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Top Five Tips to get the Most out of Auto-Flowering Cannabis Plants

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You could simply just plant it in your garden and concentrate on water and feeding. As you all know by now, there are 3 subspecies of cannabis; Sativa, Indica and Ruderalis. Nowadays cannabis strains are most commonly referred to as Hybrids. But then you get Ruderalis, a small strange looking cannabis plant.

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Weed slang – the most common nicknames for cannabis

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Within the Cannabis genus, we can find the hemp species Cannabis sativa , Cannabis Indica, and Cannabis Ruderalis. Hemp refers to Cannabis Sativa varieties that have very low levels of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the cannabinoid that produces the high of marijuana. Indica and Sativa. Scientifically speaking, that’s simply not the case.

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What’s the Difference Between Hemp and Marijuana CBD Oil?

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As Leafly summarizes: Cannabis refers to a genus of plants which has three species: indica, sativa, and ruderalis. Hemp is a sativa species, while cannabis can be sativa, indica, or ruderalis. Concentration levels of psychoactive cannabinoid, tetrahydrocannabinol (also known as THC ).

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How Science is Changing the Way the Industry Categorizes Cannabis Products

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They are no longer able to categorize cannabis by indica, sativa, afghanica nor ruderalis, but rather as type 1, 2, and 3. . These strains are THC -dominant with a concentration of more than 0.03% and have a CBD content of less than 0.5%. The New Way to Sort Cannabis .

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Hemp vs. Marijuana: Why Can’t Cops Tell Them Apart?

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There are three distinct species of Cannabis: Sativa, Indica, and Ruderalis. What we refer to as marijuana belongs in both the Sativa and Indica family. Most roadside marijuana detection kits are designed to detect the mere presence of THC but not the concentration. Both hemp and marijuana are members of the genus Cannabis.

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Cannabis Sativa Vs. Cannabis Indica

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This species has a very high concentration of THC and other psychoactive compounds. We commonly know this plant as “hemp” and we will refer to it as hemp from this point on. The 3 rd and last species of cannabis we will discuss is Ruderalis. The main cannabis species we are aware of are: Sativa. Cannabis Sativa L.

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Industry Snapshot: Cannabis Plant Patents

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indica) , and Cannabis ruderalis (C. ruderalis) , although there is some debate whether C. ruderalis is a distinct species from or a subspecies of C. indica ) that was derived from a controlled-cross between a proprietary female cultivar referred to as B3 and a proprietary male cultivar known as S9. sativa , C.

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