Tech question

I asked this before but I am still not sure if I under stand.
What exactly is ruderalis? I've heard of it before w/ nothing but complaints.
I was also wondering, if it is not a good species why are the seed company selling seeds with the ruderalis bred into the plants?

Ruderalis is an autoflowering cannabis plant which is usually crossed to make an autoflowering hybrid. In basic terms, they may cross a indica plant which has a medical stone with a ruderalis plant, which autoflowers to make an indica/ruderalis hybrid which acts like the indica but autoflowers and does not need a photoperiod. I am by no means an expert but this is the jist of it.

Many companies sell the ruderalis hybrids because some people want to grow auto flowering plants. They tend to be smaller and do not require a photoperdiod change. In my experience, which isnt much. I have found autoflowering plants to be a little on the small side and do not produce good bud however a large number of people would dissagree with me. Its all about personal preference.


Hope this helps.

i agree completely

Ruderalis is its own separate species of cannabis. It is a wild plant that basically is a weed (no pun intended) it has a very high fiber content and little THC content, so on its own it is not something that anyone would want to grow for smoking. However it flowers naturally without any change in photoperiod (it will flower even under 24hrs of light). Cannabis breeder take advantage of this by breeding it with commercial strains of pot (your sativas and indicas), the result is a hybrid of the two that reatains most of the potency of the sativa or indica and the ability to flower regaurdless of light period of the ruderalis. Many people like them because you can plant it and no matter what the conditions it will flower and finish sometimes as quick as 70 days from seed. The only drawback is that they tend to be less potent than the strains without the ruderalis genes, but they are getting better with every new cross. I hope this answers your question.

or subspecies, legally, and according to most botanists

gobbly said:

or subspecies, legally, and according to most botanists

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I think I may have misunderstood. Is that link having to do with ruderalis? If so, what am I looking at as I think I may have misread?

I was just correcting something in the proceeding post which was mostly academic. Indica, Sativa, and Ruderalis are classified as subspecies. At one point there was a debate about this, though it mostly seemed spurred by those seeking to circumvent the language of laws, but in the end botanists pretty much all agreed that it didn't classify as different species, but were subspecies of cannabis. Doesn't really matter to the usefulness of the info given which is all great info, but worth pointing out