Ok… Bees carry pollen does that mean bees can take male pollen from somewhere else and bring it to a different plant?
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We can’t survive without them!
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I’m not killing them… It was just a question… I don’t mind the seeds …
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That is how it works …that is why bees are so important to our ecosystem. Without them we are doomed!
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I get all my seeds from my neighbor. I find out what he is growing and I grow a male I would like to cross with it and when he is ready I chop him and shake him over the fence. After he harvests I get all the seeds I need!
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that’s how bees work last I checked…
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The simple answer is yes. The longer answer is I don’t think bees do much if anything for pot. Reason is, they like sweet smelling plants, I have seen a bee or two around my pot in the summer, but they just fly around and “investigate” and don’t ever land, then they fly off.
And then there is the methods of pollenation…pot is a wind blown pollinator, not a bee pollination plant. That is one of the reasons that pot males are way taller, the pollen drops off and falls on the females below, and the seeds are drop cultivation…meaning that birds and bugs don’t move them around, they fall off and then both male and female plants grow in the same spot allowing the males to pollinate the females in close proximity. And the last thing is pot pollen doesn’t live long. It quickly dies.
Marty
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when I did research about cannabis pollination it can travel in the wind very very far depending on RH wind speed etc…10 or more miles…
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Agree, that is what I said, and if you investigate further you will find out that pot pollen doesn’t maintain it viability very long. An hour isn’t long. It is very susceptible to high humidity. And a mild 10 mph wind will do that in an hour.
And I was discussing bees and pot pollen. And well I did say it was airborne not bee pollinated. Lets say you had a field full of hemp, 10 miles away from your “grow” and there was a 25 mph wind blowing and the field was in full flower, you would probably wind up with a garden full of pollinated plants if the wind was blowing in the right direction, meanwhile the bees are flitting in and out of the cucumber plant flowers. lol
Marty
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ROFLMAO
Marty
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I’ve read where people have had this exact issue in Colorado
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not all genetics are equal and some things one would think crosses well does the opposite and you get worst than where you started…
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More than just there. Hemp is now legal as a crop USA wide.
Marty
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For sure, just recall reading about it being a particular issue there.
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crazy and interesting question. Here is a bit of science about male pollination:
Bees will collect cannabis pollen but are generally not attracted to the female flowers to contribute to pollination.
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Well that’s all fine and dandy Chris, but I guarantee you that a hemp farmer with a few hundred or thousand acres of hemp doesn’t give a damn about your patch in the backyard lol. He is after two things, fiber for the industry that uses it, and seed for making oils and edible flours.
Marty
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Crazy and interesting question for sure. Here’s a bit of science on it: male cannabis plants produce pollen that can be collected by bees, but female cannabis flowers don’t produce nectar or have the kind of scent bees are typically drawn to. So while bees can collect and move cannabis pollen around, they’re not major contributors to pollination since they aren’t really attracted to the female plants in the first place.
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Actually they are somewhat attracted to the female cannabis plant, but not sure in what capacity, curiosity, or scent. I have observed them flying around my female flowers, and occasionally do land, but it didn’t seem like it was for the normal function of pollination as you see them do on other flowers.
I think the terpenes in certain strains attracts them minimally, but they don’t go about the normal movements like when pollinating. On the male end of things I have never grown a male outdoors to watch their behavior.
None of this surprises me as the cannabis plant is a wind pollination species.
Marty
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