How many thousands/millions of years did cannabis lineage split?

[frostymantin]

You know how scientists can get DNA and say... dogs and wolves split xyz thousand years ago...

how long ago did Cannabis split into ruderalis, indica, and sativa, and how long ago did brazil/thai/afghan branches split?

One day we will know the answer to that, perhaps one of you has a DNA sequencing company and you could have some spliffs and tell us...

Is it like 1 million years, when neanderthals and humans split, or whas it 20 000 years ago, when humans might have started to carry seeds of plants around the planet?

Did cannabis go through the bering straight just by growing? cos i dont think it did! it 's too cold. did the humans take it around the planet when they traveled? how did brazil weed become a sative, and thai too, but afghans got an indica?

 

[purple_man]

perhaps one day we might find out...

the last part, was a climatical addaptation... basicly, where there is plenty of sun and 12/12 year round, youll find sativas, the further you move away the higher the "indica" traits evolved, due to having to cope with environmental factors (photoperiodism, light intensity, temperature, ...), best example for that is countries who have lowland indicas and highland sativas...

blessss

 

[Granger2]

I believe cannabis starts adapting to climate etc. from the first generation on. You find thin buds in tropical [high humidity] climates, and up in the mountains with thin dry air, you find fat tight buds, for example. An adaptation to fungal attack. My opinion is that they will adapt in a relatively short time without human interference. DNA testing would sort this out. -granger

 

[Alone]

From the beginning of marijuanas creation, there was a split. One was Indica in the Afghan regions and Atlantic/Pacific Northern most parts where there was a shorter, colder growing season. Sativas were born in tropical regions such as Jamaica, Columbia, etc. etc.
Pacific/Atlantic southern most equatorial parts.
Basically, the closer to the equator you get, the more sativa dominant you got...when nature was pretty much untainted by mans influence.

 

[jayjayfrank]

i thought it was indica first?

rudaralis->indica->sativa

i thought genetically there is no difference between indica and sativa?

it came from the north and moved south

marijuana did not have its drug properties less than 20,000 years ago or so i would guess.

cannabis never made it to the new world on the land bridge, that was 10-15,000 years ago. so atleast from then.

you are suppose to be able to graft cannabis onto hops. so i would start with hops and work forwards.

 

[TerpeneDream]

So...If they are all from one strain...

Would sativas have a more 'up' and ' energetic' high simply because they were closer to the equator? Maybe more sun = more energy? The density and structure thing makes sense, as Granger2 pointed out.

Cool thread!

 

[Granger2]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28034925/...-marijuana-stash-totally-busted/#.Uf_nPKywXCc

JayJay,
Are speculating? -granger

 

[jayjayfrank]

isnt that the story?

'from foraging for it in the mountain tops to cultivating it in the valley then exchanging it in trade'

what would be the other way it came about?


suppose we just start it at 10,000-12,000 years ago, what comes next?


i also think high up in the Peruvian and Chilean deserts within maybe 500 years or so we could find or make a 'new world land race indica'

just speculation