is it possible to get weed crossbreeds? a marijuana salvia plant?

i haven't grown a plant before or read anything much about it but if you're growing outside could another plant pollinate it or can only marijuana pollinate marijuana, i know my parents have had accidently had there legal plants crossbred.

and if marijuana can crossbreed with other plants can it breed/be pollinated by salvia to make a super plant or does it not work that way or would it envolve complex growing techniques/ many generations of plant to get the genetics.

 

nope

 

Well despite the fact that plants are only compatible with their own kind (or maybe plants in their class in some cases), Salvia rarely sets seed or pollinates. It usually falls over and sets root and that becomes another plant. Strange one she is.

 

if that were possible, then we could fuck a rhino and make some really interesting offspring. but unfortunately that is the definition of a species (mating incompatibility).

 

The only thing genetically close enough to cross breed or graft to would be Hops. Yeah, the stuff beer is made of. Not sure if its ever been done.

 

It has been done and nothing useful came of it.

 

I'd love to see a picture of that. Seems interesting to say the least.

 

Could it be crossbred? No. If you had a shitload of experience in genetic engineering and did some recombinant plasmid transformations to give the section of nucleic acid to produce the proteins to produce salvorin A and B into a cannabis plant, possibly.

 

yeah sure if you have a PhD in biochemistry/microboiology, 5-10 years of spare research time, and few million dollars for the instruments and supplies. and that's not an exageration either.

however, i must admit that i have contemplated what it would take to identify all the proteins involved in the cannabinoid synthesis pathway, clone and overexpress those genes in some other faster growing organism (E.Coli perhaps, or more likely a eukaryote like Neurospora), then isolate the THC. if our stupid government would allow serious, beneficial research into cannabinoids and the cannabis plant instead of trying to manipulate statistics from poorly conducted studies by some psychologist who knows nothing about science, then these sorts of research could be possible. until then, we just have to grow, breed and smoke weed teh old school way.