700 LH. I will try to give you my thoughts on the hemp dilemma. In history one of the sufferages the colonists complained to the British throne was the mandate the king imposed on the colonists to grow hemp, thus reducing food crops for the colonists settlements. There is now extreme concern about the genetic harm Hemp strains could present to these clandestine high octane THC and MDA strains grown for the pharmaceutical and entertainment industry. While it is true Nebraska ditch weed grows taller than corn, smoking the corn silk may do more for the head than the hemp would. Hence there is concern of the genetic dilution of the "90 proof" strains getting exposed to industrial ditch weed.
Horseschidt. I'm calling schenanigans! You should look at how the seed breeders do their work. There's not one bit of worry at all in the industry about hemp diluting the potency.
Seeds are not desirable for anything except growing into a plant. You don't smoke the seeds, they contain no THC. They're worthless, except to grow into a plant. They lower the value of your crop. The female plant is the one that produces the flower (buds) that are smoked or made into other products because they contain the THC. So you're saying that a farmer, who has his field of female plants pollenated by hemp, is going to then plant those seeds next year? No. The farmer wants a field of seedless females of a known genetic origin.
The farmer is going to grow next year's crop from clones or seeds of known genetic makeup (and those seeds will be feminized to only produce female). That's how this works for people that know how to make money from marijuana. You don't grow a field of some unknown genetic makeup unless you're a seed breeder and looking for new genetics to incorporate into your lineup. Because you might grow a field of bunk weed.
1 Rooster in the hen house and it's all over, spore can travel for miles be it from mold or MJ. Along with feminized genetic problems of hermaphrodites, they can be both sexes and ruin entire crops.
Most large scale commercial operations are indoors, where they control all aspects of the environment...from filtered air to timer controlled lighting. The crime involved in thieves showing up to steal farmers crops is fairly common on outdoor grows, and greenhouses and commercial warehouse space is more desirable..in legal states they employ security guards to curtail brazen thievery.
