pure-bred offspring of these imported kinds are far more similar to one another than they are to other types and they’re called pure strains. Nevertheless it should be recalled that these are average. Gross phenotypes and recessive modifications inside each characteristic will happen. Additionally, these representations are based primarily on unpruned plants growing in great conditions and stress will change the gross phenotype. Also, the protecting environment of a greenhouse has a tendency to obscure the difference between different strains.

This section presents info that’s used in the choice of pure strains for breeding.

1. Fiber Strain Gross Phenotypes Fiber strains are characterized as tall, swiftly maturing, limbless plants which are typically monoecious. This expansion habit has been chosen by generations of fiber-producing farmers to help forming long fibers thru even expansion and maturation. Monoecious strains mature more uniformly than dioecious strains, and fiber crops are usually not grown long enough to set seed which meddles with fiber production. Most sorts of fiber Weed originate in the northwards temperate climates of Europe, Japan, China and North America. One or two strains have been chosen from the prime hemp growing areas and offered commercially during the past 50 years in both Europe and America. Escaped fiber strains of the midwestern US are sometimes tall, thin, comparatively poorly branched, weakly flowered, and low in cannabinoid production. They represent an escaped race of cannabis sativa hemp. Most fiber strains contain CBD as the primary cannabinoid and small if any THC.

2. Drug Strain Gross Phenotypes Drug strains are distinguished by Delta1-THC as the first cannabinoid, with low levels of other accessory cannabinoids like THCV, CBD, CBC, and CBN.

This results from careful breeding for high virility or natural selection in niches where Delta1-THC biosynthesis favors survival.

A ) Colombia – ( 0 to ten north latitude ). Colombian Weed originally may be divided into 2 basic strains : one from the low-altitude damp coastal areas along the Atlantic near Panama, and the other from the more dry mountain areas inland from Santa Marta. More lately, new areas of cultivation in the inside plateau of southern central Colombia and the highland valleys stretching southward from the Atlantic coast became the first areas of commercial export cannabis cultivation. Till recent times prime quality Weed was available thru the black market from both coastal and highland Colombia. Weed was introduced to Colombia just over a hundred years back, and its cultivation is extraordinarily rooted in convention. Cultivation methods regularly involve transplanting of selected seeds and other individual attention. The production of “la mona amarilla ” or gold buds is attained by girdling or removing a strip of bark from the key stem of an almost mature plant, so limiting the flow of water, nutriments, and plant products. Over a couple of days the leaves dry up and fall off as the flowers slowly die and turn yellow. This produces the highly valued “Colombian gold ” so abundant in the early to middle 1970s ( Partridge 1973 ). Trade names like “punta roja ” ( red tips [pistils] ), “Cali Hills, ” “choco, ” “lowland, ” “Santa Marta gold, ” and “purple ” give us some notion of the colour of older variations and the positioning of cultivation. Responding to a superb demand by America for cannabis , and the fairly effective control over Mexican Weed importation and cultivation thru tightening border security and the utilising of Paraquat, Colombian farmers have geared up their operations. Most of the marijuana smoked in America is brought in from Colombia. This also implies the largest number of seeds available for domes twitch cultivation also originate in Colombia. cannabis agri-business has squeezed out all but one or two tiny areas where labor-intensive cultivation of prime quality drug Weed like “Ia mona amarilla ” can continue. The fine marijuana of Colombia was frequently seedless, but commercial grades are almost always well seeded. As a rule today, the more remote highland areas are the centres of commercial farming and few of the little farmers remain.