Why would someone sneak onto private property and risk being arrested, shot, or bitten for a bad end product? Illegal grows would be better off done inside an enclosed structure or deep in the woods on public land. Most people will just buy it though. Most people don't want to put up with such hassles.
Some big reasons why people aren't going to try sneaking their plants in with industrial hemp...
* Industrial hemp is grown in tight groupings. The idea is to choke out weeds under the canopy and give the plants slim stalks by crowding them together. The resulting yield on a THC-laden plant would be horrible. Hunt down the video "Hemp for Victory" from the 1940s on Youtube. You can see how industrial hemp is grown.
* A female plant will likely be pollinated by lots of male hemp plants and turned to garbage (THC wise). Check out pictures of pollinated females and look how much THC flower material there is among the seed bundles. It's negligible and of dubious quality if fully pollinated. It's why indoor growers try really hard to catch all the male plants. Male plants can pollinate females miles away under the right conditions.
* Any uninvited transplants will likely stick out like a sore thumb due to visible genetic differences. "Wonder why that one is only 3 feet tall?..." or "Wonder why that one is a different color?..." or "Wonder why the leaves look so different?..." Transplants would have to be on the outside of the patch to gain access before harvesting machines came in. So any visible differences would really stick out.
There are more reasons but those are some big ones that make sneaking plants in with industrial hemp fields very unproductive and a bad idea.
Submitted by Anonymous () on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 17:59.
Why would someone sneak onto
Why would someone sneak onto private property and risk being arrested, shot, or bitten for a bad end product? Illegal grows would be better off done inside an enclosed structure or deep in the woods on public land. Most people will just buy it though. Most people don't want to put up with such hassles.
Some big reasons why people aren't going to try sneaking their plants in with industrial hemp...
* Industrial hemp is grown in tight groupings. The idea is to choke out weeds under the canopy and give the plants slim stalks by crowding them together. The resulting yield on a THC-laden plant would be horrible. Hunt down the video "Hemp for Victory" from the 1940s on Youtube. You can see how industrial hemp is grown.
* A female plant will likely be pollinated by lots of male hemp plants and turned to garbage (THC wise). Check out pictures of pollinated females and look how much THC flower material there is among the seed bundles. It's negligible and of dubious quality if fully pollinated. It's why indoor growers try really hard to catch all the male plants. Male plants can pollinate females miles away under the right conditions.
* Any uninvited transplants will likely stick out like a sore thumb due to visible genetic differences. "Wonder why that one is only 3 feet tall?..." or "Wonder why that one is a different color?..." or "Wonder why the leaves look so different?..." Transplants would have to be on the outside of the patch to gain access before harvesting machines came in. So any visible differences would really stick out.
There are more reasons but those are some big ones that make sneaking plants in with industrial hemp fields very unproductive and a bad idea.