Marijuana Genetics

420Blunt's said:

marijuana is found on every continent except for antartica. and yes it is wild. ruderalis grows wild in americas. indica's and afganicas grow in europe and middle east wild. while sativa's grow naturally in asia.

i said vines are not applicable bc you can get a vegitable from some vines and you can even make rope out of some vines. you cant make it as strong or reliable rope as hemp. vines dont make clothes, medicine, oils, paper, food, etc. many other plants can but still not like marijuana can on an annual basis.

oh and if you didnt know marijuana has been in american since before columbus 'discovered' america. its one of the oldest living plants as well.

and as for bush vines? no -- they are vines that look like bushes in part of their life cycle

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They look like a bush but aren't, I see.
Define bush (no jokes please). Since bush and shrub are not a botanical terms but merely descriptive horticulture terms, then a plant that 'look like bushes' are in fact bushes by definition.

I never claimed cannabis wasn't very useful to man. How does that figure in to the fact that it isn't the fastest growing plant? Now cannabis still may be the fastest 'metabolism' but that is something a little harder to measure but I think the connection was that if it grows faster, then it must be metabolizing faster. You seem to want to eliminate vines from comparison. I will ask again, why? It is a plant. It is a eucaryote. What part of the world it is native to is also inconsequential to the discussion at hand.

The plant having a long history in the Americas does not make it native. C. indica and sativa sp. are considered by botanists to be native to parts of Asia and Europe. It's appearance in the Americas can be explained by human propagation. However, none of that matters since being native to America has nothing to do with being the fastest metabolizing plant.

BTW, in these types of discussions where terminology makes a difference, you should restrict use of the term 'marijuana' to female drug species, not hemp, ruderalis, etc.

420Blunt's meant the following (at least this is what I think he meant):

A vine, even though it grows very long very fast, still isn't the fastest growing plant. Growth is not measured in length, but in the build-up of complex structures. Thus cannabis outclasses vines because cannabis produces: a strong, resistant stem, many more and larger leaves, large flowers, tasty tasty resin, terpenes and cannabinoids and many other complex substances. Actually, simply the fact that cannabis does not rely on stabilizing objects (sticks, trees, stems) and opposes the force of gravity should set it in a higher class of growth than vines. This whole thing boils down to metabolism. The plant with the fastest metabolism, that can produce complex molecules and organized tissue fastest (=metabolism) is the fastest plant. This is why I consider and all textbooks that touch the matter of vegetable and eukaryote metabolism confirm that cannabis is the fastest growing living creature of higher organisation.

Again, this does not mean that I am right, it just means that the materials I have read state this.

thats pretty much it doc. thanks. anyways mindfuck this is way off topic of what this thread is about. i want to know what info ppl have on the genetics and structures of cannabis. my roommate is a doctor whos good at this type of stuff but we dont have a lot of info on cannabis or experiments on that level so... thats what we're looking for.

if anyone else has helpful comments or info that would be greatly appreciatted. if not please dont comment on this thread