When marijuana was legalized in my state (Oregon, USA), people who had been growing their own often decided it was easier to buy it at legal shops, and used plant lights became readily available for sale. I bought a very nice array from a neighbor (a retired engineer) and now use it to keep my few tender plants in the garage over winter. At the same time, the numerous shops formerly devoted to growers of "hydroponic vegetables" are starting to offer a wider range of general gardening products; the one near me has fruit trees on offer in its parking lot now. If this is a gateway drug into serious gardening, welcome all! Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA On 3/7/2017 8:15 AM, David Ehrlich wrote: > Back in the 60s, when I lived in San Francisco, Iplanted a marijuana seed in a pot in a window that got afternoon sun. The plant seemed happy despite the limitedlight. I only grew it out of curiosity,although eventually, curiosity satisfied, I did smoke it. A curious thing about marijuana is that althoughdioecious, its sex is not genetically determined: mine started off as male, producingstaminate flowers, but later it became female, producing pistillate flowers. This is not a particularly rare phenomenonamong dioecious plants, (Sequential hermaphroditism) but it does explain how moderncultivators can manage to have whole harems of female plants. One wonders whether marijuana can be selfed –collect and freeze the pollen when it’s male, and use that pollen to fertilizeit later when it’s female. > David E > > From: Diane Whitehead <ldiane.whitehead@gmail.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 7:01 PM > Subject: Re: [pbs] plant lights > > Back in the early 50s Thompson and Morgan had cannabis seeds listed in their catalogue for 2 shillings 6 pence, to be grown for its decorative foliage. > I thought about it, but preferred pretty flowers. > > Diane > > On 2017-03-06, at 6:38 PM, Jane Sargent wrote: >> In real life, marijuana wants to grow outdoors in the sun, where it is a weed, largely unkillable. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/