I'm thinking about establish a healthy, genetically diverse, self-sustaining population of some Himalayan wild type cannabis. I tell myself that if ditchweed is already growing freely in our country, it would be good to use it. As I read somewhere, many states like Montana and others have a lot of microenvironments similar to the Hindu Kush Mountains. Lush and fertile river valleys, intense sun and long summer days ... Ditch weed comes mostly from Russian plants grown for fiber and seed.
The Real Seed Company offers for example 'Kurgan' or 'Tatarstan', such plants are extremely weed and I think ditchweed has them as ancestors, they are adapted to short summers and freezing winters, they will not waste time creating trichomes, just bloom quickly and reproduce . But in less extreme conditions it could be something else, an example is 'Siberia' which can face competition from other plants and stay in nature and also create quite good resin. So are 'Kaghan' or 'Mansehra' and others. They have it in their genes, if you want, you can already select relatively high-quality phenotypes from them. It is such a reserve in nature, it maintains many favorable genes for humanity and no one has to worry about it. Modern hybrids are becoming more and more homogeneous and, unfortunately, even in the original areas, they are pushing these wild ancestors.
I tell myself that it would not be bad for these original very adaptable plants with a huge range of genes to be planted in other parts of the world, where they could thrive and where they would create a self-sufficient and independent reserve. If we enriched 'Ditchweed' with the genes of these plants, many of them could be attached to the population and thus preserved. Ditchweed lacks many genes - lost them in adapting to extreme climatic conditions in Russia and elsewhere and then in breeding for fiber production. Wild type plants from the Himalayas could 'replenish' these genes and make ditchweed a more stable and useful plant, as I said, I see it as a healthy reserve for any breeding, despite having low THC production, somewhere in the genotype it will be equally hidden even if it does not manifest itself, and if one needs, one can selectively breed and find it. For some a waste of time, for others a very interesting topic. People who don't appreciate wild cannabis are, in my view, very short-sighted. Ditchweed will remain here with its genetic richness and adaptability for future generations, regardless of the political situation and various human whims.
The Real Seed Company offers for example 'Kurgan' or 'Tatarstan', such plants are extremely weed and I think ditchweed has them as ancestors, they are adapted to short summers and freezing winters, they will not waste time creating trichomes, just bloom quickly and reproduce . But in less extreme conditions it could be something else, an example is 'Siberia' which can face competition from other plants and stay in nature and also create quite good resin. So are 'Kaghan' or 'Mansehra' and others. They have it in their genes, if you want, you can already select relatively high-quality phenotypes from them. It is such a reserve in nature, it maintains many favorable genes for humanity and no one has to worry about it. Modern hybrids are becoming more and more homogeneous and, unfortunately, even in the original areas, they are pushing these wild ancestors.
I tell myself that it would not be bad for these original very adaptable plants with a huge range of genes to be planted in other parts of the world, where they could thrive and where they would create a self-sufficient and independent reserve. If we enriched 'Ditchweed' with the genes of these plants, many of them could be attached to the population and thus preserved. Ditchweed lacks many genes - lost them in adapting to extreme climatic conditions in Russia and elsewhere and then in breeding for fiber production. Wild type plants from the Himalayas could 'replenish' these genes and make ditchweed a more stable and useful plant, as I said, I see it as a healthy reserve for any breeding, despite having low THC production, somewhere in the genotype it will be equally hidden even if it does not manifest itself, and if one needs, one can selectively breed and find it. For some a waste of time, for others a very interesting topic. People who don't appreciate wild cannabis are, in my view, very short-sighted. Ditchweed will remain here with its genetic richness and adaptability for future generations, regardless of the political situation and various human whims.
