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Friend growing suspected cannabis plants

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Krayola · 31/01/2024 22:30

My friend is a keen gardener and buys all the gardening mags on subscription. Sends off to gardeners world for seeds etc, attends gardening show at NEC

She often gives me random plants to grow but I’m not very good at it, forget to water them etc and they die. DH often takes over as he quite likes growing stuff too.

Anyway a while ago she split some seeds with us - said she’d got them off her mother in law who had got them off a neighbour. I started growing them in my office upstairs. After they had sprouted DH comes in looking at them with suspicion saying they look like weed. I laughed it off as my friend couldn’t be further from a cannabis growing wrong ‘un.

A month or so went by and DH said “these are 100% cannabis, the whole room stinks of it. I asked friend if her plants had grown and she said they were growing well and she thinks they’re some kind of tomato plant.

DH insisted we get rid of ours saying they were definitely cannabis, absolutely reeked of cannabis, looked like cannabis - they are cannabis.

Friend is still growing hers and now they seem very obviously cannabis to me too. I said to her jokingly “you know those plants look and smell remarkably like cannabis!” And she said she was looking forward to getting tomatoes off them but they didn’t fruit last year!! It’s so funny but at the same time she really needs to get rid of them doesn’t she?! She genuinely thinks they’re tomato plants!

OP posts:
NoBinturongsHereMate · 23/04/2024 00:48

The seeds are quite different as well as the plants.

MariaLuna · 23/04/2024 00:54

she might even live in parts of Europe where it is entirely legal to grow weed.

Yep! I got talking to a guy once whose parents both worked for the police and had the legal five allowed plants in their garden. 😅

LauderSyme · 23/04/2024 01:02

Krayola · 31/01/2024 22:46

No do they work? I got a dog breed one and it was useless! Kept saying everything was a cross breed husky

I have a plant identifier app called Picture This and it definitely works. I'd say it's over 99% accurate.

A family member used to grow cannabis and told visitors it was Middle Eastern herbs. She was believed for a long time! She wasn't a wrong'un either.

HirplesWithHaggis · 23/04/2024 01:08

oakleaffy · 23/04/2024 00:35

They must be ruderalis types? -if they haven't a photoperiod?

I believe ruderalis is involved, yes, especially in the early hybrids. But the range of varieties now available as automatics are a long way from ditch weed. Some varieties flower as early as six weeks!

OneTC · 23/04/2024 14:59

Autos are often really disappointing

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