Canada BS Thread

Normal lighting at this latitude would give Hemp light from 6 am till 10 am... which is just about optimal. Next time I'm in a hemp field with a grower I'll take a picture. It grows exceedingly well here under irrigation and by controlling the water in a dry climate the quality is top notch. The same can be said of the potatoes here. We spray less for disease than almost anywhere else in the world because of our somewhat unique climate and isolation.

 

Nah. I'm just suggesting that I would think it wouldn't be a crazy jump for hemp growers, who have grown hemp for decades in some cases, to jump to weed production should the opportunity arise.

 

BTW don't forget that greenhouses here are shutting down due to the high costs of heating. IIRC some of the weed operations have moved underground to reduce those costs but field economics might win out in the end... it'll be interesting to see.

Then again it seems like self growing is becoming popular is some areas that weed is legal so maybe the field scale would just be a few fields for seed production with main production coming from greenhouse and home operations? It's possible.

 

Clones dude

 

Seems we have hit some sort of sweet spot..............lots of gardeners in here.

 

Not sure how one would remove the males efficiently in a large scale field operation, that could be the deal breaker.

 

haha hey, it's entirely possible that a plant or 10 happen to be growing somewhere that anybody frequents. geez could even be on anybody's property if living in rural area without even knowing...... woot haha

 

just quoting because i am just realizing you keep using the term 'hemp', excellent !!

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...n-s-first-medical-marijuana-grow-op-1.3074474

We have two large medical marijuana grow ops in my city as well, one site is using a former truck manufacturing plant.

 

this really is an interesting topic, glad i checked in here tonight.

 

There are currently 27 health canada licensed medical marijuana producers in canada. ontario has the most at 15, where bc has only 6 right now with 3rd in number being saskatchewan with 2. not the expected numbers imo!

 

meh, follows the population, and the local political climate. These sites still need to get local municipality business, power, etc. licenses.

 

Breed the males to be taller or shorter. Then by cutting at a certain height you eliminate what you don't want. That's the same way hybrid wheat is produced in Europe when people said that would be "impossible". It's actually very simple.

 

LOL...

Except I really do have large field Hemp experience

 

Huh. I could be wrong but I would think if you're removing males at harvest it's too late. From the little bit I've read the idea is to remove the males before they release their pollen so females don't waste energy producing seeds.

 

It's still doable. If you pick and breed the right varieties it wouldn't be too hard. You can also use GMO's or accelerated breeding to create a plant with infertile males. We do it all the time in Canola.

 

Yes

 

Boy there's some smart decisions and taxpayer dollars in action...
http://youtu.be/ZRMNyE0CZWc

 

I stopped watching after about a minute at the risk of getting stupider

 

That's usually how I feel watching most CBC glamour media on Trudumb 2.0